web 2.0 for learning in 2010
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An overview of some sample Web 2.0 uses in American higher ed.TRANSCRIPT
Poll questions
• Do you currently maintain a blog (y/n)?• How many podcasts do you listen to in a week (0-5, 6-
10, 11+)?• How many of you use Twitter (y/n)?• Do you use Facebook for your professional work (y/n)?• Does your campus have one or more official YouTube
channels (y/n)?• How widespread is social bookmarking on your
campus (nothing, early adopters, some use, mainstream)?
Aspects of social media
• Blogging• Podcasting• Wikis• Twitter• Facebook• Folksonomies
• Mashups• Flickr• Web video• Social
bookmarking• Coda: some trends
Practices: years of edublogging
Selected, documented practices:
• Publish syllabus• Publish student
papers• Discussion• Journaling• Project blogs• Public scholarship
• Creative writing• Distributed seminars• Campus organizations• Prospective students• Library collections• Alumni relations• Project management• Liveblogging
Blog as courseware
Blogs for public intellectuals
Blogging community involvement
Web 2.0 content distribution models:
Rutgers;University of Mary
Washington;http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/podcast/
The specter of WikipediaRecognition and pedagogies
Twitter republication
Twitter in class
“Assignments – A bit of tinkering led us to the conclusion that a minimalist approach is best. After asking the students to read five forensics articles related to the historical case and send two tweets about each, we all agreed this was counter-productive and too hard to track. After that barrage, the typical assignment involved posting one comment and one question to classmates. After a while, one question OR comment seemed enough.”
Mike Winiski, Furman University
Twitter for professional development
“I could look inside the minds of motivated peers to learn about the new projects they were undertaking, the research reports they were studying, and Web sites they were exploring. As my comfort with Twitter grew—a process that took a few months, as is typical for new users—I became an active contributor to this knowledge network.”
William M. Ferriter, 6th grade teacher
Teaching Facebook
George H. Williams, assistant professor of English, University of South Carolina Upstate
Practice: tag clouds
Folksonomies mainstreamed
George H. Williams, assistant professor of English at the University of South Carolina Upstate.
Practices mainstreams: data mashups, Web 2.0 as platform
• Open APIs• Access to data
(AccessCeramics project, Lewis and Clark College)
• Programming staff• Perceived recognition
Beyond the classroom
• accessCeramics, Lewis and Clark College
• 1000 images, February 2009 (http://accessceramics.blogspot.com/2009/02/today-is-big-milestone-as-weve-reached.html)
Teaching with and about YouTube
External hosting reexamined
Classic forms developing
PLE vs LMS• Self-created• Consumer products• Personalization
• Small pieces, loosely joined• Variable levels of presence
Beyond the students:•Professional development•Reputation growth
Aggregations
Realtime search• Emerging market• Not always useful• No clear leader
"the great challenge of the age,“ (Google GEO, http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_web_in_five_years.php)
Links
Blogging• http://blogs.middlebury.edu/thewire/ • http://www.spiritual-politics.org/ • http://www.hispanichartford.org/
Podcasting• http://missinglinkpodcast.wordpress.com/ • http://smallpresschat.com/ • http://ecaudio.umwblogs.org/
Wikis• http://clioweb.org/2009/04/05/assigning-wikipedia-i
n-a-us-history-survey/
• http://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/MicrobeWiki
Twitter• http://mikewiniski.com/blog/?p=148 • http://twitter.com/robinsonjeffers • http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leade
rship/feb10/vol67/num05/Why-Teachers-Should-Try-Twitter.aspx
Facebook• In The Facebook Age,
http://learn.bowdoin.edu/courses/sociology022/ • M. Gabriela Torres, Assistant Professor of
Anthropology, Wheaton College
Folksonomies• http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Using-Wordle-in-the-
classroom/22830/
Mashups and Flickr• http://accessceramics.org/
Web video• http://www.youtube.com/user/joverholtzerwlu • http://www.youtube.com/user/wlunews • http://www.youtube.com/user/MediaPraxisme
Social bookmarking• http://www.diigo.com/profile/edwebb
Coda: some trends• http://home.bates.edu/views/social/ • http://mediatedcultures.net/
Bryan Alexander
http://twitter.com/BryanAlexander
http://blogs.nitle.org/ and http://blogs.nitle.org/archive/