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Title: Blogtastic Smashey
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Blogtastic Smashey
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iPod therefore I am
- The internet has undergone a revolution in the
last 3 years - The revolution won't be televised it will be
podast
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The fence has fallen
- Computers no longer seen as just a tool
- Key part of social life and entertainment
- They are objects of style from palm to desktop
- The computer has more the status of TV now
- TV - the greatest learning medium?
- --- and now joined by GOOGLE
- Mobiles
- PDAs
- Tablets
- Home entertainment
- iPods
- Internet Radio
- Streamed TV
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Changes in education
- Learning in a variety of contexts
- In educational establishments
- In the home
- In the workplace
- On the move
- ePortfolios
- Computers increasingly bridging these contexts
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Changes in learning
- learning through trying action
- Group discovery and sharing
- Informal Learning
- Today's students use their computers to access,
grab, create and remix materials - Saatchi - Continual Partial Attention
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The VLE model
- Tutor control
- Ring-fenced to an institution
- Lacking a social context
- Cool, funky and gorgeus
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The revolution has already happened
- Web 2.0
- Social technologies
- Blogs, wikis
- I Blog therefore I am
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What are social technologies?
- Consumers become contributers
- Easy access
- Easy contribution
- Easy sharing
- Easy collaboation
- Constantly changing
- Shaped by the community
- Sharing data tags
- The beards sandals brigade has been defeated!
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Examples
- Elgg - http//elgg.net
- studentcentral blog - http//interact.bton.ac.uk/b
log - Flickr - http//www.flickr.com/
- Del.icio.us - http//del.icio.us/
- Digg - http//www.digg.com/
- wikipedia
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What's different and how do they change things?
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Personal Learning Environment - le phrase de jour
- Individuals organising and shaping their own
learning - Set of tools for accessing, creating and
contributing to infomation learning - Tools interconnected to allow sharing and
repurposing of information - Bridge institutional boundaries
- http//www.bolton.ac.uk/staff/mwj1/PLE/pmwiki.php?
nMain.Report
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So what are we doing about it?
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So what are we doing about it?
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What does this mean?
- Community_at_brighton - integrated with
studentcentral - Blogs for everyone
- Communities - collaborative learning
- Finding like minds and interests
- Making friends
- Files and feeds
- Social areas on SC
- Think of a room
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Student-centred- Everyone can contribute- A
place for everyone
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Scary stuff
- Librarian's Nightmare
- Cataloguing speech
- Could fall flat on its face
- Information overload
- Information jungle
- No moderation
- Moving outside tutor control
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The challenge
- Making it work - depends as much on social
interaction culture as it does on technology - May take some time - staff students may not be
ready for it - Staff development
- Not leaving people behind
- Managing the learning/information PLE environment
- Who controls the learning materials?
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Towards a Shared Learning Environment?
- A place to share learning?
- Self-evolving communities of interest?
- Cross-course activities?
- Bringing in the experts
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