Q&A: Your PLN & Cloud Tools

Joyce SeitzingerGuest lecturer

Digital Learning Technologies CourseEIT - #vmvdltMarch 2012

YOUR PLNLet’s talk about…

Your PLN - Connections

• Tools and People• Who does it connect you to? • How have new connections occurred?• What do you think are the distinctions

between online connections and F2F connections?

• Madhouse of Ideas

Your PLN - Artefacts

• Anything can be an artefact• What type of artefacts have you found? • What was your best find?

Your PLN – Information Diet

• How does your PLN support your information intake?

• How have you set up your information streams? Tailored them?

• How do you prevent information bloat?• How do you prevent filter bubble?

Your PLN – Your Curated Collection

• How does your PLN support your curated collection of artefacts?

• Connectivism and networked learning – “knowledge does not reside in the individual”

• How do you maintain your collection?• Have you had problems retrieving resources?• How do you prune it?• How do you label it?

Your PLN – Network Node

• How does your PLN support your role as a network node?

• How do you share? • What are the limits of your tools/network?• What is your reach?• Klout• PeerIndex

CLOUD TOOLSLet’s talk about…

Cloud Tools – Resource or Activity

• John Biggs’ constructive alignment• OTARA• Authentic Learning Activities – Prof Tom

Reeves• Are you creating a learning resource or a

learning activity?

Cloud Tools – Teacher Centric or Student Centric

• Some contentious ed tech tools– IWB– YouTube– Lecture Capture– They seem like innovative ed tech, but run risk of

supporting outdated teaching approaches with new tools

• Your chosen cloud tool: teacher centric, student centric, neither, both?

Cloud Tools – Risks?

• If using open free cloud tools in teaching and learning, what are some of the risks– to the student?– to the teacher?– to the institution?

Cloud Tools – Role of the LMS?

• If there are so many open free cloud tools for teaching and learning available, why would an institution still invest in an LMS like Moodle?

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