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How do you use international learning objects?
MELT Summer SchoolJune 7, 2007 Tampere, FinlandeContentplus
ECP2005 EDU038103
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Group activity 20 mins Find a partner who works in the same/similar area
than you do.
NOT from the same country!
Present your LOs briefly to your partner. Let your partner to brainstorm how can it be used in her/his teaching.
Things that could work on yellow. Things that might NOT work on pink. Keywords to describe the resource on small ones.
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Group activity – wrap up !! Does your LO exist online? Tag it with del.icio.us,
use tag “melt_tampere_LO” + topic !! Group topics together at one place
– e.g. biology, left window at the back– Languages, right side of the window– Xxx, whiteboard on the right– Xxx, white screen on the left
Write the name of your LO on the big post-it and cluster your tags around it – Yellows on one side– Pinks on the other
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In a variety of ways, look at the great examples of learning resources that you brought with!
They come in– Diversity of types– Diversity of formats – For different tasks– ...
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Learning resources, how to define? Reusable - can be modified and versioned for different
courses
Accessible - indexed and retrieved using metadata
Interoperable / portable - operate across different hard/software
Durable - remain intact across upgrades of hard/software
Different LO productionsDifferent LO productions
• building LOs with existing tools
• building LOs with proprietary tools
• building LOs with exiting templates
Teachers
Publishers Students
ICT developers
and support staff
others...
Different formats Different formats • application/base64 • application/binary • application/java • application/macbinhex40 • application/msexcel • application/msword • application/pdf • application/postscript • application/ppt • application/rtf • application/uue • application/x-compressed• application/x-gzip-compressed • application/x-pn-realmedia • application/x-shockwave-flash • application/x-stuffit • application/x-zip-compressed • application/zip • audio/basic • audio/midi
• audio/mp3 • audio/mpeg • audio/x-pn-realaudio • audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin • audio/x-wav • image/bmp • image/gif • image/jpeg • image/png • image/tiff • image/x-wmf • model/vrml • text/html • text/plain • text/richtext • text/xml • video/avi • video/mpeg • video/x-pn-realvideo • video/x-pn-realvideo-plugin • video/quicktime
A diversity of types of LOsA diversity of types of LOs
• Assessment • Broadcast • Course • Drill and Practice • A resource consisting
of exercises (drills), • Educational game • Demonstration • Experiment • Exploration • Glossary
• Guide • Learning asset
(audio,image, video,..)• Lesson Plan • Open activity • Presentation • Reference • Simulation • Tool • Weblog • Web site • Wiki
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LOs for different needs and purposes motivate the learners to recall existing knowledge to illustrate to find information to vizualise and represent new concepts and
information to deepen the existing knowledge to personalise learning for re-mediation to assess the learning, etc.
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Alone or with others?
With teacher or without?
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MetadataMetadata
Defined as structured information that • describes, • explains, • locates, • or otherwise helps in retrieving, using, or
managing a resource.
It is often called • ‘data about data’ or • ‘information about information’
NISO (2004). Understanding Metadata. National Information Standards Organisation, NISO Press
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Classification and cataloguing Classification and cataloguing
• since library of Alexandria, Aristotle
• priority of author's intent
• naming the object to distinguishdistinguish it from others, groupinggrouping it with similar entities
• restrictive, rather than expansive
author's intentcataloguer's neutral stand= terms
reader's need
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Personal knowledge management Personal knowledge management
Sharing with and linking to others Sharing with and linking to others
Discovery and recommendations Discovery and recommendations
Tag cloud: global / personalTag cloud: global / personal
Folksonomic approachFolksonomic approach
• Look at the window wiki!
• WhoseWhose intent and interpretation is it anyway?– author's, indexer's or reader's
• Different meaningsDifferent meanings and purposespurposes
• Tags: priority of user's intent- user's intent- user-generated
• Also called social tagging or classification– Users add the terms suitable for them
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So, how does it relate to education?
Can SoSo help teachers to teach better and students to learn better?
Can SoSo help teachers to organise their teaching better?
Can SoSo help teachers to find better suited learning resources for their different tasks?– Preparing lessons – Teaching - Evaluating
Can SoSo help teachers and learners to network with like-minded peers?
Can SoSo help teachers and learners share their digital artefacts - and learning?
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MELT Summer SchoolJune 7, 2007 Tampere, FinlandeContentplus
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How did we get here?
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What for?
to remember useful sites
I use it for organising the URLs I use for getting my teaching material
I use del.icio.us as a first option when looking for specific information.
Brows and searching other bookmarks about learning objects, tips, skills
I looked for images on Flickr. Tags could help me.
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What for?
I browse my friends' bookmarks (on del.icio.us) and if find any useful ones, I also visit and perhaps bookmark them. I sometimes also send bookmarks to friends in which they might be interested.
Collecting resource material for a wiki make together with pupils
To share the sites with my students
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What for?
to remember useful sites
I use it for organising the URLs I use for getting my teaching material
I use del.icio.us as a first option when looking for specific information.
Brows and searching other bookmarks about learning objects, tips, skills
I looked for images on Flickr. Tags could help me.
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FINDING INFORMATION
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What for?
I browse my friends' bookmarks (on del.icio.us) and if find any useful ones, I also visit and perhaps bookmark them. I sometimes also send bookmarks to friends in which they might be interested.
Collecting resource material for a wiki make together with pupils
To share the sites with my students
SHARE EDUCATIONAL
USE, anyo
ne?
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What's in social software? User profile
Artefacts (pictures, bookmarks, blog posts,..)
Social networks between users displayed in relation to the profile
Annotation
Communities start emerging from the crowd, which can be displayed through underlying relations
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User profile
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Artefacts
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Artefacts
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Annotations Tags Comments Ratings, Thumbs-up, Thumbs-down Displays of support, kudos, cheers, pokes,...
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Annotations - tags
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Annotations - tags
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Annotations - tags
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Annotations - tags
e.g. social bookmarkinge.g. social bookmarking
• Bookmarking on the Web – access from access from everywhereeverywhere
• Own keywords - easy to find it againeasy to find it again
• Shareable
Personal knowledge managementPersonal knowledge management
Sharing, syndicating, linkingSharing, syndicating, linking
e.g. social bookmarkinge.g. social bookmarking
• Bookmarking on the Web – access from everywhereaccess from everywhere
• Own keywords - easy to find it againeasy to find it again
• Sharable - private, with a group, everyoneprivate, with a group, everyone
• Serendipitous access- access others bookmarks, tag-cloud, access others bookmarks, tag-cloud, recommendations recommendations
Discovery and recommendationsDiscovery and recommendations