Personal learning environments – Web 2.0 for

learningJanet Burstall, SEO, Centre for Learning Innovation

Grant Casey, CEO, Centre for Learning Innovation

• how are Web 2.0 technologies being used already?

• what are the needs for a personal learning environment that allows teachers (and possibly students) to discover, organise, manage, create, present and share content on the web?

• how could a Web 2.0 learning environment enable teachers to transform the use of TaLe for themselves and for their students?

Some personalised environments

iGoogle

NetVibes

Pageflakes

Ooops!

DET Portal

Teaching & learning mashup Search TaLe

Personal space OR Shared space

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Organise your space(s) | Tab1 | Tab2 | Tab 3 etc

What web tools have you used to support delivery, especially to workplace learners?ORWhat web tools do you think you could use?

What web tools have you used to support delivery, especially to workplace learners?(Answers from Learning Powerhouse 10 August)

• Blogs• Wikiversity• Vodcasts - video• Email• Slideshare• Flickr - photosharing• Survey Monkey• Jing (like Catpivate)• NetVibes

• Podomatic (MP3)• Audacity (records MP3s)• Digital stories• Photostory 3• Twitter - IMS from web• Moviemaker and

webcam• BlipTV.com• TeacherTube

Users and non-users• About 1 in 100 users initiate a contribution,

about 10 in 100 comment or respond. (Guardian, UK)

• American adult users of ICT - Elite Tech Users (31%) - Middle-of-the road Tech Users (20%) “Connected But

Hassled” - Few Tech Assets (49%) (PEW Internet and American Life Project)

• In one TAFE Institute 0.05% of teachers deliver online, 8% use blended delivery.

Considerations

• Embedding innovation needs a bridge between early adopters and mainstream. (Maree Jasinski)

• Digital literacy is a new key competency, all students and teachers need to learn it.

• Using social software is like riding a bike, not catching public transport. Each individual chooses their own route. Anyone can share any part of the journey.

What are potential issues of having web 2 tools inside the TAFE (and DET) network?

What are potential issues of having web 2 tools inside the TAFE (and DET) network? (Answers from Learning Powerhouse 10 August)

• DET portal not accessible - "I accept" Adaptive technologies and variant literacy levels need to be catered for.

• What if it's blocked?• Need for authentic texts, i.e. form the outside world, nit just inside the

portal.• Broadband, speed.• Digital rights, copyright.• DET portal is maintained on weekends, when sometimes TAFE is

teaching, and portal goes down.• Keeping inside DET cuts off external expertise, including international.• Shared drive content can be cleaned off with no warning, content is lost.• Need access to constant innovation in web tools and ideas, which

happens externally.• Login-password issues provide an early bad experience which puts

people off.• DET portal is not as usable as external sites.• Student safety best learnt in real world, rather than created by boundary.• Students need to learn the consequences of having digital identities.

What are the issues of NOT having these tools provided inside the TAFE (and DET) network?

What are the issues of NOT having these tools provided inside the TAFE (and DET) network?(Answers from Learning Powerhouse 10 August)

• Same as previous question and…• Privacy/comfort can be an advantage.• When sites are blocked – how are students to learn

discernment?• Political correctness/code of conduct.

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• TaLe PLC forum – TaLe directions (http://taleforum.det.nsw.edu.au/tale/learning/taledirections)

• Topic - Web 2.0 and TaLe 2.0

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