Podcasts, Wikis and Blogs: Not in Kansas Anymore

Hi, here are some of our "finds" at E-Learn! Janelle and I are in this class this afternoon. Dr. Curtis J. Bonk from Indiana University--http://mypage.iu.edu~cjbonk
is the presenter.

New Term (to me) Cybrarians--cyber librarians

Incentives for students:

Web 2.0 Technology= Podcasts, Wiki's in Blogs needs to be integrated in courseware.
Free I Pods or Blackberries when you walk onto campu--freshmen class give aways.
Net Gen--always wired, online, multi tasking, doing something
Blackberries, I Pods, use in innovative ways for higher order thinking skills.

Technology is an incentive--extrinsic motivator.

Chronicle of Higher Ed--Old schoold technology--like e-mails. Students don't check e-mails now--IM software.

Young and Wired--Foreign language practice lessons online--podcasts.
Ball State--Most Wireless Campus--more likely to attract students to come in.

Checking lecture notes online.

TEchnology is core of being students in the world today.

Five hottest things in the US on Campus Today
1. I Pods
Beer
Facebook.com account
Drinking other alcohol
Text messaging friends



Learning and Working in Clubs and Pubs

Enhance relationships—social habit—social networking—June 5, 2006
Couple Surfing—Yahoo News June 3, 2006

Nature and Nurture: An Interactional Model

Technology—Pedagogy—People, Society and Culture

Human Processing System enhanced by multimedia (Gagne and Dricscoll, 1988, Essentials of learning for instruction p. 13)

The more nodes we have—cognitive structures in the mind, the more able were are to retrieve that information.

Richard Mayer—Learning and Instruction, 13, 2003-125-139.

Words, picture, animation, narration, eyes, ears, words—multimedia components and how they interact:
• Multimedia Effect—learn more deeply from pictures andwords thanwords alone.
• Coherence Effect—learn more deeply wh
• Spatial Contiguity effect—learn more deeply when
• Personalization Effect—conversation styles are better than stuffy boring formal styles


Animation Research:
Rieber (1990)
Hannafin & Peck, 1988

Generational Impact—Differences between Boomers and Gen Xers

Silent Genearation—

Neo millenials (born after 2000)
Diana Oblinger: Boomers Gen-Xers Millenials
Teaching and Learning Online by Terry Anderson

Sept 22nd 2006 Chronicle of Higher Ed—Students spend 27.5% on technology

U-Learning in Palm of Hand—PMP—Personal Multimedia players—all videos free from Korean version of PBS

Digital Universe—high level video content—more rigorous than Wikipedis—is set to compete with Wikipedia.

Students starting to eschew laptops for handhelds.

January 13, 2005 Education with Student News sponsored by Dell—Students in South Dakota report liking online learning better.

Interactivity—Students won’t stay in course unless they experience interactivity.

Learner-Instructor
Learner-Learner
Learner-Content
Learner-Self

Moore, M.G. (1989( Editorial: Three types of interaction American Journal of Distance Education, 2 (2), 1-7,

Learning through the Backdoor—highly recommend--$1 on Amazon—old publication—but great theory

Moore is Charles Wiedermeyer’s mentor

Moore—Handbook of Distance Education

Matrix of Web Interactions (Cummings, Bonk, & Jacobs (2002, Internet in Higher Ed)

Moving to an age where technology is about sharing what we do—first we enhanced, then we extended, transformed what we do, and now, share what we do—4th Generation of Technology

It’s an environment—an ecological model of learning!



Behaviorist Interactivity—not what we are doing here.

Designing Interaction—Target what is developmentally appropriate.

What is the Interaction Rationale (Ellen Wagner, April, 2004)

Interaction is the most debated construct in the world of technology mediated learning design and development.

In these settings interaction is the defining attribute of the quality and value.
Interactivity is the most expensive component of a technology mediated learning design.

InternetNews.com Sept 5, 2006 A Flashy Way to Captivate? Erin Joyce

Simulation: Xer
• Multi-taskers
• Short Attention Spans
• Tell me what I need to know
• Options

New Millenial Learning Styles—Chris Dede, Educause 2005

Campusmoviefest.com showcases the collab work of thousands of student filmmakers from around the world.

Digital Storytelling

Judith Boettcher—Campus Technology, June 2006—How P2P Will Change Collaborative Learning

P2P = Peer to Peer Technologies

Prepackaged Authoritative Content—Publisher
Guided Learning Materials—Developed by Professor
Spontaneous Performance Content—More student controlled.

Neomillenial Learning Styles

• Blended/personalized places (not specialize computer labs)
• Mobile wireless computing
• Avatars and personal agents
• Smart objects
• Virtual worlds
• Augmented Reality

We no longer learn apart from one another.

Trend #1: Blogging (75.000 new blogs each day, USA To
Stephen Downe’s Blog—most day, March 27, 2006)

35 million blogs out there.

Blogging #1 word that had to be defined my Merriam’s
Last Year—Podcasting

Famous Blogs:
Stephen Downes
Will Richardson

Looking for a particular blog:
Technorati to find blogs
Google blog search to find blogs.

China says number of blogs tops 34 million with 55 million regular readers.

Weblogs are hugely popular in China—not government controlled

Stephen Downes defines blogs in 2004. . . .Blogs are, in their purest form, the core of what has come to be called personal publishing. (p. 18)

Linda Evarts (Surprise weddings)--Surprise wedding of the informational journaling and.

Brandon Hall, . .dated entries on a given topic or scheme. They can include search feedback. . .

How to Create a Blog

Make list of 3-5 usernames you like (see handout)

Education Use of Blogs

Sample Uses of Weblogs

1. Instructor or Tutor blog: resources, information, space to chat.
2. Learner blog: reflections, sharing links and pics, fosters ownership of learning.
3. Partner blog: work on team projects or activities
4. Class blog: international exchanges, projects, PBL
5. Revision: review and explode sentences from precious posts, add details
6. Nutshell: summarize themes or comments across blogs
7. Blog on blog: reflections on feelings confusions, and experiences with blogs

Blogger Software:

Korea: Cyworld

New Pew Survey Defines Today’s Blogs (Jimmy Moore, July 22, 2006)

List includes 10 different topics for blogs—education not even on the list.

Most bloggers are young—(18-30)
Most bloggers have never published their writings before.
Most bloggers remain anonymous. . .

Blogger Software:

Korea: Cyworld

New Pew Survey Defines Today’s Blogs (Jimmy Moore, July 22, 2006)

List includes 10 different topics for blogs—education not even on the list.

Most bloggers are young—(18-30)
Most bloggers have never published their writings before.
Most bloggers remain anonymous. . .


Adventure Blogging (Ben Saunders/Mark Fennell) Explorer websites—fascinating chronicles of what is going on in the world.

Mark Fennell—first person to go under the North Pole solo and film himself
Ben Saunders—1200 mile journey across the Artic Sea—solo
Explorers Web
The Pioneer Check Point

Weather Reports
Expeditions in Africa
Adventures that happen all around the world

Oceans.net
MountEverest.net
Polar Quest Ambassadors

Now have marathons on the North Pole.
First blind person to run at the North Pole—5 hrs and xx minutes

You can now register for the North Pole marathon.
Antarctic Marathon—

Business Blogs—wrapped around their products: USA Today article


Jimmy Wales--Started Wikipedia

16th most used site in the world.

Power of wikipedias is hyperlinked.
All the variations of wikipedia—Wikimania
Makes money through donations—people contribute to PayPal.

Digital Universe—content peer reviewed—free videos

InfoWorld—Wikipedia

A wiki is a collection of web pages that can be easily viewed and modified by anyone, providing a means for sharing, learning and collaboration.

Wikis can be used to create content on the fly, as a repository for information about their roles, discuss project processes, and share knowledge and insights.

Wikis are free, online writing spaces.
Wikis use simple formatiing rules, so no HTML understanding required.
Highly collaborative. .

Teachers New to Wikis

Wikis are a writing space
Writer build upon, edit, and revise
Power and authority reside in the community not in an individual
Permissions can be set to limit readers and writers who participate

How to use in Teaching

Provide space for free writing
Debate course topics and readings
Share resources
Maintain group progress journal
Require group or class essay
Have sudent revise Wikipedia pages
Write a wikibook

Wikipedia
Wikibooks
Wiktionary
Wikiversity
Wikispecies
Wikiquote
Wikinews

Wiki different from blogs in that it is changeable text.

WIKI means—What I Know Is

Wikiwiki in Hawaiian means Quick
Wiki was going to be called the Quick Web—instead

Wiki Farm—refers to a server or a collection of servers that provides wiki hosting, or a group of wikis hosted on such servers

http://www.seedwiki.com
http://wwpbwiki.com
http://www.jot.com

Edutopia—GLEF George Lucas Education Foundation
Toss the Traditional Textbook—Open Source Education Resources Can Replace Stale Old Volumes

Wiki Books—has a web site with new wikibooks
Blended Learning in K-12—free book at Wiki books.
Over a 1000 free books at Wiki books—Over 12,000 modules or chapters.

Book 2.0—professors in the US putting book on the Internet before they publish.

Wikibookians are under the age of 25 and the majority of them are males.

Over half have less than a 2 or 4 year college degree.

They write to make a contribution and share knowledge, personal growth and publish work.

MIT—will have a center for collective intelligence (WIKI)

Thomas Malone (looks at motivation online) Google and Wikipedia are technologies we can model after


Podcasting—Online Radio Show
Adam Curry—the most well known podcaster out there—Revolutionary

Adam’s office—in Guilford, England.
www.dailysourcecode.com

Professor who put up their lecture notes online—

Kids are putting up podcasts
Coulle Kids Podcast—put up local and national news.

Teachers TV News Podcast


Educational applications
1. Recordings of lectures
2. Supplemental text book or entire book
3. Student projects
4. Interviews
5. Langauge lessons
6. Oral reports
7. K-12 classroom interaction
8. Downloadable library


Vodcasting

Provide a way to distri ute an audio ro video episode via the Internet at any time.
Comview.com let’s you call in lectures and then they are broadcast on your vodcast

Podcasts Guides


Willow Webs
Podcasts.net
Kidsclubnews.com

Podcasts in Business—Dual Coding
Watch, Listen Read


Unique, online, object-based content delivery
Fingertip knowledge in business

Purdue—has all their lectures put up on Boilercast.
Language Learning—ChinesePod—learn Mandarin

Teachers in Your Pocket—Your I Pod—Learn Mandarin with your Chinese Pod---

ESL online—podcasts—lessons are free but the exercises are not.