Mountain Lakes InstituteClassroom 2.0 November 2008

TODAY’S GOALS

1. Review “2.0” technologies

2. Explore how we can INCORPORATE USER-GENERATED CONTENT into our classes tomorrow!

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2.0 Institute Topics

User-Generated Content*Extended Learning*Wikis*BLOGGING

*Personal Broadcasting*GrassRoots Video*

User-Generated Content

User generated content (AKA Consumer Generated Media/User created Content) refers to various kinds of media content, publicly available, that are produced by end-users

All digital media technologies are included, such as question-answer databases, digital video, blogging, podcasting, mobile phone photography and wikis. In addition to these technologies, user generated content may also employ a combination of open source, free software, and flexible licensing or related agreements to further reduce the barriers to collaboration, skill-building and discovery. -Wikipedia, “UGC”

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WikisREAL Department workspaces

Horizon wikis

The Horizon Tech Reports are must-reads!

But in the spirit of their work, they have created wikis to keep the material updated & improved

Incorporating WIKIsA wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language.

Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites.

Sample Wikis by Wikispaces

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Online Photo Sharing

Photo-Sharing in Class

Publishing or transfer of a user's digital photos online, thus enabling the user to share them with others (whether publicly or privately). -Wikipedia

Websites & apps facilitate peer-to-peer ability to upload, display, “tag,” and edit images.

Check out Flickr/LOC

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Blogginghttp://www.commoncraft.com/store

Educational Blog Sites?

Student Bloggers?http://bionicteaching.com/

http://web.mac.com/iajukes/thecommittedsardine/BLOG/BLOG.html

http://www.classroom20.com/ (more social network)

http://clive-shepherd.blogspot.com/

More on Delicious

More Edu-Blogs

Blogging Etiquette

Students must use real names

Teacher uses ALL CAPS

“Call on” students or require min/max posts

Kick it up a notch: adopt “roles” online

Check out Bionic Teaching 4/08

Vocabulary “Blog”

Students drew one word out of a hat and completed a word study on it. The posts were sorted by chapter and part of speech.

The result is a comprehensive vocabulary database for the students, and another vocabulary tool for teachers. Two classes worked together to create this glossary. They began to see the benefit of collaborating. By breaking the list down, they were able to get more out of the work.

Grass roots Video

Teacher Tube

Click on Teacher Tube to post teacher videos

Also see free lectures from the Channel section

Nov 2008 BibliographyWikis

Text from Horizon Report http://www.nmc.org/horizon/ & wikipedia (UCC 2007)

In Plain English video from http://www.commoncraft.com/store

Sample wikis from Wikispaces http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com/Examples+of+educational+wikis

Horizon Tech wikis http://horizon.nmc.org/wiki/Main_Page

Nov 2008 Bibliography

Photo Sharing

Text from Horizon Report http://www.nmc.org/horizon/ (2007-UCC; 2005 Extended Learning; & 2006 Social Computing)

In Plain English video from http://www.commoncraft.com/store

Flickr/LOC project http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/

Nov 2008 Bibliography

Blogging

Text from Horizon Report http://www.nmc.org/horizon/ (2007-UCC)

In Plain English video from http://www.commoncraft.com/store

Outsiders blog http://byrdmiddle.org/outsiders/

Other samples http://delicious.com/mrsanchez/edublogs?page=1