learner-centred do-it-yourself learning management systems
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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.pdfTRANSCRIPT
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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A few Digital LiteraciesO Howard Rheingold: Network
awarenesshttp://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Review/EDUCAUSEReviewMagazineVolume45/AttentionandOther21stCenturySo/213922
O Multiliteracies and Transliteracieshttp://goodbyegutenberg.pbworks.com
O Dave Cormier: MOOCshttp://davecormier.com/edblog/wp-content/uploads/MOOC_Final.pdf
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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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O http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
O http://sixdegrees.hu/last.fm/
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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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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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O http://www.slideshare.net/vances/shifting-sands-shifting-paradigms
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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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O http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMfipxhT_Co&feature=related
O http://goodbyegutenberg.pbworks.com/w/page/48177073/GettingStarted2012evo
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O George Siemens frame captured from this video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqL_lsogeNU&feature=youtu.be
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O Attribution: http://www.kelvybird.com/facilitation/scribing/workingknowledge.html
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O AJ Cann, PLE Presentation - http://www.microbiologybytes.com/tutorials/ple/ple5.html
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O http://prosites-vstevens.homestead.com/files/efi/papers/tesol/colloquium2004/fun00.htm
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O http://prosites-vstevens.homestead.com/files/efi/papers/tesol/colloquium2004/fun22.htm
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O http://vance_stevens.podomatic.com/entry/index/2010-12-10T08_33_01-08_00
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O Jing screenshot of a random click in Vance’s Google Reader
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O Permission to use granted under creative commons license; attribution:http://fr.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-3661361368
O http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-cognitive-surplus-drives-us-to.html
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O http://creativecommons.org/tag/p2pu
O From a Google search on images licensed for reuse, labeled ‘open educational resources’
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O http://www.slideshare.net/vances/rss-tagging-collaboration-online-264077
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O PechaFlickr: see it in action in the recording linked from http://learning2gether.posterous.com/super-sunday-streaming-with-jeff-lebow-hangin
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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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O http://goodbyegutenberg.pbworks.com/w/page/29405319/frontpage2010evo
O Make your own logo from tagged Flickr photos at http://taggalaxy.de/
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O http://writingmatrix.wikispaces.com/
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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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O http://goodbyegutenberg.pbworks.com
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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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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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O This image and next two from EVO Multiliteracies Posterous pages:
O http://multiliteracies.posterous.com/whither-multiliteracies-where-are-the-cluster
O http://multiliteracies.posterous.com/week-3-already-dusting-off-and-ramping-up-the
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O http://vancestevens.com/papers/tesol/pp107/eportfolios10.htm
O Collage from page with links to TESOL PP107 MePortfolios