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Web 2.0 in Teaching & Learning
1. WEB 2.0 (SOCIAL MEDIA) TECHNOLOGIES
FOR TEACHING & LEARNING
Jamalludin Harun
Department of Educational Multimedia, Faculty of Education
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
2. THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION
We know
• People work with each other
• They learn from each other
• They are capable of determining what they want
to learn
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3. THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION
Ask yourself...
• Where have all the students gone?
• Who are Generation X & Y?
• What are their characteristics?
• How were they brought up?
• Where have they come from?
• How might this affect their approach to learning?
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4. THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION
Ask yourself...
• What are their tools?
• Where do they communicate?
• How do they network?
• Where do they network?
• How do they learn?
• Where do they research?
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6. THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION
Now....Ask yourself...
• How do you teach?
• How do you engage them?
• What tools do you use?
• What tools can you use?
• Do you encourage them to innovate and create?
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7. THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION
The Future of Education...
• Information is changing.
• WHERE and HOW we learn is changing.
• If we don’t integrate the tools effectively…
Formal education will become increasingly
irrelevant
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9. INTRODUCTON TO SOCIAL MEDIA
• Technology web 2.0 (Social media) has the
power to transform teaching and learning
• You have the power to give them the skills and
tools to work in the 21st century.
• Teach them how to find, make sense of, and use
relevant information
• Give them the ability to find and use information
with critical discrimination in order to build
knowledge.
• learn together, network together, grow together
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12. WEB 2.0 TECHNOLOGIES
• Defined as the “Read-Write” Web
– Provides all the services and applications to allow
individuals to co-create content, collaborate and share
it with others
• Supports user-generated content
– Content created by users rather than specialist
authors or publishing using a variety of affordable
technologies like blogs, podcasts and wikis
• Encourages the social aspect of the web
– Through the use of social media like blogs, wikis,
social bookmarking tools and social networks
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13. WEB 2.0 TECHNOLOGIES
• What do these social technologies look like
• Social networking - establishing and building online
relationships with others, and a fundamental social
activity
• File-sharing - creating, storing and/or sharing files in
all formats: pictures, videos, presentations,
documents, screencasts, etc
• Social bookmarking - storing and sharing links to web
resources
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14. WEB 2.0 TECHNOLOGIES
• Communication tools - communicating in real time
via instant messaging and chat, in web meetings, and
in live broadcasts, or asynchronously via email
• Collaboration tools - working synchronously or
asynchronously with other to co-create documents,
presentations, mindmaps, etc
• Blogging - reading, commenting or writing blog posts
• Micro-blogging - sending, receiving and replying to
short messages with others - for real-time
communications
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15. WEB 2.0 TECHNOLOGIES
• Podcasting - creating or listening to audio (MP3) files
• RSS - Really Simple Syndication- subscribing to and
reading blog and web news feeds
• Social and collaboration platforms - providing
enterprise-wide, integrated suites of social media
tools in one platform
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16. WEB 2.0 TECHNOLOGIES
• What impact are social (Web 2.0) technologies
having on working and learning?
Web 1.0 Web 2.0
Web technologies Social Technologies
publishing sharing information and
content/courses knowledge
reading content collaborative working and
some interaction with learning
content social learning
CONTENT PEOPLE
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17. WEB 2.0 TECHNOLOGIES
• How can social media (SoMe) be used for learning
and working?
Social Media for Working & Learning aka Social Learning
Use of SoMe for: communicating - collaborating - sharing - networks and
communities
Informal Learning
Formal learning/ Working
learning as you work or
training/education improving performance
play
• Use SoMe to
• Use SoMe to engage • Use SoMe to find things rethink/improve work
online learners out by/for oneself processes
• to engage learners in • to learn with and from • to work
the classroom others collaboratively with
others
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19. WHAT TOOLS ARE AVAILABLE?
• Please browse 2011 Top 100 Tools for Learning :
• http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/2011.html
• then write the number (name) of tools in that list
that you are presently familiar with.
http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/index.html
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20. SOCIAL BOOKMARKING
• A collection of bookmark (favourite)
• Access your bookmark links from anywhere
• Share with friends, coworkers and the community
• Discover new things
Examples
• Delicious, digg, connotea,citeulike
Application
• Lecturers and students can build a course library of
relevant course links based on shared bookmarks
using a course tag.
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23. SOCIAL NETWORKING
• Used for self-expression, personalization and the
building of communities
Examples
• Facebook, ning, elgg
Application
• Lecturers can set up a class “social network” or
learning community for students to meet and
communicate with one another – before, during and
after the course
• Students can have group discussions and group chat
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29. MEDIA SHARING
• Sharing of slides, videos, pictures, audio…
• True user generated contents
• Some available for download
Examples
• Slideshare, Scribd, Youtube, TeacherTube, FlickR
Application
• Educators and students can share their own as well
as other user-generated podcasts, presentations,
screencast, videos, etc and embed them in blogs,
websites, etc, and comment on each other
resources.
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33. WIKI
• A "wiki" is a collaborative website which can be
directly edited by anyone with access to it.
• “Wiki-wiki " is the Hawaiian for "quick.”
Examples
• Wikispaces, pbwiki, wikiversity
Applications
• A group of students can collaboratively create
documents related to class projects
• Lectures can use wikis to collaborate on projects,
whether editing a textbook, preparing a journal
article, or assembling a syllabus or reading list.
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37. BLOG
• “…a web-based publication consisting primarily of
periodic articles, most often in reverse chronological
order.
Examples
• Blogspot, wordpress, edublogs
Applications
• Educators can write course blogs to host an entire
course, to provide a chronological focus for assignments,
a site for student interaction and discussion, where
students can contribute thought and experiences
• Students can write blog to reflect on their learning or to
post e-portfolios and to comment on the other student
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