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

Stephen DownesNational Research Council Canada

25 February 2011

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

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

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…

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/

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

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

The MOOC

MassiveOpenOnlineCourse

http://cck11.mooc.ca

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!

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/

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.

Stephen Downeshttp://www.downes.ca