Web 2.0, Academia & PLEs

Presented by

Joan Vinall-Coxhttp://joanvinallcox.wordpress.com/my-e-portfolio/

Niccolo Machiavelli - "Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times."

Web 2.0, Academia & PLEs

PremisesPremises Education exists to share and extend knowledge Information is increasing at an incremental rate We are living in the most extensive and rapidly

changing communication environment ever Our culture is engaged in creating and learning

how to ‘be’ within this new and constantly shifting environment

Definitions

Web 2.0

Social Media

PLE / PLWE - http://joanvinallcox.posterous.com/ple-3-views

Knowledge Workers - PLN

Why Go Beyond the CMS?

• JOLT, June 2008

• Bryan Alexander, National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education

• http://jolt.merlot.org/vol4no2/alexander0608.htm

My PLE

• http://www.wisdomap.com/shared/1fdc

• http://joanvinallcox.screenstepslive.com/lessons/1545

• http://tinyurl.com/5mr53c

Small Pieces, Loosely Joined

• Initially more work

BUT• Access to the greatest library ever existing• Skills and know-how required beyond microfiche

and Dewey• Set-up and monitoring equivalent to keeping-up

in your discipline

Your Choices

• A speedy covering of the following Web 2.0 applications

• Pausing only by request

PLE Essentials

• Search• Google & Google Scholar - http://scholar.google.ca/

• Social bookmarking• del.icio.us - http://del.icio.us/shiftingsemiosis • diigo - http://www.diigo.com/user/joanvinallcox

• RSS Reader• Bloglines• Google Reader

Social Media Basics

• Social Media– Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/

– LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/in/joanvinallcox

– Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/

SM for Teaching/Learning

• Blogs– Blogspot - https://www.blogger.com/start

– Elgg - http://elgg.org/

– WordPress - http://joanvinallcox.wordpress.com/

• Wikis - http://whyusewikis.wetpaint.com/

More Learning Tools

• Zotero - http://www.zotero.org/ - Research Tool

• EasyBib - http://www.easybib.com/ - Bib. Tool

• EverNote - http://evernote.com/about/what_is_en/ - Saving, especially for visual people

More Free Teaching Tools

• Voice Threads - http://voicethread.com/#home – Visual & voice – social commentary possible

• Skitch - http://skitch.com/ – Capture, edit & annotate images for online or off

• Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ – Record and edit sound > mp3s

• Jing - http://www.jingproject.com/

Oral Rhetoric

• http://oralrhetoric2007.blogspot.com/ • Tools

– Blog,– Wiki – for class information, jigsaw sharing of

assignments, and posting completed assignments– Audacity – for audio recording and editing– Box – for hosting mp3s of assignments

Thanks

• For further information– joan.vinallcox@gmail.com

• Creative Commons Copyright– http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ca/