The purpose of tagging is to help make it easier for the content to be easily found.
Blogs, wikis, podcasting, video sharing websites (e.g. YouTube and Vimeo), photosharing websites (e.g. Flickr and Picasa), social networking sites (e.g. FaceBook, Twitter) are all examples of Web 2.0 technologies.
Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) are all about using web tools such as blogs, wiki, twitter, facebook to create connection with others which extend our learning, increases our reflection while enabling us to learn together as part of a global community.
Lengthy, substantive piece on blogging for educators, starting from "what is a blog," continuing through Web2.0 tools, and ending with Personal Learning Networks. Something for everyone here.
Twitter Hashtag: #W2TW12 Full Session Description This Classroom Instruction That Works "Cool Tools" session focuses on how we can integrate Web 2.0 tools with research-based effective instructional practices identified by Marzano's meta-research. Come explore tools that support effective instruction while making learning fun and engaging for all students.
Sharing student work on a course blog is an example of what Randall Bass and Heidi Elmendorf, of Georgetown University, call "social pedagogies." They define these as "design approaches for teaching and learning that engage students with what we might call an 'authentic audience' (other than the teacher), where the representation of knowledge for an audience is absolutely central to the construction of knowledge in a course."
External audiences certainly motivate students to do their best work. But students can also serve as their own authentic audience when asked to create meaningful work to share with one another.
The last sentence is especially important in institutional contexts where the staff voices their distrust against "open scholarship" (Weller 2011), web 2.0 and/or open education. Where "privacy" is deemed the most important thing in dealing with new technologies, advocates of an external audience have to be prepared for certain questions.
yes! nothing but barriers! However, it is unclear if the worries about pravacy are in regards to students or is it instructors who fear teaching in the open. everyone cites FERPA and protection of student identities, but I have yet to hear any student refusing to work in the open...
Students most likely won't find this difficult. After all, you're asking them to surf the Web and tag pages they like. That's something they do via Facebook every day. By having them share course-related content with their peers in the class, however, you'll tap into their desires to be part of your course's learning community. And you might be surprised by the resources they find and share.
While keynote speakers and session leaders are speaking, audience members are sharing highlights, asking questions, and conversing with colleagues on Twitter
classrooms where students are motivated to learn. Will this work in a HS classroom where kids just view their phones as a means to check up on people? Maybe if they can see "cool" class could be if they were responsible for the freedoms that would be needed to use twitter or other similar sites.
Ask your students to create accounts on Twitter or some other back-channel tool and share ideas that occur to them in your course. You might give them specific assignments, as does the University of Connecticut's Margaret Rubega, who asks students in her ornithology class to tweet about birds they see. During a face-to-face class session, you could have students discuss their reading in small groups and share observations on the back channel. Or you could simply ask them to post a single question about the week's reading they would like to discuss.
A back channel provides students a way to stay connected to the course and their fellow students. Students are often able to integrate back channels into their daily lives, checking for and sending updates on their smartphones, for instance. That helps the class become more of a community and gives students another way to learn from each other.
Deep learning is hard work, and students need to be well motivated in order to pursue it. Extrinsic factors like grades aren't sufficient—they motivate competitive students toward strategic learning and risk-averse students to surface learning.
Social pedagogies provide a way to tap into a set of intrinsic motivations that we often overlook: people's desire to be part of a community and to share what they know with that community.
Online, social pedagogies can play an important role in creating such a community. These are strong motivators, and we can make use of them in the courses we teach.
The papers they wrote for my course weren't just academic exercises; they were authentic expressions of learning, open to the world as part of their "digital footprints."
Yes, but what is the relation between such writing and ("proper"?) academic writing?
Collaborative documents need not be text-based works. Sarah C. Stiles, a sociologist at Georgetown, has had her students create collaborative timelines showing the activities of characters in a text, using a presentation tool called Prezi.com. I used that tool to have my cryptography students create a map of the debate over security and privacy. They worked in small groups to brainstorm arguments, and contributed those arguments to a shared debate map synchronously during class.
A great blog post on social pedagogies and how they can be incorporated in university/college classes. A good understanding of creating authentic learning experiences through social media.
A great blog post on social pedagogies and how they can be incorporated in university/college classes. A good understanding of creating authentic learning experiences through social media.
A great blog post on social pedagogies and how they can be incorporated in university/college classes. A good understanding of creating authentic learning experiences through social media.
Free and easy tool for remembering all of your online sign-in data. If you've been enjoying Diigo in Education as much as I have, you might have signed up for some new Web 2.0 services and need to remember the passwords for all of them. Plus, who wants to log in to a site over and over? Just make sure you read about the different levels of security if offers.
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there are many creative ways to cut costs, as well as to free resources that
can be used with existing infrastructures.
Schools can utilize cost-effective lease purchase programs for
computers, investigate the implementation of a Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT)
program, or promote the use of a plethora of free Web 2.0 tools.
Schools and classrooms do not, and will not,
spiral out of control when we allow teachers the flexibility to take calculated
risks to innovate with technology or permit students to learn using social
media or their own devices.
One of the most powerful means of
professional development is through the use of social media where educators can
create their own Personal Learning Network (PLN) based entirely on their unique
needs and passions.
"Even as we are seeing more schools and educators transform the way they teach and learn with technology, many more are not. .. Opinions vary on the merits of educational technology, but common themes seem to have emerged. Some of the reasons for not embracing technology have to do with several misconceptions revolving around fear."
Blogging the Learning Process
Just as blogs can help foster conversation among students and faculty, instructors are discovering that they can also serve a more personal role, as a tool of reflection and self-appraisal. “The blog’s biggest strength is in the development and authentication of the student voice in learning,” notes Ruth Reynard, associate professor of education and the director of the Center for Instructional Technology at Trevecca Nazarene University (TN).
Reynard uses blogs as a way to get students to reflect on their coursework–essentially by keeping an online journal in which they track their learning. As opposed to a traditional journal that is read only by the instructor, student
When used as a tool for reflection, blogs allow students to write at length about their own experiences as learners, and to read and comment on the insights posted on their classmates’ blogs. This type of public, shared self-reflection is difficult to achieve in other forms of collaborative online writing, such as discussion boards. “If the
Reynard has also found that blogs are a great tool for helping her graduate students learn to write academically. She requires her graduate students to embed hyperlinks to online sources that are influencing their thinking in their reflective blog posts.
Other people with similar interest would also be able to see your highlights.
Diigo also allows a group of people to pool findings through group bookmarks,
highlights, sticky notes and forums. Diigo
has groups that are already formed. You can join any Diigo group for
collaborative research. People are also using Diigo by posting to their blog
depending on tags.
For me the best feature is the highlighting of the website. As we all know,
research on the internet can be overwhelming. The highlighting feature makes it
much easier. Not only do I have favorite websites bookmarked but I also have
certain parts highlighted on that website. Educators can join the education group to
search the web for anything that can help them with their classrooms. I also
think that teachers can use Diigo to teach students how to do research. Better
yet, educators can teach them how to do some collaborative research.
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new behaviours and actions emerging as technology advances and becomes more
ubiquitous.
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Table of Contents
Synopsis:
A little Disclaimer:
Introduction and
Background:
Bloom's Domains of
learning
The Cognitive Domain - Bloom's
Taxonomy
Bloom's Revised Taxonomy
Bloom's Revised Taxonomy Sub
Categories
Bloom's as a learning
process.
Is it important where you start?
Must I start with remembering?
Bloom's Digital Taxonomy
Bloom's Digital Taxonomy Summary
Map
Bloom's Digital Taxonomy and
Collaboration.
Resources:
Web 2.0 Tutorials
Acknowledgements:This is the introduction to
Bloom's Digital Taxonomy. The different taxonomical levels can be viewed
individually via the navigation bar or below this introduction as embedded
pages.
Synopsis:
This is an
update to Bloom's Revised Taxonomy which attempts to account for the
new
behaviours and actions emerging as technology advances and becomes more
ubiquitous.
Bloom's Revised Taxonomy
accounts for many of the traditional c
This is an update to Bloom's Revised Taxonomy which attempts to account for the
new behaviours and actions emerging as technology advances and becomes more
ubiquitous.
Downloadable guides to many of the popular Web 2.0. Tools. Includes Google Forms, Mixbook, Animoto, Voicethread, Wikispaces, Mindmeister and Bizzword among others
Feed readers
are probably the most important digital tool for today's learner because they
make sifting through the amazing amount of content added to the Internet
easy. Also known as aggregators, feed readers are free tools that can
automatically check nearly any website for new content dozens of times a
day---saving ridiculous amounts of time and customizing learning experiences for
anyone.
Imagine
never having to go hunting for new information from your favorite sources
again. Learning goes from a frustrating search through thousands of
marginal links written by questionable characters to quickly browsing the
thoughts of writers that you trust, respect and enjoy.
Feed readers can
quickly and easily support blogging in the classroom, allowing teachers to
provide students with ready access to age-appropriate sites of interest that are
connected to the curriculum. By collecting sites in advance and organizing
them with a feed reader, teachers can make accessing information manageable for
their students.
Here are several
examples of feed readers in action:
Used specifically as
a part of one classroom project, this feed list contains information related to
global warming that students can use as a starting point for individual
research.
While there are literally dozens of different feed reader
programs to choose from (Bloglines andGoogle Reader are two
biggies), Pageflakes is a favorite of
many educators because it has a visual layout that is easy to read and
interesting to look at. It is also free and web-based. That
means that users can check accounts from any computer with an Internet
connection. Finally, Pageflakes makes it quick and easy to add new
websites to a growing feed list—and to get rid of any websites that users are no
longer interested in.
What's even
better: Pageflakes has been developinga teacher version of their tooljust for us that includes an online grade tracker,
a task list and a built in writing tutor. As Pageflakes works to perfect
its teacher product, this might become one of the first kid-friendly feed
readers on the market. Teacher Pageflakes users can actually blog and create a
discussion forum directly in their feed reader---making an all-in-one digital
home for students.
For more
information about the teacher version of Pageflakes, check out this
review:
During the last
six or so years I have created a number of 'how-to' documents and presentations
for a variety of web based and related technologies. They are available from the
various workshop web pages however I thought it might prove helpful to link to
all the documents from a single page. Some of my workshop participants have referred to
these documents as 'cheat sheets'.
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During the last
six or so
years I have created a number of 'how-to' documents and presentations
for a
variety of web based and related technologies. They are available from
the
various workshop web pages however I
thought it might prove helpful to link to
all the
documents
from a single page. Some of my workshop participants have referred to
these
documents as 'cheat sheets'.
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