new e learning technologies 12 01 08

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New E-learning Technologies

Or, building your professional capabilities (and using web 2.0 to help)

Dave Ferguson dferguson@strathlorne.com

Cynthia Denton-Ade cynthia@cdaperformance.com

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Tonight we will explore…

Some e-learning tools

How you can apply them

Opportunities and obstacles

http://flickr.com/photos/jennieb/

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If I could only focus on one e-learning tool, it would be…

Social bookmarks

RSS feed readers

Blogs

Wikis

Social networking

Content sharing

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What is Web 2.0?

Ideas and techniques behind new web sites and services which encourage user interaction, communication, and collaboration http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

The ‘second generation’ of the World Wide Web

http://www.bardmarketing.com/glossary.php

An umbrella term to what is considered to be the next phase of the evolution of the internet, encompassing technologies such as blogs, wikis and other forms of interaction, development and innovation above and beyond web technologies which have been around since its inception http://absolute-digital.co.uk/glossary.php

Any more definitions

?

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But the real value may be the ability to form meaningful communities

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And we moved from Learning 1.0

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To Learning 2.0

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The answers out there

Social bookmarks

RSS / Feed readers

Blogs

Wikis

Networking

Content sharing

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Find all this session’s URLs at…

delicious.com/whiteboarddave/astd1108

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Social bookmarks

Memory, to go

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…or let tools do most of the work

Add a bookmarklet to your browser

Details for bookmarklets:

http://delicious.com/help/bookmarklets

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RSS and Feeds

Or, “get-go” versus “go get”

http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english

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How RSS changes things

Yesterday:

Find worthwhile website

Read stuff

Repeat

Today: Find worthwhile website Add its feed to your reader It’s there.

Confusing photo: ndh / www.flickr.com/photos/neilharvey/Straightforward photo: d_herrera96 / www.flickr.com/photos/dph1110/

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Feed readers

www.bloglines.com/ www.google.com/reader/

www.netvibes.com www.pageflakes.com

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Adding a feed

Via link or icon

Right-click and copy

In reader: “add feed,” paste

Some sites offer multiple feeds

http://tdblog.typepad.com/

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Blogs: more than just talk

Timely content (posts)

Conversation (comments)

Fixed content (pages)

…and content management

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Where to blog

Free sites

WordPress.com (yourblog.wordpress.com)

Blogger.com(yourblog.blogspot.com)

On your own site

Hosting services catering to blogs

wordpress.org/hosting/

daveswhiteboard.com

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Wiki

The simplest online database that could possibly work— Ward Cunningham, developer of WikiWikiWeb

wetpaint.com

pbwiki.com

www.mediawiki.org

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Collaboration via email…

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You might want a wiki for…

Low-cost intranet

Easy access to, updating of documents

Management of meeting notes, team agendas,

group calendars

Cheap, accessible project management

Storing documents viewed or revised

by a large or dispersed team

Adapted from InformationWeek 8/8/05http://tinyurl.com/6exh53

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When a wiki might not work

Complex file formats

No champion / shepherd for the wiki

Collaboration and peer review not appropriate for your group or workplace

Your goals:

Exchange of views

Conversations

Specific authorship

Not collaboratively-produced documents

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Social Networking

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Facebook

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/facebook.htm

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LinkedIn – Guess the Numbers

1. The average number of connections for people who work at Google is 47

2. The average number for Harvard Business School grads is 58

3. People with more than 20 connections are 34 times more likely to be approached with a job opportunity than people with less than 5.

http://workliteracy.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=2319680%3ATopic%3A4151

http://www.linkedin.com/static?key=application_directory

Facebook vs LinkedIn: Which is better for business?

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Ning

Work Literacy: Web 2.0 for Learning Professionals

http://workliteracy.ning.com/

Learning Technology Users Group

http://learntug.ning.com/

Fire Engineering Training Community

http://community.fireengineering.com/

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Twitter

Basics of How to Use Twitter Video Tutorial on Getting Started with Twitter

Introduction to Twitter Twitter in Plain English

Setting Up Your Twitter Account My Quick Start Tips for New Twitterers 

Guide for Beginners, Marketers, and Business Owners 17 Ways You Can Use Twitter

What’s Twitter?

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Shared content

Sometimes you find you get what you need

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YouTube

http://tinyurl.com/bj3br

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Flickr

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Creative Commons Search

search.creativecommons.org

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Slide Share

http://tinyurl.c

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Shared documents online

Available from anywhere; share with anyone

http://documents.google.com

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Getting to your documents

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Putting the pieces together

Pick and choose the pieces that work for you

By 713 Avenue http://flickr.com/photos/seven13avenue/