Experiencing eLearning

JULY 10, 2008

This article skims the surface of what might be possible if social networking tools, blogs, wikis, and more were used to construct courses and give students more control. tags: lms , socialnetworking , ple , blog , wiki , web2.0 , learnercontrol. What would that do to the pedagogy?

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 29, 2008

Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech » Blog Archive » Diigo you have given me a headache. Wikinomics » Blog Archive » Wiki collaboration leads to happiness. tags: collaboration , productivity , wiki. Cool Cat Teacher Blog: The Five Phases of Flattening a Classroom Annotated.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 31, 2008

Cool Cat Teacher Blog: How to Make Wiki References. tags: wiki , citations , howto , screencast. Screencast and directions for adding references in Wikispaces. Wikispaces references now work like Wikipedia, where you can add a reference and it creates a linked footnote. WebAIM: Web Accessibility Gone Wild.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 12, 2008

Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: Working Wikily: The fine lines between content and curriculum and self-directed learning and instruction … Beth Kanter on the process of developing curriculum collaboratively with a “swarm&# of contributors on a wiki.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 14, 2009

Global collaboration can be very small; can just be one teacher and one class with blogs or Skype. With blogs, move students from passive lurking on a class blog –> blog comments first. Examples: student blogging project , 10 weeks with a challenge to push students more each week. Collaborate = Wiki.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Avoiding the 5 Most Common Mistakes in Using Blogs with Students. “Ineffective contextualization&# (not thinking about the best way to use blogs, usually self-reflection). “Misuse of the environment&# (treating blogs like wikis or discussion forums). tags: e-learning , education , blog , writing. .

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 22, 2008

The SLED blog looks good too. This wiki with educational uses of Second Life has a number of resources. Karl Kapp’s MSIT Second Life wiki has lots of resources. You could also search his blog archives, as he writes about Second Life often. I know I have readers with a lot more experience in Second Life than me.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 30, 2009

WordPress.com is my blog host, which is still a primary tool for my personal learning even when I’m not posting as regularly. Being able to highlight, keep cached copies of the pages, and post to my blog automatically makes it much more valuable for me than just bookmarking. Personal Learning.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 28, 2008

WebAIM: Blog - 508 and Higher Ed. Wiki collecting examples of how the National Education Technology Standards for Students (NETS-S) are being implemented. tags: technology , wiki , education , k-12 , digitalliteracy. Most pages were missing skip navigation links and alt text. tags: accessibility , highered.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 14, 2008

Sage Advice on Wiki Adoption: Keys to Success. Best practices for wiki adoption in organizations: Start with what you already do. tags: wiki , community , orgculture. Anyone can swap an writing pad for a blog, there is no value in that. Matching game about skills for instructional designers. Invite Senior Leadership.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 18, 2009

This isn’t my usual comprehensive live blogging, just snippets of things that caught my interest. When the poll question was I asked, I said we were doing nothing, but we actually did tally up how many comments we received from how many different people on our team blog. This is post 2 of 3. What about return on expectations?

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 27, 2008

tags: blog , identity , reputation. tags: collaboration , global , wiki , k-12 , digitalstorytelling , education , writing. tags: collaboration , global , wiki , k-12 , digitalstorytelling , education , writing. Cool Cat Teacher Blog: 38 Birthday presents from CoolCatTeacher to you! tags: tools , web2.0.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 15, 2008

Will teach with blogs and a wiki. Tools Used: Used Weblog.com to create the blog. Google Sites for the wiki. This is another liveblogged post from the TCC 2008 conference, presented by Robert Fulkerth, Ageno School of Business, Golden Gate University, San Francisco, CA. Ease of entry will allow more personalized websites.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 30, 2008

We’ve run into resistance from some instructors against using blogs, wikis, and chat, even when they’re integrated within the LMS (removing the “I don’t want to create another log in&# argument).

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 5, 2009

I’m willing to fight the battles to include blogs and wikis and chat and a bunch of other stuff, but this seemed like too much to throw at them. Part of my resistance/reluctance to join was that this just seemed too out there for the audience I work with and our online facilitators.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 15, 2008

blogs and wikis), you may want to have evangelist(s) at your organization who take lead and emphasize the potential of these tools, show examples, etc. Emphasize their ability to help others and play a bigger role in helping the organization, instead of hoarding the knowledge. Sometimes easier said than done.).

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

These are my live blogged notes from Tony O’Driscoll’s LearnTrends session on The Immernet Singularity. knowledge discovery, blogs, wikis, tagging, RSS). Twitter is easier than blogging. My side comments are in italics. Four technology arenas, 2D Synchronous Learning, Knowledge Sharing Spaces, Web 2.0

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 22, 2008

 Things like Moodle are overkill, as we don’t need grading, blogging, wikis, etc.,  My client wants two things that I am stuck on: 1) good server software for posting CBTs and then having basic tracking of student usage.  The ideal vendor solution might be the Adobe Connect training module. however fashionable they may be.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 2, 2008

Communities of practice and wikis are highest 2.0. Blogs increased 20.7%. Wikis up 7.7%. Good question in the chat from Cathy Moore: Are blogs being used top-down or created by learners? Classroom instruction still highest. Asynchronous e-learning is high. Podcasts increased 22.5% (not necessarily a 2.0 approaches.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 19, 2008

Principles for assessing online discussions and other conversations (blogs, chat, etc.) The app sits in an iframe, which means it can’t be embedded in WordPress or Edublogs, but it does work in a wiki. tags: web2.0 , blog , tools. The Bamboo Project Blog: Using Del.icio.us Mostly higher ed. tags: socialbookmarking.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 12, 2008

The Bamboo Project Blog: Privacy, Social Media and Learning. Businesses and organizations may worry about social media and Web 2.0 tools in terms of privacy and confidentiality, but their fears are largely unfounded. tags: web2.0 , orgculture , privacy.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 29, 2008

When I liveblogged the TCC 2008 conference , I always had the Elluminate presentation up on my primary screen (my desktop computer) and my blog on my laptop. Editing our team wiki or the wikis for a course. This post focuses on how I work with Synergy, both when I’m in live online events and during my daily work.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 14, 2009

“Video mashing, game modding, Youtube, wikis, blogs, and the communities that rise up around them are becoming yet another facet of our communication landscape. Liveblogged from the TCC online conference. Presenter: Elizabeth Fanning, University of Virginia. But how effective are these expressions in communicating meaning?

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

These are my live blogged notes from Jay Cross & Clark Quinn’s LearnTrends session on Reinventing Organizational Learning. Lots of parallel conversations in all their blogs, with clear interaction & influence between them. My side comments in italics. Need to be more agile & change. Realized that this worked better.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 9, 2009

Make page creation easier, more like a wiki but w/o markup. URLs are not so crazy–like a blog post with normal text. Sakai, Thick or Thin (apply a little or a lot of Sakai). The unSakai (bringing Sakai data to users wherever they are). Content Authoring. WYSIWYG editing for page creation. Template based authoring. Versioning.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Blogs, wikis, and Twitter weren’t designed as learning tools, but lots of people use them as such. Learning is instead thought of as a part of living, of work, of play. The same tools we use to perform day-to-day activities are the tools we use to learn. This is already happening to some extent.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 11, 2011

These are my live blogged notes from Clive Shepard’s presentation titled The New Learning Architect , part of the eLearning Guild’s Thought Leaders Webinar Series. On demand: we can’t possibly provide everything that people need, so giving people opportunity and confident to use tools like search, wiki, forums, is important.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 27, 2009

Horizon project wiki has resources and shows the process. brainstorming: lots of wikis, blogs, social networking, audio/podcasts. Blogs for specific institutions. Overview of the Horizon Report from Rachel Smith of NMC. Process: October: open up to the advisory board. “Horizon Game&#. Tagging tools.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 25, 2008

I’ve had some great success with student-led blog discussions and wiki galleries of peer work and feedback. However, when I’m designing courses with Web 2.0 tools that (hopefully) help people build their personal learning environments, it’s not quite the traditional course.

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