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1 Education Today and Tomorrow

2 Web 2.0: Imagine the Possibilities

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4 Knowledge is specific content Learners are empty vessels to be filled with knowledge

5 Knowledge is created Learning is a collaborative social endeavor

6 A Paradigm Shift

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8 Horizon Report 2007 Key trends affecting higher education—next 5 years  One year or less Social Networking User-Created Content  Two-Three Years Mobile Phones Virtual Worlds  Four-Five Years New Scholarship and Emerging Forms of Publication Massively Multiplayer Educational Gaming

9 Tools for Collaboration Communication Distribution Organization

10 Communication Social Networks Instant Messaging, VoIP and Video Conferencing in one simple to use package

11 Blogs

12 Distribution Flickr/Picasa  Share image collections Slideshare  Upload and share presentations Wikis  wikispaces  pbwiki Podcasts

13 YouTube--TeacherTube Invention of the Year, 2006

14 Organization Social Bookmarking (del.icio.us)del.icio.us  Storing, sharing bookmarks--search by tags to find useful Internet research links.  The Penntags project at the University of Pennsylvania (http://tags.library.upenn.edu/)http://tags.library.upenn.edu/  Harvard’s H2O (http://h2obeta.law.harvard.edu/home.do)http://h2obeta.law.harvard.edu/home.do Social Calendaring  Shared agendas for events arrangements and meetings planning RSS Reader Personalized homepage

15 Tools for Collaboration Blogs Wikis Podcasts

16 What are Blogs? Web + Logs = Blogs Web Pages  Automated updating  Reverse chronological postings  May accommodate responses Internet-specific phenomenon Incomplete index of blogs  http://blogdex.media.mit.edu/ http://blogdex.media.mit.edu/

17 Limited Only by Your Imagination Instructors  Content-related blog as professional practice  Networking and personal knowledge sharing  Instructional tips for students  Course announcements and readings  Annotated links Students  Reflective or writing journals  Assignment submission and review  Dialogue for groupwork  E-portfolios  Share course-related resources

18 Sample Educational Blogs Online Research Blog  eCornell Research Blog eCornell Research Blog Info-Commons Blog  commons-blog commons-blog Educational Bloggers Network  EBN blog EBN blog Science Blog  Science Blog Science Blog

19 Wikis: The ultimate collaboration tool  Special web site  allows visitors to add, remove, edit & change content  Not need access to or knowledge of web publishing software  Collaboration  Group members work on common document in common location

20 Wikipedia: Collaborative Dictionary Being Edited in Real Time by Anyone

21 Wiki’s in Education Econ 482: Stephen Greenlaw Advanced Artificial Intelligence: Sean Luke Advanced Artificial Intelligence: Sean Luke Harvard Law School Eckerd College

22 Wikibooks

23 Boston College Gerald Kane, assistant professor of information systems Gerald Kane  post papers on the wiki to be reviewed by other students before turn in for grade  Create own exam questions and answers—post on wiki for peer editing (pool of 350 questions)  Easily update information as world events change—collaborative effort -Computerworld, 2007

24 Horizon Project http://horizonproject.wikispaces.com/ Collaborative global project between classrooms in diverse geographical locations  Camilla, GA (10th grade)  Vienna, Austria (11th grade)  Dhaka, Bangladesh (11th grade)  Melbourne, Australia (11th grade)  Shanghai, China (Media Literary)

25 Podcasting Pod (iPod) + broadcast = Podcast Differs from streaming audio  Automatically delivered to player – don't have to click on a link to download  Listen when you want – not when a program is scheduled

26 Why is podcasting appealing for learning and teaching? Appeals to the digital natives Easy and low cost  create  distribute Caters to different learning styles

27 Advantages Students  Review lectures before exams  Listen in on classes they've missed  Replay at own convenience  Non-native speakers replay to increase comprehension Instructors  Listen to own lectures to improve presentations

28 Learning & Teaching Applications Interviews with experts Oral history projects Quotes from recorded speeches Answers to posted questions Guest speakers / lecture series Student submissions /portfolios / placement logs

29 Universities Podcasting iTunes U (http://www.apple.com/education/solutions/itu nes_u/)http://www.apple.com/education/solutions/itu nes_u/  Duke University  University of Illinois  Stanford  UC Berkley Purdue University http://www.itap.purdue.edu/tlt/BoilerCast/ University of Washington http://www.css.washington.edu/

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