web 2.0 for learning in 2010

Poll questions

• Do you currently maintain a blog (y/n)?• How many podcasts do you listen to in a week (0-5, 6-

10, 11+)?• How many of you use Twitter (y/n)?• Do you use Facebook for your professional work (y/n)?• Does your campus have one or more official YouTube

channels (y/n)?• How widespread is social bookmarking on your

campus (nothing, early adopters, some use, mainstream)?

Aspects of social media

• Blogging• Podcasting• Wikis• Twitter• Facebook• Folksonomies

• Mashups• Flickr• Web video• Social

bookmarking• Coda: some trends

Practices: years of edublogging

Selected, documented practices:

• Publish syllabus• Publish student

papers• Discussion• Journaling• Project blogs• Public scholarship

• Creative writing• Distributed seminars• Campus organizations• Prospective students• Library collections• Alumni relations• Project management• Liveblogging

Blog as courseware

Blogs for public intellectuals

Blogging community involvement

Web 2.0 content distribution models:

Rutgers;University of Mary

Washington;http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/podcast/

The specter of WikipediaRecognition and pedagogies

Twitter republication

Twitter in class

“Assignments – A bit of tinkering led us to the conclusion that a minimalist approach is best. After asking the students to read five forensics articles related to the historical case and send two tweets about each, we all agreed this was counter-productive and too hard to track. After that barrage, the typical assignment involved posting one comment and one question to classmates. After a while, one question OR comment seemed enough.”

Mike Winiski, Furman University

Twitter for professional development

“I could look inside the minds of motivated peers to learn about the new projects they were undertaking, the research reports they were studying, and Web sites they were exploring. As my comfort with Twitter grew—a process that took a few months, as is typical for new users—I became an active contributor to this knowledge network.”

William M. Ferriter, 6th grade teacher

Teaching Facebook

George H. Williams, assistant professor of English, University of South Carolina Upstate

Practice: tag clouds

Folksonomies mainstreamed

George H. Williams, assistant professor of English at the University of South Carolina Upstate.

Practices mainstreams: data mashups, Web 2.0 as platform

• Open APIs• Access to data

(AccessCeramics project, Lewis and Clark College)

• Programming staff• Perceived recognition

Beyond the classroom

• accessCeramics, Lewis and Clark College

• 1000 images, February 2009 (http://accessceramics.blogspot.com/2009/02/today-is-big-milestone-as-weve-reached.html)

Teaching with and about YouTube

External hosting reexamined

Classic forms developing

PLE vs LMS• Self-created• Consumer products• Personalization

• Small pieces, loosely joined• Variable levels of presence

Beyond the students:•Professional development•Reputation growth

Aggregations

Realtime search• Emerging market• Not always useful• No clear leader

"the great challenge of the age,“ (Google GEO, http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_web_in_five_years.php)

Links

Blogging• http://blogs.middlebury.edu/thewire/ • http://www.spiritual-politics.org/ • http://www.hispanichartford.org/

Podcasting• http://missinglinkpodcast.wordpress.com/ • http://smallpresschat.com/ • http://ecaudio.umwblogs.org/

Wikis• http://clioweb.org/2009/04/05/assigning-wikipedia-i

n-a-us-history-survey/

• http://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/MicrobeWiki

Twitter• http://mikewiniski.com/blog/?p=148 • http://twitter.com/robinsonjeffers • http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leade

rship/feb10/vol67/num05/Why-Teachers-Should-Try-Twitter.aspx

Facebook• In The Facebook Age,

http://learn.bowdoin.edu/courses/sociology022/ • M. Gabriela Torres, Assistant Professor of

Anthropology, Wheaton College

Folksonomies• http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Using-Wordle-in-the-

classroom/22830/

Mashups and Flickr• http://accessceramics.org/

Web video• http://www.youtube.com/user/joverholtzerwlu • http://www.youtube.com/user/wlunews • http://www.youtube.com/user/MediaPraxisme

Social bookmarking• http://www.diigo.com/profile/edwebb

Coda: some trends• http://home.bates.edu/views/social/ • http://mediatedcultures.net/

Bryan Alexander

http://twitter.com/BryanAlexander

http://blogs.nitle.org/ and http://blogs.nitle.org/archive/

bryan.alexander@nitle.org