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New Mexico Society for Technology in Education Conference, 2014 Las Cruces, New Mexico April 11-12, 2004

Using Web 2.0 Technologies to Support Student Engagement

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In this presentation, I share how I use Web 2.0 technologies to support students' engagement in the online education course I teach

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New Mexico Society for Technology in Education Conference, 2014

Las Cruces, New MexicoApril 11-12, 2004

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Using Web 2.0 Technologies to Support Student Engagement

Mariam Abdelmalak, Ph.D.

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What Is Web 2.0 Technology?

• The term Web 2.0 began to be used for the first time in 2004 and referred to a second generation of the Internet (Schrum & Levin, 2009).

• Web 2.0 technologies allow users to add and change content easily, to collaborate and communicate instantaneously in order to share, develop, and distribute information, new applications, and new ideas (Schrum & Levin, 2009)

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Google Documents

GoAnimate

PowToon

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(www.voki.com)• Voki allows users to make talking avatars. • Voki has a large selection of customizable

avatars to choose from. Users can also select from a variety of backgrounds or upload their own.

• Voki is commonly used to give verbal reports. • My Voki: http://

www.voki.com/pickup.php?scid=8435309&height=267&width=200

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(www.goanimate.com)• Go Animate is a free animated movie maker. • Users can create animated movies by selected

from a wide selection of customizable pre-made elements. Users can also upload their own elements like pictures to use in their movies.

• The movies create can be shared in a variety of ways including email and embedding.

• Example: http://goanimate.com/videos/0JkytcB_VKqg

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PowToon.com • PowToon is an online presentation software to

create free animated videos.• PowToon provides drawings of people and

objects that uses can arrange on blank canvas.• Users can publish their videos. • PowToon's free version limits your videos to 45

seconds. • My PowToon:

http://www.powtoon.com/p/bmiUHISJ4rV/

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http://www.skype.com • Skype is an internet-based phone service that also allows

for conference calling, document sharing, and text messaging (Palloff & Pratt, 2009).

• Skype to be a good tool for building rapport and social presence among students and between students and faculty (Parker, Boase-Jelinek, &Herrington, 2011).

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• A podcast is an audio or video file distributed to an appropriate media player over the Internet.

• Hargis and Wilson (2005) discuss the promise that podcasting holds for educators as a tool for promoting conceptual learning”:

A podcast allows learners to either listen to others share their ideas – real, raw and spontaneous – which captures their attention and can sustain this attention sufficiently to enable transfer of these concepts into their long term memory. Secondarily, learners can create their own audio podcast, which enables them to reflect on their own learning verbally.

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The Podcasting Project

As a group, students were tasked with creating a podcast based on one of the class topics to post and share with their classmates. Each week one group was required to read the required articles and create a six-to-ten minute podcast sharing something that they learned during the week's readings.

This project contains three steps/stages:Stage #1: Create Your Group & Group Contract Stage #2: Download an Audio Editing ToolStage # 3: Sign Up for the Podcasting TopicStage #4: Make Your Podcast

For more details about this project (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x0oKSxvH9umft_kr6EKYXQ7qMGBOG3g3oCPhLLcncf8/edit#)

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(https://drive.google.com)• Google Docs are free Web-based applications that allow

users to create word processing.

• Google Docs enable collaboration by editing a document written by other students, and by suggesting modifications through comment writing, without editing the document itself (Conner, 2008).

• Google Docs can be excellent resources to overcome students’ isolation (Reyna, 2010).

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(http://www.pbworks.com)

• A Wiki is a collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content (Dunlap & Lowenthal, 2009).

• A Wikis allows people to directly edit, update, modify or delete. Wiki also allows multiple users from different locations to collaborate in real-time.

• A Wiki environment is an effective technology for building community (Lambert & Fisher, 2009; Scott & Liu, 2011).

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Fall 2013_Wiki Project

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Spring 2014_Wiki Project

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References• Conner, N. (2008). Google Apps: The missing manual . O'Reilly Media • Dunlap, J, & Lowenthal, P. (2009). Tweeting the night away: Using Twitter to

enhance social presence. Journal of Information Systems Education, 20(2), 129-135.

• Lambert, J. & Fisher, J. (2009). Community Building in a Wiki-Based Distance Education Course. In G. Siemens & C. Fulford (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2009 (pp. 1527-1531). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.

• Schrum, L., & Levin, B (2009). Leading 21st century schools. Corwin.• Palloff, R., & Pratt, K. (2009). Web 2.0 technologies and community building

online. 25th Annual conference on Distance Teaching & Learning. Retrieved August 15, 2013, from http://www.uwex.edu/disted/conference/Resource_library/proceedings/09_20002.pdf

• Parker, J., Boase-Jelinek, D. & Herrington, J. (2011). Perceptions and reflections: Using Skype chat to build a community of learners. In Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2011 (pp. 1599-1604). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.

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Q & A

Thank You