LEARNING 2.0 CONFERENCEShanghai

14th – 16th June 2007

WHAT WAS IT?

Organized by local schools Hosted at Concordia Excellent line up of speakers A non-paper conference Web 2.0????

“Second generation web-based communities and services which aim to facilitate collaboration and sharing between users”

Using the 2.0 tools Twitter Ning – Social Notetaking

(Great Summary)

BIG THEMES

It is about Learning not Schooling Teachers need to model and lead in their use

of Web 2.0 tools for learning.

Students need to:

Deal with massive amount of information and reveal underlying patters

Possess global communication skills Be self-directed; life-long learners (students

should and can organize THEIR personal learning environment)

Have both their left and right brain engaged

JUSTIN

Ongoing work with Concordia (myConcordia) Collaboration Wiki Blogging

IAN

Web 2.0 in School RSS Great blog example

What is a RSS?

An RSS document, which is called a "feed", "web feed", or "channel", contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the full text. RSS makes it possible for people to keep up with their favorite web sites in an automated manner that's easier than checking them manually.

What is a Blog?a website where entries are written in chronological order and commonly displayed in reverse chronological order.

RICHARD How to Start a Film Festival at YOUR School –

Richard Friedericks (Presentation)

HKIS sponsored online film festival

Started a blog http://friederishi.wordpress.com

Promoting wiki program for writing – Broadcast Journalism, Film, Advanced Video Production:

http://www.celtx.com/

Use del.icio.us for social bookmarking (tags)

JOANNE & CHRIS

Class Wiki Built on ideas of Chris Welker Using Wetpaint Joanne’s Wiki Chris’s Wiki Free software from Michael Weber

What is a Wiki?

online collaboration model and tool that allows any user to edit some content of webpages through a simple browser.

Skype for Language Learning Student blogging

ANA

RL: ROB FERRIN SL: BODHI SHEPHERD

Second Life

MUVE (Multi-User Virtual Environment)

What is Second Life?

user-defined world of general use in which people can interact, play, do business, and otherwise communicate

What isn’t Second Life?

A game

LINDA & SHUMIN

Podcasting Voicethread (example)

What is a Podcast?

a digital media file, or a series of such files, that is distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and personal computers

What is Voicethread?picture/audio presentations can be commented upon via voice or written messages to the creator. So it is a powerful tool for languages.