Warters’ Radar

Friday, January 28, 2011Wayne State University

Thanks for having me back!

A bit about my background....

Thinking about a 3-P Learning Model

PersonalizationParticipationKnowledge-Pull

Chatti, M. A., Jarke, M., & Specht, M. (2010). The 3P Learning Model. Educational Technology & Society, 13 (4), 74–85.

“a new learning model characterized by the convergence of lifelong, informal, and personalized learning within a social context”

Example of a PLN Template

Developed by Joyce Seitzinger

Example of a PLN Template filled in

Tales from a Fully Online Course

Using Voice Thread to foster Engagement

Part of a Book

Discussion

http://voicethread.com

Using Voice Thread to foster Engagement

Narrating a

Conflict

Student VoiceThread Examples

Doodle: Group Polling and Scheduling

• No account creation needed to get started

http://www.doodle.com

Diigo - Social Bookmarks Tool +Educational Accounts for Higher Ed and K-12Annotation of Pages/Sticky NotesSlideshows from lists of bookmarksSave snapshots of pagesRSS Feed of additions

http://www.diigo.com/education

Little Brother

Open Multi-format Text

Lots of Fan Conversions!

http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/

Other Open Texts I used

• The Art of Community book by Jono Bacon

• Atlas Black graphic novel chapter - Flatworld Books

XtraNormal Text-to-Movie tool

• Tool was featured in recent Chronicle of Higher Ed article on academic spoof videos

http://www.xtranormal.com

Video from Bill’s class on social technology

Open Educational Resources

Gaining Support

Feds supporting Open EdTrade Adjustment Assistance Community College

and Career Training Grant - 2 Billion $$

My Clearinghouse Work

CREducation.org

Open Source Tools Used

• CWIS Catalog - items shared via Worldcat• Drupal - Trainers Dashboard application• CiviCRM - Team Management tool• Mahara Portfolio - display CR Competency• eXe - Html Editor for making Learning

Modules

Learning Modules

Current Collection includes 17 Modules

http://www.creducation.org/cre/teachers/learning_modules_and_activities

2010-11 CRE Teacher’s Calendar

• Crowd-sourced school-year calendar distributed internationally

http://www.creducation.org/cre/teachers/calendar

2nd Edition

CREducation.org stats

Quick Web Tour at End if Time...

PollEverywhere.com

PollEverywhere.com

Live Results

Moodle 2.0 Has Arrived

Bill’s a Moodle Fan

• Running a Moodle server at WSU since 2002• MADR courses and many other projects• Other Moodlers offer supportive community

25+ Institutions

Moodle is Widely Deployed

StatisticsEarly 2010

Environments

Moodle 2.0 Changes

Moodle 2.0 Features •Refactored the underlying code•Strong on security and scalability•Open to the “outside world” in more ways

http://www.moodleblog.org/?p=239

Repositories and Portfolio support baked in

Moodle Mobilehttp://docs.moodle.org/en/Mobile_Moodle_FAQ

Resource Sharing via Community Hubs

Social Web Research

ToolsMoving Beyond Market

Research

Quick Search of Realtime Web

ContextMinerhttp://www.contextminer.org

ContextMiner

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9URLGr-TWD0

WayBack Machine Updated

DiscoverText - Search Facebook, Twitter & More

DiscoverText

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmF7ITK29JM

Related Tools - Host Your Own CAT

http://www.umass.edu/qdap/

ScraperWiki.com

Other Cool Stuff Sighted Recently

Inside the Haiti EarthQuake

http://www.insidedisaster.com/experience/Main.html

Other Interesting Things

• Mendeley.com social research hub

• iCurrent for current awareness

• Open access journal table of contents service - http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/

• Various Yahoo-pipes style coding libraries (pypes.org, pyfproject.org, kamaelia.org)

• Xerte, Moodle and Mahara on a USB stick

• Art for presentations - as used in these slides!http://etc.usf.edu/presentations/extras/paper_people/index.html

Thanks for ComingBill Warters - Wayne State University

http://comm.wayne.edu/profile.php?id=499