RSS blogs and wikis

Intro

Where are we at in terms of the use of information and communication these days?

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RSS

1. Look at a news reader
2. Subscribe to a feed
3. mashup feeds, podcasting, technorati search feeds (identity/managing distributed ID)

• Video - RSS in plain English
• Video - A proposed structure for authoring educational content in a wiki

Blogs

1. look at blogs - list features (small groups) http://blogger.com http://wordpress.com
2. create a blog - wordpress.com talk about how it works in education (inernal and external services) - Moodle/Blackboard are not real blogs.
3. network blogging - RSS, mashups, comments, vblogs, audioblogs, moblogs

• more about blogs

Wikis

1. looking at wikipedia - wikieducator - moin moin
2. create a profile page in wikieducator - tutorials for later ref
3. educational uses of wikis - collabrative document authoring, note taking, thematic webquests, wikispaces

• video - wikis in plain English
• more about wikis

Educational applications

• Blogs inside/outside a password
• Assessment - http://www.flickr.com/photos/teachandlearn/516978385/

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• blogs verses forums
• IM>forums>blogs - a spectrum

Instant Messages - socialising (secondlife)

Extra tools

• skype
• youtube, blip.tv, eyespot
• google maps, docs,
• start pages and portals - netvibes.com

Case Study One Blogs as a vehicle to hand work in (Leigh)

Language learning. wikis, blogs and Youtube = http://seifenoper.wikispaces.com/

Case Study: Blogs as reflection

Konrad. Blog of Proximal development

Identity

Inevitable that it becomes distributed. Technorati search feed. PageFlakes

issues with elearning 2.0

following are notes from a discussion about the idea of eLearning 2.0 and education

power and schooling

• social constructivism
• who is in charge?
• learning maturity - self direction, empowered, literacy?
• assessment, credentialism, legislation, feedback from someone more experienced
• informal learning - Jay Cross

• Explicit approach to and learning

technology

• no one wants to be made to feel inadequate by tech
• myth of digital natives - M Prensky
• learners have less fear, more comfortable