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Are These 4 Tools Useless for Learning?

MISSION

Starting with this Crash Course

//socialweblearning.blogspot.com
A Gentle
Introduction
, It Is Only

Dont Get Confused!

Source: http://tinyurl.com/47zxymk

CONTENTS
The Future?
RSS & Curation
3. Blogging
4. Twitter
5. Facebook
6. Wikis
7. Other Tools?
8. Challenges
1.
2.

1
The Future?

FUTURE?
Learning Overload!
Image Source: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/03/31/business/31short.600.jpg

The Future of Education...?

James L. Morrison
Source: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2011/01/cck11-connectivism-connective-knowledge.html

Graduates Must Be Able To

Function in a global economy for job success in the

21st century.

Access, analyze, process, and communicate

information.

Function creatively and innovatively.

Work effectively with people from different cultural

backgrounds.

Work as a team member.

Use information technology tools effectively.

Engage in continuous, independent learning.

Source: http://horizon.unc.edu/projects/presentations/HiED%20in%20transition.pdf

The Future of Learning...?

Source: http://tinyurl.com/3ybwox7

Web 3.0

Web x.0

Semantic Web

Meta Web

Web 1.0

Web 2.0

The Web

Social Web

Connects information

Connects people

Connects knowledge Connects intelligence

Degree of Social Connectivity

Steve Wheeler, University of

Degree of Information Connectivity

The eXtended Web

Source: http://www.slideshare.net/timbuckteeth/the-future-of-learning-6809148

Connectivism

Source: http://www.elearnspace.org/media/ProfessionalDevelopment/player.html

George Siemens &

Stephen Downes

Learning Using A Network

of Diverse Technologies

Source: http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=668

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC)

Post: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2011/01/mooc-survival-kit-in-plain-english.html

Personal Learning Environments and Knowledge

Networks 2010

Article: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2010/09/plenk-2010-most-awesome-course-on.html

Connectivism & Connective

Knowledge 2011
No
LMS!

Article: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2011/01/cck11-connectivism-connective-knowledge.html

Steve Wheeler, University of

Personal Learning Environments

Source: http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2010/07/anatomy-of-ple.html

Are you Ready?

RSS &
Curation

With RSS You Can

Create Your Own
Online Newspaper

RSS in Plain English

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU

What is RSS?

RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication or Rich

Site Summary.

It is a web page with a .xml file type that can be

subscribed to and read by a newsreader
(aggregator). The aggregator will find the new
content and display it when it becomes available.

Newsreaders (sometimes called aggregators) are

very easy to find and use (stand alone applications
or through a web browser).

In essence, it is content that comes to you,

instead of having to search for it. It will save
you an infinite amount of time.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS

Ways RSS is being used:

Google Reader in Plain English

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSPZ2Uu_X3Y

My Google Reader

http://www.google.com/reader

Activity 1

Mission
Find a feed (e.g. blog).
2. Find the RSS link.
3. Copy the URL or link.
4. Go to Google Reader.
5. Click on Add Subscription.
6. Paste in the link.
7. Organize the new feed into your
folders or subject structure.
1.

http://www.google.com/reader

Personal Learning Spaces

http://www.pageflakes.com/

http://www.netvibes.com/

http://www.google.com/ig

Social Bookmarking

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x66lV7GOcNU

Social Bookmarking
Social

bookmarking is a method for

Internet users to store, organize, search,
and manage bookmarks of web pages on
the Internet with the help of metadata
(tags).

Folksonomy

(from folk + taxonomy) is

the practice and method of collaboratively
creating and managing tags to annotate
and categorize content.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking

Social Bookmarking Tools

http://www.diigo.com/

http://www.delicious.com/

My Delicious Bookmarks

http://delicious.com/zaidlearn

Social Bookmarking Tips

1.
2.

Great for groups researching a topic together or an

instructor that wants to share great websites they have found.
Others can subscribe to your bookmarks or individual tags and
receive them whenever the publisher adds a new bookmark.

3.

Create working bibliographies for projects by ensuring they

share a common tag.

4.

Build lists of resources with fellow students/ teachers (decide

on common tags first).

5.

Create a network with friends or fellow club members with

whom you share an interest.

6.

Spend a few minutes planning how youll tag so that your tags
are consistent (remember no spaces within tags!)
Plural vs singular
Teachers names / course names

7.

Clean up your tags periodically using the delete and rename

tag functions.
Adapted from: http://www.slideshare.net/leonardstern/rss-in-education/

Activity 2
MISSION
1.

Sign up for your own account.

2.

Install the two buttons in your browser.

3.

Surf the web and find at least two (2) sites

you want to bookmark.

4.

Add them to your delicious bookmarks by

clicking the "Tag" button and then enter
the title, description and tags (optional but
recommended).

Social Curation

Today there is a new wave of social bookmarking tools in the name of 'Social
Curation', which are empowered with some really innovative collaborative sharing
tools to make sense of the overloaded web by organizing discoveries and resources
into mind-stimulating topics, stories, collections, etc..
Zaid Ali Alsagoff
Source: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2011/01/buzzing-with-social-curation-tools.html

Social Curation Tools

Source: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2011/01/buzzing-with-social-curation-tools.html

3
Blogging

As of June 2008, blog search engine Technorati was tracking

more than..

Blogs in Plain English

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2I1pWXjXI

What is a Blog?

A blog (short of weblog) is a website, usually

maintained by an individual, with regular entries
of commentary, descriptions of events, or other
material such as graphics or video.

Entries are commonly displayed in reversechronological order.

"Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to

maintain or add content to a blog.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog

Blogging for Learning?

1.

Reflect your teaching and

learning experiences.

2.

Group projects
produce content.

3.

Build a class newsletter.

4.

Post
latest
Industrialrelated trends and news.

5.

Post
materials
resources.

6.

to

co-

and

Host online discussions.

Example 1 Expert Blog

Blog: http://www.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/

Example 2 Newsletter

OLDaily: http://www.downes.ca/news/OLDaily.htm

Example 3 Group Blog

URL: http://imuelearning.blogspot.com/

Example 4 Student Projects

Story: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2011/01/student-blogging-project-to-promote.html

Blogging Tools?
https://www.blogger.com/

http://wordpress.com/

http://www.edublogs.org/

Lets Blog!

https://www.blogger.com/start

3 Steps
1.

Create an account.

2.

Name your blog.

3.

Select your template.

https://www.blogger.com/start

Activity 3

MISSION
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

Customize your blog layout.

Set comment moderation settings.
Create and publish a post.
Add a link (URL).
Add a picture.
Embed a video.
Add a gadget.

4
Twitter

Twitter

A form of blogging that allows users

to write brief text updates (usually
140 characters) and publish them,
either to be viewed
by anyone or by
http://twitter.com/

Twitter for Learning?

1.

2.

3.

4.
5.
6.

Share ideas,
experiences, news and
links.
Follow experts,
subjects or learning
domains.
Follow/Create
course/topic related
#hashtags.
Build learning
communities.
Chunked perfectly for
mobile learning.
Conversational learning
beyond the classroom.

Example 1 Conference #hashtag

Article: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2010/07/using-twitter-to-amplify-connective.html

Example 2 Movement #hashtag

Article: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2010/05/join-moodlewish-twitter-stream.html

Example 3 Course #hashtag

#CCK11
Course: http://cck11.mooc.ca/

Using Twitter to Transform the Classroom!

Article: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2010/10/using-twitter-to-transform-classroom.html

Looking for Learning Professionals?

Here: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2009/04/juiciest-learning-professionals-on.html

Useful Twitter Tools

http://monitter.com/
http://paper.li/

http://twitpic.com/
http://www.polleverywhere.com/
http://www.tweetdeck.com/

More useful Twitter tools: http://socialweblearning.blogspot.com/p/twitter.html

Activity 4

MISSION
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.

Sign up for a Twitter account.

Customize your profile page.
Write your first tweet.
Find people to follow.
Send someone a tweet.
Retweet someone else's tweet.
Share a web link (URL).
Create a #hashtag (for your course).
Use a Twitter client (e.g TweetDeck).

5
Facebook

What is Facebook?
Facebook is a
social utility
that helps
people
communicate
more efficiently
with their
friends, families
and coworkers.

Source: http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics#!/press/info.php?execbios

Facebook for Learning! Boleh!

Slidecast: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2010/04/facebook-for-learning-boleh.html

Why Not Use Facebook

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If We Use Facebook, What about

Social
Learning
(Facebook)

Formal
Learning
(LMS)

Lecture
Informal
Notes
Easy-to-Use
Discussions
Sharing
Assignments
Communication
Quizzes
Collaboration
for
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Grades
Communities Facebook
teaching & learning
only!
Interest Groups
Mobile

Where to Start?

Facebook Groups & Pages

Groups

Closed Groups
Courses
Projects
Ideas
Alumni

Pages

Open Communities
Promotion &
Branding
Products
Celebrities
Self-Promotion

Facebook for Learning?

Adapted from: http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/140Learning/lecturefb.html

8 Things Teachers Should NEVER Do on

Source: http://edudemic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/fbteacher_fullsize.pdf

8 Ways Teachers SHOULD Be Using

Source: http://edudemic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/fbteacher_fullsize.pdf

Example 1: University Page

URL: http://www.facebook.com/Harvard?v=app_6009294086

Example 2: Facebook in
Education

To serve as
an ongoing
resource for
information
about how
educators

URL: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/education?ref=ts

Example 3: Facebook - Academic Research

A group
for
anyone
conductin
g or
(intereste

URL: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5114067727&ref=ts

Example 4: IMU E-Learning

Source: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/IMU-E-Learning/251921959456

A Few Tips Before Starting

Create

a separate account just

for your courses.
Manage privacy settings.
Ask students to put you on
limited access to their pages.
Create lists.
Get over the term "friend"
Inviting atmosphere.
Source: http://www.onlinecollege.org/2009/10/20/100-ways-you-should-be-using-facebook-in-your-classroom/

Activity 5
MISSION
1. Login

to Facebook.

2. Create

a Facebook Group (or Page).

3. Customize

Group Settings (Closed Group).

4. Add

Logo.

5. Add

a URL or Video to the Wall.

6. Add

a Photo.

7. Add

a Video (if possible).

8. Add/Invite
9. Add
10.Be

people to join.

a Doc (wiki).

creative and have fun!

Instead of Facebook, Why Not Use

"While Facebook is a goldmine for connecting people and having social fun,
Linkedin is the present and future goldmine for connecting students and ideas
to the corporate world."
- Zaid Ali Alsagoff
Article: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2011/01/use-linkedin-to-collaborate-with.html

6
Wikis

Wiki Wiki Shuttle at Honolulu

Picture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:HNL_Wiki_Wiki_Bus.jpg

Picture: http://ourfounder.typepad.com/leblog/WindowsLiveWriter/Menu.jpg

Wiki

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY

Definition of Wiki

A website created by a group; rather than

by an individual.
In Hawaiian, Wiki means quick

What I Know Is

(descriptive of the
process of collaborative content
development.)

Wikis are
websites that
we

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Wiki Tools?
http://www.wetpaint.com/

http://www.wikispaces.com/

http://sites.google.com/
http://pbwiki.com/

http://docs.google.com/

Example 1: Anatomy Wiki

http://anatowiki.wetpaint.com/?t=anon

Example 2: Greetings from the

World

http://greetingsfromtheworld.wikispaces.com/

Example 3 - Classroom

Site: http://sites.google.com/site/classtemplate_en/

Example 4 - MedTutor

Site: http://medtutor.wikidot.com/
Article: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2010/04/medtutor-learning-to-think.html

Activity 6

MISSION
1.

Select a wiki tool (e.g. Google Sites).

2.

Create a new wiki.

3.

Invite others to participate.

4.

Create a new wiki page.

5.

Add text, pictures and links to the wiki page.

6.

Embed a video to your wiki page.

7.

Explore other features and have fun!

Other
Tools?

Reuse/Remix/Mashup/Adapt

URL: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/06/university-learning-ocw-oer-free.html

Download YouTube Videos?

URL: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2010/08/real-way-to-download-convert-insert.html

Upload PowerPoint Slides &

Create Slidecasts?

http://www.slideshare.net/

http://www.slideboom.com/

http://www.authorstream.com/

Create a Screencast?

URL: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/10/8-free-screencasting-tools-for-tony.html

Salman Khan Uses

URL: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/12/salman-khan-uses-microsoft-paint-to.html

Create Cartoons, Movies &

Animations?

http://www.xtranormal.com/

http://goanimate.com/

http://www.toondoo.com/

Broadcast Yourself Live?

http://www.ustream.tv/

3D Virtual Learning Spaces

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2jY4UkPbAc

Wordle Your Learning!

Wordle is a toy for generating word

clouds from text that you provide.
http://wordle.net/

100+ EduGames to Spice Up Your Course!

URL: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/05/75-free-edugames-to-spice-up-your.html

URL: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/04/free-learning-tool-for-every-learning.html

8
Challenges

Challenge I

Challenge II

Challenge III

A Good
Starting
Point!

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