"Wiki are simple websites that can be edited from within your internet browser. Knowledge of applications like FrontPage and Dreamweaver are no longer needed to create a purposeful website. Wikis also allow for multiple authors and maintain a history of every page change so errors are easily reversed. With high quality sites like Wikispaces, PBWiki and WetPaint offering free accounts, an education based project is quick and easy to get up and running. Add the fact that multimedia like images, audio and video can be embedded and this powerful tool is ready to make a big impact in education."
Note that some wikis will remove adds for educators.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
http://danarichardson.pbwiki.com/
http://mylu.wikispaces.com/
http://pbl2006.wikispaces.com/
http://www.wikispaces.com/
http://webloggedlinks.pbwiki.com/
http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/cegsa2006/cegsa2006
http://www.wetpaint.com/
http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/gems/umlaut.html
Blogging - Al Upton
"Blogs (web logs - great for online collaboration) are easy to establish and maintain.More than that, they engage and motivate ... they excite! Professional learning takes on a new meaning. Student learning becomes personally relevant with r-12 cross-curricula applicability. Bloggers record, publish and share their learning online. They read and contribute to other learners locally and globally. Connection, networking and reflection within learning are paramount in 21st Century online education. In a session of 'just-in-time’ learning (for ‘tomorrows lesson’); witness examples, management tools and strategies that promise to respect existing commitments and limitations."
Al said to feel free to contact him.
http://alupton.wordpress.com/
http://alupton.wordpress.com/resources/web2-showcase/
Podcasts, Flickr & Mashups - Mike Seyfang
"A recent Pew study shows that 57% of teens create/share some form of digital content. This segment will take you on a whirlwind tour of some of the things they are up to. Podcasts - what are they, how to 'catch' them, listen to them and create them. Flickr - what is it, how to find images, how to upload images and why its called 'social software'. Finally we will play a couple of 'mash-ups' that show how stories can be told using a new kind of literacy."
Mike was creating a podcast of his talk and was going to load it up when he got home. I am not sure on which of his blogs it was going to be though.
http://bloglines.com/public/mseyfang
http://edublogs.org//
http://flickr.com//
http://wholesalemeatmusic.com//
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/btn/
http://mseyfang.edublogs.org/2006/09/18/net2blazer-demo-script-draft/
Social Bookmarking - Yvonne Murtagh
"The most popular of the social bookmarking services, del.icio.us, is an amazingly simple but powerful tool that makes your old Favorites (or similar) bookmarks look decidedly old fashioned! Using a simple interface, del.icio.us, allows you to bookmark sites and tag them with key words for easy retrieval. However, the power of social bookmarking comes to the fore with its powerful collaborative features, accessing what others are tagging, sharing your bookmarks or tags and comments with the global community or a local group/team/cluster and tracking a particular tag in real time. The ability to create a network of trusted peers significantly enriches the experience. Start your own del.icio.us account and have your own digital library, accessible from any internet-connected computer."
Mentioned RMIT guide for podcasting and sixteen ways of thinking in web 2.0? Maybe some of her links. Advised us to make sure we make a note about what the article is about when you post it. Yvonne also commented about del.icio.us tags being embedded into a blog - must check this out, look into RSS and aggregator. She also suggested watching for conferences (links in deli.icio.us).
http://del.icio.us/vonnie?settagview=cloud
Personal start pages - Graham Wegner
"It can be tricky keeping track of all of your Web 2.0 applications spread across the internet – that’s when a personal StartPage comes in. Sporting names like SuprGlu, Protopage and PageFlakes, these portals enable the user to “house” all of their online connections in the one place. Using RSS feeds and URL shortcuts, your StartPage can be customised to your own taste, include searches for relevant information and can be as private or public as you wish. So, keep all of your web accounts and links in one place and sign up today for your own personal StartPage."
Personal start pages pull together everything you are using on the internet. They become your own one stop shop. Examples are PageFlakes, Net Vibes, Protopage, Web Wag (only 3 weeks old!), Super Glue (more blog like/aggregator, eg, Plunkers e-learning).
Could be used to create a class page for a topic, get students to decide what it is going to be. For example Graeme created one on oceans (see pageflakes link below). "Here is my sample IWB page on the topic of THE OCEAN. There is a Flickr feed with the key words ocean, sea, underwater, fish, a del.icio.us feed on the tag seas, a Google News feed on oceans and 2 PubSub web search feeds on Sea Life and Oceans (no results coming through at time of compilation)."
http://plunkers.suprglu.com/
http://www.netvibes.com/
http://www.pageflakes.com/wegner.graham.ashx
http://www.webwag.com/
Where to from here? - Deanne Bullen
"The Times They Are A-Changin’ – the alphabet, written script, the printing press, the ball point pen, film and television, the computer, the internet, Web 1.0, Web 2.0…. Each technological development has influenced literacy and literacy practices. The conclusion to the Web 2.0 showcase provides a brief overview of how new technologies rely on both old and new skills and understandings."
The following text is reproduced from the handout supplied by Deanne Bullen:
The challenge of new literacies
Assisting learners to be creative, critical and constructive viewers and producers of the Read/Write Web who can use information dynamically to construct their own understandings and perspectives that is informed by audience and identity.
How do we do it
Features of blogs to assist with teaching and assessing in the classroom:
Blogs:
- are often centred around a theme using the authors own voice
- use persuasive writing as a key element
- invite conversation with others
- use the skill of summarising
- get right to the point
- use associated links
- often connect to other blogs
- borrow on the words of others
- are a mix of personal opinion and summary of other people’s work
Teachers who have used blogs in the classroom note that they:
- provide a trail that show a trail of knowledge built over time
- show a record of links, commentaries and analysis of a subject
Examples of how other teachers are using Web 2.0:
- Using blogs to post questions for experts in an area being studied
- Creating a wiki in an area of study to gather knowledge: e.g. Planet Math http://planetmath.org/ teachers compiling information about known mathematical concepts, with experts and others adding their thoughts
- Creating collaborative stories with each contributor adding to the story
- Posting reports and sharing data from around the world to research a problem
- Students podcasting, e.g. ESL Student podcasts http://iteslj.org/links/ESL/Student_Projects/
- The South African government has begun putting its entire high school curriculum online as a Wiki http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/South_African_Curriculum
- Collaborative projects - The Museum of Museums – collecting links to the sites of any museum from around the world, from the worlds largest to the most obscure http://www.museumlink.com/
What are the actions educators can take:
- Create communities of practice
- Become connectors of information
- Model collaboration with students
- Guide students to become readers and creators who engage in critical literacy practices
- what are possible meaning of the text
- what do I already know how does this information relate to it
- how does this information relate to other information
- what alternative are there and where do I find it
- who can I talk to about the information
- what voices are silent
- what actions should/can/will I take.(Modified from Freebody and Luke 1990) - Understand that the pace of advancement is rapid and unforeseeable.
The Barriers
- Access to computers
- Professional
Deanne also handed up some brochures from www.educause.edu/eli, eg, 7 things you should know about videoblogging, 7 things you should know about wikis.
NB: Text above in italic describing the speakers topics reproduced from TSoF site.
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