The TinyURL of this page is:
http://tinyurl.com/daley-ala2010
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This page is intended to give you access to samples of Web 2.0 resources mentioned in my presentation at the 50th Adult Learning Australia Conference in Adelaide on Saturday 13th November 2010.
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Copy of today's PowerPoint presentation: Download 1ala2010
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WEB 1.0 EXAMPLE
This is a good example of the "top-down" type of website that has dominated the WWW for the last 20 years. (And quite appropriate for this use too - you want an address of phone number, not enter into a dialogue about it.)
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BLOGS
Examples of individual blogs
Written by John Larkin, a secondary school teacher in Wollongong NSW who is also a Web 2.0 practitioner and writer. John has a good example of a discussion thread at this post.
A blog written by a British ESL teacher in which he writes reviews of conferences, professional development, and publications.
A U.S. site promoting web-based blogging software tailored to educational applications. Price is USD $3.33 per month for teacher's version (EduBlog Pro).
In a promotional video, EduBlogs suggests 10 ideas for use.
Reviews of eEduBlogs:
- AppAppeal ; I am unsure why this positive review assigns an overall mark of 2 out of 5.
- presentation by bveit on SlideShare
- Article on building an EduBlog in 7 steps, published on WPMU.org
EDna.edu.au
Sample of me.edu.au entry
me.edu.au is a form of social networking for educators. More detailed information - your choices of groups, links &c, is password-protected.
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TWITTER FEEDS
Using Twitter
A Twitter 101 tutorial prepared on SlideShare by Andi Narvaez :
The Twitter Guide Book by mashable
@weemooseus (Carl of New Mexico, a high school teacher) on managing a Twitter account.
Examples of Twitter pages
My lists of other people's Twitter pages connected with:
John Larkin - a mix of public conversations with other educators and links to articles.
@web20classroom: Twitter feed of Steven Anderson
These are examples of a publicity-based Twitter page, in this case providing chronicles of what the notional writers are up to, or links to their other publicity. The amount of 2-way conversation in this type of page can be range from less than it should be to, in these examples, non-existent (and therefore defeating the collaborative point of Twitter).
To Ms Keneally's credit she is one of the few politicians who does from time to time enter in conversations with her readers - rather than simply churn out 1-way messages.
There has sprung up on Twitter a tradition of obviously-fake pages satirising politicians and other figures (Twitter's terms of service require the page to be so identified.) Some pages are obviously fake, by reason of the era in which the original subject livbed (such as Dr Samuel Johnson or Governor William Bligh.)
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WIKI PAGES
Wikipedia article on wikis.
Whether a Wikipedia article is or is not sound is usually a product of the amount of collaboration that has gone into it. Usually, the more collaboration, the more-polished the article. Whether the article is sound or not also leads us to issues of critical literacy - in itself a potential learning activity.
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MOODLES
A brief introduction to Moodle: Posted on YouTube by slylenser
Demonstration course unit on Moodle
Posted on Moodle.org. This provides you with a guest ID and password; from the log-in, go to the list of ENglish-languahe units and click on UNDERSTANDING MOODLE.
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FOLKSONOMIES
Much of what is catalogued on the ww is done by the creation of tags by those who create the content. These are roughly equivalent to the Subject Headings in a traditional library catalogue, except that unlike those headings, these have no central authority - it is up to the group of users as to how they use them. This is a folksonomy.
My links as published on Del.icio.us include a list of tags that I have created for my particular list of links. Other users might prefer shorter, snappier tags. As these tags aggregate across users, it gives users more potential points of access to the data I have entered on this webpage.
Library of Congress Authorities
A sample of a taxonomy, where the headings are centrally controlled.
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FLICKR
Pictures posted by the State Library of New South Wales
The State Library of New South places many of its pictures on Flickr, and then invites readers to contribute any information that they might have on each picture.
Whilst this requires the user to open a Flickr or Yahoo! account (a disincentive for some), it is nonetheless a fabulous way of collaboratively assembling information about a subject that might otherwise remain a mystery.
You can see this in action with this ca. 1880 picture of the Bathurst School of Arts.
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This is a useful method of
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condensing the activity of your nominated accounts into one concise email. Example:
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Getting around any institutional firewalls that might be blocking some Web 2.0 sites (albeit in a 1-way direction, not of itself permitting dialogue)
I find this a very useful a time-saving way of scanning activity across my Twitter lists
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References used in today's presentation
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