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