RSS blogs and wikis
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Contents
Intro
Where are we at in terms of the use of information and communication these days?
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RSS
- Look at a news reader
- Subscribe to a feed
- 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
- look at blogs - list features (small groups) http://blogger.com http://wordpress.com
- create a blog - wordpress.com talk about how it works in education (inernal and external services) - Moodle/Blackboard are not real blogs.
- network blogging - RSS, mashups, comments, vblogs, audioblogs, moblogs
Wikis
- looking at wikipedia - wikieducator - moin moin
- create a profile page in wikieducator - tutorials for later ref
- educational uses of wikis - collabrative document authoring, note taking, thematic webquests, wikispaces
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