Using Web 2.0 in Teaching

Matt Lingard & Jane SeckerCentre for Learning Technology

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What are they?

Potential Uses for Teaching

What are blogs?

• Journal-style personal websites with comments from visitors

• Easy-to-update » easy to publish• Web 2.0 / social software

Blog Characteristics

• Messages or posts• Journal format / reverse chronology• Use of categories (tags)• Commenting open to readers• Use of links • RSS Feeds >>

• Single or multiple author• Personal / Corporate / Institutional

Blogs and learning

• Blogs develop thinking & writing skills• Blogs are good for reflection• Blogs are good for sharing resources• Blogs allow progress & development

to be tracked over time• Blogs are usually one author, with

comments from others so allow discussion

Blogs at LSE

• If you wish to set up your own blog• CLT Hosted blogs for teaching

purposes• External providers

– WordPress– Blogger

Example Blogs• http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/blog/

Intute Social Sciences Blog. Includes details of new resources in the social sciences which may be useful for your teaching

• http://blog.aluxtel.com/Aluxtel - IS471 Boot Camp. Blog used as part of a Group Project by students

• http://augmentation.blogspot.com/A blog maintained by two lecturers in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland on the use of ICTs in politics teaching

• http://elearning.lse.ac.uk/blogs/cltCLT Team Blog – Sharing Resources, conference reports etc

• http://elearning.lse.ac.uk/blogs/socialsoftware/ LASSIE Project blog – used for reflection, for feedback on a research project

The Warwick blogs

• Social content like Facebook• Also academic and course related (and

everything in between)• Students can post anything (within

guidelines and regulations)• Can be searched by words, individuals

or courses• Leeds and Brighton have adopted the

same approach should LSE?

Wikis - collaboration

Wikis in Education

• Wikipedia models– Multi-page, multi-author– Collection of Individuals’ pages

• Group Projects & Reports• E-portfolios – collection & reflection• Documenting (Research) projects

Social Bookmarking

• Allows you to share: internet favorites, online resources, books and journal articles

• Tagging to organise resources• Numerous tools available:

• A way to share internet favourites or bookmarks online

• Accessible from anywhere• Tagging facilitates resource discovery

and allows customised lists to be built• Del.icio.us is very flexible and tags can

be put onto web pages• Can also build a network• Teaching examples from LASSIE project

and from Institute of Education

• A personal reference management tool for storing and sharing your books and journals articles

• Uses tagging to organise your papers• Can be used for resource discovery• Can be used to create a reading list for

students• Doesn’t currently support export to

Endnote• Free!

• Developed by Harvard Law School for creating online ‘playlists’ or reading lists see my example

• Can add all sorts of different resources: internet sites, PDFs, books, journal articles

• Good for resource discovery: uses tagging

• Free!

Media Sharing

• User-generated content– Images, Video, Slides

• Organise, Share, Find• Includes Commenting, Tagging &

more

Web 2.0 in Moodle

• Wiki• Blogs• Web 2.0 elements

– e.g. Glossary has commenting, keywords (tagging) & ratings

Group discussion

• Identify possible uses for web 2.0 services in your LSE teaching

• Any reservations?

Thank You

Centre for Learning Technologyhttp://www.clt.lse.ac.uk

Workshop links: http://del.icio.us/LSECLT/workshop.teaching2.0