Jamalludin HarunDepartment of Educational Multimedia, Faculty of Education
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
WEB 2.0 (SOCIAL MEDIA) TECHNOLOGIES FOR TEACHING & LEARNING
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We know
• People work with each other• They learn from each other• They are capable of determining what they want
to learn
THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION
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Ask yourself...
• Where have all the students gone?• Who are Generation X & Y?• What are their characteristics?• How were they brought up?• Where have they come from?• How might this affect their approach to learning?
THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION
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Ask yourself...
• What are their tools?• Where do they communicate?• How do they network?• Where do they network?• How do they learn?• Where do they research?
THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION
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Welcome to Facebook generation. Education2.0 - social networking
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Now....Ask yourself...
• How do you teach?• How do you engage them?• What tools do you use?• What tools can you use? • Do you encourage them to innovate and create?
THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION
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The Future of Education...
• Information is changing.• WHERE and HOW we learn is changing.• If we don’t integrate the tools effectively…
Formal education will become increasingly irrelevant
THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION
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• Technology web 2.0 (Social media) has the power to transform teaching and learning
• You have the power to give them the skills and tools to work in the 21st century.
• Teach them how to find, make sense of, and use relevant information
• Give them the ability to find and use information with critical discrimination in order to build knowledge.
• learn together, network together, grow together
INTRODUCTON TO SOCIAL MEDIA
INTRODUCTION
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What are they?Potential Uses for Teaching
INTRODUCTON TO SOCIAL MEDIA
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WEB 2.0 TECHNOLOGIES
• Defined as the “Read-Write” Web– Provides all the services and applications to allow
individuals to co-create content, collaborate and share it with others
• Supports user-generated content– Content created by users rather than specialist
authors or publishing using a variety of affordable technologies like blogs, podcasts and wikis
• Encourages the social aspect of the web– Through the use of social media like blogs, wikis,
social bookmarking tools and social networks
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WEB 2.0 TECHNOLOGIES
• What do these social technologies look like
• Social networking - establishing and building online relationships with others, and a fundamental social activity
• File-sharing - creating, storing and/or sharing files in all formats: pictures, videos, presentations, documents, screencasts, etc
• Social bookmarking - storing and sharing links to web resources
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WEB 2.0 TECHNOLOGIES
• Communication tools - communicating in real time via instant messaging and chat, in web meetings, and in live broadcasts, or asynchronously via email
• Collaboration tools - working synchronously or asynchronously with other to co-create documents, presentations, mindmaps, etc
• Blogging - reading, commenting or writing blog posts• Micro-blogging - sending, receiving and replying to
short messages with others - for real-time communications
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WEB 2.0 TECHNOLOGIES
• Podcasting - creating or listening to audio (MP3) files• RSS - Really Simple Syndication- subscribing to and
reading blog and web news feeds• Social and collaboration platforms - providing
enterprise-wide, integrated suites of social media tools in one platform
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WEB 2.0 TECHNOLOGIES
• What impact are social (Web 2.0) technologies having on working and learning?
Web 1.0Web technologies
Web 2.0 Social Technologies
publishing content/coursesreading content
some interaction with content
sharing information and knowledge
collaborative working and learning
social learningCONTENT PEOPLE
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WEB 2.0 TECHNOLOGIES
• How can social media (SoMe) be used for learning and working?
Social Media for Working & Learning aka Social LearningUse of SoMe for: communicating - collaborating - sharing - networks and
communities
Formal learning/training/education
Informal Learning learning as you work or
play
Workingimproving performance
• Use SoMe to engage online learners
• to engage learners in the classroom
• Use SoMe to find things out by/for oneself
• to learn with and from others
• Use SoMe to rethink/improve work processes
• to work collaboratively with others
TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY
TEACHING WITH SOCIAL MEDIA (TOOLS)- WEB 2.0 -
WHAT TOOLS ARE AVAILABLE?
• Please browse 2011 Top 100 Tools for Learning :• http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/2011.html
• then write the number (name) of tools in that list that you are presently familiar with.
http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/index.html
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SOCIAL BOOKMARKING
• A collection of bookmark (favourite) • Access your bookmark links from anywhere • Share with friends, coworkers and the community • Discover new things Examples• Delicious, digg, connotea,citeulike Application• Lecturers and students can build a course library of
relevant course links based on shared bookmarks using a course tag.
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Delicious.com
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digg.com
SOCIAL NETWORKING
• Used for self-expression, personalization and the building of communities
Examples• Facebook, ning, elgg Application• Lecturers can set up a class “social network” or
learning community for students to meet and communicate with one another – before, during and after the course
• Students can have group discussions and group chat
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Facebook.com
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ning.com
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elgg.com
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schoology.com
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mahara.org
MEDIA SHARING
• Sharing of slides, videos, pictures, audio…• True user generated contents• Some available for downloadExamples• Slideshare, Scribd, Youtube, TeacherTube, FlickRApplication• Educators and students can share their own as well
as other user-generated podcasts, presentations, screencast, videos, etc and embed them in blogs, websites, etc, and comment on each other resources.
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slideshare.net
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youtube.com
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teachertube.com
WIKI
• A "wiki" is a collaborative website which can be directly edited by anyone with access to it.
• “Wiki-wiki " is the Hawaiian for "quick.”Examples• Wikispaces, pbwiki, wikiversityApplications• A group of students can collaboratively create
documents related to class projects• Lectures can use wikis to collaborate on projects,
whether editing a textbook, preparing a journal article, or assembling a syllabus or reading list.
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Wikispaces.com
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pbworks.com
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wikiversity.org
BLOG
• “…a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles, most often in reverse chronological order.
Examples• Blogspot, wordpress, edublogsApplications• Educators can write course blogs to host an entire
course, to provide a chronological focus for assignments, a site for student interaction and discussion, where students can contribute thought and experiences
• Students can write blog to reflect on their learning or to post e-portfolios and to comment on the other student blogs 37
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blogger.com
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wordpress.com
OTHER WEB 2.0 TOOLS
• Prezi (Presentation)http://www.prezi.com
• Glogster (Interactive Poster) http://www.glogster.com
• VoiceThread (Collaborative slideshows) http://www.voicethread.com
• Jing (Screen captures/ casting tool) http://www.jingproject.com/
• Google Docs, Zoho (Online Productivity)http://docs.google.comhttp://www.zoho.com
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