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1
Wikis, Blogs Podcasts
  • Teaching and Learning with Web-Based Technologies

2
Objectives
  • Explore reasons why Web-based technologies can
    help faculty teach and students learn.
  • Look at challenges and concerns.
  • Examine basics of wikis, blogs and podcasts.
  • Collect some relevant Web resources.

3
Challenges and Concerns
  • Start small!
  • Warn students about safety!
  • Warn students about plagiarism!
  • Discuss ads!

4
Pedagogical Reasons for Considering
  • Content creation (right brainers will rule!).
  • Publishing (visible/audible to others).
  • Collaborative space.
  • Real-World applications.
  • READ/READ became
  • READ/WRITE became
  • READ/WRITE/COLLABORATE.

5
Brainers
  • Left Brain
  • LogicalSequentialRationalAnalyticalObjective
  • Looks at parts
  • Right Brain
  • RandomIntuitiveHolisticSynthesizingSubjective
    Looks at wholes

6
Discussion
  • Do you think teaching styles and learning styles
    should be different for left brainers versus
    right brainers? If so, how?

7
We Are The Web!
  • Web 2.0
  • Web 3.0
  • http//www.youtube.com/watch?v6gmP4nk0EOE
  • Evaluate video

8
Wikis
  • A collaborative Web site where users can
  • Post data
  • Edit data
  • Track changes
  • Compare version
  • Do group work
  • Learn collaborative skills
  • Make wiki private or public

9
Wikipedia
  • Not credible?
  • Starting point?

10
Wiki Structures
  • One class with single wiki with many pages.
  • One class with several wikis.
  • One class with each student having individual
    wiki.
  • One faculty member with single wiki.
  • One college department with single wiki.
  • . . . Endless!!

11
Wiki Applications
  • Google group wiki page
  • Google docs
  • https//docs.google.com
  • WikiSpaces
  • http//www.wikispaces.com/
  • PBWiki
  • http//pbwiki.com/
  • MANY others!
  • www.wikimatrix.org

12
The Wiki Prayer
  • Please grant me the serenity to accept the pages
    I cannot edit,
  • The courage to edit the pages I can,
  • And the wisdom to know the difference.
  • http//www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm04/erm0452.asp

13
Blogs
  • Web logs
  • Demonstrates evidence of evolving thinking over
    time
  • Group or individual
  • Searchable
  • Automatic updates/subscriptions

14
Blog Set Up
  • Live Journal http//www.livejournal.com
  • Blogger http//blogger.com
  • Blogspot http//www.blogspot.com
  • Technorati http//technorati.com/ (mega
    blogsearches over 71 million bogs by topic, tag
    or post.
  • Demo http//mnperkins.blogspot.com/

15
RSS
  • Content comes to YOU!
  • Really Simple Syndication
  • Saves time!
  • Aggregators
  • Bloglines www.bloglines.com
  • Google Reader www.google.com/reader
  • Newsgator www.newsgator.com
  • Comparison of the 3 http//labnol.blogspot.co
    m/2005/10/newsgator-vs-bloglines-vs-google.html

16
RSS (cont.)
  • Demo Google blog to Google Reader
  • Only works if read regularly.
  • START SMALL!
  • RSS A Quick Start for Educators
    http//weblogg-ed.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/R
    SSFAQ4.pdf
  • Demo Add Richardsons All Events calendar to
    Reader.
  • Yahoo News Feeds http//news.yahoo.com/rss

17
Podcasts
  • Recording that is compressed in digital form (MP3
    file)
  • Distributed over Internet
  • Available by subscription using RSS feed
  • Automatically synchronized to MP3 player

18
Steps in Creating Podcasts
  • Record, Edit, Publish
  • Use recording microphone and MP3 software
  • Audacity
  • http//audacity.sourceforge.net/

19
Higher Ed Uses
  • Instructor-created
  • Lectures
  • Homework
  • External resources
  • iTunes podcasts
  • Guest speaker
  • User-created
  • Oral presentations
  • Interviews
  • Field notes

20
Discussion
  • What new tools have you discovered and how are
    you using them in teaching?

21
Sample Podcasts
  • Subscribe.
  • http//www.apple.com/education/itunesu/
  • http//www.pbs.org/merrow/podcast/index.html
  • Demo iTunesU
  • Need to download Apples iTunes software first!

22
Summary Challenges Concerns
  • Getting yourself startedSTART SMALL!
  • Getting the students started
  • Scaffold assignments
  • Share explicit reasons why youre using these
    tools.
  • Time/management requirements.

23
Summary (cont.)
  • Webquest?
  • http//webquest.org/index.php
  • Inquiry-based activity that involves students in
    using web-based resources and tools to transform
    their learning into meaningful understandings and
    real-world projects.
  • Rubric
  • http//webquest.sdsu.edu/webquestrubric.html
    (10/29/07)

24
Managing ALL This!
  • Social Bookmarking Web site http//del.icio.us/
  • Store your bookmarks/favorites online.
  • Demo http//del.icio.us/yshafer
  • Note icon on IE browser.

25
Other References
  • Pink, Daniel H. (2006). A Whole New Mind Why
    Right Brainers Will Rule the Future
  • Kruse, Kevin. The Magic of Learner Motivation
    The ARCS Model, www.e-learningguru.com/articles/ar
    t3_5.htm (10/29/07)
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