Franklin Consulting The Social Web (Web 2.0) for learning and teaching Tom Franklin Franklin Consulting

Franklin Consulting Outline  What is the Social Web?  (Why) does the Social Web matter?  The Social Web and policy

Franklin Consulting What is the Social Web

Franklin Consulting

What is The Social Web  Personal  Customisation Look and feel Included utilities (widgets)  Sense of ownership  User created content  Sharing  Social

Franklin Consulting Personal

Franklin Consulting What is The Social Web  Personal  User created content  Authored  Annotated  Aggregated  Re-mixed  Sharing  Social

Franklin Consulting User created content - video / audio  Podcasts  Vidcasts  Recorded lectures  Supporting discussion  Revision talks  Complex topics that can be reviewed

Franklin Consulting User created content - documents and presentations  Open access repository  Put course notes up  Enable students (and others) to comment on them

Franklin Consulting User created content - blogs  Diaries  Reflections  Adverts  Commentary  Anything  Get students to comment on each others course related blogs  Course announcements  Course reading lists with commentary

Franklin Consulting User created content - wikis  Encyclopedias  Knowledge creation  Collaborative working  Group project recording  Course handbooks

Franklin Consulting User created content - Social bookmarking  Reading lists  Memory aid  Sharing  Finding  Get students to rate / review content  Create a course tag  Create a course account on del.icio.us  Course reading lists

Franklin Consulting User created content - Aggregating  Pull together all students blogs  Pull together a set of relevant blogs

Franklin Consulting What is The Social Web  Personal  User created content  Sharing  With everyone  With friends / colleagues  User in control  Social

Franklin Consulting User in control

Franklin Consulting What is The Social Web  Personal  User created content  Sharing  Social  Friends and Family  Colleagues  Peers

Franklin Consulting Friends and family Facebook Myspace Beebo

Franklin Consulting Colleagues

Franklin Consulting Peers (students)

Franklin Consulting The Social Web  The solution to all your problems  A waste of time  Will change everything  Over hyped  Full of exciting tools that will change how we work  Full of tools that will disappear  Fun  Loathesome  Completely different  Just the same  Puts the user in control  Puts corportations in control  Works  Only geeks can use it

Franklin Consulting (Why) does The Social Web matter?  People are using it - including your students  It opens up new possibilities  Supports particular pedagogies  Social constructivism  Constructionism  Group work  Supports distributed models of learning  Work based learning  Distance learning

Franklin Consulting The Social Web and policy  Intellectual property rights  Ownership  Re-use  Control  Accessibility  Learning, teaching and assessment  Security  Personal security  Network and IT Systems Security  Preservation  Hosting  Integration

Franklin Consulting Intellectual property rights

Franklin Consulting Accessibility

Franklin Consulting Security

Franklin Consulting Preservation

Franklin Consulting Hosting

Franklin Consulting Integration

Franklin Consulting Resources  Web 2.0 for Content for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education Report I wrote with Van Harmelen on Web 2.0. inludes ideas on how to use it learning and teaching  100+ Web 2.0 Ideas for Educators mostly aimed at schools but lots of good ideas  University of Edinburgh's Web 2.0 Initiative Home Page A strategic approach to Web  What is Web 2.0? Ideas, technologies and implications for education JISC TechWatch report on Web blished.aspx  Web 2.0 in Education Website with many links to useful resources

Franklin Consulting What is in your repository?