Social Software for Learning and Research

 

Social Software for Learning and Research Working together using this wiki The Famous Sites Tags: Other Wiki tools that we have used: Some Other Resources: Resources from SRI International on Social Software: Background Reading Wikis Podcasting What are Blogs?

 

Working together using this wiki

 

 

 

 

The Famous Sites

 

1. Wikipedia

2. Flickr
3. Youtube: Nursing Education Clip This example is  fascinating for me because of the comments below the video a discussion about whether or not the instructor is teaching proper techniques.  This kind of reflection and argument is worthwhile and would be strengthened by the participation of  a professor or other expert in the field of health care who could help add clarity to the issue:
4. Blogger
5. Delicious
6.  Second Life

7.  

 

 Add more to this list, and/or post them in delicious with the tag wasc2007

 

Tags:

 

A Tag is a 'keyword' or one word description that summarizes the content of a web page, picture, or other creation.  On may participatory media sites, you can search tags to find interesting

 

Other Wiki tools that we have used:

1. PBWiki: the site we are using now
2. PMWiki: More flexibility in look and feel but harder to install
3. MediaWiki: The most familiar interface - wikipedia uses this technology - and the hardest to install and maintain
4. Swiki: Easiest technology to setup and maintain, interface is dated from mid 90's

 

 

 

Some Other Resources:

Please contribute to this list, this is meant to be a list that we as a community can build:

 

1. Stanford's Center for Teaching and Learning Page on Using Wiki's in Class includes some reviews of technologies listing pro's and con's
2. Wikipedia's Comparison of Wiki Software: A more technical oriented list that gives details about a wide variety of wiki technologies

 

Resources from SRI International on Social Software:

SRI International's Center for Technology in Learning conducted a summer colloquium on Blogs, Podcasts, and Wikis.  Below is the list of resources that community that participated in this colloquium generated.

 

In the Blogs, Wikis, and Podcasts Colloquium (Summer 2006) held through SRI, we explored these technologies and how they might be useful (or not) in classes or as learning tools for instructors and students. Moderators included Linda Polin, Davidson Professor of Education and Technology at Pepperdine University's Graduate School of Education and Psychology; Dan Gilbert, academic technology specialist at Stanford University; and Deb Emery, who works at the John Gardner Center for Youth at Stanford University and teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses at Stanford.

 

The resources listed below were chosen because they provide an introduction to some aspects of the different technologies. They are not definitive papers, but rather offer ideas and instructions for using these technologies.

 

 

Background Reading

“Blogging Clicks with Colleges” Washington Post Article

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25305-2005Mar10.html

 

“Social Software in Academica” Educause Quarterly article about Wikis and Blogs (and Social Bookmarking tools and Social Networking) http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/eqm06/eqm0627.asp?bhcp=1

 

“About Web 2.0” Wikipedia entry. An excerpt: “Web 2.0 refers to a second generation of services available on the World Wide Web that lets people collaborate and share information online.”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web2.0

 

“RSS Feed Information” RSS Feeds are good to understand, but they can be confusing. Why RSS Feeds: to get the information to people who might want to find it that don't already know about it. If you're working in a class there are still uses for the technology, but probably not as urgent as if you are wanting to publish your work to the "world."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_%28protocol%29

 

“RSS: A Quick Start Guide for Educators”

http://weblogged.com/wpcontent/uploads/2006/05/RSSFAQ4.pdf

 

Wikis

“Ward Cunningham, Inventor of the Wiki” Wikipedia entry

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham

“Podcast of interview with Ward Cunningham”

http://oregonstate.edu/education/podcasts/conversations/audiofiles/April_2006/wiki.mp3

 

Wikis in education

“Using Wiki in Education” Really nice page with lots of ideas for Wikis in courses http://www.scienceofspectroscopy.info/edit/index.php?title=Using_wiki_in_education

“Teaching and learning online with wikis” Paper about use in some courses, from the Science of Spectroscopy link

http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/perth04/procs/augar.html

“Wiki Trials Hosted by CTL” Stanford's Center for Teaching and Learning page offers demos of various 'flavors' of wikis. It includes of advantages and disadvantages of different kinds of technologies:

http://ctlwiki.stanford.edu/

“WSUWiki:Teaching Learning Use Cases” WSU's page about using Wikis in courses

http://wiki.wsu.edu/wsuwiki/Teaching_Learning_Use_Cases

Extremely large and ambitious Wiki projects: Wikis change the world!

“Wikipedia” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

“Wikibooks” http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page

“Wikibooks: Organic Chemistry” http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Organic_Chemistry

“Wikibooks: Wikiversity”

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikiversity

 

 

 

Podcasting

What are Podcasts?

“Podcast” Wikipedia entry

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting

“How to Explain Podcasting to a Flashing 12” Irreverent piece on podcasting

http://www.podcast411.com/f12.html

“Vodcast” Wikipedia entry. Vodcasting is related to podcasting--think of the possibilities

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vodcast

 

How to make a Podcast

“Make Your First Podcast”http://www.podcastingnews.com/articles/How-to-Podcast.html

“How to Creatw RSS/XML Feed for Podcasts” http://www.podcast411.com/howto_1.html

“All the World’s a Podcast”

http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/05/52/index4a.html

“Podcasting in Education”

http://www.learninginhand.com/podcasting/index.html

 

Finding podcasts (also see links on the main Wikipedia article about Podcasts about finding podcasts)

“Ben Anderson’s” blog entry on educational podcasts

http://benanderson.net/blog/weblog.php?id=P23

“Thomson Peterson’s Podcasts” on Edufeeds.com

http://directory.edufeeds.com/index.php?c=2http://epnweb.org

“Find Podcasts” from Learninghand.com

http://www.learninginhand.com/podcasting/find.html

“Apple iTunes Store” Podcasts

http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts

 

 

Podcast programs: a small sample of educational podcasts

“The Education Podcast Network”

http://epnweb.org/index.php?request_id=411&openpod=7#anchor7

“The Naked Scientists” Science podcasts and radio shows

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/

“The Grassroots Learning Project” School of Education, Oregon State University

http://oregonstate.edu/education/podcasts/education/

 

Things to think about related to Podcasting

“Podcasting in the Classroom” (pdf file)

http://oregonstate.edu/education/podcasts/pdfs/podcastclassroom.pdf

“Podcast Downloading” Pew/Internet memo (pdf file)

http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_podcasting.pdf

“Duke iPod First Year Experience” (pdf file)

http://cit.duke.edu/pdf/ipod_initiative_04_05.pdf

“A Soundtrack for Study” Blogs and Podcasts together

http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/worldwide/story/0,9959,1550201,00.html

 

What are Blogs?

“Blogs” Wikipedia entry

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogs

“Why Weblogs?” Weblogg-ed.com’s compilation of answers from various sources

http://www.weblogg-ed.com/why-weblogs

“Blogs in Education” From the University of Houston-Clear Lake

http://awd.cl.uh.edu/blog/

“Science and Math Blogs” from Best of the Web Blogs

http://blogs.botw.org/Science/Math/

“Weblogs in Higher Educations”

http://www.mchron.net/site/edublog.php?id=C0_129_13

“Mabry Online” K-12 biology blog

http://mabryonline.org/blogs/carroll/

“Philip Bell” CLTNet member from CAEE with links to 3 of his blogs

http://faculty.washington.edu/pbell/

“Will Richardson” Blogs and other technologies for K-12

http://www.weblogg-ed.com/best_practices

“David Warlick” The April 11, 2006 post is interesting as he considers blogging and podcasting

http://davidwarlick.com/connectlearning/

 

Thinking about Blogs in courses

“Some Uses of Blogs in Education”

http://www.edtechpost.ca/gems/matrix2.gif

“Matrix of Some Uses of Blogs in Education”

http://www.edtechpost.ca/mt/archive/000393.html

“’Blog Uses in Education’ Drag and Drop Exercise” (5/17/06 entry)

http://www.edtechpost.ca/mt/archive/cat_the_rest.html