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Presentation by N. Sivasothi at BuzzEd 2009
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Web 2.0 and "The Cloud" in the biology classroom
• N. Sivasothi
• delicious.com/sivasothi/buzzed2009
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Role of tools
• Engage/Enhance
• Excite/Explore
• ExpressRelated talk later...
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Basic tools
• HTML (90’s)
• Mailing lists (1998)Blogs (2003)
• platform independent, web-basedWeb2.0 (2005)Internet apps (2007)
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Painful...
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Painless!
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Bonus! - Summary of response
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Enhancing delivery
• Delicious.com (2003)
• Flickr.com (2004)
• Youtube.com (2005)
Not new...
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Delicious
Folksonomic bookmarking (2003)
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http://delicious.com/sivasothi/batangkali
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http://delicious.com/sivasothi/lsm3261
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http://delicious.com/sivasothi/echolocation
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Popular booksmarks for “echolocation”based on all delicious users
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Ben Underwood
• Lost eyes to cancer, aged 2
• Mother learns of his ability to perceive surroundings, aged 5; now aged 16
• Echolocates
• 2006 - People magazine, CBS news, “Extraordinary People” tv series, Youtube, Oprah, etc.
slate.com
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Human Echolocation
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Flickr
Folksonomic image platform (2004)
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Community resourcescan enhance education
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Camouflage inPeacock Flounders
Kelley Kuhlmanhttp://flickr.com/photos/paperglyphs/
2315279189/
Acknowledge contributor!
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José Eduardo Silvahttp://flickr.com/photos/
97968921@N00/1767585490/
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Alexander Yateshttp://flickr.com/photos/
alex_and_terhi/2178306820/
Henry & Tersiahttp://flickr.com/photos/
69919391@N00/2778741446/?
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Rodrigo Salahttp://flickr.com/photos/rodrigosala/2459314107/
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William Daltonhttp://flickr.com/photos/
bovinacowboy/469864374/
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Licensingwrite to contributor
or already granted (creative commons)
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Related talk later...
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Comment to encourage!An expressive audience member.
Directinteraction
cf. passive (tags)
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Searching(old skill)
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http://flickr.com/photos/tags/catsinsink
How to search?
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http://flickr.com/photos/tags/catinsink
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ddelph2http://flickr.com/photos/
62015716@N00/616741695/
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YouTube or Google Video
Folksonomic video platform (2005)
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Indo-Malayan mimic octopusThaumoctopus mimicus
http://marinebio.org/species.asp?id=260Norman MD, Finn J, Tregenza T (2001) Dynamic mimicry in an Indo-Malayan octopus. Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 268(1478):1755-1758.
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Enhancing expression
• Blogging
• Google Apps
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Blogging
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Push or pull?
• Read the blog or
• send the email?
• Or both (archive + push).
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Digression
Student rephrases question
Having thought out query, a
comprehensive answer is provided
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LSM1303 Animal Behaviour Student Blog
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Data sharing with Google Apps
LSM3251 Ecology
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Google Docs
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Group Data
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Online lamentation!
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Honours proposal
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Life skills, Old skills
Beyond the subject matter
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Role of tools
Engage, excite, expressActive citizen, science communication
http://delicious.com/sivasothi/buzzed2009
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Acknowledgements
• Kenneth Pinto, CIT, NUS, for the invitation and discussion of content.
• The community of contributors to online content on Flickr, YouTube, Wikipedia, etc who have helped to enhance teaching.
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