innovations2009 part one
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Pre-conference workshop at Innovations 2009 - part oneTRANSCRIPT
Engage Your Students With
Free Web 2.0 Tools
Britt Watwood, Ed.D.Virginia Commonwealth University
Welcome !
Some initial thoughts on instructional technology…
“I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our education system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks.”
~Thomas Edison (1922))
"New technologies are always used to do old tasks--until some driving force causes them to be used in new ways."
~Marshall McLuhan
How Have Recent Changes on the Web Opened Up Opportunities for
Teaching and Learning?
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Today’s Web• Unprecedented access to information• Freely available web-based tools• New publishing opportunities• User generated filtering, organization &
distribution • Web experience dominated by creation,
interaction and participation…the social web
What do we know about Today’s students?
ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2008
• Fifth consecutive year of study• 27,317 Freshmen, seniors and
community college students• 98 Higher education institutions
Educause Center for Applied Research
Student ComputerInternet Activity
• Average use of electronic devices exceeds 19 hours / week
– Community College students: 14.8 hrs
• 99.9% send and read email• 98.6% write documents for course
work• 94.7% search the web &
institutional library • 91.7% create presentations
Student Computer / Internet Activity
• 86.4% online shopping• 73.8% send instant messages• 82.3 % use course management system• 85.2% online social network (Facebook)• 78.3% play computer games • 38.2% access / use wikis• 32.7% create web pages • 34.1% blogging
Student Preferences for IT use in Courses
Small
Loosely
Pieces
Joined
Who Here Saves Websites?
Favorites Bookmarks
Making Meaning From TagsWordcloud based onGettysburg Address
It’s deliciously simple!
Find WebsiteYou Like
&Click “TAG”
Add Comments
Add Tags
Suggested Tags
Your Network
Saved By 170 Other…
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Social Connections
Interconnections betweenGabriela
Grosseck, Eduardo Pierano,
and myself
http://twoantennas.com/projects/delicious-network-explorer/
= Organization
Who Here Reads Newspapers?
How Does One Read a Newspaper?
RSS is like reading newspaper
What is RSS?
From “Push” to “Pull”
• Need Google Account• This also gives you:
– Google Docs– Gmail (but different
account from school domain)
– Calendar– Google Apps
133,000,000blogs
How Could Blogs Be Used Instructionally?
Blogs
Wikis
LMS Content
How Could Micro-Blogging Be Used Instructionally?
Do Small PiecesLoosely Joined
Have Instructional
Potential?
Our Website: http://innov2009freewebtools.wetpaint.com
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