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On Wednesday, 08 February, 2012, I am invited to give a keynote speech entitled Learner-centred do-it-yourself Learning Management Systems at the IATEFL Learning Technologies SIG http://ltsig.org.uk/ conference on Opportunities, challenges and practical solutions for the integration of ICT in education in Marrakech, Morocco from 8-11 February 2012, http://ltsig.org.uk/events/13-future-events/221-marrakesh-february-2012.html; program at: http://ltsig.org.uk/media/Marrakech2012_Programme.pdf

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Learner-centered do-it-yourself LMS

Vance StevensHCT/ADMC/CERT

presented at theIATEFL Learning Technologies SIG conference

on Opportunities, challenges and practical solutions for the integration of ICT in education

in Marrakech, Morocco: 8-11 February 2012

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IATEFL Facebook Group

O Gary Motteram posted in Facebook

This evening we'll be opening our LTSIG Conference in Marrakech. We are expecting to broadcast the opening plenary via Adobe Connect. The url is:http://connectpro10829081.adobeconnect.com/r6nnnse2kg0/.

O Further details of the event and presentations are available on the LTSIG website: http//ltsig.org.uk

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Over a decade into 21st century learning

O The 20th read-only century (Lessig, Remix)

O The 21st read/write eraO 10 paradigm shiftsO Digital storytellingO Modeling

O for each otherO and then for students

O DIYLMS

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Shifting sands, shifting paradigms

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Shifting pedagogiesO DidacticO ConstructivistO Connectivist

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Shifting networksO Learning in isolation O Communities of practiceO Distributed learning

networksO PLNsO ConnectivismO Configurations

O Groups, Communities, Networks

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Shifting Networks: Connectivism

In this YouTube video, Siemens says at min 1:13http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqL_lsogeNU&feature=youtu.be

"Have you ever thought about how completely irrelevant structured learning is?"  

Siemens, G. (2004-5). Connectivism: A Learning theory for the digital age. Elearnspace. Retrieved August 17, 2011 from http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm

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• Groups

Shifting Network Configurations

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• Groups• Communities

Shifting Network Configurations

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• Groups• Communities• Communities of

practice– Domain– Practice– Community

Shifting Network Configurations

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• Groups• Communities• Communities of

practice• Networks

can include overlappingcommunities

Shifting Network Configurations

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• Groups• Communities• Communities of

practice• Networks

and sampleConnections

Shifting Network Configurations

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Shifting literaciesO Print

literaciesO Digital

literaciesO MultiliteraciesO Transliteracies

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Shifting HeuristicsO From client-server to peer-to-peer

toO Creators vs. consumers of contentO Wikis and ebooks

vs. PublishersO Crowdsourcing vs.

going through gatekeepers

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Shifting formalityO From hierarchical

power centricityO To Small Pieces

Loosely Joinedhttp://www.smallpieces.com/

O Informal Learninghttp://www.informl.com/

O F.U.N.

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Shifting Formality: F.U.N.

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Shifting TransferO Applying social networking skills and

concepts from personal life to professional O (and recivitism)

O From Facebook and Twitter to Yammer and Edmodo

O Tagging in YouTube O blog posts, Delicious & Diigo

O Example from Buenos AiresO Smart phones ubiquitousO WiFi in coffee shops and restaurantsO Yet technology discouragedin schools

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Shifting DirectionalityO From push to pullO Email vs. RSSO Google

ReaderO Setting

filters to cope withinformationoverload

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Shifting ownershipO Proprietary vs. open and free e.g.

O Blackboard vs. MoodleO MS Office vs. Open Office / Google Docs

O Copyright vs. copyleft/ Creative Commons

O Why does it work?Clay Shirky explains it well inO Here Comes EverybodyO Cognitive Surplus

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Shifting willingness to share

O OERsO Models

O MIT (since 2001)O MOOCs (since 2008?)O Stanford open

courses O P2PUO Khan Academy

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Shifting ClassificationsO TaxonomyO Folksonomies

O Tag gameshttp://braz2010vance.pbworks.com/w/page/27944056/TagGames

O Writingmatrixhttp://writingmatrix.wikispaces.com/

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Tags and Folksonomies (vs. Taxonomies)

Dewey DecimalSystem

Top-Down

Precise

Client-Server

Predictable

structured information

dissemination network

Inflexible

Folksonomy

Bottom Up

Sloppy

Peer to Peer

Unpredictable

Ad hoc information

dissemination network

Creativecomprehensive

adaptable

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Digital storiesO Web 2.0 allows

anyone to create content

O Alan Levine: 50 ways to tell a digital storyhttp://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/50+Ways

O PechaFlickr

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One digital storyO Cristina Costa - felt that she

was a member of a CoP when she realized her practice had begun to change

O Said to Etienne Wenger in keynote “interview” with Suzanne Nyrop at 2007 WiAOC (Webheads in Action Online Convergence) http://wiaoc.org

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My digital storiesO Read only century

O CALL-IS and Electronic Village

O Writing for Webheads

O Read/write centuryO Electronic Village

OnlineO Webheads in ActionO Learning2gether

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Modeling for each other

O WiAOCO WritingMatrixO K-12 Online

ConferenceO Electronic

Village Online

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CMS vs LMSO DrupalO NingO Wikis, BlogsO MIT

O Bonk, C. 2009, The World is Open, “However, there is typically no instructor at the site to review or grade students’ work.” p. 163

O ProprietaryO BlackboardO Desire to Learn

O Open SourceO MoodleO Sakai

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Modeling through Moodle

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DIY: CMSO WikipediaO EVO SessionsO GoodbyegutenbergO PosterousO Courses

O http://fcwr101.pbworks.com/O http://academiccomposition.pbworks.

com/

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Academic Composition

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Research Writing NYIT

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LMS = CMS + LMO My choices

O PBWorks.com for content storageO Google Docs for student submissions

and feedbackO Posterous for showcasing student

work and for surprisingly effective forum

O Skype group chat for suprisingly effective blend of synchronous and asynchronous interaction

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Affordances ofO PBWorks

O Organize learningO Sidebar for

O Course archivesO LinksO Resources

O Store learning objectsO DocumentsO tutorials

O Google DocsO In class

O Work with students on the fly

O See who’s workingO Outside class

O Easily see new workO Organize

submissions O Copy/paste feedback

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Affordances ofO Posterous

O Subscribers can be made contributors

O Links to media become embedded objects

O Works through Web or EmailO Post via emailO Any attachment

becomes object in post

O Subscribers notified, can reply to email to comment

O Skype group chatO Add people in your

contacts list to groupO They can withdraw at any

timeO Group appears as

another contactO Members can post

asynchronouslyO Chat is seen when

members log on at any time

O If they are online at the same time, direct conversation occurs

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How Posterous stimulates conversation via email

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Skype group chat blends synch and asynch

interaction

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About the presenterhttp://adVancEducation.blogspot.com

O Vance Stevens, English Instructor Coordinator, UAE Naval College

O Higher Colleges of Technology, Abu Dhabi Men’s College, Center for Excellence in Research and Technology

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All my work is onlineO All my slide shows are available at:

O http://slideshare.net/vances O You can read this paper at:

O Preliminary report: http://fcwr101.pbworks.com/w/page/49162994/DIYLMS

O More of Vance’s work at:O http://vancestevens.com/papers

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Creative commons image attributions

O http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html

O http://sixdegrees.hu/last.fm/

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Creative commons image attributions

O http://screencast.com/t/4Eyz6bVBO

O The Jing screenshot show this page on Feb 8, 2012O http

://www.facebook.com/groups/iatefl/

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Creative commons image attributions

O http://aphw.blogspot.com/2007/01/bloom-and-his-activities.html

O Mr. Keatley's World History Blog

O Based on: Clark, B. (2002). Growing up gifted:Developing the potential of children at home and at school.Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill Prentice Hall.from: http://www.apa.org/ed/new_blooms.html

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Creative commons image attributions

O Tim Hand, PLE Diagram - http://thand.wordpress.com/2007/05/28/ple-2/

O From Scott Leslie's nice collection of PLE diagrams: http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/PLE+Diagrams

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Creative commons image attributions

O George Siemens frame captured from this video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqL_lsogeNU&feature=youtu.be

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Creative commons image attributions

O AJ Cann, PLE Presentation - http://www.microbiologybytes.com/tutorials/ple/ple5.html

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Creative commons image attributions

O Jing screenshot of a random click in Vance’s Google Reader

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Creative commons image attributions

O http://creativecommons.org/tag/p2pu

O From a Google search on images licensed for reuse, labeled ‘open educational resources’

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Creative commons image attributions

O http://www.flickr.com/photos/josemota/3617679326/

O From a Google search on images licensed for reuse, labeled ‘cristina costa’

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Creative commons image attributions

O http://writingmatrix.wikispaces.com/

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Creative commons image attributions

O This slide links to a presentation on classroom techniques integrating Google Docs and Delicious (login as Guest)

O http://www.pimoodle.org/course/view.php?id=69

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Creative commons image attributions

O http://goodbyegutenberg.pbworks.com

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Creative commons image attributions

O http://academiccomposition.pbworks.com

O Front page of an academic composition course taught at the UAE Naval College, 2011-2012

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Creative commons image attributions

O http://fcwr101.pbworks.com

O Front page of a research writing course taught at New York Institute of Technology, Abu Dhabi, UAE in 2011

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Creative commons image attributions

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O http://vancestevens.com/papers/tesol/pp107/eportfolios10.htm

O Collage from page with links to TESOL PP107 MePortfolios

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