HEA: Overview EduWeb 2'0

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HEA Overview EduWeb 2.0

• Dawn Carmichael
• University of Abertay Dundee

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Why Social Networking?

• Web 2.0 gt 2nd generation
• Social Networking user constructed content and
  communication
• Digital Egalitarianism or Digital Maoism?
• Key ideas for education mass participation and
  collaboration

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Educational Rationale

• Social constructivism
• Educational challenge
• No tracks in the sand
• Possibilities of Social Networking
• Persistent body of student work
• Educational challenge
• Intellectual cubby holes
• Possibilities of Social Networking
• Transparent forms of communication

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Blogs

• Educational applications include
• Un-moderated content from the blogsphere
• Content management System
• Educational examples include
• Tutor based research blog Sussex University
• Student generated content social presence
• Questions include
• The importance of the journal metaphor
• Effectiveness in comparison to wikis

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Social Networks

• Educational applications include
• Developing social presence
• Educational examples include
• Institution based personal web pages
• Facebook, Univillage
• Links to e-portfolios
• Questions include
• The need for this type of social presence based
  communication in an email rich environment

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Wikis

• Educational applications include
• Partially moderated content
• Collaborative content management system
• Educational examples include
• Assignments regarding contributions to wikipedia
  University of East Anglia
• Survey Universities favourable
• Enterprise wikis - confluence
• Questions include
• In comparison to blogs
• The role of anonymity vs social presence
• Usability issues
• Enhance collaboration as opposed to simply
  providing an audit trail.

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Folksonomies

• Folk tagging
• Examples include
• Flickr
• Google Notebook?
• Educational applications include
• As a general approach it may facilitate deeper
  understand about content.
• Questions include
• The usefulness of a specialist tool.

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Collaborative Editing

• Examples include
• Google Docs and Spreadsheets
• MobEdit
• Educational applications include
• Groupwork shared document
• Questions include
• The usefulness of a collaborative editing tool as
  opposed to a single document using versioning.
• In comparison to wikis

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Virtual Worlds

• Examples include
• Second Life(SL)
• Metaplace
• Educational applications include
• Edinburgh Uni - AI lab
• Open University - Schome
• Dartmouth College emergency training
• Questions include
• Nature of VWW as social networking tools

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Digital Media

• Examples include
• Podcasts, vodcasts
• YouTube
• Educational applications include
• Content provision
• Student content construction
• Acculturation to digital media
• Questions include
• Substitution of live material by recorded
  material

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Social VLEs

• Examples include
• Elgg
• Google Groups
• Educational applications include
• Extending and/or replacing VLEs
• Questions include
• Comparison to traditional VLEs

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Any comments?

• Dawn Carmichael
• d.carmichael_at_abertay.ac.uk