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Sven A. Miller

Moodle vs. Facebook: Does using Facebook for Discussions in an Online Course Enhance Pe... - 5 views

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  • Sven A. Miller on 27 Nov 10
     
    In this study, we investigated the effect of using the social network site Facebook for discussions in an online course. Data were collected from concurrent offerings of an introductory educational psychology course, one using Facebook discussion boards and the other Moodle forums. We measured student perceptions of social presence and the frequency and length of their discussion interactions. Evaluation of this data indicated that there were no differences in our measures. We discuss why the potential benefits of Facebook for online teaching may not have emerged in this study and provide suggestions for further research in this area.
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  • Sven A. Miller on 27 Nov 10
     
    Through an experiment we are performing in Prof. Caire's class, we tried to find a comparative study of MOODLE vs. Facebook in an academic context; and this is the only article we found, that treats this specific issue…
  • Lucas Eaton on 29 Nov 10
     
    While using Facebook for coursework and school discussions seems odd to us at the moment and is a point of debate, I think as it becomes more and more a part of our culture, using it in education will be unavoidable. I think it's possible that within a few years Facebook will be such an integral part of everyone's life that it will eventually be natural and logical to use it for school. Kids won't know a world without facebook! Now it's still new and fresh and we don't quite know how to handle it, but over time it may become a simple digital manifestation of the totality of our lives.
  • anola brace on 23 Dec 10
     
    Very interesting article. After getting used with very traditional methods, it´s a little bit difficult to use these tools and to adapt with them. Especially when we use them in a different context that is not education one. In the beginning of Master class I remember that was hard to get use with moodle or other tools that we learnt. I agree with Lucas that in the nearly future will be so normal to use them. But my concern (we have already discuss in one of our presentation) is that not all the children/ students have the chance/ possibility to use these tools and we will create a huge gap in the education.
  • Diana Alves on 11 Jan 11
     
    I agree with Lucas. It is still kind of difficult to deal with it, but it will become natural. However it does not sound odd to me. Not at all. It is simply a question of time. The same happened with the Email taking over the traditional "sending letters ritual". It is the natural course of technology! :) As far as I am concerned it can work out pretty well. We have the example of moodle within our master and I also have already the experience with facebook for school discussions (within my german course). One of my friends, who is TOTALLY addicted to facebook, was telling us the other day that she spends so much time on facebook that she gets now the feeling that she is "outdated" when it comes to news. And we told her to join/add one newspaper (or so), which has a facebook page. Like this she would get the information anyway. It is a good point also valid for education. Why not to "combine business with pleasure"? It is not only usefull, but it can also be a motivator for the students.
  • Sarah Moser on 02 Feb 12
     
    one year later... :) it is interesting to see how facebook and its use actually changed during this year. For our Media class with Charles Max we made a little research on whether the students from the Master program use the Socializing Forum of the Moodle platform or not and why. While one year ago the Moodle platform was the main space where students shared and discussed ideas about academic topics and issues, this year it turned out that the students prefer to communicate and discuss things through facebook rather than on Moodle. Facebook seems to become an easy and handy way to communicate and exchange ideas not only on a personal level but also for academic reasons.
Charles MAX

Tutorials - 0 views

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  • Charles MAX on 06 Mar 12
     
    There is a variety of software that can be used to create a digital story. We've listed a few options below along with links to tutorials.
Miriam Martinez

Walkthrough: videogames and technocultural form - 3 views

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  • Miriam Martinez on 06 Mar 11
     
    For those who are interested in videogames, is a microethnography and cybertextual analysis that articulates the everyday context of a smallscale event of videogame play. This event is studied as the collusion (the coming together in play), of a heterogeneous network of human and nonhuman part(icipant)s: the conventions, rules and prescriptions of games software; children's embodied knowledges, pleasures, anxieties, imaginations; play practices and rules; screen media images and characters; and the inaesthetics and virtual physics of videogameworlds.
  • evgenia gouvedari on 08 Mar 11
     
    I think the thesis posted by Miriam is good reading for everyone who is interested in how micro-ethnography is being transformed through the digital media and not just for those interested in video games. What I liked is this idea of non-human agency that is taken from Latour; we also saw it in Professor Portante's literacy studies in relation to the agency of texts. In the case of videogames the agency of the material actors is an integral part of the study and not just an additional, secondary factor that influences the agency of the human actors. According to Latour's irreducibility principle nothing -either human or non-human- is reducible to anything else.
Sven A. Miller

Ten tips for using social media in school communications | Best Practices News | eSchoo... - 3 views

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  • Sven A. Miller on 12 Jul 11
     
    With social media networks ubiquitous in American life, it's time to shift the debate from whether it's a good idea for educators to use this new medium to how to use it wisely and well. Here are 10 tips to help get you started in social media for school communications.
anonymous

Sharing References - and Ideas - 2 views

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evgenia gouvedari

The ethnography of new media worlds? Following the case of global poker - 2 views

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  • The ethnography of new media worlds? Following the case of global poker
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      evgenia gouvedari on 04 Mar 11
       
      Digital media have transformed ethnographic research and this is reflected in the diversity of the new terms that are proposed in order to capture this transformation: " Media Ethnography", "Virtual Ethnography", "Network Ethnography", "Hyper-media Ethnography", etc.The ethnographic method has changed in many ways:first, the process of ethnographic research has changed as researchers use the media as tools for their research and this affects their positionalities in relation to the subjects of their research. Second, ethnography has become multi-sited and the constitution of the site of research is not considered pre-given but is part of the analysis. Social space becomes primary over physical space, while at the same time the materiality of the digital objects becomes central.Researchers have to think how notions such as "fieldwork" and "participant observation" make sense in a networked world and how new social formations are constituted. New concepts such as co-presence substitute traditional concepts of co-location. There are many researchers who problematise and retheorise the ethnographic method. The article I am posting really goes deep into this kind of problematic by analyzing the emergence of global poker across on- and offline practices through traditional and new media. It shows how the multiple sites of global poker are co-configured through the assembling of actors, practices and technologies. What I found interesting was the term "Para-Ethnography"; the term "para-ethnographer" refers to the expert players that give extremely detailed accounts of playing action through blogging or other media.
anola brace

Viva VoiceThread: Integrating a Web 2.0 in the Additional Language Classroom - 2 views

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  • anola brace on 23 Dec 10
     
    This article shows how the language learning process is integrated with the technology. Different social media tools create different interactive possibilities to improve the language skills of the students. This article emphasises the use of voicethread as a tool of Web 2.0 that combine different methods in itself that allows students to use their creativity and skills. I have already use voice thread the last year during the class of Telecolloboration. It´s very interesting for the ones that didn´t take this class and also for others that want to integrate different social media tools into education.
Lucas Eaton

Using Twitter to track regional US slang - 2 views

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  • Cecile Dupire on 10 Jan 11
     
    very funny to see that people are tracking slang on twetter ! never used so don't know how it is used, but it is interesting to see the changes depending on the region... would this be analyzed as a mark of identity, like what we analyzed with the sms in Mondada's class? I guess also a deeper research could be done in this direction to see why people are using more often certain emoticone depending on the region. What does that relate and imply?
  • Viviana Sarac on 13 Jan 11
     
    An extremely interesting, funny and very modern article. Although I have never used Twitter, it seems quite a good tool to track the development across time, whether it's accents, slang, geographical location or anything else for that matter...
anola brace

Digital citizenship - 1 views

www.flatclassroomproject.org/...DigitalCitizenship_Mar2010.pdf

technology education learning media project

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  • anola brace on 22 Dec 10
     
    I would like to share with you this new project that gives light a new dimension to education using the social media as tool to increase the interaction between teacher and students. The Flat Classroom Project is an innovative approach where educators have built social-networking sites specifically for use in class and home assignments. This project allows communication for students in the classroom, but for them to interact with students in far away classrooms all around the world can reach and learn from each other. A recent survey (http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Social-Media-and-Young-Adults.aspx) from the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 73 percent of online teens use social-networking sites. Updating their Facebook or MySpace page has become a regular activity for teens as is using these services to catch up on what their peers are doing. Using similar tools will encourage students to interact with each other, using many of the same techniques they do when away from school but focused on their educational goals. Hope for someone will be useful
  • Cecile Dupire on 10 Jan 11
     
    Its is very interesting to see that new technologies are more and more taking part of the class as being a tool like any other ones. It is very important to let them get in the class and not leave them out as new media and new technologies are used on a everyday basis by most of the students. One of the most important point of this article to make sure that the use of tools should be customized depending on the students. It is also in my opinion that the more customized the process of learning is, the better will be the learning. Customizing a class lead to a better motivation for the students and so lead to a better learning and more important remembering of what is done during the class. Moreover, I agree with the authors when saying that new technologies should be used and learned from the very beginning of school. As I said, new technologies should not be let outside of the school as it takes a great part of our lifes nowadays. And the earliest it is learnt, the better the students will know how to use them to make them as most efficient in their lifes (private ones, during their studies, careers...) as possible. It is said in the article that this project is used in different countries. However, besides Spain, the rest of them are english speaking countries. How could this project be developed in order to touch more and more countries? Or could it be used during english classes in other countries than the one mentionned?
Miriam Martinez

Embodied Child. Computer Interaction. Why embodiment matters - 1 views

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technology learning media

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  • Miriam Martinez on 10 Jan 11
     
    This is the article that we just presented during our last class, Just to refresh your mind, the author present the interaction of children with media tools. Understanding the concept of "Embodiment means how the nature of a living entity's cognition is shaped by the form of its physical manifestation in the world" As we saw the theory is basis in the believe that the nature of the human mind is largely determined by the form of the human body. Then, Dividing the cognition then in Spatial, Physical and finally Metaphorical. Moreover the Embodied Child were analysed by the interaction with the computer, categorizing in Input design, interface design and interaction design.
Diana Alves

Using a touch screen computer to support relationships between people with dementia and... - 1 views

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  • Diana Alves on 11 Jan 11
     
    Interacting with media: not only funny, but also extremely useful. This article explores the reality of people with dementia, who are not always able to communicate and to interact with their caregivers. Thus, the authors evaluate an interactive touch screen (named CIRCA) that allows this communication and interaction between them. I won't tell you the results (so that if you're interested... you read the article :), but CIRCA has several applications. which aim to stimulate the memory of people with dementia... and it kinda works out well... :) It is pretty amazing. Great to see people interacting with media with useful objectives.
  • Diana Alves on 11 Jan 11
Sven A. Miller

Tunisia: A media led revolution? - 1 views

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  • Sven A. Miller on 17 Jan 11
     
    The internet in this case has assumed the role of a very effective uncensored news agency from which every broadcaster and news corporation have been able to freely source newsfeeds, raw from the scene.
  • Lucas Eaton on 18 Jan 11
     
    Interesting! This makes me wonder if government-controlled media is an idea that will disappear in the coming years as social media grows. It might just become archaic and completely incompatible with the world situation. I feel like governments can only have so much power in this and as the world becomes even more connected, perhaps other countries will have similar revolutions. Iran? China?...even North Korea? (I think that one might take a long while though. They are pretty isolated).
Sven A. Miller

PlayStation Move headed to PCs under official 'Move Server' project -- Engadget - 1 views

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  • Sven A. Miller on 02 Feb 11
     
    According to the synopsis, John McCutchan, SCEA's lead for Game Systems and Developer Support, will be on hand to discuss the "Move Server project that will make it possible for academics and hobbyists to develop software using the PlayStation Move controller on their own PCs.
  • Sven A. Miller on 02 Feb 11
     
    As our project was based on analysing our interaction with the tv through the tool that is Playstation Move, I think the info, that further research might be driven by connecting it to a PC or a Mac is quite interesting! :O)
evgenia gouvedari

Game literacy in theory and practice - 1 views

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game literacy

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  • evgenia gouvedari on 08 Mar 11
     
    Following Miriam's posting about videogames I would like to share this article about game literacy that analyses the concept of game literacy; the authors make an effort to give meaning to the term game literacy; they argue that literacy has become a vague synonym for competence or skill as the literacy terms proliferate: economic literacy, emotional literacy, even spiritual literacy are some of the "fashionable literacies" that deprive the term of its validity.The authors analyse a game designing process at a school in order to give a model of game literacy and to untangle its functional, critical and creative dimensions.
Lucas Eaton

Rehberg, Tester embrace social media tools - 1 views

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  • Lucas Eaton on 13 Dec 10
     
    Even in Montana social media has become important. It's true it is "en train de changer" the way politics is run. In a place with so few people, each person could really have a direct line to candidates and I suppose a more direct dialogue with the people is much easier. However, as the article states, could this lead to a more polarizing political field--meaning only strong supporters of a candidate would follow them through social media, and thus the candidate is really only talking to people on one even extreme side? Is social media used in politics in Luxembourg? It could have a strong impact here, seeing as how there are even half as many people in this country as in Montana! Oh and off the subject, Montana is so small. The senator Baucus referred to in the article bought my grandpa's car from us after he died.
Cecile Dupire

The New Digital Media and Activist Networking within Anti-Corporate GlobalizationMovements - 1 views

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  • Cecile Dupire on 02 Dec 10
     
    As I mentioned during the class, I read this article to know media are embodied within activist group, or by their opponant i.e. gouvernments, polices... But what is interesting in this article is to analyze how new media had an impact in the transformation of activist groups, such as for example going from being more local to becoming global. Interesting article when it comes to see how people are in practice interacting with these media.
  • anola brace on 09 Jan 11
     
    I agree with Cecile that, this article shows very good results of the interaction of social action with social media tools. The use of social media tools have a greater and faster impact to the society. The information about what is happening around you about a lot of injustice is spreading so quickly. I want to give a very recently example. And International organization was posting via email, fb, you tube concerning a cause in South Africa. They got the signature for this petition in very short time and the reaction of the government very soon and everyone is informed about the future actions to help this cause. It´s amazing when you think how quickly can happen, and imagine if these tools didn´t exist, most probably we will not even know what is happening around us.
Lucas Eaton

Nintendo DS as a Learning Tool in Schools « Wired Educator - 1 views

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  • Lucas Eaton on 29 Nov 10
     
    I wanted to share a blog entry about using the Nintendo DS in school as a learning tool. I chose this because I have already had experience with this gaming device in an educational setting. At the Lushootseed language camp I was at this summer, the tribe had purchased about a dozen nintendo ds and created and installed a few different programs for learning and practicing Lushootseed. I see the value of the tool for language learning, yet in my experience it was not so successful. The kids of course did not want to do the language learning programs and very quickly figured out how to play other games and play with sounds and things. They were so distracted by the device that rarely did they complete and language learning tasks. Part of this was the rather informal non-classroom context (it might work well in a classroom setting) and it was almost impossible to force each child to use the programs. There was some success when the children were engaged in a collaborative game where the teacher would say a word in Lushootseed and the kids would have to write it on the ds. The first person to write it correctly got a point. They enjoyed this and it worked somewhat ok because everyone was engaged and they were competing, unlike all the other "games" which were individual and the kids had no motivation to do them. What do you think about using an individual gaming device such as this for language learning?
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  • Viviana Sarac on 13 Jan 11
     
    Wow! It seems like an extremely exciting tool to learn English with, yet it must be taken with a grain of salt. A good way to start would be to thoroughly analyse the setting in which it is going to be introduced. What does it bring to that setting? What are the implications? After having found a way, one must consider the potential problems and solutions. This makes me think of the expansive learning model. Introducing such a device is definitely an intervention. The language learning activity will be unavoidably transformed. For implementing such a model, a solution must be agreed upon according to the needs of all participants. Having considered all this, I think that all in all, it is a good idea and worth considering it. After all, technology is what you make of it...
  • anola brace on 17 Jan 11
     
    Uaaaa very interesting to see that you can use a game can be transformed and used for another purpose than just entertaining the children. I´ve been always against the dependence of the children or young people toward these kind of games. It´s good to see how someone can integrate the game with education´s aim. Now days, it´s important to find different ways and tools to adapt the education with the new changes happening around us.
  • Sven A. Miller on 01 Feb 11
     
    Some of you might have already discovered this link, concerning a school which bases it's whole curriculum on videogames, on our multi-LEARN unveil group or through Martin aka. James Kirks' profile - if not: http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/09/15/magazine/1248069030957/games-theory.html?scp=1&sq=Video+game+school+design&st=cse In contrast to this article, they use the videogames as a holistic and transdisciplinary approach to teach or rather convey all the branches through integrating them in the development - as they play games like Little Big Planet, in which they have to create worlds through basic designing/programming… and in order to achieve the assigned goals, they have to develop specific skills/competences, while making strategic use of their knowledge… learning mathematics, physics, chemistry, languages etc literally, whilst playing! So even though I think it's nice to use a DS during class, like in this rticle - if it's only to train your brain with computation problems or preparing for SAT scores, I think that's sth that would rather be appropriate for the home use, as training or fun homeworks… but in order to take it to the next level, they should rather follow the example of this school in the US and not just use technology just for the sake of using it?!
mihaela iordan

Maintained Relationships on Facebook - 1 views

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  • Sven A. Miller on 01 Feb 11
     
    I think this a very interesting approach to get a clearer picture how convivial Facebook really is - and also a good example of a small study on a test group, methodologically speaking. Even though this is not representative, I can confirm, that these numbers do in fact mirror my own networking habits with my 'friends'… but I think you also have to pay further attention to other factors like context of the FB user - as a college student is bound to communicate more than a 50 year old housewife for example… or a couple which gets engaged or the birth of a baby might create a false result, if you do not analyse it as a longitudinal study… never mind the size of the network. So yeay fir a test study, but for the real study they need to clarify some details and pay further attention to some critical variables!
Viviana Sarac

Language Learning & Technology - 1 views

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  • Viviana Sarac on 31 Oct 10
     
    LLT is an international journal (published exclusiveley on the web) with an editorial board of international scholars in the fields of second language acquisition and computer-assisted language learning. LLT publishes articles that report on original research or present an original framework that links second language acquisition theory, previous research, and language learning, teaching, and testing practices that utilize technology. It aims at reaching a broad audience in a timely manner, providing a multimedia format which can more fully illustrate the technologies under discussion, as well as providing hypermedia links to related background information. It is published three times per year and it was ranked in the top 20 Education Journals. Important: Besides the very interesting articles, it also contains a section of general guidelines for both quantitative and qualitative research!
Viviana Sarac

Learning with technology: A constructivist perspective - 1 views

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  • Viviana Sarac on 31 Oct 10
     
    The authors of this book provide concrete examples of activities for using constructivism and technology to allow students to construct knowledge, to think and to learn. Constructivist learning emphasizes the five different attributes of meaningful learning which are (i) intentional learning, (ii) active learning, (iii) constructive learning, (iv) cooperative learning, and (v) authentic learning. Real learning requires combining the different elements of meaningful learning. The authors describe six ways to use technology and constructivist learning to allow students to construct understanding and learn. The authors describe the types of technology in very basic terms and the specific hardware and software that are required for the classroom in order to partake in the activities described in the book. For each technology, the authors describe activities and projects that can be used to facilitate learning. They also describe the learning process, the role of the student, the role of the teacher, and ways to assess the learning process. The goal of this book is to advocate educational reform and change through constructivist methodologies by demonstrating specific examples of how the tools of technology can be employed to empower students to construct knowledge and meaning. What I found interesting (and possibly useful for us) is that at the end of each chapter, the authors pose "things to think about" and list numerous questions for further discussion.
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