Session 5   -  Wikis and Learning 

 

Session for week beginning Monday 26 August

The sites on the handout sheet are about the use of Web 2.0 in the classroom

Activities to be completed

1. Collect the sheet with the recommended sites for study

2. Add two of the sites to your favourites in del.icio.us

3. Share these sites with the other members of your wiki.

4. Work out how to index your wiki and how to add new pages.

5. Index your wiki

6. Add new pages to your wiki for your entries into your wiki.

            (Remember the big problem with wikis is organising them)

7. With the other members of your wiki team select two sites each to study and to use the content to add to your wiki. Do not forget to add terrific links to your del.icio.us account so that the whole class can access them.

The quality of your wiki. (Only the best will do)

pbWiki has many features that we are not using. In your wiki I expect you to use them. The best way to find out about them is to look at the introductory video again and take note of how to use these features. Please do no think that all wikis are like Wikipedia which is largely words and hyperlinks. They can be exciting and interesting sites – as good as the best blogs.

 

 

Learning and Teaching in the Web 2.0 Environment (Handout Sheet)

1. Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0: Part 1

Brian Benzinger

A total collection of all the software of Web 2.0

http://www.solutionwatch.com/512/back-to-school-with-the-class-of-web-20-part-1/

With the start of the new school year, many teachers and students are seeking new products and technologies to help them through their upcoming academics. With the increase of teachers using blogs and wikis, and students networking and utilizing online tools, the demand for easier and more efficient ways of learning is on the rise. To me, the growing interest for web-based learning is amazing, which brought me to thinking; what if I were to consolidate some of the helpful online products and services that can help students, teachers and administrators alike? Well, I convinced myself. The following is a compilation of Web 2.0 products that I’ve personally researched and tested. These services are grouped into two main categories: “Tools”; and “Office ApplicationsR21;. Some more specific services include: organizers, grade books , research tools, document managers, diagrams, and more.

There are going to be three parts to the “Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0243; series: part one covering tools; part two covering office applications; and in part three, real cases of Web 2.0 used in classrooms around the world. I hope that this series becomes a valuable resource for students, teachers, and school administrators alike.

Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0: Part 2

http://www.solutionwatch.com/515/back-to-school-with-the-class-of-web-20-part-2/

Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0: Part 3

http://www.solutionwatch.com/519/back-to-school-with-the-class-of-web-20-part-3/

Red Arrows indicate personal favourites with education in mind.

Products may appear more than once if related to multiple categories.

2. Hey Jude Blog

A great blog on Web 2.0 in practice. This blog on its own gives you all the information you will ever need on Web 2.0. It is one of those sites that really keeps up to date and has a fantastic collection of links, videos and the very latest thoughts and research on Web.2.0.

http://heyjude.wordpress.com/

3. Web 2.0 for teachers. Helping to create 21^st century schools.

This site has a great slide presentation and introduces to Slideshare. This is a web based version of powerpoint. A true web 2.0 piece of software.

http://www.slideshare.net/mrpowers/web-20-4-teachers-081407

4. School Learning Goes Web 2.0

The new “social Web” or Web 2.0 is gradually having an impact in schools as teachers and students begin to explore the potential of social networking, blogs, shared online features and wikis.  These technologies are giving rise to new educational opportunities - social collaborative learning. As time goes on, teachers are increasingly becoming familiarized with these new technologies and are using blogs and wikis more and more.

http://www.rareplay.com/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=147&cntnt01returnid=32&news_category_id=1

5.  Web 2.0: What is it and how can it apply to teaching and teacher ...

File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML

In order to discuss how I am using web 2.0 sites in my teacher education .... Tags, Folksomy, Blogs, RSS, Pod/videocasts, Wikis, and Social networking ...

education.osu.edu/rvoithofer/papers/web2paper.pdf

6. This is an interesting example of how to use del.icio.us effectively. Will Richardson's blog on web 2.0 and K12 education Formerly an award-winning high school teacher, Richardson is one of the leading thinkers about the use of Web 2.0 in the classroom.

http://del.icio.us/url/7c0606a59d2f1cd955385ac68afc1181

7. Animoto

This is for the truly adventurous with lots of time to spare for creating the most wonderful lessons.

http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2007/08/animoto---chang.html

8. The KnowledgeWorks Foundation and the Institute of the Future have come up with a fascinating interactive map of the future forces affecting education. (Clever – worth a look)

It shows the significant overlap between technology and physical community spaces, and their interplay with schools. Clicking on each element reveals more detail and an invitation to a discussion board. A relatively simply but rich visualisation for a complex set of issues and, while it's designed for a US education system, there are valid points for us all. (via Information Aesthetics)

http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2007/08/map-of-future-f.html

 

 

Session 4  -  Folksonomy and del.icio.us

 

This information is taken from Wikipedia for your convenience.

 A folksonomy is the practice and method of collaborativecategorization using freely-chosen keywords called tags

 

Tags

A tag is simply a word you use to describe a bookmark. Unlike folders, you make up tags when you need them and you can use as many as you like. The result is a better way to organize your bookmarks and a great way to discover interesting things on the Web.

 

Folksonomies are commonly used to classify and retrieveweb content such as Web pages, photographs and Web links. Typically, folksonomies are Internet-based, although they are also used in other contexts.

 

Folksonomic tagging is intended to make a body of information increasingly easy to search, discover, and navigate over time. A well-developed folksonomy is ideally accessible as a shared vocabulary that is both originated by, and familiar to, its primary users.

Two widely cited examples of websites using folksonomic tagging are Flickr and del.icio.us, although it has been suggested that Flickr is not a good example of folksonomy.^[2]

 

del.icio.us

The website del.icio.us (pronounced as "delicious") is a social bookmarkingweb service for storing, sharing, and discovering webbookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in late 2003, and is now part of Yahoo!.

 

Everything posted to del.icio.us is publicly viewable by default, although a user can mark specific bookmarks as private, and imported bookmarks are private by default. The public aspect is emphasized; it is not focused on storing private ("not shared") bookmark collections. Many people use the del.icio.us linkrolls, tagrolls and network badges to display their links and information on their weblogs. Others use the RSS feeds and "daily blog posting" feature to do this.

 

The de.licio.us lesson.

Personal Value Precedes Network Value

The one major idea behind the Del.icio.us Lesson is that personal value precedes network value. What this means is that if we are to build networks of value, then each person on the network needs to find value for themselves before they can contribute value to the network. In the case of Del.icio.us, people find value saving their personal bookmarks first and foremost. All other usage is secondary.

http://bokardo.com/archives/the-delicious-lesson/

 

 

"Bookmark this page on del.icio.us" link

The link for this is at

http://www.arnebrachhold.de/2005/06/21/delicious-bookmark-this-wordpress-plugin

Hi there,here is another WordPress Plugin for you! I’m sure you know del.icio.us, an online service where you can manage and share your bookmarks with other people. With this plugin you can add a "Bookmark this page on del.icio.us" link to your posts or sidebar. This will allow your visitors to add your page directly into their del.icio.us profile and makes your blog more popular!

Installation:

Just download the zip file and extract the content into your wp-content/plugins directory.

Then activate it at your Plugin menu in the administration panel.

The last step is to add some code in you template where the link should appear.

<?php dbt_getLinkTag("Bookmark on del.icio.us"); ?>

This will add a link to bookmark the current page. If you want to create a bookmark link for the current post use the following code inside "the loop".

<?php dbt_the_LinkTag("Bookmark on del.icio.us"); ?>

Please have a look at the included readme.txt which also contains a sample with an image. You can see the result at the left sidebar of my blog or below the post title.

Download:

 

 

http://www.arnebrachhold.de/get/delicious-bookmark-this/delicious-bookmark-this.zip

 

Lecturer del.icio.us account is Allan08

To get to del.icio.us go to google and search del.icio.us. Then go to their site and either log in or create an account. To link the class to you choose networks and add individuals.

 

 

 

Group Project Web 2.0

Working together using this wiki

Think of this wiki as a shared online whiteboard. Our entire group can share information using this wiki, making your research accessible to everyone. Notice how you can add comments to a page, see what people have changed, and edit all the text. There is a group responsibility to ensure that the quality of our Web 2.0 Project is up there with the best knowledge available.

Group members

• Allan
• Kathryn
• Tony

Overview of Web 2.0

Web 2.0 is essentially an increasing range of software that supports a variety of technologies for open and collaborative communication, learning and creativity.

It consits of

1. A Platform

• This is browser based - e.g. Internet Explorer or Firefox. (Firefox is preferred because it is free and open software in a constant state of development (Web 2.0), whereas Explorer is owned and comes out in a fixed form and then has updates and upgrades on an irregular basis (Web 1.0))
• It operates on open and collaborative principles
• Communications are the key applications
   
  I'm not sure if you want the thinking behind our construction fo this wiki in here to. For example, as I read the first part of this wiki "A Platform" I immediately wanted to have an image to click on which would represent this for me. Pictures help me to learn and thus understand a concept. I began searching for diagrams through Goolge, Web 2 platform, and diagram....I knew the image I had in mind but I wasn't able to find it. \
   
  Next step- I had a hard copy of "Knowing Knowledge" by George Siemens and in this text there are useful diagrams which would serve this purpose. The diagram I ended up with below took me to Flickr where Siemens has the posted the diagrams in this book. I signed up to Flickr using my yahoo i.d and then search ed  for Siemen's images. I was reminded of the principle of a learning ecology. For me, this is a richer term than platform, this is about networks, connectivism, learning processes and e-learning.
   
   

2. Social Networking

• Personalised and open collaborative knowledge spaces
• Access people as well as knowledge
• Copyright issues exist and have to be dealt with and replaced with a Creative Commons culture
• This is beyond the normal formalities of the classroom and can take place anywhere at any time

3. Read/Write Web

• People are consurmers of content and services
• People and publishers of content and services
• Such people are called Produsers

4. What makes Web 2.0

• Blogs - a social tool and medium for personal expression but it's public. Great for information and knowledge sharing - purpose built
  An active blogger to know about is Stephen Downes www.downes.ca
• Wikis - a collaborative writing document. A 'knowledge blender'. People are writing books online in wikis.
• Social Tagging - bookmarking, Tag Clouds allows you to connect with others based on the resources they use/ categorise. A folksonomy where the end user says what the resource is about (de.lici.ous, flickr)
• Sharing sites
• Podcasts
• Mashups
• Aggregators

Ubiquitous connectivity

5. The future of the Web?

An interesting paper presented by Sir Timothy Berners - Lee before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.

George Siemens on Intel and Web 2

• What is the functionality and instructional use of Blogs, Wikis, RSS, podcasting?
• What are the unique features of current social technologies?

-  choose from audio or ppt slides, or be like me and use both : http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/archives/002679.html

Allan - I'm finding that I like to add research papers and presentations to this wiki. Need to think of a new way to do this. Maybe a blog would be better here?

Fill your Web 2 toolbox.....

Siemens comments on data visualisation tools and learning:

"Visualizing information and data is a key resource to dealing with information overload. When technology manages and displays the relationships between data (does the cognitive grunt work for us), we ramp up to pattern recognition and reflection of implications."

Check out these 16 data visualisation tools http://mashable.com/2007/05/15/16-awesome-data-visualization-tools/

And Kathryn added all these others.  

 How to Develop a pbwiki and general thoughts

PB Wiki

·                                 A wiki is an easy-to-use web page that multiple people can edit. It's like a shared whiteboard online. Don't worry about getting IT support or installing any software. We handle all of that. You just start typing and get an online classroom in about 5 minutes.

·                                 Why use PBwiki? No HTML experience required. Create a syllabus, share it with your students, and let them write collaborative essays online. Create online Powerpoint-like presentations right from your wiki.

·                                 Who else is using PBwiki?We host over 135,000 wikis and thousands of others have used PBwikis for their classrooms, from elementary schools to Stanford and Harvard.

o                                                        http://mrlindsay.pbwiki.com is Mr. Lindsay's beautiful classroom wiki, where he demos his students' work with book reviews, poems, stories, and tons of other resources. It's a wiki run "by the students, for the students."

o                                                        http://cas100b.pbwiki.com is another excellent educational wiki. You'll note the project proposals, class notes, and different sections for different classes.

o                                                        http://epochewiki.pbwiki.com is the Penn State English 15 course, which is required for all freshman English students at Penn State.

PBwiki can help you engage with your audiencePBwiki provides educators an easy way to post class room material online and gives students the ability to collaborate through the internet. Check out our video on how PBwiki is helping educators educate.Can't access YouTube? Check out our video through TeacherTube's site here: PBwiki helping educators educate.

Also, be sure to check out the rest of our videos and see what educators are saying about us. See the rest of our PBwiki Educator Videos.

Background Paper references and details on how to set up the Wiki are available on

http://pbwiki.com/edu.pb

A tutorial instruction page ins available in pbWiki

http://ndnetworked.pbwiki.com/FrontPage

Our Web 2.0 Wiki is up and running at

http://ndnetworked.pbwiki.com/ED2033-Web-2

Lecture 3 Notes

This is available in the Student Portal as a Powerpoint presentation.

The Classroom of the Future

The Learning Community

Education for a Digital World

Partnership for the 21st Century Skills.

A good reference and general background issues on the impact of and use of Web 2.0  in education is available from the American Group Partnership for  the 21st Century Skills. This is a unique public-private organisation formed in 2002 to create a successful model of learning for this millennium that incorporates 21st Century skills into our system of education. Their most recent Reporta can be found at

       http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=29&Itemid=42

At Work People are

Communicating

Team Working

Problem solving

Initiating

Enterprise

Planning

Organising

Education for a Digital world

Young People expect

 Work to be interesting and fun

Lifestyle to be more valued than money

Their social lives to merge with their work lives

No guarantee of loyalty

They are resourceful, adaptable and flexible

The Expert Teacher in the classroom(Positive Behaviours)

Feedback

 Prior ability

Instructional Quality

Direct Instruction

Remediation/feedback

Student Disposition

Class environment

Challenge Goals

The Digital Teacher

Encourages collaborative and constructivist learning

 Moving from teacher to coach

Assessment becoming performance focus

Encourages socialisation in a mediated space

Not locked down

Fast adoption and change encouraged

Get browsing to a minimum

Create a knowledge network through social bookworking

The Students  (The Millenials)

A good article by Diana Oblinger on the Millennials is available at this site.

 http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm0342.pdf

Collaboration/teamwork

Experiential activities

Technology assumed

Internet better than TV

Results and actions, not accumulation of facts

Learning is trial and error (Nintendo)

Multitasking is a way of life

Typing is preferred to handwriting

Staying connected is essential

Zero tolerance for delays

Consumer and creator are blurring

The Society“Shift Happens”

A great little slide presentation in many formats

Search on the web for one that suits.

 Personal Reflection: A most interesting thing happened today in our "lecture". All the students were online. They are all 18 plus. We were to have a lecture on the nature of the new generation of students and their connectedness. They connected really well in the lecture. I introduced them to Facebook. About one third were already members and nearly all were members of MySpace. They found it better than MySpace. Easier to group and be part of a group and to join an existing group. There was no stopping their learning about how to use it and most mastered it in an hour. They werereally excited about the possibilities of it and the ease with which you joined groups. Far less threatening than in MySpace. The groups provide a little more sense of safety and security. We return later today and I will ask the question how do we use this in teaching? This is the heart of the matter!!!

ED2033 Networked Learning Lecture 2.

1. Review of Lecture 1.
   1. Go to the Wiki

http://ndnetworked.pbwiki.com/ED2033-Web-2

                        Review the overview of Web 2.0 provided. Copy to your own blog.

2. Under all the software symbols in this Wiki you will find details about pbwiki and how to find it and use it. Copy this to your blog as well.

1. You will be allocated to a group to create and work on a wiki together.

These will not be friendship groups rather random groups chosen by the lecturer.

2. The Wiki will be gradually given more and more structure on which you are to build your understanding and knowledge of Web 2.0

3. To begin with the following issues are to be explored by your team

i)                    Qualities of a good virtual team

ii)                   Team rules for working on our wiki

iii)                 How do we ensure deep learning occurs

iv)                 The effective use of multiple medias on the wiki

And

v)                  Review of the work of writers

a.       Marc Prensky

b.      George Siemens

c.       Diana Oblinger

d.      Dana Boyd

And

vi)                 Flickr

a. An analysis of how it works, why it is Web 2.0 and how it can be used collaboratively.

b. A comparison of Flickr with Photobucket will also provide further insights into the nature of Web 2.0

Hyperlinks, Video clips, podcasts and other multiple media is expected to slowly become present in your group wiki. We do not have a wiki on your own. It is meant for collaborative development of knowledge with others.

                                                            A.J. Coman

Networked Learning:  ED2033   Tutorial Week 2

Having established your blog and begun positing to it, you will gradually become familiar with its possibilities.

A BLOG is essentially a diary of your ideas and learning. It is really easy to copy and paste into it. It should contain multiple media for interest and better learning. BUT you must also have in your blog the higher order thinking including

            Analysing

            Synthesising

            Evaluating, and

            Creating

You must take an active critical reflecting approach to your blog and its contents. It is your diary of learning. We want to know what you think, the judgements you make and why.

The next step is the WIKI. This has been set up today by your small group. Your group has to get to know each other, especially what you are thinking about in education. So

            Step 1.             Swap blog addresses

            Step 2.             Make comments on each others blog

            Step 4.             Place your blog address on your wiki

We are now in a cyberspace learning community. This is for real. Let us make it work. I will be recording my observations in this wiki.

I have given you a list of topics (the structure) for your wiki to get you started. What is really important in a WIKI is its structure. Without this you simply have a whole lot of postings by different people all mixed up. So people need to have a list of structured headings to place their items and thoughts. If a heading is not there make up a new one and add it to the Index.

Step 4.             Get the password for your wiki so that you can edit and save to the wiki.

You have to work as a team on the wiki. So the qualities of a good team must come into play if there is to be real collaboration and constructivist learning. We do not simply want cut and paste. I would expect rigorous debate on your wiki.

                                                                                      A.J. Coman

 One Teacher's Experience in Web 2.0 Environment.

This link was found by Tony McArthur who lectures in our Graduate Diploma of Education Course and works at the Catholic Education Commission.

http://trailfire.com/Kristianstill/trailview/38344?q=kristianstill

Dear colleagues

This is an excellent example of the use of the Read/Write web to promote classroom pedagogy. The learning process for the teacher is evident too.

Regards

Tony