9. “Some people study all their life and at
their death they have learned everything
except to THINK”
– Francois Domergue
10. A WHOLE NEW MIND
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Whole_New_Mind
Design
Story
Symphony Empathy
Play
Meaning
11. "640K ought to be
enough for anybody."
- Bill Gates, 1981
12. E-LEARNING DEFINITION
Electronic learning (or E-Learning or eLearning)
is a term for all types of technology-enhanced learning
(TEL), where technology is used to support the learning
process.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-learning
“Pedagogy empowered by digital technology"
19. COURSE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
http://moodle.org/
Moodle is a user-friendly open source and free application that is designed to
help educators create online courses with opportunities for rich interaction and
collaboration. Besides uploading and managing online resources, one can add
forums, quizzes, assignments, glossary polls, wikis, blogs, etc.
20. SOCIAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
Elgg empowers individuals, groups and institutions to create their own
fully-featured social learning environments.
http://elgg.org/
21. LEARNING ACTIVITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
http://www.lamsinternational.com/
LAMS is a great tool for designing, managing and delivering online collaborative
learning activities. It provides teachers with a highly intuitive visual authoring
environment for creating sequences of learning activities.
26. DEFINITION OF BLOG
Blog (short of Weblog):
• Is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual, with regular entries of
commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or
video.
• Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order.
• "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a
blog.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog
28. BLOGGING AS AN EDUCATIONAL TOOL?…
1. Post latest Industrial-related trends and news
2. Post materials and resources
3. Host online discussions
4. Build a class newsletter
5. Group projects to co-produce content
6. Reflect your teaching and learning experiences
*List adapted from “Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms” by Will Richardson
Book: http://books.google.com.my/books?id=6PFjF9BQe2AC
29. MICRO-BLOGGING
http://twitter.com/
A form of blogging that allows users to write brief text updates
(usually 140 characters) and publish them, either to be viewed by
anyone or by a restricted group which can be chosen by the user.
30. TWITTER AS AN EDUCATIONAL TOOL?…
1. Share ideas, experiences, news and links
2. Follow experts, subjects or learning domains
3. Follow trends (#hashtags)
4. Build learning communities
5. Chunked perfectly for mobile learning
6. Conversational learning beyond the classroom
Twitter Tutorial: http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/handbook/twitter.html
31. Wiki Wiki Shuttle at Honolulu International Airport
Picture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:HNL_Wiki_Wiki_Bus.jpg
33. DEFINITION OF WIKI
• A website created by a group; rather than by an individual.
• In Hawaiian, Wiki means “quick”
• What I Know Is… (descriptive of the process of collaborative content
development.)
Wikis are websites that we
can build together!
34. WELCOME TO THE ANATOMY WIKI
http://anatowiki.wetpaint.com/?t=anon
38. RSS IN PLAIN ENGLISH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU
39. WHAT IS RSS?
• RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary.
• A web page with a .xml file type that can be subscribed to and read by a newsreader (aggregator).
The aggregator will find the new content and display it when it becomes available.
• In essence, it is content that comes to you, instead of having to search for it. It will save you an
infinite amount of time.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS
45. SOCIAL BOOKMARKING
• Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage
bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata (tags).
• Folksonomy (from folk + taxonomy) is the practice and method of collaboratively creating and
managing tags to annotate and categorize content.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking
47. SOCIAL BOOKMARKING TIPS
1. Great for groups researching a topic together or an instructor that wants to
share great websites they have found.
2. Others can subscribe to your bookmarks or individual tags and receive them
whenever the publisher adds a new bookmark.
3. Create working bibliographies for projects by ensuring they share a common
tag.
4. Build lists of resources with fellow students/ teachers (decide on common tags
first).
5. Create a network with friends or fellow club members with whom you share an
interest.
6. Spend a few minutes planning how you’ll tag so that your tags are consistent
(remember – no spaces within tags!)
• Plural vs singular
• Teacher’s names / course names
7. Clean up your tags periodically using the delete and rename tag functions.
Adapted from: http://www.slideshare.net/leonardstern/rss-in-education/
54. WOLFRAM|ALPHA…
Is the first step in an
ambitious, long-term
project to make all
systematic knowledge
immediately computable
by anyone.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/
55. WORDLE
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide.
http://wordle.net/
56. "I have no special talents. I am only
passionately curious.“
- Albert Einstein
58. OPEN EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES?
“…are educational materials and resources
offered freely and openly for anyone to
use and under some licenses to re-mix,
improve and redistribute.”
More definitions: http://learn.creativecommons.org/resources/faq/
70. IMMUNE ATTACK
http://fas.org/immuneattack/
An educational video game that introduces basic concepts of human
immunology to high school and entry-level college students. It aims
to excite students about the subject, while also illuminating general
principles and detailed concepts of immunology.
87. THE SOLUTION – CREATE A
PERSONAL LEARNING NETWORK!
Personal Learning Network –
A group of people who can guide your
learning, point you to learning opportunities,
answer your questions, and give you the
benefit of their own knowledge, experience,
and wisdom.
88. LEARNING IS BECOMING AN
OPEN SOURCE PROJECT
• An Open Source project is a software product that is collaboratively built.
• Everyone has access to help build the product if they have something worthwhile to
contribute.
• No one owns it. No one takes credit for it.
• Everyone gets to use the product… even those who did not help build it.
• The “Sage on the Stage” is dead! Most of us just don’t know it yet.
89. THE DARK SIDE
• A PLN Can be a Tender Trap!
• It is estimated that a new Web 2.0 type application is released every 10 minutes!
• It’s easy to get so infatuated with the bells and whistles of Web 2.0 applications that you
forget why you started to look for new applications in the first place… to make your
personal and professional life better… not more complicated.
102. KNOWING IS .... LOCATED IN
RELATIONS AMONG
PRACTITIONERS, THEIR
PRACTICE, THE ARTEFACTS
OF THAT PRACTICE, AND THE
SOCIAL ORGANIZATION…OF
COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE
Lave and Wenger, 1991
103. LURKING IS A MEANS OF
BECOMING INTEGRATED IN
DISTRIBUTED COMMUNITIES
OF PRACTICE
111. A RESPONSE TO PEDAGOGIC APPROACHES WHICH
REQUIRE THAT LEARNER’S E-LEARNING SYSTEMS
NEED TO BE UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE
LEARNERS THEMSELVES.
112. AND RECOGNISE THE NEEDS OF LIFE-LONG
LEARNERS FOR A SYSTEM THAT PROVIDES A
STANDARD INTERFACE TO DIFFERENT INSTITUTIONS’
E-LEARNING SYSTEMS, AND THAT ALLOWS PORTFOLIO
INFORMATION TO BE MAINTAINED ACROSS
INSTITUTIONS.
113. SEEN AS MULTI
EPISODIC, WITH
INDIVIDUALS
SPENDING
OCCASIONAL
PERIODS OF
FORMAL EDUCATION
AND TRAINING
THROUGHOUT
THEIR WORKING
LIFE.
114. PLE ARE BASED ON THE IDEA
THAT LEARNING WILL TAKE
PLACE IN DIFFERENT
CONTEXTS AND SITUATIONS
AND WILL NOT BE PROVIDED BY
A SINGLE LEARNING PROVIDER
115. THE IDEA OF A PERSONAL
LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
RECOGNISES THAT LEARNING IS
CONTINUING AND SEEKS TO
PROVIDE TOOLS TO SUPPORT
THAT LEARNING
118. PLES CAN HELP IN THE RECOGNITION OF
INFORMAL LEARNING
119. PLES CAN DEVELOP ON THE
POTENTIAL OF SERVICES
ORIENTED ARCHITECTURES
FOR DISPERSED AND
NETWORKED FORMS OF
LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE
DEVELOPMENT.
120. “THE HEART OF THE CONCEPT OF
THE PLE IS THAT IT IS A TOOL THAT
ALLOWS A LEARNER (OR ANYONE)
TO ENGAGE IN A DISTRIBUTED
ENVIRONMENT CONSISTING OF A
NETWORK OF PEOPLE, SERVICES
AND RESOURCES. IT IS NOT JUST
WEB 2.0, BUT IT IS CERTAINLY WEB
2.0 IN THE SENSE THAT IT IS (IN
THE BROADEST SENSE POSSIBLE)
A READ-WRITE APPLICATION.”
Stephen Downes, 2006
121. THE PROMISE OF PERSONAL
LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
COULD BE TO EXTEND
ACCESS TO EDUCATIONAL
TECHNOLOGY TO EVERYONE
WHO WISHES TO ORGANISE
THEIR OWN LEARNING.
122. PLE – IF IT COULD BE STILL
CALLED THAT – IS THAT IT
OFFERS A PORTAL TO THE
WORLD, THROUGH WHICH
LEARNERS CAN EXPLORE AND
CREATE, ACCORDING TO THEIR
OWN INTERESTS AND
DIRECTIONS, INTERACTING AT
ALL TIMES WITH THEIR FRIENDS
AND COMMUNITY
123. THE PLE WILL CHALLENGE THE
EXISTING EDUCATION SYSTEMS
136. QuickTime™ and a
TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
QuickTime™ and a
TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
Push
Vs.
Pull
137. 1) Set up
an account
2) Click on the “subscribe”
icon
3) Click to
“subscribe now”
4) Read your
subscriptions
141. From David Parry, University of Albany
“The speed of reading in the age of the digital has
changed, and we need to help students navigate
this.
142. Reading on the internet requires two separate
skills:
• The quick analysis to find what is worth
reading
• A switch to slow analysis to carefully
consider what has been found.
143. “What RSS does is allow students to make
this distinction, to receive content as "bits"
easy to scan, and then to select what they
want to read.”
144.
145.
146.
147.
148. “WRITING FOR THE WEB IS A MATTER OF
CONTINUOUS CONVERSATION RATHER
THAN STATIC PAPER DESIGN.”
161. TAPPED IN
• Plan and conduct learning
projects with colleagues and
students.
• Participate in or lead topical
discussion and groups.
• Manage and attend online
courses offered by TPD providers.
• Mentor other educators.
• Try out new ideas in a safe,
supportive environment.
http://tappedin.org/tappedin/
165. PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
• Consider what your national, state, and regional professional organizations offer for
educators
• List of Professional Organizations:
• http://snipurl.com/proforg
166. From Personal Learning Environment Building
to Professional Learning Network Forming
Aim
Forming learning
network for
competence
development
Professional
network
organizing
The meaning of
social and
professional
networks for
education
Building PLE on
start pages
Conclusion
167. Aim
To analyze the experience gained in using of Web 2.0 environment for competence
development and for professional network organizing
168. Social-oriented applications and
professional networks - new opportunities
for learners and educators
W3C “Social Networks Interoperability Roadmap” Incubator
Group (XG)
Federated Interoperable Framework
169. Social network sites can be defined as web-based services that allow individuals to:
(1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system
(2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection
(3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the
system.
Danah Boyd, School of Information, University of California-Berkeley
Nicole Ellison, Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media, Michigan State
University
Social-oriented applications and
professional networks - new opportunities
for learners and educators
Social Networks
171. Professional network generally refers to a professional network
service, a virtual community that it is focused on professional
interactions instead of social interactions.
Wikipedia
Social-oriented applications and
professional networks - new opportunities
for learners and educators
Professional Networks
173. A learning network is a group of persons
who create, share, support and study
learning resources (“units of learning”)
in a specific knowledge domain.
Rob Koper, Open University of the Netherlands
Social-oriented applications and
professional networks - new opportunities
for learners and educators
Special-formed learning networks for
life-long learners
175. Because of their possibilities for:
data, information and “knowledge fusion”
enhancing accessibility, productivity and
innovative solutions
research tools providing
forming groups of personal and
professional interests
Social-oriented applications and
professional networks - new opportunities
for learners and educators
To be successful at knowledge creation, analysis
and dissemination, learners need from network inter-
personal and inter-group interactions
176. PLEs building laid the foundations of some main ideas:
(1) learning is an ongoing process and tools to support this
learning are needed
(2) the role of the individual in self-organizing learning is
important
(3) learning can take place in different contexts and
situations and cannot be provided by a single learning
provider.
Attwell Graham
Building PLE on start pages
Personal Learning Environment
177. PLEs are systems that help learners take control of and manage their
own learning.
This includes providing support for learners to set their own learning
goals, manage their learning;
managing both content and process;
communicate with others in the process of learning and thereby
achieve learning goals.
Wikipedia
Building PLE on start pages
Personal Learning Environment
178. Web 2.0 applications called “start pages” are designed
to provide a personalized place on the internet where
users can mashup data, information and knowledge
available anywhere, anytime, including mobile login.
Wikipedia
Building PLE on start pages
Start pages
182. Forming the learning network of the course Internet Technologies
is to:
(1) provide sustainable value to students, not only during the
course, but also after its finishing
(2) stimulate them to contribute their knowledge, insights and
experiences on a continuous basis
Forming Learning Network for Competence
Development
LMS, Social network, Start page
183. • Of relationship
and connections
among peers and
knowledge
• Of own
opportunity for
value-created
involvement
I
Aware
• In engaging in
informal
knowledge
exchange
• In
revising/extending
competence
development
objectives
II
Interested
•In individual or
collaborative learning
•In social and
knowledge network
activities
•In pro-actively
contributing own
insights and expertise
III
Trying
engaging
- To subject mater
- To peers and
educators
- To another
professionals
IV
Actively
involved and
connected
Personal
competence
development
objectives
Competence development lifecycle in a
learning network (according Rogers)
184. More of the students who are deeply involved in the
subject matter of the course and think in perspective
are interested in:
more professional information
contact to experts and specialists
they joint to groups with special interests,
professional networks
they receive professional network services
they can discuss interests
stay informed
share knowledge
Professional Network Organizing
185. • Add tools/services
• Connect to data,
information, knowledge
• Create artifacts
Personal Learning
Environment
• Connect to peers, educators,
family and friends
• Share thoughts, ideas,
resources, artifacts
Personal Learning
Network • Connect to professionals
and experts via professional
organizations and networks
• Collaborate
• Contribute
Professional
Learning Network
Professional Network Organizing
LMS, Social network, Start page
Development of Professional Learning Network
187. Some advanced students during the PLE building self-orient and arrange content, knowledge and contacts in
two different networks: personal and professional
The transition from PLE to PfLN passes through a middle step of PLN set up
This process is dynamic and continuously
adapted to the present students’ interests
In some cases the boarders between PLN and PfLN are blurred, because
of coincidence of personal and professional interests
PLE can be presented as a core for
networks expanding
The PLE building supports students in socialization and network
processes set up
Professional Network Organizing
188. Conclusion
• A model for PLE building is proposed
• The modified Rogers’ model for competence development lifecycle in a learning
network is used in order to be examined the main phases in competence progress
of each student
• Social networks contribute to the processes by which learners meet and
communicate, and pool, share, learn about and reuse their resources, knowledge
and competencies
• PLE building is found to be a core for PLN and PfLN deployment
• The transition from PLE to PfLN is an important step that supports students
to become self-organized and life-long learners