Education Wants To Be Free

Education Wants to Be Free

Dave CookseyMike Zarro

Mayor’s Council on Literacy 2009 Technology ConferencePhiladelphia Community College

May 8, 2009

Session Goals

‣ Have knowledge of various online resources

‣ Examine the use of other’s content

‣ Discuss copyright | Creative Commons

‣ Understand contributing content to social sites

‣ Create an e-learning resource

Dave CookseyFounder & Principal Consultantsaturdave UX Consulting

Affiliations

‣ Chair of PhillyCHI, the Philadelphia region’s chapter of the ACM SIGCHI

‣ Information Architecture Institute (IAI)

‣ American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T)

Education

‣ M.S. Information Systems, Drexel University

‣ M.A. Political Science, University of Illinois

Previous Work Experience

‣ GSI Commerce, Inc.: User Experience Lead; Information Architect

‣ LandAmerica Financial Group: (Web) Application Developer

Mike ZarroInformation Architect and Digital Librarian gsi interactive

Affiliations

‣ PhillyCHI, the Philadelphia region’s chapter of the ACM SIGCHI

‣ Information Architecture Institute (IAI)

‣ American Library Association

Education

‣ M.S. Library & Information Systems, Drexel University

‣ B.A. History, The George Washington University

Previous Work Experience

‣ Bryn Mawr College: Web Developer and Designer

‣ Animation Technologies: User Experience Engineer

‣ University of Pennsylvania: Web Developer & Project Lead

Building a Web Site for Education

“Computers, B&W” by Kevin Zollman - Taken from Flickr on May 8, 2009: http://www.flickr.com/photos/36144637@N00/159627089/

Content & Tool Providers

A mix of corporate, educational, and government institutions:

‣ Google (YouTube, Blogger)

‣ Yahoo! (Delicious, Flickr)

‣ The Library of Congress (Photo sets)

‣ Open University (Learning Space)

Creating an E-Learning Resource

Over the course of this presentation, we will create this website:

http://mcol2009.blogspot.com

‣ Website

‣ Hosted at Blogger

‣ Content

‣ Open University (United Kingdom)

‣ Flickr

‣ YouTube

‣ Delicious

For the Educator

‣ Relatively simple tools

‣ Engaging

‣ New and fresh content

‣ Takes learning outside the classroom

For the Student

‣ Students are extremely comfortable on the Web (generally)

‣ Encourages collaboration & transparency

‣ Serendipity

‣ Fun?

The Four Cs of Online Content

‣ Compelling

‣ Creative

‣ Collaborative

‣ Cost-Free

Step 1: Create a Site

Blogger – Setup

1. Name Blog 2. Design Blog

Blogger – New Post

4. Edit HTML: you can cut & paste image and video code.

5. Publish: or save for later editing

3. Compose

Step 2: Content

Flickr – Homepagehttp://www.flickr.com/tour/

Flickr – Photostream

Photo Sets

Copyright Info

Search

Flickr – Photo Collections

Photo Sets

Flickr – Photo Sets

Select a Photo

Flickr – Photo

Tags

Notes & Comments

Share PhotoThings you can do with this photo

Flickr – Sharing a Photo

Copy & paste to your website

YouTube - Video

Embed Code

YouTube - Customization

Customization Options

Delicious

Search

Join or Sign In (with a Yahoo! account)

Delicious - RSS Feed

Related Tags

User submitted links

RSS Feed

Blogger - Add RSS Feed

Click add gadget to show a pop-up page of tools.

Blogger - Add RSS Feed from to the Menu

Add the RSS gadget

Open University

This is a class from the Learning Space. We will link to an article used in their readings for week 2.

Open University - Class

Altogether Now...

Putting It All Together - 1

Putting It All Together - 2

Putting It All Together - 3

A Word About Copyright...

...and Creative Commons Licensing

Resources

“Computer Technology Fortune” by Dean Johnson - Taken from Flickr on May 8, 2009: http://www.flickr.com/photos/deanj/2398424227/

Blogger

‣ http://www.blogger.com/

Flickr

‣ http://www.flickr.com/

YouTube

‣ http://www.youtube.com/

Open University Learning Space

‣ http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/

Resources

Google sites, create websites and wikis

‣ http://www.google.com/sites/help/intl/en/overview.html

MIT Opencourseware

‣ http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

iTunes U

‣ http://www.apple.com/education/guidedtours/itunesu.html

TED talks on YouTube

‣ http://www.youtube.com/user/TEDtalksDirector

More Resources

That’s All, Folks!

Dave Cookseysaturdave UX Consulting

713 Pine Street 1RPhiladelphia, PA 19106☎ +1.215.219.8960

dave@saturdave.com

Mike Zarromikezarro.com

mzarro@gmail.com