The Living Classroom: Using Web 2'0 Technologies for Student Driven Collaboration

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The Living Classroom Using Web 2.0 Technologies
for Student Driven Collaboration

• Robert D. Cormia
• Timothy Woods
• Foothill College

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Learning as aSocial Process

• Learning is a social process it is in our
  biology its actually in our DNA!
• Anthropology
• Sociology
• Psychology
• Networks

Humans are a learning animal not just our
capacity to learn our desire to learn
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Social Learning is the Tail of the Learning
Process
Posted by John in social learning Kevin Jones
(from the Cascadia blog , but not this time) has
presented at the ASTD TechKnowledge Conference in
San Antonio this week and shows the role of
Social Learning as the tail of the learning
process. http//frontlinelearning.edublogs.org/tag
/cascadia/
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Workplace Learning
http//professional-learning.eu/
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Complex Learning Communities

• Society
• Communities
• Organizations
• Disciplines
• Classrooms
• Workplace

Learning as a social process or society as a
learning community?
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What is Web 2.0?

• Eras of the Web
• Techno-interactions
• People
• Information
• Applications
• Collaboration
• Read / write Web
• Annotating information

http//www.bit-tech.net/modding/2004/12/20/hypercu
be_part_1/1
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Strategies and Tips for Un-Course Management

• Teams
• Contact
• Goals
• Support
• Participate
• Reflection
• Archiving

Unconference - discussion based learning
facilitation is critical!
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FOUR THREADS OF THOUGHT

• Social Learning in a knowledge economy
• The Role of Web 2.0 Tools
• New Innovations in Web 2.0
• Integrating Web 2.0 within a Learning Organization

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New Technology Means New Learning (or should it
be New Ways of Learning?)
http//newlearning.wikispaces.com/
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What is Social Constructivist Learning?

• Actively engaging students in the learning
  process rather than allowing them to be passive
  recipients of content.
• Experts proposed that interaction, participation,
  and social learning experiences might be key
  factors that promote connection and less
  isolation.
• http//activeinstruction.com/custom3.html

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What is Social Constructivist Learning?
http//activeinstruction.com/
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Social Computing

• Social computing is a general term for an area of
  computer science that is concerned with the
  intersection of social behavior and computational
  systems. It is used in two ways.
• Technology mediated social transactions
• Augmented social cognition (PARC)
• Think, reason, and remember (Wisdom of Crowds)

http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_computing
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Eras of the Web

• Content Web (1995-2005)
• HTML for browsers
• Process Web (2000-2010)
• XML for machines
• Semantic Web (2005-2015)
• RDF for humans / machines
• The Metaweb (2010-2025)
• Networked machines / applications

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sAWebOS.jpg
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g/metaweb_graph.jpg
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Web 2.0 Technology
Fostering a world of emergent collaboration and
augmented social cognition
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What is Web 2.0?

• Web 2.0 is made of people
• It is both human and emergent
• Augmented social cognition
• A lot like pre-web AOL and BBS
• More powerful, and generational
• Web 2.0 tools? social process

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Made of People

• People are the secret to Web 2.0
• Bottom up swarming of content
• Power mass knowledge consensus?
• Building activities, collective wisdom
• Emergent nodes / human network

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The Read-Write Web

• People interacting with information
• Information isnt as static, and a dynamic flow
  / process begins
• Comments and tags add metadata and context, and
  are a springboard for human interaction

manikandakumar.blogspot.com
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What are Social Networks?

• Sociograms
• Process
• Modeling and analysis
• Roles
• Applications
• Pivot browsing
• Networks

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Social Graph Concepts and Issues

• In his post, Ben Fitzpatrick defines "social
  graph" as "the global mapping of everybody and
  how they're related".

http//www.readwriteweb.com/archives/social_graph_
concepts_and_issues.php
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Social Graphs
LinkedIn will help you organize and explore your
extended networks Allows you to extend your
network by pivot browsing across contacts
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Navigating Social Graphs

• Visualization
• Navigation
• Pivot browsing
• People
• Associations
• Interactions
• Data
• Applications

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Pivot Browsing
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Topic Concept Map
http//cs-alb-pc3.massey.ac.nz/notes/59102/mindmap
.gif
http//www.topicscape.com/concept-mapping.html
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Review of Web 2.0 Tools

• Blogs
• Wikis
• Forums
• FAQs
• OERs
• Twitter
• G-snap
• YouTube

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Blogs

• Personal and group publishing
• You publish readers comment
• Basis of citizen journalism
• Early and informal reporting
• Bottom up vs. top down
• Easy Web publishing / templates
• Blogger.com
• WordPress.org

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RSS

• Really Simple Syndication
• Publishing news and content alerts
• CNN news alerts
• Snippet publishing
• News, alerts, lists
• iTunes top 10 list
• Addendum to blogging
• Notification of new posts

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Wikis

• MediaWiki
• Wikipedia
• Wikibooks
• Wikiversity
• WikiProject

http//www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
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Wikipatterns

• Optimizing
• Adoption
• Productivity
• Collaboration
• Interactions
• Flows
• Conflict
• Management
• Goals
• Outcomes

http//www.wikipatterns.com/display/wikipatterns/W
ikipatterns
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Forums and FAQs

• QA
• Dialog
• Debate
• Discussions
• Collaboration
• Solving problems
• Current problems
• Learning / sharing

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User Built FAQs

• WikiAnswers
• Yahoo! Answers
• Slashdot
• WebMD

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Tagging

• Digg
• Collective site ranking
• Del.icio.us
• Adding tags
• Tag clouds
• Collection of tags on a site
• StumbleUpon
• Site discovery by user type

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Tag Clouds
A tag cloud is a set of related tags with
corresponding weights. Typical tag clouds have
between 30 and 150 tags. The weights are
represented using font sizes or other visual
clues. Meanwhile, histograms or pie charts are
most commonly used to represent approximately a
dozen different weights. Hence, tag clouds can
represent many more weights, though less
accurately so. Also, frequently, tag clouds are
interactive tags are hyperlinks typically
allowing the user to drill down on the data.
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_cloud
http//careo.elearning.ubc.ca/blamb/FolksonomyCas
t.mov
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Social Media Meets Social Learning
Image from http//www.biojobblog.com/
Trademarks property of respective owners
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Social Media Properties

• YouTube
• MySpace
• Facebook
• Wikipedia
• LinkedIn
• Del.ico.us
• StumbleUpon
• Second Life

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Twitter

• SMS
• IM cast
• 140 characters
• Tweets
• Follow people
• Searchable

Twitter is a service for friends, family, and
coworkers to communicate and stay connected
through the exchange of quick, frequent answers
to one simple question What are you doing?
http//www.twitter.com/
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g-snap!

• SMS plus content
• Archives to stories
• Collaboration
• Event casting
• Informal learning
• Unstructured events
• Data can be searched

http//www.gsnap.com/
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Facebook Twitter
http//www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id28
901872314
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Second Life

• Social interactions
• Avatar personas
• Obscure physique?
• Richer interactions?
• Role exploration?
• Collaboration
• Classes / meetings

http//www.secondlife.com/
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Collaboration Tools

• Google Docs
• TeamViewer
• CCC Confer
• MediaWiki
• TelePresence
• WebEx
• Microsoft Roundtable

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Learning as a Social Process

• New social process
• Inclusion
• Collaboration
• Global reach
• Moving the needle
• Gap analysis
• Connected media
• Tagging

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Social Computing and knowledge building

• Social networks
• RSS
• Open source software
• Search engines
• Portals
• P2P
• C2C
• Podcasts
• Wikis
• Tagging

http//www.forrester.com/
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Web 2.0 meets Web 3.0

• Human tagging
• Machine readable
• Knowledge constructs
• Assertions
• Connections
• Knowledge arcs
• Hyper documents
• Navigable paths

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Semantic Wiki Project

• WikiProteins
• Google Knol
• Semantic Web
• One Notebook
• One Textbook

http//meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki
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Semantic Wiki Ontology

• Entity relationships
• Assertions
• Nodes
• Arcs
• Edges
• Attributes
• Associations
• Namespaces
• Inheritance
• Navigation

http//www.mikeaxelrod.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2
008/10/iswc-ontology-web.png
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Hyper-document Tagging
http//www.textensor.com/enhancing-documents-2007.
html
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Bioinformatics / Genomics
What do our genes work?
What do new discoveries mean? Where does new
knowledge fit?
How do proteins, genes, environment interact?
http//proteins.wikiprofessional.org/
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Knowledge Work Evolves

• Impersonal knowledge is those ideas and pieces of
  information made explicit in documents and files
  (sometimes email).
• Personal knowledge is the tacit learning locked
  inside our heads (not written down).
• Interpersonal knowledge is implicit between and
  among individuals and embedded in conversations
  and connections (esp. email).

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Engineering Learning Communities

• New tools / techniques
• Serving the long-tail
• High performance work groups
• Collaborative learning

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Collaboration / Learning

• Synchronous
• Asynchronous
• Exchanging formal and informal learning
• Process / flow
• Social patterns

http//resolutionarythinking.com/
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Informal Learning Communities

• New social process
• Topic centric
• Un-conferences
• Un-classrooms

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Web 2.0 Learning Portals

• Science blogs
• Open access science (PLOS)
• Wikibooks
• Wikiversity
• iTunesU

http//engineering.curiouscatblog.net/
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Open Access Learning

• Science
• Directory of Open Access Science
• PLOS - Public Library of Science
• PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of
  Science
• GIS
• Google earth
• Google space
• Google ocean

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Learning Organizations

• Education
• Social disciplines
• Science
• Society
• CSR efforts
• The Social Enterprise

http//www.hbs.edu/socialenterprise/
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Tribes Learning to Action

• Social networking Social computing
• Turn social learning into social process
• Process into action
• Action into results
• Engineering change

http//sethgodin.typepad.com/
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Augmented Social Cognition

• PARC
• How groups
• Remember
• Think
• Reason

http//asc-parc.blogspot.com/
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Summary

• Learning is a social process
• Web 2.0 tools strengthen social transactions and
  collaboration
• Informal and workplace learning is significant in
  a knowledge economy
• Adult learners and knowledge workers need tools
  for learning

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Business Meets Learning

• Facebook
• Twitter
• YouTube
• LinkedIn
• InnoCentive
• Wikiversity
• Café classes

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References

• PARC http//www.parc.com/
• Google http//www.google.com/
• W3C http//www.w3c.org/
• MediaWiki http//www.mediawiki.org/
• WikiProject http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semanti
  c_wiki/
• Open Educational Resources http//www.oercommons
  .org/
• http//www.slideshare.net/rdcormia