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Networked Learning Making the Best Use of What We’ve Already Got Stephen Downes National Research Council Canada 25 February 2011

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How to use easily available tools to deliver presentations and support learning online.

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Networked LearningMaking the Best Use of What We’ve Already Got

Stephen DownesNational Research Council Canada

25 February 2011

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If you’re just sitting back and watching this presentation, you’re doing it wrong

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It’s more important to attend to what I do during this presentation than to what I say

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Three Screens

Screen 1 : The Live Skype Videoconferencehttp://www.skype.com or

http://www.google.ca/search?q=web+video+conferencing

Screen 2 : The Screen Sharing http://join.me http://logmein.com

Screen 3 : The Backchannel…

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Backchannel

• gRSShopper Backchannel:http://www.downes.ca/thread/744

(this is what’s displaying on screen 3)• Or: Twitter Channels http://www.twitter.com

Use tag: #emtech11Conference App:http://emtech.mjbapp.com/install/

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Behind the Scenes

• Slides will be available on Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/Downes/presentations

• We are broadcasting on live audiohttp://bavatuesdays.com/ds106-radio-lock-it-in/ http://208.82.115.69:8010/ http://www.icecast.org/ http://www.shoutcast.com/ http://www.myautodj.com/http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2011/01/ds106-radio.html

• We are recording the audiohttp://audacity.sourceforge.net/ http://letsmakesomeartdammit.blogspot.com/2011/02/arcade-fire-concert.htmlhttps://www.dropbox.com/ http://www.dropitto.me/ http://boomp3.com/

• We are recording the videohttp://www.techsmith.com/camtasia/ http://www.techsmith.com/jing/ http://www.theflip.com/en-ca/http://www.youtube.com/user/StephenDownes http://downes.blip.tv/posts?view=archive&nsfw=dc

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Online Courses

If you’re still posting course content into your LMS, you’re doing it wrong

Online learning isn’t about pushing content – it’s about engaging, interacting, doing

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The MOOC

MassiveOpenOnlineCourse

http://cck11.mooc.ca

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Course Elements

• AggregateNewsletters: http://cck11.mooc.ca/newsletter.htm http://cck11.mooc.ca/archives.htm http://www.phplist.com/ http://www.hotscripts.com/blog/mailing-list-managers/ http://groups.google.com Feeds: http://reader.google.com http://cck11.mooc.ca/opml.xml

• Remixhttp://paintshoppro.com http://docs.google.com http://pipes.yahoo.com Feed browser: http://cck11.mooc.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?action=viewer http://cck11.mooc.ca/threads.htm

• Repurposehttp://cck11.mooc.ca/how.htm Go to http://www.blogger.com and create a new blog.

Or, if you already have a blog, you can use your existing blog – use course tag #cck11You can also use Wordpress (http://www.wordpress.com)Create an account with del.icio.us http://del.icio.us

• Feed Forwardhttp://cck11.mooc.ca/feeds.htm

Flickr, Second Life, Yahoo Groups, Facebook, YouTube, anything!

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Other MOOCs

• Ds106 – Digital StoryTelling http://ds106.us/

• Critical Literacies http://www.downes.ca/post/54875

• PLENK http://connect.downes.ca

• Learning Analytics http://www.learninganalytics.net/?p=28 http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2010/08/25/what-are-learning-analytics/

• PLEK12 http://community.education.ufl.edu/community/pg/pages/view/77059/

• EC&I 381 http://eci831.wikispaces.com/

• Networked Seminar http://cogdogblog.com/2011/01/23/grandmas-mooc/

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How Do I Keep Up?

• Create a Personal Learning Network http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6WVEFE-oZA&feature=player_profilepageLinkedIn Ning Facebook Twitter

• Create some Online PresenceBlog, Wiki http://www.wikispaces.com http://identi.ca http://www.yammer.com

• Stay Connected– Share events in Google calendar http://calendar.google.com – Share links in delicious http://www.delicious.com– Create a photo pool http://www.flickr.com – Etc.

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Stephen Downeshttp://www.downes.ca