ict to enhance programming
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Using technology to enhance extension programming - Presented March 2008, Arnot Forest Ithaca New YorkTRANSCRIPT
March 2008 Paul Treadwell
ICT to Support Educational ProgrammingWebcasts, Wiki’s, Blogs and More
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The Power of ICT
• ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) Provides Tools that can:– Bridge distance– Provide broad access– Encourage collaboration– Build audience
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Framing the Use of ICT
• Development– Collaboration– Creation
• Delivery– External– Presentation
• The “Grey Area”– D & D boundaries are permeable.
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When to Use Technology
• If you have: – clear goals– adequate support
• And you feel:– Confident Using the tool(s)
• And the tool/method:– Is accessible to your audience
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Tools for development
• Development = collaboration• Multidirectional flow• ICT to facilitate collaboration
– Wikis– Google Docs– Concept Maps– Adobe Connect
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What’s a Wiki?
• Web pages designed to enable anyone to contribute or modify content
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Google Documents
• Provides online tools to:– Create and edit
documents– Spreadsheets– Presentations
• Controlled access
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Concept Maps
• Visualize relationships
• Developed at Cornell University
• Have been used to– Develop web site
structure– Develop decision
trees– Model knowledge
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Adobe Connect• Web conferencing tool• Integrates document sharing, audio and
video
• Can be used:– To deliver programming– To collaborate on program development
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Boundaries and Trust
• Collaboration depends on boundaries and trust
• Web based tools provide mechanisms to:– Control access– Provide awareness– Communicate with team members
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Delivering the Goods
• One way flow• Presentation of content
– Blogs– Webcasts
• Adobe Connect
– Podcasts
• RSS
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Blogs
• Easily updated• Originally used as chronological
“diaries”• Provide basic content
management features– Categories and tagging
• Provide syndication services
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Blogs illustrated
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Podcasts
• Audio files on the web• Uses syndication
– Users can subscribe– Packaged for playback on mp3
players
• Internet “radio”– Easy to produce
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RSS
• Allows users to “subscribe” to a site• Is common to
– Blogs– Podcasts
• Used in the creation of “mashups”– combines data from more than one
source into a single tool – Ex. – Google maps and Flickr
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Structured Learning
• Learning Content Management System – Delivers distance learning
• Integrates tools for:– Content authoring– Learning evaluation– Learner administration
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MOODLE
• MOODLE is the LCMS we use
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ICT Strengths
• ICT can facilitate collaboration by providing:– Easy to use tools– Anytime/anywhere access– Awareness/notification (RSS)
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Social Networks
• Social networks can have educational value by:– Encouraging awareness of others– Exposing shared interests– Facilitating collaboration between
learners and instructors
• A learning community is a type of social network.
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Emerging Tools - Ning
• Online service for building social networks
• Modular design allows for easy customization
• Access controls for public or private networks
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Emerging Tools - Skype
• Voice over IP (VoIP)
• Can do video calls
• Free for computer to computer calls
• Not “new”, but we are exploring it’s use
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Emerging Tools – del.icio.us
• Social bookmarking
• Keyword categorization by users
• Web syndication
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Questionable things
• Second Life– 3d virtual world
• Twitter– “micro”-blogging
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Contact
• Questions, comments or more info– Paul Treadwell– Email: [email protected]– Skype: pault36– Blog: http://treadwell.cce.cornell.edu/elearn
– Bookmarks: http://del.icio.us/pt36/