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

Networked Learning
Making the Best Use of What We’ve Already Got
Stephen Downes
National 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 Videoconference
http://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: #emtech11
Conference 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 audio
http://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 audio
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ http://letsmakesomeartdammit.blogspot.com/2011/02/arcade-fire-concert.html
https://www.dropbox.com/ http://www.dropitto.me/ http://boomp3.com/
• We are recording the video
http://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
Massive
Open
Online
Course
http://cck11.mooc.ca
Course Elements
• Aggregate
Newsletters: 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
• Remix
http://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
• Repurpose
http://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 #cck11
You can also use Wordpress (http://www.wordpress.com)
Create an account with del.icio.us http://del.icio.us
• Feed Forward
http://cck11.mooc.ca/feeds.htm
Flickr, Second Life, Yahoo Groups, Facebook, YouTube, anything!
Other MOOCs
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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_profilepage
LinkedIn Ning Facebook Twitter
• Create some Online Presence
Blog, Wiki http://www.wikispaces.com http://identi.ca http://www.yammer.com
• Stay Connected
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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 Downes
http://www.downes.ca