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Zaid Ali Alsagoff

http://socialweblearning.blogspot.com/

Are These 4 Tools Useless for Learning?

MISSION

Starting with this Crash Course…

http://socialweblearning.blogspot.com/

A Gentle Introduction, It Is Only…

Don’t Get Confused!

Source: http://tinyurl.com/47zxymk

CONTENTS1. The Future?2. RSS & Curation3. Blogging4. Twitter5. Facebook 6. Wikis7. Other Tools?8. Challenges

The Future?

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FUTURE?

Image Source: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/03/31/business/31short.600.jpg

Learning Overload!

Source: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2011/01/cck11-connectivism-connective-knowledge.html

The Future of Education...?

James L. Morrison

Graduates Must Be Able To…

Function in a global economy for job success in the 21st century.

Access, analyze, process, and communicate information.

Function creatively and innovatively.

Work effectively with people from different cultural backgrounds.

Work as a team member.

Use information technology tools effectively.

Engage in continuous, independent learning.

Source: http://horizon.unc.edu/projects/presentations/HiED%20in%20transition.pdf

The Future of Learning...?

Source: http://tinyurl.com/3ybwox7

Web 3.0Semantic Web

Web 1.0The Web

Web x.0Meta Web

Web 2.0Social Web

Degree of Social Connectivity

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Connects information Connects people

Connects knowledge Connects intelligence

The eXtended Web

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Source: http://www.slideshare.net/timbuckteeth/the-future-of-learning-6809148

Connectivism

Source: http://www.elearnspace.org/media/ProfessionalDevelopment/player.html

George Siemens & Stephen Downes

Source: http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=668

Learning Using A Network of Diverse Technologies

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC)

Post: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2011/01/mooc-survival-kit-in-plain-english.html

Personal Learning Environments and Knowledge Networks 2010

Article: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2010/09/plenk-2010-most-awesome-course-on.html

Connectivism & Connective Knowledge

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Article: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2011/01/cck11-connectivism-connective-knowledge.html

No LMS!

Personal Learning Environments

Source: http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2010/07/anatomy-of-ple.html

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Are you Ready?

RSS & Curation

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With RSS You Can Create Your Own

Online Newspaper

RSS in Plain English

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU

What is RSS? RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication or Rich

Site Summary.

It is a web page with a .xml file type that can be subscribed to and read by a newsreader (aggregator). The aggregator will find the new content and display it when it becomes available.

Newsreaders (sometimes called aggregators) are very easy to find and use (stand alone applications or through a web browser).

In essence, it is content that comes to you, instead of having to search for it. It will save you an infinite amount of time.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS

Ways RSS is being used:

Google Reader in Plain English

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSPZ2Uu_X3Y

“My” Google Reader

http://www.google.com/reader

Activity 1

1. Find a feed (e.g. blog).2. Find the RSS link.3. Copy the URL or link.4. Go to Google Reader.5. Click on Add Subscription.6. Paste in the link. 7. Organize the new feed into your

folders or subject structure.

http://www.google.com/reader

Mission

Personal Learning Spaces

http://www.google.com/ig

http://www.netvibes.com/ http://www.pageflakes.com/

Social Bookmarking

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x66lV7GOcNU

Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata (tags).

Folksonomy (from folk + taxonomy) is the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking

Social Bookmarking Tools

http://www.diigo.com/ http://www.delicious.com/

My” Delicious Bookmarks

http://delicious.com/zaidlearn

Social Bookmarking Tips1. Great for groups researching a topic together or an

instructor that wants to share great websites they have found.2. Others can subscribe to your bookmarks or individual tags

and receive them whenever the publisher adds a new bookmark.

3. Create working bibliographies for projects by ensuring they share a common tag.

4. Build lists of resources with fellow students/ teachers (decide on common tags first).

5. Create a network with friends or fellow club members with whom you share an interest.

6. Spend a few minutes planning how you’ll tag so that your tags are consistent (remember – no spaces within tags!) Plural vs singular Teacher’s names / course names

7. Clean up your tags periodically using the delete and rename tag functions.

Adapted from: http://www.slideshare.net/leonardstern/rss-in-education/

Activity 2

1. Sign up for your own account.

2. Install the two buttons in your browser.

3. Surf the web and find at least two (2) sites

you want to bookmark.

4. Add them to your delicious bookmarks by

clicking the "Tag" button and then enter the

title, description and tags (optional but

recommended).

MISSION

Social Curation

“…Today there is a new wave of social bookmarking tools in the name of 'Social Curation', which are empowered with some really innovative collaborative sharing

tools to make sense of the overloaded web by organizing discoveries and resources into mind-stimulating topics, stories, collections, etc..”

– Zaid Ali AlsagoffSource: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2011/01/buzzing-with-social-curation-tools.html

Social Curation Tools

Source: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2011/01/buzzing-with-social-curation-tools.html

Blogging

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As of June 2008, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than…..

Blogs in Plain English

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2I1pWXjXI

What is a Blog?

A blog (short of weblog) is a website, usually maintained by an individual, with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video.

Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order.

"Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog

Blogging for Learning?

1. Reflect your teaching and learning experiences.

2. Group projects to co-produce content.

3. Build a class newsletter.

4. Post latest Industrial-related trends and news.

5. Post materials and resources.

6. Host online discussions.

Example 1 – Expert Blog

Blog: http://www.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/

Example 2 – Newsletter

OLDaily: http://www.downes.ca/news/OLDaily.htm

Example 3 – Group Blog

URL: http://imuelearning.blogspot.com/

Example 4 – Student Projects

Story: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2011/01/student-blogging-project-to-promote.html

Blogging Tools?

https://www.blogger.com/ http://wordpress.com/

http://www.edublogs.org/

Let’s Blog!

https://www.blogger.com/start

3 Steps

1. Create an account.

2. Name your blog.

3. Select your template.

https://www.blogger.com/start

Activity 3

MISSION1. Customize your blog layout.2. Set comment moderation settings.3. Create and publish a post.4. Add a link (URL).5. Add a picture.6. Embed a video.7. Add a gadget.

Twitter

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Twitter

http://twitter.com/

A form of blogging that allows users to write brief text updates (usually 140 characters) and publish them, either to be viewed by anyone or by a restricted group which can be chosen by the user.

Twitter for Learning?1. Share ideas,

experiences, news and links.

2. Follow experts, subjects or learning domains.

3. Follow/Create course/topic related #hashtags.

4. Build learning communities.

5. Chunked perfectly for mobile learning.

6. Conversational learning beyond the classroom.

Example 1 – Conference #hashtag

Article: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2010/07/using-twitter-to-amplify-connective.html

Example 2 – Movement #hashtag

Article: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2010/05/join-moodlewish-twitter-stream.html

Example 3 – Course #hashtag

Course: http://cck11.mooc.ca/

#CCK11

Using Twitter to Transform the Classroom!

Article: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2010/10/using-twitter-to-transform-classroom.html

Looking for Learning Professionals?

Here: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2009/04/juiciest-learning-professionals-on.html

Useful Twitter Tools

http://paper.li/

http://monitter.com/

More useful Twitter tools: http://socialweblearning.blogspot.com/p/twitter.html

http://www.polleverywhere.com/ http://twitpic.com/

http://www.tweetdeck.com/

MISSION1. Sign up for a Twitter account.2. Customize your profile page.3. Write your first tweet.4. Find people to follow.5. Send someone a tweet.6. Retweet someone else's tweet.7. Share a web link (URL).8. Create a #hashtag (for your course).9. Use a Twitter client (e.g TweetDeck).

Activity 4

Facebook

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What is Facebook?

Source: http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics#!/press/info.php?execbios

Facebook is a social utility that helps

people communicate

more efficiently with their

friends, families and coworkers.

Facebook for Learning! Boleh!

Slidecast: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2010/04/facebook-for-learning-boleh.html

Why Not Use Facebook…

Privacy

Social V

s

Work!

Copyright/

Ownership

Missing:

Make it Invisible!

Tracking, Reporting &

Grading?Advertisem

entsLearning Needs?

Image Source: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fPo-m6G36C8/SevIXYSVqsI/AAAAAAAAIJw/il1OQJFAlcc/s400/Facebook+Addict.jpg

If We Use Facebook, What about…

Facebook Legalized for teaching & learning

only!

Social Learning

(Facebook)Informal Easy-to-UseSharingCommunication CollaborationCommunitiesInterest GroupsMobileAlways Connected!

Formal Learning

(LMS)• Lecture

Notes• Discussions• Assignments• Quizzes • Grades

Where to Start?

Facebook Groups & Pages

Groups Pages

Open CommunitiesPromotion &

BrandingProductsCelebritiesSelf-Promotion

Closed GroupsCoursesProjects IdeasAlumni

Facebook for Learning?

Adapted from: http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/140Learning/lecturefb.html

8 Things Teachers Should NEVER Do on

Source: http://edudemic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/fbteacher_fullsize.pdf

8 Ways Teachers SHOULD Be Using

Source: http://edudemic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/fbteacher_fullsize.pdf

Example 1: University Page

URL: http://www.facebook.com/Harvard?v=app_6009294086

Example 2: Facebook in Education

URL: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/education?ref=ts

To serve as an ongoing resource for information about how educators can best use Facebook.

Example 3: Facebook - Academic Research

URL: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5114067727&ref=ts

A group for anyone conducting or (interested in) academic research into Facebook.

Example 4: IMU E-Learning

Source: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/IMU-E-Learning/251921959456

A Few Tips Before Starting…

Create a separate account just for your courses.

Manage privacy settings.Ask students to put you on

limited access to their pages.Create lists.Get over the term "friend"

Inviting atmosphere.

Source: http://www.onlinecollege.org/2009/10/20/100-ways-you-should-be-using-facebook-in-your-classroom/

MISSION1. Login to Facebook.

2. Create a Facebook Group (or Page).

3. Customize Group Settings (Closed Group).

4. Add Logo.

5. Add a URL or Video to the Wall.

6. Add a Photo.

7. Add a Video (if possible).

8. Add/Invite people to join.

9. Add a Doc (wiki).

10. Be creative and have fun!

Activity 5

Instead of Facebook, Why Not Use…

Article: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2011/01/use-linkedin-to-collaborate-with.html

"While Facebook is a goldmine for connecting people and having social fun, Linkedin is the present and future goldmine for connecting students and ideas

to the corporate world."- Zaid Ali Alsagoff

Wikis

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Wiki Wiki Shuttle at Honolulu International AirportPicture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:HNL_Wiki_Wiki_Bus.jpg

Picture: http://ourfounder.typepad.com/leblog/WindowsLiveWriter/Menu.jpg

Wiki

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY

Definition of Wiki

A website created by a group; rather than by an individual.

In Hawaiian, Wiki means “quick” What I Know Is… (descriptive of the

process of collaborative content development.)

Wikis are websites that

we can build together!

Wikis for Learning?

 Collaborativ

e Learning Information Sharing

Engagement

Communication

Participation

Group Projects

Content Development

Wiki Tools?

http://www.wikispaces.com/ http://www.wetpaint.com/

http://pbwiki.com/ http://sites.google.com/

http://docs.google.com/

Example 1: Anatomy Wiki

http://anatowiki.wetpaint.com/?t=anon

Example 2: Greetings from the World

http://greetingsfromtheworld.wikispaces.com/

Example 3 - Classroom

Site: http://sites.google.com/site/classtemplate_en/

Example 4 - MedTutor

Site: http://medtutor.wikidot.com/

Article: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2010/04/medtutor-learning-to-think.html

MISSION1. Select a wiki tool (e.g. Google Sites).

2. Create a new wiki.

3. Invite others to participate.

4. Create a new wiki page.

5. Add text, pictures and links to the wiki page.

6. Embed a video to your wiki page.

7. Explore other features and have fun!

Activity 6

OtherTools?

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Reuse/Remix/Mashup/Adapt…

URL: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/06/university-learning-ocw-oer-free.html

Download YouTube Videos?

URL: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2010/08/real-way-to-download-convert-insert.html

Upload PowerPoint Slides & Create Slidecasts?

http://www.slideshare.net/

http://www.slideboom.com/ http://www.authorstream.com/

Create a Screencast?

URL: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/10/8-free-screencasting-tools-for-tony.html

Salman Khan Uses…

URL: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/12/salman-khan-uses-microsoft-paint-to.html

Create Cartoons, Movies & Animations?

http://www.xtranormal.com/

http://www.toondoo.com/ http://goanimate.com/

Broadcast Yourself Live?

http://www.ustream.tv/

3D Virtual Learning Spaces

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2jY4UkPbAc

Wordle Your Learning!

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide.

http://wordle.net/

100+ EduGames to Spice Up Your Course!

URL: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/05/75-free-edugames-to-spice-up-your.html

URL: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/04/free-learning-tool-for-every-learning.html

Challenges

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Challenge I

Challenge II

Challenge III

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