education wants to be free
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Dave & Mike demonstrate how to use free, online content and tools for educational purposes. They demonstrate how to build a blog, discuss copyright issues, and show off user-generated content sites like Flickr and YouTube.TRANSCRIPT
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
Mike Zarromikezarro.com