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Web 2.0 Web Sites and Write Ups
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Nov 4 2008, 1:46 PM EST by
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You have to read these.
http://www.elearningeuropa.info/files/media/media15530.pdf
http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/index.php?title=Web_2.0_policy_documents_%26_strategies_in_higher_education
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Should we use Twitter in class?
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Nov 4 2008, 12:27 PM EST by
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Just checking, Kathy has one of her instructors running some of her class using twitter, and the idea is interesting to me, the curiosity is, is anyone else doing something similar?
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The Courage to Teach
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Sep 13 2008, 11:10 AM EDT by
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"Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher" (Palmer, 2007, p. 10).
What do you thing about this statement? Most of us have taught primarily in the classroom, and we know that bringing our full personality, our experiences, and modeling who we are is an essential part of teaching. How do we get past the significant challenge of mastering good teaching technique in the online environment and make sure we are bringing our full selves to our students?
ideas, insights, other perspectives are welcome.
Palmer, P. (2007). The courage to teach. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.
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Sep 13 2008, 11:10 AM EDT
Great segue back to the question of how we can match the identity and integrity of the teacher with good technique to enrich the online environment.
We have had a few examples related to how to do this. Whether it is a link to a Youtube video (mbd713), a podcast of the instructor speaking to the students (rmorrill), or a variety of other techniques we invoke to challenge the students to interact (jbeldi) -- we seem to agree that, while difficult, it is possible.
Let's start posting some of these specific techniques as separate pages to the wiki as rmorrill has just done with the podcast idea. Most teachers are willing to learn new techniques, but few of us have the time to reinvent what has already been done. We can minimize the time it takes to do something different if we share these "how tos".
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Posting Podcasts into black board
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Audio and Video How To's
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Sep 13 2008, 9:20 AM EDT by
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Anyone interested in knowing how to do this?
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New microblogging software for education
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Sep 9 2008, 11:55 PM EDT by
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http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=403
Edmodo is a microblogging platform, like Twitter, Plurk or Jaiku, that is specifically designed for use in the classroom.
What on Earth is microblogging?
Microblogging is a very effective way to keep a closed group of people in touch with each other and informed via the instant delivery of short text messages, just like the status update in your facebook account.
How can microblogging help me as a teacher/educator?
Microblogging enables teachers and students to share resources, send notices to each other and generally keep in touch regarding school matters. Teachers could use it to set assignments, inform students of their deadlines or of school or college events, among other things. Students could use to send queries to the teachers or even to send links to their work, if it can be found online, like in a blog or personal web page. The key is that one single message gets delivered to everyone in the group instantly
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Sep 9 2008, 11:55 PM EDT
Interesting post. These tools are very valuable for instructors, but they can also be very effective for groups of students to communicate as a sub-team.
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Interesting article on teaching web 2.0 on the internet
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Sep 9 2008, 11:05 PM EDT by
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One of my students has written a brilliant blog entry on the use of web 2.0 in the classroom. This is well worth reading.
http://michaelellerbeck.com/2008/09/02/long-live-the-king-of-collaboration-email-and-the-attached-word-doc/
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Sep 9 2008, 11:05 PM EDT
I love Michael's perspective on the collaborative friction that is being reduced by the introduction of new tools and methods, more each day. But what does it mean? "And even if you take the leap most of the time no one comes with you!" He mentions that Blackboard and other course management tools are extremely rigid and that the idea of having to post some inane comments on a certain day and so many each week do not promote his learning.
Michael says "the upcoming framework is extremely flexible. I think the students who want to ‘flex’ are going to do so in spite of whatever structure has been set up. They will work outside of the system."
Let's get ready to take the leap with them, and teach THESE students before we lose them.
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1600 students in one online class?
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Sep 7 2008, 9:53 AM EDT by
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You heard me right. It's an experiment by the University of Manitoba and it starts next week. I guess only some of the participants are actual students with assignments, but it's an open-source style online classroom and everyone is welcome to jump in, lurk and/or participate. They are calling it a MOOC -- Massive Open Online Course.
http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/connectivism/
Here is how this is being written up in the elearnspace newsletter by George Siemens:
The Connectivism and Connective Knowledge online (open) course starts on Monday. If you're interested, you can still sign up. The course outline is also available if you'd like to get a sense of what's coming next...
As previously mentioned, this course is available for free (all content and conversations will be open and online) and this course is also available for credit. Those participants who are seeking credit for the course (which is now for credit in U of Manitoba’s Certificate in Adult and Continuing Education…but will also count as a course in our Certificate in Emerging Technologies for Learning - more info on that soon) are required to enroll and pay the usual course fee.
What’s different between taking the course for free vs. enrolling?
Participants who enroll in the course will be expected to complete a series of assignments, will receive personal feedback on those assignments, and will then be recognized as having completed the course through University of Manitoba.
This should be interesting . . .
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Aligning Web 2.0 with Gen Y.
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Aug 28 2008, 8:04 AM EDT by
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This article was written by me for ITToolbox - http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/managing-infosec/he-is-15-and-has-no-compelling-reason-to-work-at-your-company-26807
The most fascinating speech at Gnomedex took place with a 15 year old entrepreneur who has already developed and sold three Facebook applications. What does he want, and how do companies reach out to this new generation of kids. The more interesting things he said were:
1. Add more social networking; add more sociability along all lines of the company.
2. Make it possible to make a difference, and listen to them, they have ideas, and not all of them are bad.
3. College is a check mark on the way to where they are going, it is not an ambition nor is it an end goal in its own right, it is something to do, and much like high school is now for him.
What was interesting was not that he wanted to be the CEO, or was suffering from over ambition, he wants to change the world, and he amongst those of the generation Y that we are seeing crop up in the company want to have a voice. Older managers often discount the voices of the younger members of their team, but he also comes with a proven record of accomplishment.
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Aug 28 2008, 8:04 AM EDT
This is what makes if fun, can we as a college accommodate, can education accommodate, he is one of millions, how many like him are there. And how do we teach them without crushing their own desire to do more?
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Using social book marks to raise awareness of Social Campus
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Aug 25 2008, 7:35 PM EDT by
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Hi,
As we launch social campus, we are looking for contributors, add this to your facebook, del.icio.us site, mag.no.lia, digg, stumble upon, reddit, or what ever other kind of social book marking site you use to help people find the place and add content about how we can use technology, social networks, social fabrics to help bridge the gaps between students and teachers.
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