A Simple Picture of Web Evolution
Learn more about The Semantic Web http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGg8A2zfWKg |
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Class 1: Social Media or Wikis & Blogs & Tags. Oh,my! |
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Introductions & Course Objectives |
Introductions and course expectations.
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A Vision of Students Today (2007)
Sixth Sense Technology (TED) |
What's important here? How do these students compare to mine?
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Any online media that allows users to interact with one another (i.e. socialize).” (McIntosh, 2/09)
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Collaboration: How much collaboration is there in your department? Why?/Why not?
Do you assign group work in your classes? Is it successful? Why/why not?
Are there study groups for your classes? Successes/failures?
What might be some benefits of social media to you as a teacher/learner?
3. Read: Using Social Media in Small Colleges 4. View: How it Works |
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A wiki refers to content created online as a result of multiple users working on the same content, but at different times and from different places. (McIntosh, 2/09)
Wikipedia, Wiktionary Wikiversity pbworks Wiki Wikispaces |
Fifty Ways to Use Wikis for a More Collaborative and Interactive Classroom
Play: A Wiki Sandbox |
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Blogs are online journals where the author can write (blog) about any interest s/he wants. The blogger can also use the blog to share content picked up from other social media sites (YouTube, Issuu) by taking advantage of the simple embed codes offered by those content hosts. (McIntosh, 2/09) Wordpress Blogger Edublogs Tumblr Typepad |
What possibilities are there for using blogs in your class? How?
What would be the benefits/challenges to your students for using blogs as opposed to paper journals?
What would be the benefits/challenges to you as the instructor for using blogs in your classes?
Benefits/challenges to you as a learner? |
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Wikis and Blogs on Blackboard | ||
9/24/09 Homework Assignment: 1. Read about blogs and/or wikis, (Blogs and Wikis) and post in your blog how you could envision using one or the other in your teaching. Which would you use and why? How would you use it? 2. Post the URL of your blog on the Course Participants page so that your classmates can access it. |
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