demonstrations of oeit's oer-supporting software
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Highlights of VUE, Folksemantic.com and STAR BioChem tools used with Open Educational Resources. Presented by Jeffrey Merriman and Brandon Muramatsu at LINC 2010, Cambridge, MA, May 23, 2010.TRANSCRIPT
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Demonstrations
Jeffrey Merriman, [email protected]
Brandon Muramatsu, [email protected]
May 2010
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Goals
Show 3 examples of “open” tools for teaching and learning Openly available or openly licensed Tools you can use TODAY Showcase one or a handful of many possible uses for
each tool
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3 Demos
VUE Concept maps for curriculum development Lesson plan and lecture presentation
Folksemantic.com Recommender service
(find me content similar to what I’m looking at)
STAR: BioChem Simulation and visualization
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About VUE
Visual Understanding Environment Tufts University, vue.tufts.edu Started as slide (photo) presentation tool, linked to
content repositories (libraries and databases)…much more now!
Many possible uses…we’re just going to show two of them… Linking content and curriculum: curriculum, lesson plan
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The Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) will… “create India’s first independent National Innovation University focused on the challenges and opportunities of its urbanisation.”
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– Indian Institute for Human Settlements: Curriculum Framework Version 3.0
January 2010
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VUE-Contemporary India
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VUE-Search for content
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Select SourcesSelect
Sources
SearchSearch
Possible Resourc
es
Possible Resourc
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Look at content
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VUE-Add Content
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VUE-Content added
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VUE Manet Map with Playback
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VUE: What might it mean for you?
Curriculum Demo Developed separately a comprehensive map (view) of
curriculum, displayed in VUE
Linking curriculum with activities Using curriculum (or lesson plan/activity) as the starting
point Finding resources
Challenges Multiple users, shared map Content repositories
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vue.tufts.edu
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About Folksemantic.com
Folksemantic.com Maintained by Tatemae, Folksemantic.com Previously called OER Recommender
Going to demo one or two ways of interacting with it…
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Folksemantic.com: What does it do?
Database of resources (metadata) that it knows about
Relates the web page you’re looking at to the resources it knows about
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Folksemantic.com
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Look for recommender resources
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Folksemantic.com: What might it mean for you?
User (teacher, student) Use the Firefox extension to get recommendations
LMS/VLE/Library Embed the recommendation widget with your tool
Challenges All or nothing (with browser extension) Is it providing resource links that are valuable
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Folksemantic.com
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About STAR BioChem
STAR BioChem MIT OEIT, web.mit.edu/star/biochem
Going to demo it in the context of an exercise…
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Take it away, Jeff…
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Thank You!
Jeffrey Merriman, [email protected]
Brandon Muramatsu, [email protected]
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