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Links from my AECT seminar: Web2.0 to support teaching and learning

8th November 2008, 10:27 am

Thanks to all who participate in this seminar! I hope it was helpful.

Some great ideas and links were shared today as we discussed the components that make up Web2.0. Here are the presentation slides. Also, here is a link to my class website (wiki) for preservice elementary school teachers: http://lab-inst.usu.edu/groups/inst4010/. Another great place to learn more about Web2.0 in learning is David Wiley’s Blogs, Wikis, and New Media for Learning OpenCourseWare course.

And here are links to some of the most interesting sites that were shared:

http://chinswing.com/ (A versatile audio sharing site — love it!)

http://livemocha.com (A social language learning site — where was this when I was a French teacher?!)

http://zamzar.com/ (Online file conversion tool — very cool)

http://www.edu20.org/ (An interesting Learning Management System, or LMS)

http://www.toondoo.com/ (Reminds me of ComicLife on the mac)

http://edublogs.org (A blogging platform just for educators. Sue Watter’s blog is particularly good)

http://teachertube.com (Similar to YouTube, but focused on education)

http://merlot.org (A peer reviewed learning content repository)

An example of embedding/reusing content:

We also talked a bit about OpenCourseWare. Here are a few examples, and links to learn more:

http://ocw.mit.edu (MIT’s OCW)

http://ocw.nd.edu (Notre Dame’s OCW)

http://ocw.usu.edu (Utah State’s OCW)

Start an OCW Interested in starting an OpenCourseWare at your institution? Start Here!

eduCommons A Free OpenCourseWare Management System

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10 Comments

  1. Diane:

    Thanks for the workshop and information!

    8 November 2008, 10:28 am

  2. Jyoti:

    hi!

    The workshop was informative to me…learnt a couple of new things..actually many things..one question iam looking for some images for my talk, generally look at the images at google, but then how do i ensure that the copyright is ensured….?

    10 November 2008, 8:50 pm

  3. Tom:

    A great place to search for images (and other things) that are openly licensed is from the creativecommons.org site. I believe the direct link is http://search.creativecommons.org/#. From there you can select Google or Flickr or Yahoo for images to use.

    10 November 2008, 9:13 pm

  4. Jyoti:

    Thanks….

    11 November 2008, 12:27 pm

  5. Jyoti:

    hi!

    what does it mean to subsribe a feed..did read the notes but was able to understand…
    jyo

    11 November 2008, 6:59 pm

  6. Tom:

    Subscribing to a feed just means you add a site to your personal list of websites you are watching using Google Reader, Bloglines, etc. There is a good explanation of RSS here: http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english. The ideas is that if you are subscribed to several feeds, you don’t have to visit those sites individually to know if new content has been added. All new items will be listed in your Google Reader. Hope that helps.

    11 November 2008, 7:19 pm

  7. Jyoti:

    The video was great!!!, also could download photos legimately for my talk….

    thank u so much…have a nice day.

    12 November 2008, 6:38 am

  8. Jyoti:

    hi!

    I have been looking for videos that demonstrate online communicatin skills, did scan through the creative commons, but did not find any relevant. can you suggest?

    9 December 2008, 3:13 pm

  9. Tom:

    There are lots of videos on online communication skills, so it depends on what you are looking for. Here is one on social networking: http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=b8f6786609d31c8ef129 and here is another on cyber-security (online safety for kids): http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=fa98e23149cf8e1bee57

    9 December 2008, 5:31 pm

  10. Jyoti:

    hi!
    thanks once againg for the inputs,actually looking something for teachers who are being introduced to networked learning environment.I am in the process of developing a in-service training package for Indian teachers who are at present in the face-to-face pattern and the package would orient them towards online teaching. Just thought if the initial inputs are video rather than text medium, it would help them get a feel of this learning environment.

    11 December 2008, 10:26 am

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