w29-engaging millenial students with web 2.0 tools
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Tools for live blogging and collaboration in (and out) of class.TRANSCRIPT
W29 Engaging Millennial StudentsWith Web 2.0 Tools
Mark FrydenbergBentley University, Waltham, MA
Twitter: @checkmark
http://tinyurl.com/ctconf2009
“kids back then didn’t expect to be engagedby everything they did”
Today’s Students
tweet @poll 39728 and your message
Live Blogging: coveritlive.comCreate a “backchannel” Ask students to take notesPost questions
“Digital” Students:
• Continuously multi-tasking• Work in teams• Create and consume content• Handle lots of information• Google everything• Are always connected
Learning?
Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.”
Mark Prensky
http://www.markprensky.com/writing
Learning with Web 2.0 Tools
Appreciate
Participate
Investigate
Communicate
Collaborate
Create
Web 2.0
Learning Today
• Happens Anywhere• Experiential• Relevant /
Real World• Engaging, Active• Problem Solving• Critical thinking• Collaborative• Produce, Consume, and Organize Knowledge• “Figure it out” attitude
Learning in a Web 2.0 World
• What do you want to learn?• Where does the data /information come
from?• How can it be shared?• What do we know?• What connections can we make?
Memorize
Analyze,Synthesize
Tools for Engaging Today’s Students
Podcasts Social Networks
Social Bookmarking
Live Blogging
CollaborationTools Blogs
Wikis Video Mashups
Whose class is it?
Whose class is it now?
WikisGoogle Sites
Hint: Use Your Google Site as a Course Entry Point in Blackboard
To change your landing page in Blackboard, go to Control Panel Course Options Manage Course Menu External Link. Create an external link to your Google site.
Then go to Control Panel Settings -> Course Entry Point and select the Google site as the entry point.
Live Polling
Embed on Blog or Web Site Include in PowerPointSome offer Cell Phone or Twitter Polling
Scheduling EventsPolls
Create Web Video:viddler.comVideo for your Blog or Web Site
Slide Sharing:slideshare.net
CollaborativeBrowsing:
Dimdim.com
twiddla.com
Live Video Streaming:ustream.tv
Turn your PC into a TV StudioChat with your viewers.
Desktop Sharing:crossloop.com
Download the Crossloop client.
Yuuguu.com is another browser based cross—platform desktop sharing tool
Micro-blogging:TwitterFind people like you to followTwhirl client on your PC
Build a social network!
Twitter Educators to follow
wiffiti
How cool was that?
Mark FrydenbergTwitter: @checkmarkEmail: [email protected]