On Wednesday, 08 February, 2012, I am invited to give a keynote speech entitled Learner-centred do-it-yourself Learning Management Systems at the IATEFL Learning Technologies SIG http://ltsig.org.uk/ conference on Opportunities, challenges and practical solutions for the integration of ICT in education in Marrakech, Morocco from 8-11 February 2012, http://ltsig.org.uk/events/13-future-events/221-marrakesh-february-2012.html; program at: http://ltsig.org.uk/media/Marrakech2012_Programme.pdf

1. Learner-centered
do-it-yourself LMS
Vance Stevens
HCT/ADMC/CERT
presented at the
IATEFL Learning Technologies SIG
conference on Opportunities, challenges
and practical solutions for the integration of
ICT in education
in Marrakech, Morocco: 8-11 February 2012

2. IATEFL Facebook Group
O Gary Motteram posted in
Facebook
This evening we'll be opening
our LTSIG Conference in
Marrakech. We are expecting
to broadcast the opening
plenary via Adobe Connect.
The url is:
http://connectpro10829081.ad
obeconnect.com/r6nnnse2kg0
/.
O Further details of the event
and presentations are
available on the LTSIG
website: http//ltsig.org.uk
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3. Over a decade into
21st century learning
O The 20th read-only century
(Lessig, Remix)
O The 21st read/write era
O 10 paradigm shifts
O Digital storytelling
O Modeling
O for each other
O and then for students
O DIYLMS
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4. Shifting sands, shifting
paradigms
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5. Shifting pedagogies
O Didactic
O Constructivist
O Connectivist
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6. Shifting networks
O Learning in isolation 
O Communities of practice
O Distributed learning
networks
O PLNs
O Connectivism
O Configurations
O Groups, Communities, Networks
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7. Shifting Networks: Connectivism
Siemens, G. (2004-5).
Connectivism: A Learning
theory for the digital age.
Elearnspace. Retrieved
August 17, 2011 from
http://www.elearnspace.org/
Articles/connectivism.htm
In this YouTube video, Siemens says at min 1:13
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqL_lsogeNU&feature=youtu.be
"Have you ever thought about how completely
irrelevant structured learning is?"
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8. Shifting Network Configurations
• Groups
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9. Shifting Network Configurations
• Groups
• Communities
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10. Shifting Network Configurations
• Groups
• Communities
• Communities of
practice
– Domain
– Practice
– Community
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11. Shifting Network Configurations
• Groups
• Communities
• Communities of
practice
• Networks
can include
overlapping
communities
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12. Shifting Network Configurations
• Groups
• Communities
• Communities of
practice
• Networks
and sample
Connections
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13. Shifting literacies
O Print
literacies
O Digital
literacies
O Multiliteracies
O Transliteracies
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14. A few Digital Literacies
O Howard Rheingold: Network awareness
http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+R
eview/EDUCAUSEReviewMagazineVolum
e45/AttentionandOther21stCenturySo/213
922
O Multiliteracies and Transliteracies
http://goodbyegutenberg.pbworks.com
O Dave Cormier: MOOCs
http://davecormier.com/edblog/wp-
content/uploads/MOOC_Final.pdf
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15. Shifting Heuristics
O From client-server to peer-to-peer  to
O Creators vs. consumers of content
O Wikis and ebooks
vs. Publishers
O Crowdsourcing vs.
going through
gatekeepers
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16. Shifting formality
O From hierarchical
power centricity
O To Small Pieces
Loosely Joined
http://www.smallpieces.com/
O Informal
Learning
http://www.informl.com/
O F.U.N. 
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17. Shifting Formality: F.U.N.
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18. Shifting Transfer
O Applying social networking skills and
concepts from personal life to professional
O (and recivitism)
O From Facebook and Twitter 
to Yammer and Edmodo
O Tagging in YouTube 
O blog posts, Delicious & Diigo
O Example from Buenos Aires
O Smart phones ubiquitous
O WiFi in coffee shops and restaurants
O Yet technology discouragedin schools
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19. Shifting Directionality
O From push to pull
O Email vs. RSS
O Google
Reader
O Setting
filters to
cope with
information
overload
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20. Shifting ownership
O Proprietary vs. open and free e.g.
O Blackboard vs. Moodle
O MS Office vs. Open Office / Google Docs
O Copyright vs. copyleft
/ Creative Commons
O Why does it work?
Clay Shirky explains it well in
O Here Comes Everybody
O Cognitive Surplus
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21. Shifting willingness to share
O OERs
O Models
O MIT (since 2001)
O MOOCs (since 2008?)
O Stanford open
courses
O P2PU
O Khan Academy
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22. Shifting Classifications
O Taxonomy
O Folksonomies
O Tag games
http://braz2010vance.pbworks.com/w/page
/27944056/TagGames
O Writingmatrix
http://writingmatrix.wikispaces.com/
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23. Tags and Folksonomies
(vs. Taxonomies)
Dewey
Decimal Folksonomy
System
structured Ad hoc
information information
Top-Down Client-Server Bottom Up Peer to Peer
dissemination dissemination
network network
Creative
Precise Predictable Inflexible Sloppy Unpredictable comprehensive
adaptable
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24. Digital stories
O Web 2.0 allows anyone
to create content
O Alan Levine: 50 ways to
tell a digital story
http://cogdogroo.wikispa
ces.com/50+Ways
O PechaFlickr
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25. One digital story
O Cristina Costa - felt that she
was a member of a CoP
when she realized her
practice had begun to
change
O Said to Etienne Wenger in
keynote “interview” with
Suzanne Nyrop at 2007
WiAOC (Webheads in
Action Online Convergence)
http://wiaoc.org
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26. My digital stories
O Read only century
O CALL-IS and
Electronic Village
O Writing for Webheads
O Read/write century
O Electronic Village
Online
O Webheads in Action
O Learning2gether
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27. Modeling for each other
O WiAOC
O WritingMatrix
O K-12 Online
Conference
O Electronic Village
Online
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28. CMS vs LMS
O Drupal O Proprietary
O Ning O Blackboard
O Wikis, Blogs
O Desire to Learn
O MIT
O Open Source
O Bonk, C. 2009, The
World is O Moodle
Open, “However, the O Sakai
re is typically no
instructor at the site
to review or grade
students‟ work.” p.
163
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29. Modeling through Moodle
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30. DIY: CMS
O Wikipedia
O EVO Sessions
O Goodbyegutenberg
O Posterous
O Courses
O http://fcwr101.pbworks.com/
O http://academiccomposition.pbworks.com/
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31. Academic Composition
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32. Research Writing NYIT
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33. LMS = CMS + LM
O My choices
O PBWorks.com for content storage
O Google Docs for student submissions and
feedback
O Posterous for showcasing student work
and for surprisingly effective forum
O Skype group chat for suprisingly effective
blend of synchronous and asynchronous
interaction
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34. Affordances of
O PBWorks O Google Docs
O Organize learning O In class
O Sidebar for O Work with students
O Course archives on the fly
O Links O See who‟s working
O Resources
O Outside class
O Store learning
O Easily see new work
objects
O Organize
O Documents
submissions
O tutorials
O Copy/paste
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35. Affordances of
O Posterous O Skype group chat
O Subscribers can be O Add people in your
contacts list to group
made contributors
O They can withdraw at any
O Links to media time
become embedded O Group appears as another
objects contact
O Works through Web O Members can post
or Email asynchronously
O Chat is seen when
O Post via email
members log on at any
O Any attachment time
becomes object in O If they are online at the
post same time, direct
O Subscribers conversation occurs
notified, can reply to
email to comment
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36. How Posterous stimulates
conversation via email
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37. Skype group
chat blends
synch and
asynch
interaction
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38. About the presenter
http://adVancEducation.blogspot.com
O Vance
Stevens, English
Instructor
Coordinator, UAE
Naval College
O Higher Colleges of
Technology, Abu
Dhabi Men‟s
College, Center for
Excellence in
Research and
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39. All my work is online
O All my slide shows are available at:
O http://slideshare.net/vances
O You can read this paper at:
O Preliminary report:
http://fcwr101.pbworks.com/w/page/49162
994/DIYLMS
O More of Vance‟s work at:
O http://vancestevens.com/papers
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40. Creative commons image attributions
O http://halfanhour.blo
gspot.com/2011_01
_01_archive.html
O http://sixdegrees.hu
/last.fm/
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41. Creative commons image attributions
O http://screencast.co
m/t/4Eyz6bVBO
O The Jing
screenshot show
this page on Feb
8, 2012
O http://www.faceboo
k.com/groups/iatefl
/
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42. Creative commons image attributions
O http://aphw.blogspot.com/20
07/01/bloom-and-his-
activities.html
O Mr. Keatley's World History
Blog
O Based on: Clark, B. (2002).
Growing up gifted:
Developing the potential of
children at home and at
school.
Upper Saddle River, NJ:
Merrill Prentice Hall.
from:
http://www.apa.org/ed/new_
blooms.html
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43. Creative commons image attributions
O http://www.slideshar
e.net/vances/shiftin
g-sands-shifting-
paradigms
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44. Creative commons image attributions
O Tim Hand, PLE
Diagram -
http://thand.wordpr
ess.com/2007/05/2
8/ple-2/
O From Scott Leslie's
nice collection of
PLE
diagrams: http://edt
echpost.wikispaces.
com/PLE+Diagrams
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45. Creative commons image attributions
O http://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=VMfip
xhT_Co&feature=rel
ated
O http://goodbyeguten
berg.pbworks.com/
w/page/48177073/
GettingStarted2012
evo
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46. Creative commons image attributions
O George Siemens
frame captured
from this video:
http://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=rqL_l
sogeNU&feature=y
outu.be
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47. Creative commons image attributions
O Attribution:
http://www.kelvybird.
com/facilitation/scribi
ng/workingknowledg
e.html
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48. Creative commons image attributions
O AJ Cann, PLE
Presentation -
http://www.microbio
logybytes.com/tutori
als/ple/ple5.html
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49. Creative commons image attributions
O http://prosites-
vstevens.homestea
d.com/files/efi/paper
s/tesol/colloquium2
004/fun00.htm
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50. Creative commons image attributions
O http://prosites-
vstevens.homestea
d.com/files/efi/paper
s/tesol/colloquium2
004/fun22.htm
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51. Creative commons image attributions
O http://vance_steven
s.podomatic.com/en
try/index/2010-12-
10T08_33_01-
08_00
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52. Creative commons image attributions
O Jing screenshot of a
random click in
Vance‟s Google
Reader
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53. Creative commons image attributions
O Permission to use
granted under
creative commons
license; attribution:
http://fr.fotopedia.com
/items/flickr-
3661361368
O http://advanceducatio
n.blogspot.com/2011/
05/how-cognitive-
surplus-drives-us-
to.html
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54. Creative commons image attributions
O http://creativecommo
ns.org/tag/p2pu
O From a Google
search on images
licensed for
reuse, labeled „open
educational
resources‟
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55. Creative commons image attributions
O http://www.slideshar
e.net/vances/rss-
tagging-
collaboration-
online-264077
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56. Creative commons image attributions
O PechaFlickr: see it
in action in the
recording linked
from
http://learning2geth
er.posterous.com/s
uper-sunday-
streaming-with-jeff-
lebow-hangin
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57. Creative commons image attributions
O http://www.flickr.co
m/photos/josemota/
3617679326/
O From a Google
search on images
licensed for
reuse, labeled
„cristina costa‟
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58. Creative commons image attributions
O http://goodbyeguten
berg.pbworks.com/
w/page/29405319/fr
ontpage2010evo
O Make your own logo
from tagged Flickr
photos at
http://taggalaxy.de/
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59. Creative commons image attributions
O http://writingmatrix.
wikispaces.com/
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60. Creative commons image attributions
O This slide links to a
presentation on
classroom
techniques
integrating Google
Docs and Delicious
(login as Guest)
O http://www.pimoodle
.org/course/view.ph
p?id=69
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61. Creative commons image attributions
O http://goodbyeguten
berg.pbworks.com
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62. Creative commons image attributions
O http://academiccom
position.pbworks.co
m
O Front page of an
academic
composition course
taught at the UAE
Naval College,
2011-2012
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63. Creative commons image attributions
O http://fcwr101.pbwo
rks.com
O Front page of a
research writing
course taught at
New York Institute
of Technology, Abu
Dhabi, UAE in 2011
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64. Creative commons image attributions
O This image and next
two from EVO
Multiliteracies
Posterous pages:
O http://multiliteracies.p
osterous.com/whither
-multiliteracies-where-
are-the-cluster
O http://multiliteracies.p
osterous.com/week-
3-already-dusting-off-
and-ramping-up-the
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65. Creative commons image attributions
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66. Creative commons image attributions
O http://vancestevens.
com/papers/tesol/p
p107/eportfolios10.
htm
O Collage from page
with links to TESOL
PP107 MePortfolios
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