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Live your life. Create your destiny.
Using Blogs, Journals and Wikis – an introduction
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Maximizing Classroom Collaboration Using Web 2.0 Technology (Future Technology)
Specifically, using Blogs, Journals and Wikis
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Examples of Web 2.0 Technologies
Emphasize online collaboration & sharing among users
Wikipedia’s description of Web 2.0:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0
Wikis – Wikipedia, TikiWiki
Blogs – Blogger, WordPress
Social Bookmarking Sites – del.icio.us, BlinkList
Web-based applications – ThinkFree, BaseCamp
Google Docs and Spreadsheets
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Session objectives
By completing this session, you will be able to:
• Describe benefits & obstacles to collaboration. Whether among students, among faculty, or between students & faculty.
• Identify online tools that support collaborative work. Particularly collaborative work on a shared document.
• List examples of specific uses to support collaborative teaching & learning. Identify examples from your classes or work where a collaborative environment such as this is useful.
• Determine how to evaluate whether or not to use Blogs, Journals and Wikis for certain educational situations. Dependent on your instructional goals or context and characteristics of students or lecturers, etc…
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Definition
Collaboration - the act of collaborating. Working together for a common end.
Latin roots: “to labour together.”
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What do we collaborate on?
ManuscriptsGrant proposalsPresentationsClassesGroup projectsPapersOther things
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How do we collaborate?
In the past, more slowly & at more expense:
Postal mail documents
Telephone calls
21st century collaborators often use:
Emailed documents
Skype or other VoiP service
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Now you!What are some strategies that you’ve used
Collaborate with Colleagues & Other Professionals
Collaborate with Students
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Now you!Rate how well your collaboration strategies have worked (overall or specifically)
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Why don’t our standard collaboration strategies work well?
Multiple people
Multiple versions of material
Retaining material
Limited access to most current material
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What students want in collaborative projects…
Anytime access to the most current version
Ability to use programs they already know
Ability to retain all versions, in case of the need to add material back in
Automatic saving, just in case they forget that important step
Ability for faculty to identify contributions of the various group members
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Now you!What collaborative activities do you use in classes?
Papers?
Presentations?
Other things? (describe)
Consider how well these collaborative activities work – for you as lecturer in your faculty
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Programs facilitating collaboration
Skype (or others) – computer to computer callsFolderShare – file sharingStickam – synchronous videoTalkAndWrite – synchronous document interactionTikiwiki (or others) – collaborative creation of materialsGoogle Docs & Spreadsheets – centralized storage of documents for editing by multiple personsBlogger (or others)– web logJournal – reflective writingToonti (or others) – personal network
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Now you!Have you used Google Doc, Wikis, Blogs & Journals?
Yes NoI love it! I had
some issues with it.
I’ve heard of it, but didn’t think it would be useful.
This is the 1st time I’m exploring it.
With colleagues
With students