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Building Classroom Community:Collaborative Technology in Use
Michael ReesSchool of Information Technology
@mrees
Slides at go.mrees.com/bccslides
An Emerging Technologies Committee Talk
The New Normal – Activity Streams
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Source: go.mrees.com/5slides
Collaboration Tools
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Tool Type
s
Blogs
Social bookmarks
Wikis
Social networks
Online Docs
Note Taking
Microblogs
Learning Tools in Use
1. Wordpress & Windows Live Writer
2. Google Reader
3. Google Sites
4. Delicious/Diigo
5. Gmail
6. Evernote
7. Live Mesh/Dropbox
8. SlideShare
9. Twitter
10. Camtasia Studio© 2010 Michael Rees Building Classroom Community 4
Philosophy of Learning Environments
Making sense of complexity requires social and technological systems
Creation is vital
Learning is network formation. Knowledge is distributed
Learning requires time, depth of focus, critical thinking, and reflection
Openness of content and interaction increases innovation
Learners need to experience confusion in the learning process
Learners should be in control of their own learning
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George Siemens, go.mrees.com/noquestions
Questions Not To Ask!
Online learning more or less effective than learning in a classroom?
Does technology use vary by age?
Do learning styles influence learning online?
What role does xxx technology play in classroom or online learning?
How can educators implement [whatever tool] into their teaching?
Is connectivism a learning theory?
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My Blogging
Blog is your social media mother ship
Invented word ‘weblog’ in 1995 with PhD student
Started blogging in 2006 as a professional journal at Scholarcast
Volume 1 ‘published’ by Blurb.com in 2009
Volume 2 ebook in epub format – see BookBrewer.com and Zinepal.com go.mrees.com/blognov2010
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Student Blogging
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Set student blogging assignments from 053
Now worth 10-15% of all marks
Encourage students to:• Record additional learning resources, own
thoughts and ideas, and achievements throughout the semester
• Read other students blogs• Comment on other student blogs
Wordpress Blogs
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Teaching uses:• Develop an important life skill• Share thoughts with students/staff• 9 free choice posts for 9% of marks
Delicious Social Bookmarking
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Teaching uses:• Targeted lists of links (tagging) with
notes• Share with students/colleagues• Evolve over semester
Wikis for Assessment
Improve structured writing/documentation skills
Build body of knowledge that extends formal subject content
Encourage comments
Wiki topics used for (part of) other assessment
Tried both group and individual wiki pages
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Wikis in iLearn
Subject content held in subject wiki
Instructor free to structure content as needed
Potentially can be shared with students
Versioning prevents content loss
Content can be exported for reuse
Comment facility
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Student Wikis
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https://sites.google.com/site/webappdevmaster/
Future of Learning Institutions
using innovative thinking creativity, connected collaboration, flexibility, play=learning?
with curiosity, exploration, transparency & openness
To prepare all of our students for a decidedly digital future
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Michael Stephens go.mrees.com/hypercampus
Mobile everywhere
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Twitter raises grades?
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… At the end of the semester, the tweeters had grade-point averages half a point higher, on average, than their nontweeting counterparts. And students who tweeted were more engaged…
Wired Campus, go.mrees.com/twittergrades
Fast, Cheap, Out of Control
Fast• To learn and set
up• No need of IT
services• Experiment and
innovate quickly
Cheap• Free, or afford to
buy out of own pocket
• No need of budget authorisation
• Liberating
Out of Control• Free of policy
restrictions• More personal
element• Increased
flexibility
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Martin Weller, go.mrees.com/goodedtech
Open Scholar
Research funding insists
on open access
Funding requires +ve social impact
Public readers of open
access check on authors
Researchers need
searchable public persona
Public persona determines
funding
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Source: http://bit.ly/public-persona
the Open Scholar is someone who makes their intellectual projects and processes digitally visiblebit.ly/osdefn
Continue Discussion on Bond Yammer
Private to Bond
Only need bond.edu.au address to participate
Threaded messages
Easy embed of images/video
Public/private groups
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yammer.com
Other Online Tools for Activity Streams
PollEverywhere• Real-time polls
Mindmeister• Mind maps
Google Docs• Shared
documents
Diigo• Web slides
Evernote• Notetaking
Twitter• Microblogs
Facebook• Social network
LinkedIn• Professional
groups
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