Choosing Technologies That Work

Introduction

Activity: What is WetPaint?

1. send an email to "stephanie.t.l.chu@gmail.com" to gain access to this site and today's activities.

2. Everyone will shortly receive an email invitation3. Follow the link and complete the registration

information4. You don’t have to be honest with this info, but

you do have to be older than 185. Enter:

Our Objectives

• To demonstrate alternatives to conventional/ institutional online tools

• To discuss how your teaching objectives can be supported by online tools

• To add tools to your toolkit for future teaching and learning

• We are not here to ‘sell’ or promote and specific service

The Personal Web

“Springing from the desire to reorganize online content rather than simply viewing it, the personal web is part of a trend that has been fueled by tools to aggregate the flow of content in customizable ways and expanded by an increasing collection of widgets that manage online content. The term personal web was coined to represent a collection of technologies that are used to configure and manage the ways in which one views and uses the Internet. Using a growing set of free and simple tools and applications, it is easy to create a customized, personal web-based environment — a personal web — that explicitly supports one’s social, professional, learning, and other activities.”

Horizon Report 2009

Discussion: Implications of technology in the classroom

• Why use alternatives to what my institution provides?

Discussion: Implications of technology in the classroom

• Why use alternatives to what my institution provides?

• Flexibility• Customizability• Identity• Community

Getting started

Choose you learning goals

What will you need to do

What you need to know

Web Literacy

• BUZZzzzzz

Web 2.0Social Media Personal Web

Web Literacy

The Browser your workbench.(bad metaphors

abound)

Web Literacy

RSSReally Simple Syndication

FeedsAggregatorsReaders

A river of information

Web Literacy

Tagging

A shared way to order the web.

Web Literacy

WYSIWIG.

What You See Is What You Get.

Means never having to learn HTML

Student Engagement

Protecting students privacy must come first.

You should be familiar with the FOIPOP regulations and how the related policies at your school.

Online Courses

Can take many forms…

HTML webpage‘Start page’Blog, wiki or other light publishing tool.

Activity: Contribute content

Now we are a bit familiar with wetpaint, we can add our first content, and share a little bit about ourselves.

Links? Websites? Existing online projects?Hobbies? Etc.