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School 2.0 - Join the Conversation on 2007-10-02
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Mega overzicht van Web 2.0 bronnen als Google Docs presentatie - ICT en Onderwijs BLOG on 2007-10-01
Moodle Demonstration: Add a new course on 2007-10-01
MindMeister - think together on 2007-09-28
Seconds out, round two | E-learning | EducationGuardian.co.uk on 2007-09-28
- For students, a blog can be used as a living record of their learning: a place to pose questions, publish work in progress or provide links to (and comments on) relevant web resources.
  Teachers who are subject specialists may want to start their own subject-based blog where they can provide up-to-date information and commentary on their subject area, as well as posting questions and assignments, and linking to relevant news stories and websites.
- A key theme of many web 2.0 applications is that they harness the collective intelligence of users, and this is particularly true of wikis. As with blogs, wiki software makes it possible to publish a website with very little technical knowledge but puts a greater emphasis on collaborative rather than personal publishing. Every wiki entry has an "edit this page" button so that users can not only add new content but make changes to existing pages.
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- - Folksonomy is another example of the way in which the web 2.0 attempts to harness the collective intelligence of its users. The word "folksonomy" is a spin on the word "taxonomy" and refers to the collaborative way in which information is being categorised on the web. Instead of using a centralised form of classification, users are encouraged to assign freely chosen keywords to pieces of information or data, a process known as tagging. Web 2.0 services that use tagging include those designed to allow users to publish and share various media, such as photos (www.flickr.com) or videos (www.youtube.com), as well as most blog software, where each entry can be assigned keywords.
  - Delicious (http://del.icio.us/) is a "social bookmarks manager" that allows users to create their own personal collection of weblinks and which (because they are stored online) can be accessed from any computer connected to the net. Each bookmark is given a short description and tagged with keywords, and collections can be shared. All teachers and students would benefit from using a social bookmarking service.
  - Perhaps the most important element of web 2.0 is that it offers the kind of connectivity to bring all these disparate elements together. For example, using an online RSS reader, such as bloglines.com, it's possible to track and be alerted to new and relevant content across a range of web services and applications. Updated content could include a student's new blog entry or comment, changes to a project wiki, newly published media, or useful weblinks recently discovered by a teacher.
Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0: Part 3 on 2007-09-28
- Blogging has quickly become one of the most effective learning tools in education today. It introduces students with new methods of communicating, improving their writing, and helps motivate them to find their voice. Dare I say it even makes learning… fun? Educators generally blog about school news, philosophies, and class activities. On the other hand, students tend to write about current events, personal beliefs, and topics related to their education.
  
  In blogging, there are no set standards, no boundaries, no restrictions confining you to conform your thoughts to any given set of rules and regulations. You don’t have to worry about getting points taken off for not using the default: 12 point font size, Times New Roman, with 1” margins. You can write freely, and at your own pace. Also, bloggers can gain an audience from their writing. Unlike a school paper, blog posts can recieve feedback from students, teachers, parents, and ultimately, anyone in the world. (gasp)
- I often found, and many teachers have noted this as well, that the students would publish to their school blogs even when not instructed to.
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- - I also found that many students became so attached to their blogs that they made it a responsibility to keep consistent. When they found they have been lacking in posts or that they haven’t been instructed to post for class in in a while, they would often apologize and feel as though they deserted their readers. It’s pretty interesting, although expected, to see that kind of connection with students and their blogs.
  - Also, I see that many students refer to other posts by other students in their writing, but do not appear to take advantage of trackback or pingback functionality. I personally feel it is essential that all bloggers understand the use of trackback technology, especially in this scenario, as it makes for communication outside of normal commenting. Not only that, it feels very rewarding receiving a trackback. So, I want to explain briefly how it works and what it means. In simplistic terms, you make a pingback by linking to the post that you are referring to in your post. This will notify the writer of the blog, adding a pingback “comment” to their post automatically, in turn continuing conversation. This is a great way for students to communicate back and forth rather than only commenting. If they have something to say and feel it’s worth a post rather then a comment, pingback or trackback it.
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    “Never in 25 years of teaching have I seen a more powerful motivator for writing than blogs.” … “And that’s because of the audience. Writing is not just taped on the refrigerator and then put in the recycle bin. It’s out there for the world to see. Kids realize other people are reading what they write” – Mark Ahlness
    
    “Even when they’re out sick, students work on their blogs.” – Carol Barsotti
    
    “I’ve got 6th graders coming in during their lunch and after school to add articles to their blog and to respond to their classmates’ articles.” – Al Gonzalez
    
    “The response has been tremendous. Students seem so much more willing to blog in their own space and time. They seem less inhibited and more enthusiastic.” – Beth Lynne Ritter-Guth
  - Perhaps one of the most impressive cases of wiki use in education is the Westwood School Wiki. Vicki Davis and her students manage the wiki and use it for just about everything. Listening to an interview with Vicki and Adam Frey, I was able to grasp exactly how she and her students use wiki technology. One scenario presented was after teaching a lesson, her students would go to the class wiki and summarize the lesson, in turn making it easier to take in the information. Vicki also explained how her students work on notes collaboratively in the wiki before an exam to study. During this process they all add their notes, correcting what’s wrong, and review the wiki. Another example she gave was with introducing concepts and exploring class projects. She has the students research, add notes, organize information, and even add videos to their wikis so they end up with a mass of information about the topic (example project: Security and Privacy). Vicki stated during the interview, “Students really become content producers and not just receivers.” She makes a great point and it shows that allowing students to work hands on with a wiki really strengthens their learning experience. Being part and contributing to what you are learning is much more effective then simply taking it in.
  - However, some educators are beginning to notice other options that are simpler and more useful for students, such as the personalized homepage, Netvibes. “I used to teach bloglines, however this summer, I began to use NetVibes. It is just easier for beginners to understand,” said Vicki Davis of Cool Cat Teacher Blog.
Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0: Part 1 on 2007-09-28
Future VLE - The Visual Version on 2007-09-28
» groups networks and collectives - more! Virtual Canuck on 2007-09-28
- I won’t argue that our work is the “definitive work” but, I continue to believe that it is useful to think of social and networked learning to be contextualized by these three broad domains. A quality learning experience might be focussed at one level of the many, but learners gain greatest value by exploiting the affordances of all three.
Bloglines | wrubens's Blogs on 2007-09-28

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