Education
Today and Tomorrow
Web 2.0:
Imagine the
Possibilities
Knowledge is specific content
Learners are empty
vessels to be filled
with knowledge
Knowledge is created
Learning is a collaborative social endeavor
A Paradigm Shift
Horizon Report 2007
Key trends affecting higher education—next 5 years
 One year or less
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Social Networking
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User-Created Content
 Two-Three Years
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Mobile Phones
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Virtual Worlds
 Four-Five Years
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New Scholarship and Emerging Forms of Publication
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Massively Multiplayer Educational Gaming
Tools for Collaboration
 Communication
 Distribution
 Organization
Communication
Social Networks
Instant Messaging, VoIP and Video
Conferencing in one simple to use
package
Blogs
Distribution
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Flickr/Picasa
 Share image collections
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Slideshare
 Upload and share presentations
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Wikis
 wikispaces
 pbwiki
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Podcasts
YouTube--TeacherTube
Invention of the Year, 2006
Organization
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Social Bookmarking (del.icio.us)
 Storing, sharing bookmarks--search by tags to find useful
Internet research links.
 The Penntags project at the University of Pennsylvania
(http://tags.library.upenn.edu/)
 Harvard’s H2O (http://h2obeta.law.harvard.edu/home.do)
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Social Calendaring
 Shared agendas for events arrangements and meetings
planning
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RSS Reader
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Personalized homepage
Tools for Collaboration
 Blogs
 Wikis
 Podcasts
What are Blogs?
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Web + Logs = Blogs
Web Pages
 Automated updating
 Reverse chronological postings
 May accommodate responses
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Internet-specific phenomenon
Incomplete index of blogs
 http://blogdex.media.mit.edu/
Limited Only by Your Imagination
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Instructors
 Content-related blog
as professional practice
 Networking and
personal knowledge
sharing
 Instructional tips for
students
 Course announcements
and readings
 Annotated links
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Students
Reflective or writing
journals
Assignment
submission and review
Dialogue for
groupwork
E-portfolios
Share course-related
resources
Sample Educational Blogs
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Online Research Blog
 eCornell Research Blog
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Info-Commons Blog
 commons-blog
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Educational Bloggers Network
 EBN blog
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Science Blog
 Science Blog
Wikis: The ultimate collaboration tool
 Special web site
 allows visitors to add, remove, edit & change
content
 Not need access to or knowledge of web
publishing software
 Collaboration
 Group members work on common document
in common location
Wikipedia: Collaborative Dictionary
Being Edited in Real Time by Anyone
Wiki’s in Education
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Econ 482: Stephen Greenlaw
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Advanced Artificial
Intelligence: Sean Luke
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Harvard Law School
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Eckerd College
Wikibooks
Boston College
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Gerald Kane, assistant professor of
information systems
 post papers on the wiki to be reviewed by other
students before turn in for grade
 Create own exam questions and answers—post
on wiki for peer editing (pool of 350 questions)
 Easily update information as world events
change—collaborative effort
-Computerworld, 2007
Horizon Project
http://horizonproject.wikispaces.com/
Collaborative global project between
classrooms in diverse geographical locations
 Camilla, GA (10th grade)
 Vienna, Austria (11th grade)
 Dhaka, Bangladesh (11th grade)
 Melbourne, Australia (11th grade)
 Shanghai, China (Media Literary)
Podcasting
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Pod (iPod) + broadcast = Podcast
Differs from streaming audio
 Automatically delivered to player –
don't have to click on a link to
download
 Listen when you want – not when a
program is scheduled
Why is podcasting appealing
for learning and teaching?
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Appeals to the
digital natives
Easy and low cost
 create
 distribute
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Caters to different
learning styles
Advantages
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Students
 Review lectures before exams
 Listen in on classes they've missed
 Replay at own convenience
 Non-native speakers replay to increase
comprehension
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Instructors
 Listen to own lectures to improve
presentations
Learning & Teaching Applications
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Interviews with experts
Oral history projects
Quotes from recorded speeches
Answers to posted questions
Guest speakers / lecture series
Student submissions /portfolios /
placement logs
Universities Podcasting
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iTunes U
(http://www.apple.com/education/solutions/itu
nes_u/)
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Duke University
University of Illinois
Stanford
UC Berkley
Purdue University
http://www.itap.purdue.edu/tlt/BoilerCast/
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University of Washington
http://www.css.washington.edu/