Collaborative-Learning_and_Social-Networking

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

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

Other aspects:

• evaluation
• capstone projects - semester-long, or program-long projects
  
• accreditation
• facilitate development of portfolios (digital files)
  

Ken Ronkowitz on Using Student Blogs As Reflective Practice

http://www.slideshare.net/ronko4

E-portfolios

Concepts of writings (audience, voice)

Publishing

Copyright and plagiarism

Authentic writing

Writing in a digital age

Getting Started

Create a "nom de plume" e-mail account
https://login.yahoo.com/config/mail?.intl=us

Blogger/Blogspot
http://www.blogger.com/

WordPress
http://en.wordpress.com/signup/

CTLT Dialogues
http://ctlt.wordpress.com/

Blogging Across the Curriculum

Technorati: 203 blogs about pedagogy
http://technorati.com/blogs/tag/pedagogy

Barbara Ganley
http://bgblogging.com/

Lucy Appert's "Teaching with Blogs"
http://blogs.nyu.edu/blogs/lga2/teachingwithblogs/

• Working with Texts: The Annotated Article Assignment

Stacy Baker's "Extreme Biology"
http://extremebiology.ning.com/

Anne Davis's "The Write Weblog"
http://itc.blogs.com/thewriteweblog/

"Wandering Ink"
http://wanderingink.wordpress.com/

"The Edge of the American West"
http://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/

"Strange Maps"
http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/

"Language Log"
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/

"Critical Pedagogy Blogs" (Freire)
http://freire.mcgill.ca/content/critical-pedagogy-blogs