Web 2.0 in Teaching & Learning

Jamalludin HarunDepartment of Educational Multimedia, Faculty of Education

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

WEB 2.0 (SOCIAL MEDIA) TECHNOLOGIES FOR TEACHING & LEARNING

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We know

• People work with each other• They learn from each other• They are capable of determining what they want

to learn

THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION

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Ask yourself...

• Where have all the students gone?• Who are Generation X & Y?• What are their characteristics?• How were they brought up?• Where have they come from?• How might this affect their approach to learning?


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Ask yourself...

• What are their tools?• Where do they communicate?• How do they network?• Where do they network?• How do they learn?• Where do they research?


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Welcome to Facebook generation. Education2.0 - social networking

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Now....Ask yourself...

• How do you teach?• How do you engage them?• What tools do you use?• What tools can you use? • Do you encourage them to innovate and create?


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The Future of Education...

• Information is changing.• WHERE and HOW we learn is changing.• If we don’t integrate the tools effectively…

Formal education will become increasingly irrelevant


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• Technology web 2.0 (Social media) has the power to transform teaching and learning

• You have the power to give them the skills and tools to work in the 21st century.

• Teach them how to find, make sense of, and use relevant information

• Give them the ability to find and use information with critical discrimination in order to build knowledge.

• learn together, network together, grow together

INTRODUCTON TO SOCIAL MEDIA

INTRODUCTION

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What are they?Potential Uses for Teaching

INTRODUCTON TO SOCIAL MEDIA

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WEB 2.0 TECHNOLOGIES

• Defined as the “Read-Write” Web– Provides all the services and applications to allow

individuals to co-create content, collaborate and share it with others

• Supports user-generated content– Content created by users rather than specialist

authors or publishing using a variety of affordable technologies like blogs, podcasts and wikis

• Encourages the social aspect of the web– Through the use of social media like blogs, wikis,

social bookmarking tools and social networks

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• What do these social technologies look like

• Social networking - establishing and building online relationships with others, and a fundamental social activity

• File-sharing - creating, storing and/or sharing files in all formats: pictures, videos, presentations, documents, screencasts, etc

• Social bookmarking - storing and sharing links to web resources

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• Communication tools - communicating in real time via instant messaging and chat, in web meetings, and in live broadcasts, or asynchronously via email

• Collaboration tools - working synchronously or asynchronously with other to co-create documents, presentations, mindmaps, etc

• Blogging - reading, commenting or writing blog posts• Micro-blogging - sending, receiving and replying to

short messages with others - for real-time communications

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• Podcasting - creating or listening to audio (MP3) files• RSS - Really Simple Syndication- subscribing to and

reading blog and web news feeds• Social and collaboration platforms - providing

enterprise-wide, integrated suites of social media tools in one platform

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• What impact are social (Web 2.0) technologies having on working and learning?

Web 1.0Web technologies

Web 2.0 Social Technologies

publishing content/coursesreading content

some interaction with content

sharing information and knowledge

collaborative working and learning

social learningCONTENT PEOPLE

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• How can social media (SoMe) be used for learning and working?

Social Media for Working & Learning aka Social LearningUse of SoMe for: communicating - collaborating - sharing - networks and

communities

Formal learning/training/education

Informal Learning learning as you work or

play

Workingimproving performance

• Use SoMe to engage online learners

• to engage learners in the classroom

• Use SoMe to find things out by/for oneself

• to learn with and from others

• Use SoMe to rethink/improve work processes

• to work collaboratively with others

TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY

TEACHING WITH SOCIAL MEDIA (TOOLS)- WEB 2.0 -

WHAT TOOLS ARE AVAILABLE?

• Please browse 2011 Top 100 Tools for Learning :• http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/2011.html

• then write the number (name) of tools in that list that you are presently familiar with.

http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/index.html

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SOCIAL BOOKMARKING

• A collection of bookmark (favourite) • Access your bookmark links from anywhere • Share with friends, coworkers and the community • Discover new things Examples• Delicious, digg, connotea,citeulike Application• Lecturers and students can build a course library of

relevant course links based on shared bookmarks using a course tag.

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Delicious.com

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digg.com

SOCIAL NETWORKING

• Used for self-expression, personalization and the building of communities

Examples• Facebook, ning, elgg Application• Lecturers can set up a class “social network” or

learning community for students to meet and communicate with one another – before, during and after the course

• Students can have group discussions and group chat

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Facebook.com

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ning.com

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elgg.com

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schoology.com

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mahara.org

MEDIA SHARING

• Sharing of slides, videos, pictures, audio…• True user generated contents• Some available for downloadExamples• Slideshare, Scribd, Youtube, TeacherTube, FlickRApplication• Educators and students can share their own as well

as other user-generated podcasts, presentations, screencast, videos, etc and embed them in blogs, websites, etc, and comment on each other resources.

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slideshare.net

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youtube.com

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teachertube.com

WIKI

• A "wiki" is a collaborative website which can be directly edited by anyone with access to it.

• “Wiki-wiki " is the Hawaiian for "quick.”Examples• Wikispaces, pbwiki, wikiversityApplications• A group of students can collaboratively create

documents related to class projects• Lectures can use wikis to collaborate on projects,

whether editing a textbook, preparing a journal article, or assembling a syllabus or reading list.

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Wikispaces.com

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pbworks.com

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wikiversity.org

BLOG

• “…a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles, most often in reverse chronological order.

Examples• Blogspot, wordpress, edublogsApplications• Educators can write course blogs to host an entire

course, to provide a chronological focus for assignments, a site for student interaction and discussion, where students can contribute thought and experiences

• Students can write blog to reflect on their learning or to post e-portfolios and to comment on the other student blogs 37

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blogger.com

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wordpress.com

OTHER WEB 2.0 TOOLS

• Prezi (Presentation)http://www.prezi.com

• Glogster (Interactive Poster) http://www.glogster.com

• VoiceThread (Collaborative slideshows) http://www.voicethread.com

• Jing (Screen captures/ casting tool) http://www.jingproject.com/

• Google Docs, Zoho (Online Productivity)http://docs.google.comhttp://www.zoho.com

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