Forest Street: October 2009

Things to do with social network platforms:

Orientation and Integration

Faculty-written Intros and Overviews
Identify Topics and Themes

Activate prior knowledge
Preview ideas that will come up

(Advance organizers)

Presentation

Lecture Notes
Slide Presentations
Audio/Video Recordings

Additional Material

Supplemental
Remedial

Application

Reactions to Prompts

(Images, Video clips, Short essays/posts)

Journaling
Critical Readings
Annotations
Glossary Writing
Short Biographies
Timelines
Genealogies, Family Trees
Interviewing
Placing in Context

Discussion

Playing "Tag" (with Lists)
Student-written Summaries - Peer review

Student-written SWOT (Strength-Weakness-Opportunity-Threat)

Crowd-sourcing
Indexing (Categories, Tags)
Reputation Management

Center for Teaching and Learning with Technology

Collaborative Learning and Social Networking

Fall 2010

Paul Younghouse

Wylie Haggerty

Talk over the agenda

Resources:

Webcampus

Discussion boards -asynchronous, branching

Chat/Virtual Classroom - synchronous, Java-based

Groups - mix of tools/resources

Weblogs - blogs

Group

CTLT Dialogues - CTLT Blog

Individual

Forest Street - Forest_Street at Blogspot

Wikis

FDU Quality Assurance

Wikispaces - Wiki

Wikidot - Zombie Economics

Google Resources - do you know what your students have access to?

Google Docs

Can upload and share MS Office documents

Word docs, Excel files, Powerpoint presentations

Google Sites

under "more" menu, toolbar at top of screen

Example: Wikkicorp

Twitter

Personal

Professional

Facebook

Personal

Professional

Evaluation:

Rubrics, Checklists, Scales

Sidebar: Life in Perpetual Beta - Financing an independent documentary via Twitter

Notes from _Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts_

Will Richardson's "Pedagogy of Blogs"
p. 26-28

Weblogs are truly a constructivist tool for learning.
Weblogs truly expand the walls of the classroom.
Weblogs archive the learning students and teachers do, facilitating reflection.
As a democratic tool, Weblogs support different learning styles.
Use of Weblogs can facilitate the development of expertise in a particular subject.
Weblogs can teach new literacies that students may need in the coming information society.

Other aspects: