top 10 emerging educational technologies
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A presentation for faculty on using Web 2.0 technologiesTRANSCRIPT
TOP 10: Emerging Web-based Technologies…
(as of 8:00am on May 15, 2008)
G. Andrew Page, PhDAssistant Professor
College of EducationUniversity of Alaska
Copyleft
-Theoretical Framework-
Learning 2.0
Community of Learners
John Seely Brown and Richard AdlerMinds on Fire
#10 Vod & Fvod
• http://www.learner.org/view_programs/view.programs.html
• http://gandrewpage.com/edmovies
• http://gandrewpage.com/webquest
#9 Open-Source Network
• http://Openoffice.org
A Word processor, a spreadsheet, a database, a powerpoint type program…Free
TISATAAFL
Benefits of OpenOffice…
• no commercial licenses or software compliance issues to worry about
• no language barriers - if it’s not yet available in your language, the chances are it will be soon
• available on all major computing platforms
• the source code for the software is freely available under a full OSI certified license
#7 Free Online LearningOpen Courseware
• 100 Free Courses
• Carnegie-Mellon University
Free!
Free Tutoring
Constructional Benefits
• http://www.instructables.com/ “Instructables is a step-by-step collaboration system that helps you record and share your projects with a mixture of images, text, ingredient lists, and more. We hope to make documentation simple and fast. Show your colleagues how to operate a machine, show your friends how to build a kayak, show the world how to make cool stuff”.
Free
Techtorials
# 6 e-Books
Using collaborative approaches in the design of learning The UAA e-Learning e-Book
Learning 2.0 e-Book (5mb, PDF)
Free!
#5 Coursecasting
•Panopto:
Podcasting– "Podcasting is a means of distributing audio
and video programs via the Internet that lets users subscribe to a number of files, also known as "feeds", and then hear or view the material at the time that they choose. A feed is usually in the MP3 audio format. "
• - Wikipedia
An Example: U of Mich http://www.apple.com/education/solutions/itunes_u/profiles/umich.html
#4 Constructing Podcasts
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
The Free, Cross-Platform Sound Editor
Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.
#3 Emerging Web 2.0 Technologies
• Community Social Software NING
• BLOGS, VBLOGS—Collaborative
RSS Feeds
• RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a Web standard used for syndicating frequently-updated content to readers. Only two things are required: a connection to the Internet and a small application called a news reader, which is usually free.
BLOGS
– "A weblog or blog is a web-based publication of periodic articles (posts), usually presented in reverse chronological order. It is an online journal with one or many contributors."
• - Wikipedia
Blog Creation
A Blog
(Free)
http://www.blogger.com/start
A local example of an educational Blog in action.
RSS Feeds Interface
# 2 Assistive Technologies e.g.Dasher
Dasher is text-entry interface, driven by natural continuous pointing gestures. Dasher is a competitive text-entry system wherever a full-size keyboard cannot be used.
• When operating a computer one-handed, by joystick, touchscreen, trackball, or mouse;
• When operating a computer with zero hands (i.e., by head-mouse or by eyetracker);
• on a palmtop computer; • on a wearable computer. • The eyetracking version of Dasher allows an
experienced user to write text as fast as normal handwriting - 29 words per minute; using a mouse, experienced users can write at 39 words per minute.
(Free)
Engaged learning is inspiring greater performance
in students, and VR is based around this model.
Constructing Virtual Field Trips & WEBQUESTSWebquests Exampleshttp://www.bestwebquests.com/Teacher Tap: http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic4.htm
Virtual Reality & Education
http://SecondLife.com
#1 Engaged Virtual Learning
Creating Virtual Content
• Rokura• Tokoroten
