Web2.0, the Social Media, and Academia: Using Personal Learning Environments to Expand Teaching and Learning
Joan Vinall-Cox – University of Toronto
Premises:
- education exists to share ad extend knowledge
- information increasing
- we are living in most extensive and rapidly changing communication environment
- we are engaged with creating and learning how to ‘be’ within this environment
Web 2.0
- Social online-hosted applications, cloud computing
- Social things like Twitter and del.icio.us
- Personal Learning Network: Her desk
- We’ve gotten to the point where how our computer is set up is essential to us: our own computer is important
- An example of her PLE (in a mindmap)
- She talked about several social sites.
- Interesting talk from someone getting into this stuff. She reminded me of what it was like when I first got into RSS, etc.
- Online education is only going to grow. Your effectiveness online is very related to how you deal with Web 2.0.
- Went over Google Scholar, Delicious, Diigo, Bloglines, Google Reader, Flickr, Facebook, LinkedIn, blogs, wikis, zotero
- Uses blogs, wikis, and audacity in her teaching
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Comments 1
Glad you found it worthwhile. Thanks for posting about it without mentioning the wireless problems;->
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