Building online learning communities with multiuser blogging...
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Building online learning communities
with multiuser blogging environments
Presentation by
Michael Wilder
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Agenda
• Challenges of online learning
• What is multiuser blogging?
• How can MU blogging be used in higher education?
• Requirements
• Who else is using MU blogging environments?
• Questions
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Challenges of online learning
Interaction
• Student to content
• Student to student
• Student to instructor
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Challenges of online learning
Closed system
• Student to world
• World to student
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Challenges of online learning
Student ownership • Control of learning environment
• Contribution to the curriculum
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Challenges of online learning
Persistence of content • No public archive
• No resources for capstone
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Overview
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Overview
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Overview
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Easy Publication
•Full range of editing tools •Spellcheck •No Java! •Copy & paste keyboard shortcuts •Drag & drop media uploader •Custom visibility
Easy publication
•Drafts •Built-in custom characters •Word count •Paste from text and MS Word •Categories •Metatags
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Overview Syndication
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Overview Syndication
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Overview
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Overview
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Overview
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Overview
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Social Media Hub
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Social Media
Automatic reposting of blog posts with images and podcasts. Uses the RSS Grafitti app. One-way communication No privacy issues Also: Facebook Like Facebook Connect
Facebook “Page”
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Mobile
Automatically adjusts WordPress posts to display on iPhone, iPod touch, Android mobile devices, Palm Pre/Pixi and BlackBerry OS6 mobile devices. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wptouch/
Wptouch theme
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Integration into LMS
Most left navigation links in contemporary learning management systems (Blackboard, WebCT, Moodle, for example) can be completely customized.
Customized Course menu
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Overview
http://www.vegas-times.com/imd/
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Requirements
Server • PHP • MySQL Domain name Self-hosted <100$ a year
Hosting Solution
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Requirements
http://www.wordpress.org
Free Open Source Easy to install Easy to update Large development community
WordPress
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Requirements
Free Open Source Easy to install Easy to update Large development community http://www.buddypress.org
BuddyPress
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Requirements
1000+ Free 1000+ Commercial Easily customized Easy to install Easy to update Large development community http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/
Themes
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Useful Plugins
• Akismet – spam protection http://akismet.com/
• BuddyPress - Social networking http://buddypress.org/
• bbPress – forum software http://bbpress.org/
• FeedWordPress – RSShttp://feedwordpress.radgeek.com/
• podPress – Podcasting solutionhttp://www.mightyseek.com/podpress/
• WordPress Wiki – Turn WP pages to wikihttp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-wiki/
• Wptouch – Format for mobilehttp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wptouch/
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Who else is using it?
http://tinyurl.com/7tazukz
200+ Major institutions Worldwide
WordPress in
Higher Education
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References
Brescia, W., & Miller, M. (2006). What's it worth? The perceived benefits of instructional blogging. Electronic Journal for the Integration of Technology in Education, 5, 44-52. Downes, S. (2004). Educational blogging. EDUCAUSE Review, 39(5), 14-26. Ellison, N., & Wu, Y. (2008). Blogging in the classroom: a preliminary exploration of students attitudes and impact on comprehension. Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 17(1), 99-122. Glogoff, S. (2005). Instructional blogging: promoting interactivity, student-centered learning, and peer input. Innovate: Journal of Online Education, 1(5), Jenkins, H., Purushotma, R., Clinton, K., Weigel, M. & Robison, A. J. (2006). Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, IL.
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References
Kerawalla, L., Minocha, S., Kirkup, G., & Conole, G. (2008). An empirically grounded framework to guide blogging in higher education. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 25, 31-42.
Paulus, T., Payne, R., & Jahns, L. (2009). Am I making sense here? What blogging reveals about undergraduate student understanding. Journal for Interactive Online Learning, 8(1), 1-22.
Xie, Y., Ke, F., & Sharma, P. (2008). The effect of peer feedback for blogging on college students' reflective learning processes. Internet and Higher Education, 11, 18-25.
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Credits/Contacts
This presentation made by:
Michael Wilder Instructional Designer
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