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Open Learning Frameworks

Page history last edited by Mike Bogle 14 years, 7 months ago

 

The following page contains the rough agenda, links and resources referenced during Mike Bogle's session. 

SESSION DESCRIPTION

QUICK SURVEY: Comfort levels/experience with technology.

How many people: 

 

  • Maintain a blog?
  • Don’t know what a blog is?
  • Have edited a wiki?
  • Wonder what difference is between blogs and wikis?
  • Have a Twitter Account?
  • Use a Feed Reader?
  • Do not know what RSS is?
  • Have to contend with internet filters and limited access to technology?

ABOUT THE ETHERPAD DOCUMENT

 
This session incorporates use of Etherpad at http://bit.ly/mquncon09 to establish a space for synchronous editing by many people at once and facilitate:
 
  • Collaborative note-taking
  • Inclusion of examples, references/tutorials and resources
  • Back-channel discussion
  • Identification of questions or topics for further discussion and debate
 
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INTRODUCTION

Marshall McLuhan (1964) - “The medium is the message.”  

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_medium_is_the_message

 

  • “...the form of a medium embeds itself in the message, creating a symbiotic relationship by which the medium influences how the message is perceived.”
  • “As the society's values, norms and ways of doing things change because of the technology, it is then we realize the social implications of the medium.”

Michael Wesche (2008)

- "Media is not content. Media are not just tools of communication. Media mediate human relationships. When media change, human relationships change."

 

- An anthropological introduction to YouTube -

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU

 

BLOGS

Examples: http://wordpress.com, http://blogger.com  

 

  • Reflections,
  • Feedback and discussion
  • Coursework and assignments,
  • Embed media,
  • Establish a personal portal to preserve all the work you’re doing

 

 

[Demonstration] 

 

 

WIKIS

Hosts: Wikispaces (http://wikispaces.net); PBWorks (http://pbworks.com); Google Sites (http://sites.google.com)  

 

  • collaborative websites that support quick editing by groups of people;
  • often can embed media and pull in RSS feeds;
  • Frequently Publicly visible and contain multiple pages

 

 

[Demonstration] 

 

 

COLLABORATIVE DOCUMENTS

Examples: Google Docs (http://docs.google.com), Zoho Suite (http://zoho.com), EtherPad (http://etherpad.com)  

 

  • As with wikis can be shared and edited by multiple people;
  • Generally better suited to work you don’t want publicly visible.
  • Supports different document types - spreadsheets, word processing documents, forms and presentations
  • Etherpad even let’s you collaborate synchronously. 

 

[Demonstration]

 

Google Docs:

http://docs.google.com/View?id=dhcrjp2r_116cctt3phd

(view only)

 

EtherPad:

http://etherpad.com/HPfJeYFizi

 

MEDIA HOSTING, STREAMING, SHARING

 

Examples: YouTube (http://youtube.com), Vimeo (http://vimeo.com), Blip.TV (http://blip.tv), Archive.org (http://archive.org); Flickr (http://flickr.com); Picasaweb (http://picasaweb.google.com/)   

 

  • Access to clips by org’s like Nat Geo, NASA, Whitehouse, PM, et al
  • Host and deliver your own content. Neither blogs or LMS are built to serve up video.
  • Content is embeddable/reusable elsewhere
  • Recontextualise, inspire reflection via blog posts

 

 

[Demonstration] 

 

 

 

COMMUMICATION & DISCUSSION

Examples: Twitter (http://twitter.com); Skpe (http://skype.com); DimDim (http://www.dimdim.com/); SecondLife (http://secondlife.com); Google Groups (http://groups.google.com)

 

  • wide variety of options,
  • one- to-one (text based) tools such as instant messaging;
  • one-to-one (video based) via Skype; MSN
  • many-to-many via Twitter or discussion boards for text and connect, dim dim, and Elluminate for video and electronic whiteboards;
  • virtual worlds like SecondLife, OpenSIM and even MMORPGs like WoW

 

 

[Demonstration]

 

 

Clearly there is a lot of potential out there, however one key consideration in the use of the distributed frameworks is how to establish some structures around them so it’s easier to keep track of all the activity and information. 

 

 

 

RSS & AGGREGATION

 

Feed Readers 

Examples: Google Reader (http://www.google.com/reader/), Bloglines (http://www.bloglines.com/), Newsgator (http://www.newsgator.com/)   

 

DIY Portals 

Examples: http://netvibes.com, http://pageflakes.com/  

 

  • Create spaces that pull in updates from disparate spaces.
  • Supports different formats and widgets – aggregate blog posts, Social bookmarks, podcasts, videos, search results, tag results

 

 

[Demonstration] 

 

 

Syndication 

  • pull in feeds from many different locations
  • re-publish them through a single space
  • original source content continues to exist; just provides structure independent activity and funnels distributed sources of content through a single channel

 

[Demonstration] 

 

 

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