Web2.0 Intro

Slide 1: INTRODUCTION TO WEB 2.0 http://flickr.com/photos/7447470@N06/1345266896/

Slide 2: The Internet – more than just a book

Slide 3: “The Read/Write Web” (Tim Berners Lee) Original photo by Hummanna.

Slide 4: eLearning 2.0/Web 2.0 (Stephen Downes) Elearning 1.0: • static packaged content • little true interactivity and learner input and • very little contact with a tutor. • represented by Learner Management Systems. (eg WebCT, Blackboard, etc) Elearning 2.0: • more student-centred • centred around a Personal Learning Environment using social software. • students generate and share content. • they interact not only with teachers and their peers, but with anyone in the world they can learn from. (this description courtesy of Sean Fitzgerald)

Slide 5: Expansion of the ‘Grammar of the Internet’ Javascript, XML, PHP, Ajax Increased interactivity and usability of Internet pages Image Plate from Owen Jones' 1853 classic, "The Grammar of Ornament". Photo by EricGjerde

Slide 6: PERSONAL PUBLISHING/ PARTICIPATORY MEDIA TOOLS • Blogs – writing • Podcasts - audio • Wikis – collaboration (mostly text) MEDIA • Video repositories: – YouTube, TeacherTube, Google Video, BlipTV • Flickr (photo sharing)

Slide 7: My ‘TAG CLOUD’ from http://del.icio.us/mikecogh TAGS BRING PEOPLE folksonomy TOGETHER

Slide 8: Networked Learning

Slide 10: CONNECTIVISM: A Learning Theory for the Digital A (George Siemens, University of Manitoba, Canada) Principles of Connectivism: • Nurturing and maintaining connections is needed to facilitate continual learning. • Currency (accurate, up-to-date knowledge) is the intent of all connectivist learning activities. • Choosing what to learn and the meaning of incoming information is seen through the lens of a shifting reality. While there is a right answer now, it may be wrong tomorrow due to alterations in the information climate affecting the decision.

Slide 11: THE CROWD: Is our culture being re-written? Stupidity of the masses? Collective wisdom? Is the Internet killing our Culture? (Andrew Keen: the cult of the amateur)

Slide 12: Proliferation of Content and Services • Decline of the gatekeepers of content (the end of copyright?) • Affects status and position of the expert (‘the professional’) • The World is Flat (Thomas Friedman)

Slide 13: Rewriting or Killing our Cultures?

Slide 14: Coping with the Proliferation of Content • Social Bookmarking (Delic.io.us) • RSS feeds and content aggregators (Bloglines, Netvibes, iTunes, Moodle) • “People just don’t subscribe to magazines anymore; they also subscribe to people.” • “You don’t have to look for content. Content finds you.” • Twitter • Friendfeed

Slide 15: Using RSS to aggregate content • Netvibes, Protopage, Pageflakes

Slide 16: Open Content

Slide 17: Creative Commons Licensing from Jeffrey Beall at http://www.flickr.com/photos/denverjeffrey/301014978/

Slide 19: A GLOBAL AUDIENCE: YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =QjA5faZF1A8 • Performance by a 13 yr old Korean boy • Jan 31st: 34,770,497 million views; 142796 comments • That’s more than the populations of Israel 5.7m Denmark 5.3m Finland 5.1m New Zealand 3.6m Ireland 3.6m Holland 16.4m Australia 20.4m etc

Slide 20: WHAT’S ALL THE FUSS ABOUT? • Is it real? • Who are these 34.7 million people? • Copyright implications? – I can reuse the content for my own purposes • Who is exercising editorial control? • Disintermediation – the decline of the gatekeepers of content • Should students have access to sites like this? (see ‘YouTube – a Class Act’) • How do students like this feel at school? • Should we be encouraging our students 1. to create content 2. To publish to these kinds of sites • Empowerment and realisation of identity through personal publishing to social networking sites MIT; Jason and TV shows…..

Slide 21: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5jtiJPlv4Y

Slide 23: Indian YouTube Equivalents • http://meravideo.com/ • http://apnatube.com/ • http://layfile.com/ • http://www.aapkavideo.com

Slide 24: Indian Initiative: babajob.com/babalife.com NY Times, Oct 30th, 2007

Slide 25: It’s a Wild World “Just remember there’s a lot of bad and beware.” http://youtube.com/watch?v=T-t8tUED9MI

Slide 27: Are we sociologically ready? What are our ethical responsibilities as educators: ● to our students? ● to ourselves? (teacher sacked for posting photo on MySpace)

Slide 28: http://flickr.com/photos/dbarefoot/5279903/ “I blog therefore I am.” Weblog search engine Technorati: • 8,000 -17,000 new blogs created every single day. • a new weblog is created somewhere in the world every 5.8 seconds. • On average, approx 3 blogs are updated every second. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/13/8000_bloggers_per_day/ (13/4/06)

Slide 29: From a student of Konrad Glogowski: “Hello Mr. Glogowski It’s Phil, just in case you haven’t guessed already. I’d just like to thank you for a great year of blogging, and to wish you luck in the years ahead. You really managed to make a few of us into writers. I think writing/blogging will be something I’ll carry with me my whole life.” (http://www.teachandlearn.ca/blog/)

Slide 30: THE CULTURAL CONTEXT Image courtesy of http://www.sussex.ac.uk/USIS/test/education/1-2-14.html • Does teacher know best?

Slide 31: http://flickr.com/photos/32912387@N00/171506548/

Slide 32: SLOW LEARNING "It is going to become very fashionable at some point to be disconnected," Silicon Valley futurist Paul Saffo predicts. "There are going to be people who wear their disconnectivity like a badge.“ ( http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20070111/ )

Slide 33: SLOW LEARNING: A Dangerous but Powerful Idea - Counter Acceleration and Speed with Slowness and Wholeness • Geetha Narayanan is Principal Investigator with Project Vision at the Centre for Education Research Training and Development (CERTAD) within the Srishti School of Art Design and Technology in Bangalore, India.

Slide 34: Geetha Narayanan - Slowness as a pedagogy • consciously embrace the core value of slowness – both as way of being and as a way of learning • culture of immediacy values fast knowledge which in turn runs counter to the development of both the self and the mind. • The thoughtless and widespread use of technology as the universal solution to the rising need for fast knowledge is wrong and must be questioned. Often in developing countries, such as India, the term ‘digital divide’ is used to support the argument that the use of new technologies, alone, will create conditions of learning … That is not true • the new digital technologies are tools that allow for learners to develop their imaginations, to be able to play and to have fun, to be able to tell stories in different and exciting ways. But in order to generate value they need to be integrated into new forms and structures in an invisible and contextual manner - one where new media arts can sustain social change. • Slowness promotes “wellness of being”

Slide 35: HORIZONTAL V VERTICAL LEARNING

Slide 36: Horizontal Learning (multitasking) SMS Surfing Instant Messagin g iPod Watching Assignment video/TV

Slide 37: Vertical Learning (single focus) Assignment: What were the principal factors that led to the Indonesian coup in 1965 and the eventual downfall of President Sukarno? (5000 words)

Slide 38: Horizontal v Vertical Learning The discerning eteacher: • Acknowledges the nature and influence of horizontal learning (multitasking) • Knows when to encourage vertical learning (single focus activity)

Slide 39: The excellent eteacher: • has an online presence/website (eg course homepage on LMS, or own website, blog, etc) • Knows how to use technology for delivery and assessment and therefore has a blog, a wiki, or podcast site • Includes media in delivery and production of teaching materials and student assessment • Models and teaches digital literacy – Creates and provides digital resources – Teaches search, validation, and verification skills – Employs and models RSS as a means of aggregating and distributing content

Slide 40: The excellent eteacher: • Teaches about, and employs collaborative approaches • Switches between sage and guide as appropriate • Knows when to call in the wisdom of the experts to balance the wisdom of the crowd • Acknowledges the value of informal learning • Accepts that engaging learners is necessary (and that probably means using technology)

Slide 41: The excellent eteacher: • Acknowledges that students may assess the value of a resource via their networks rather than accept the word of the expert (teacher/lecturer) • Uses social bookmarking for collective mining and sharing of resources • Is a good (and frequent) online communicator • Knows how to effectively combine synchronous and asynchronous modes of delivery • Is able to teach in a virtual classroom/web conferencing environment (eg Centra, Elluminate, etc) • Must be e-connected and draw on the resources of their networks to remain current (and demonstrate to students)

Slide 42: IN CONCLUSION: Living as a connected educator (Nancy White: ‘eliving’): • reduces the time you have available to attend to relationships locally • broadens your sphere of influence • widens your catchment area for information, knowledge, and collegiality. • involves reconceptualising the way you learn and the way you teach.

Slide 43: IN CONCLUSION: Being a connected educator involves: • engaging with the world of participatory media • guiding students in this new disintermediated world • modelling the use of technology for lifelong learning • allowing time for ‘slow learning’ and reflection • It’s all about connections……

Slide 44: Education by and large has not changed. Syllabus/curriculum is still rooted in a past paradigm of fixed knowledge. The world beyond classrooms has changed a great deal, and will continue to do so at an ever-increasing rate…… Photo courtesy of Sawrah, http://flickr.com/photos/sawrah/314474272/

Slide 45: Tools to Trial • Delicious - http://del.icio.us • Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/ • TeacherTube - http://teachertube.com/ • Edublogs - http://edublogs.org/ • Podzone - http://podzone.tafesa.edu.au/ • Slideshare - http://www.slideshare.net • Twitter - http://twitter.com/ • Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/ • Ning - http://www.ning.com/ • Bloglines - http://www.bloglines.com/

Slide 46: Further Resources • New Technologies Means New Learning • Designing eLearning • Thinking about the ‘M’ in M-learning (Dr Norbert Pachler) (paper to be part of forthcoming proceedings of mLearn conference, Oct 2007) • The 8 Competencies of Online Interaction (Nancy White) • Multiliteracies for Collaborative Learning Environments - http:// www.opensource.idv.tw/moodle/course/view.php?id=23 (log in as guest)