communication tools and web 2.0 resources
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Communication Tools and Web 2.0 Resources. Jack Emeleus [email protected]. Net Communication Tools. Websites (HTML) Wiki websites Bulletin Boards Email (including Lists) Chat Video Chat VOIP – Skype etc SMS Syndication – Blogs, Pod & Vod Cast - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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• Websites (HTML)• Wiki websites • Bulletin Boards• Email (including Lists)• Chat• Video Chat• VOIP – Skype etc• SMS • Syndication – Blogs, Pod & Vod Cast• Other tools – mySpace, YouTube, Facebook
Net Communication Tools
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Some considerations for choosing or evaluating an ICT for the classroom
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Is the ICT worth it?Motivation (Malone)
– Are ICTs still motivational as for Malone in the early 80s?
– The best inventions are often new applications of existing technologies
– Expanding the use of an ICT tool beyond the narrow extrinsically motivated focus of a child
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Is the ICT worth it?Theoretical paradigm (SC/CC?)
Literacy aspectsIs a blog what you think it is?
Does RSS mean Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary?
Can I use FTP to cook eggs?
Will a Wiki bring good luck?
Is an iPod a bit like a pea pod? What is a pea pod anyway?
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Is the ICT worth it?Frameworks
Productive Pedagogies
EYCG
……
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Is the ICT worth it?• Will it make teaching easier?
– A legitimate question that teachers might be embarrassed to ask
– Sharing resources with other teachers– Reducing administration
• Will I need support to implement it?
• Can I get the support if required?
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What are the risks?• Nature of iCt is that new channels of
communication are open
• Are the risks going to land you in trouble? (EPPR)
• Are the risks justifiable?
• Confer with a higher authority…
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Other Considerations• Cost
• Equity – a whole lecture for this one!
• Potential long term benefits
• Innovations $$ (normally overlooked)
• Your own professional development
If in doubt….always give it a try!
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Which CT are we talking about?
The Web………………….……….Web 2.0
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Websites (CMS and Static)• For teachers or students• Can be great information sources• If you are using someone else’s there
is usually no cost – but also less motivation (teachers AND students)
• Generally difficult to use as ‘almost live’ communication tools
• Great for keeping a big community up-to-date (eg www.smithfieldshs.com.au )
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Websites - Static
Web Server
.html, .jpg, .gif files etc stored
on server
Final rendered file in Browser
window
Request to view website
User
Delivers HTML / images
Costs: Server hosting, Domain Name (base of the URL)
Benefits of static: cheap, simple (in server terms), quick from server
Cons of static: hard to maintain, can’t give multiple admins, need continual FTP access to update and build
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Websites - Dynamic (data driven)
Costs: Server hosting incl. database, domain Name (base of the URL)
Benefits of Dynamic: easy to update, separates content and formatting, decentralised management is an option, lots of pre-built packages, no need for Dreamweaver etc
Cons of Dynamic: higher cost, initial set-up can be tricky, ongoing support?
Web Server
.asp/php, .jpg, .gif
files etc stored on server Final rendered
file in Browser window
Request to view website
User
Delivers HTML file
Database Server
Render HTML
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Websites (CMS and Static)• Use your own and you’ll need to
– Build – Maintain– Write / edit copy
• How do you give kids pages• How do you maintain consistency,
security, privacy,….
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Wiki Websites (the post-it note of the web)
• A completely different paradigm• Content over formatting• Requires some level of trust• Needs daily supervision• Wonderful medium for instant
publications, journals, full class shared projects…
• What would you use it for? http://ed4492.awardspace.com/wiki
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Bulletin Boards / Forums• Announcements page on LearnJCU• Strictly controlled by the administrator• BB is One-way communication, Forum is
two way• Excellent for senior schooling and VocEd
situations where forms and messages from the convenor are a regular thing
• Blurred boundary – BB, Blog & Forumhttp://ed4492.awardspace.com/forum
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Email• Every child in an EQ or CES school
has an email address. Probably every child in QLD
• Who doesn’t have one?• Uses: asynchronous communication with..
– Parents – individual and class lists– Students – individual and class groups– Staff– Professionals in fields– List Servs (see text) how to find a good onehttp://www.lists.edna.edu.au/
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Email• Why use email in a class situation?
– Archive all communications– Low-pressure literacy (not as formal as a
letter, but still use a spell check!)– Submission of written work– Flattens the hierarchy (access to the top)
• Consider: changing nature of student/teacher relationshiphttp://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_1/huffaker/index.html
• Example – draft discourse
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Chat• Synchronous communication• Grammatical correctness v expression• Global / Local / In class• Management Issues:
– Security / Safety – Time management (or lack of)
• One-One or Many-Many• Low tech requirements
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Video Chat / Video Conferencing
• Synchronous communication• Verbal, but with textual back-up• Global / Local / In class• Virtual classrooms• Hardware requirements
– Mic / Speakers / Camera– Bandwidth on connection
• Other uses – web cams – monitoring projects with time lapse.
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VOIP• Why use a free phone…
– Virtual classrooms– In-school communication– Long distance projects become affordable
• VOIP will be the standard telephone system within the next 2 years. Why not get your students familiar with the idea?
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SMS• Excellent communication tool with
parents.• Requires some $$ so admin support
would be necessary• Administrative use most appropriate
Commercial example: www.messagemedia.com.au
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Syndication Different things, but use both to see the full power!
• Blog – Web Log• RSS – Really Simple SyndicationBlog Sample: http://ed4492.awardspace.com/blog POD Case: http://jjj.net.au
• Interactive or Read Only• Owner moderated• Free & simple to set up• Build on your school site or hosted
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Syndication - RSSIncorporating RSS• Build into a website
– http://www.smcc.qld.edu.au – Use an online aggregator like
http://www.newsgator.com – Examples
• Custom feed: http://search.abc.net.au/search/search.cgi?query=cairns&collection=abcnews&form=simple
• http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go/resources/toolkit/rss_services/pid/1140
• Desktop download - subscribe to homework? http://allrss.com/rssreaders.html
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Syndication – Pod Casting• As with blogs/rss, but a pod cast
utilises audio• MP3s as hyperlinks on the web OR• Use a Pod Casting aggregator like
Doppler or Juice• Start your own Pod Cast – great for
media studies, FTV, Radio….• Utilise previously Pod-casted material
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Social Networkinghttp://www.aftrsmedia.com/digimedia/?p=66
“Online social networking fulfills the same function as ‘hanging out’ for teenagers and they generally only communicate with people their own age … teachers generally fulfill the role of the only older mentor modern kids are likely to get…Comparisons between schools and jails were mentioned. “
“I appreciate schools duty of care and understand that there are pressure to protect their students but offering the education needed to avoid these problems seems a much smarter approach than the aforementioned head in sand model. “
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Social NetworkingNext Week….
Techniques for Animation and Video
Purposes of Animation and Video
Hooking up the media to the NEW media…YouTube? mySpace?
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Questions?
• Internet Resources
• Optional Workshop Project