CD200615 Session 2
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This document discusses the use of blogs and wikis in education. It defines blogs as personal online journals that allow individuals to easily publish content, and wikis as collaboratively edited websites that allow multiple users to directly edit pages. The document recommends that teachers and students use blogs for reflections, sharing resources, communicating, and presenting work. It also suggests using wikis for collaborative writing projects. Examples are given of how the author uses blogs in their own teaching to facilitate discussion, provide course materials, and give feedback to students.
CD200615 Session 2
- 1. CD200616: Blogs and Wikies and their Applications for Teachers
- 2. What is Web 2.0? Web2.0 as Metaphor a Paradigm Shift Web as a platform User control of information Web as a point of presence Internet-mediated social environments Rich user experiences New forms of expressions Some speak of media revolution – “we the media” (Dan Gillmor), “voice of crowds”, increased democratization and new citizenship, etc.
- 4. Collection of Web 2.0 sites
- 5. Major Web 2.0 Conference
- 6. Blog, blogging, blogger, blogsphere Blog is web-based publication No technical skills to create your own blog Blog can contain text, media, links There are blogs, moblogs, vlogs, audilog Blogsphere is a community of bloggers "A blog is a personal diary. A daily pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own private thoughts. Memos to the world.“ www.blogger.com
- 7. Blogs – Some Statistics 27% of online Americans have read a blog Eight million Americans have created a blog 12% of online Americans have posted comments on blogs (Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4145191.stm ) “ China to have 60 million bloggers by end of 2006” (Reuters http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060506/wr_nm/china_blogs_dc_1 )
- 8. Total Sites Across all Domains Source: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html Bloggers: an army of irregulars (BBC) -- “The web has grown more in 2005 than it did at the height of the dotcom boom”
- 9. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4123536.stm Digital Citizens - "the most informed and participatory citizens we ever had or are likely to have" - represent a critical emerging group for today and tomorrow. (Source: http://www.wired.com/wired/reprints/digicit.html )
- 12. Blogs and Tools edublogs.org Teacher Teaching Teachers
- 13. New Forms of Expression Blogging Should not be only about text Digital Story Telling and other Multimedia Expressions Digital Fluency Interactive Visualization
- 14. Blogs in Education Literature on blogs in education is emerging Some names to look for: Dyrud, Flatley, Johnson, Huffaker, Quible, Peschbach, Ramsay, Kinnie, Richardson, Selingo, Smith, and Worley. In general, there lack of empirical evidences and formal studies investigating use of blogs in education. Mostly of current literature is conceptual an published in non- SSCI ranked journals
- 15. Recommendations from literature Students and blog: Publish own writings (e.g., reflections, journal, a story, comments) Discuss group assignments, share work schedule and results of experiments Peer review each others work Collaborate on projects with each other, teachers, subject-specific experts in the field and pen-pals from distant places Manage their digital portfolio or just use blog as digital filing cabinet
- 16. Recommendations from literature Teachers and blog: Share resources with students (e.g., readings before class, handouts, and post homework and assignments) Publish student work and otherwise archive learning Communicate with students and parents Monitor activates of individual students and groups
- 17. Recommendations from literature Schools and blog: Communicate school news Present success stories of its students and teachers Various committees, school activity centers, clubs, sport teams and parent groups can post information Achieve minutes of meetings and resources, and continue dialogues beyond the scheduled times Use student blogs on schools home page to offer dynamic information about their campus life Manage knowledge that members of school community creates Education authorities can use blogs to share best practices, lesson plans and other resources
- 18. Recommendations from literature Benefits of Blog Supports development of literacies for digital age Leads to increase information management skills, and media, verbal and visual literacy Encourages self–expression and creativity Promotes increase students’ motivation, engagement and reflection in learning Students who use blogs are more committed to their assignment and group work Blog provides environment where every student gets and equal voice Support different learning styles Literature also suggests that blogs can be used as alternative to a learning management system
- 19. How I Use Blog in my Teaching Provide course home page Connect student blogs in the home page Post ‘after class’ reflections Post any announcement to the class Address emerging issue, learning need Invite students to provide comments Monitor comments and respond Distribute notes, slides and other material used in the class Provide any additional resources Negotiate issues, what students want to learn and assessment of their projects Set the tasks for students Facilitator and his blog
- 20. Summary of activities in the blogsphere Regularly check student blogs Provide feedback to student work Encourage students to provide feedback to others Provide individual student with resources Facilitator and student blogs
- 21. Summary of activities in the blogsphere Read and reflect on posts provided by the facilitator Access resources Provide and monitor comments Students and blog of the facilitator Visit blogs of other Provide comments recommend resources Students and blogs of other Present their work Share work Reflect Provide information and resources that they find interesting Monitor comments and respond to them Students and their blogs
- 22. Set up Your Account in Bloglines
- 23. Wiki Wiki is social software that allows collaborative development on an article of common interest to its authors
- 24. Wikipedia 13,000 active contributors 3,800,000 articles in more than 100 languages 1,152,885 articles in English Hundreds of thousands of visitors daily, tens of thousands of edits and new articles Source: http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About ) Wikipedia has become the 37th most visited website, according to Alexa Wikipedia comes close to Britannica – Expert led investigation by Nature identifies that in average science entry in Wikipedia contained around four inaccuracies; Britannica, about three (Source: http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/full/438900a.html )
- 25. Wiki Tools and Examples http://twiki.cite.hku.hk Library Instruction Wiki
- 26. Activities for Today Work with your group to start a new article in Wikipedia. You need to create account for your group. You can select any topic, however, I suggest that you write an article about one of your schools (check that there is no article about one of your schools available). If article is available, then edit that article. Provide link to your article from your blog before next class
- 27. References Read article about blogging in classroom from: http://writer.zoho.com/public/zvezdan/Web2_Paper_2_v81 Read articles from: http://connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSE+Review/Web20ANewWaveofInnovation/40615 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue42/tonkin/ http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/apr03/mattison.shtml http://www.scienceofspectroscopy.info/edit/index.php?title=Using_wiki_in_education