50+ Web 2.0 Ways To Tell a Story

Alan Levine's Blog on what software can help you to teach your classes when wanting students to present a story.


http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/50+Ways

How some people display what they know

Check out George Siemen's "place" to see how it's done:

http://www.lijit.com/users/gsiemens

Delicious

My social bookmarking and networks - find me on
www.delicious.com

"gandrich"

Social Media and Education and Information Technology

JING - allows you to grab images

to grab, save, share an intro for students on how to do something.

Skype video also works


check it out on jing.com

Other "stuff they make":

Other Stuff We Make

It not only provides free storage and instant sharing of your Jing content…it's also a super place to share your high-quality videos, images, presentations, and all manner of digital content.

This Swiss-army knife of screen capture picks up where Jing leaves off. Powerful image editing, scrolling window capture, cursor capture, tagging, search, and rugged good looks.

Jing’s big brother on the video side—and the ideal choice for creating longer, more polished screen videos. Camtasia Studio can edit your Jing videos, too.

Steven Downes and the Old Daily

You can see and subscribe to the daily research of Steven Dowes

http://www.downes.ca/news/OLDaily.htm - digital research lab for innovation

Here's an explanation of what he does from his website:
http://www.downes.ca/about_this_website.htm

Purpose and Origin

Founded in 1995, Stephen's Web is best described as a digital research laboratory for innovation in the use of online media in education. More than just a site about online learning, it is intended to demonstrate new directions in the field for practitioners and enthusiasts.

Specifically, the design of Stephen's Web is intended to embody the following new directions in online learning:

- Integration of Learning, Practice and Research - it is the author's belief that learning in an online environment will gradually merge with other domains of activity, and specifically, practice and research. Consequently, Stephen's Web merges these three uses of online content into a single space.

- Integration of Content and Community - it is the author's belief that content and community - that is, the presentation of content and consequent discussion of content - should be presented as an integrated unit and not segregated (as is typical in learning management systems).

- Content Syndication - a single online learning resource is depicted on this view as one node in a network of resources, whereby these resources exchange content and services among each other. This outcome is achieved by means of content syndication and supported throughout Stephen's Web

- Dynamic Organization - learning, and the presentation of learning, should not be static. On any given day, the organization, structure and delivery of learning resources may change according to the changing knowledge of the instructor, the changing nature of the field, and the changing preferences of the learner.

A more detailed description of the underlying pedagogical principles embodied in the site may be read in the presentation, Learning Objects in a Wider Context, available in PowerPoint.

Post Conference - still connecting

This week I attended an online conference hosted by George Siemens of the University of Manitoba. Over 280 participants worldwide contributed.
It's available at

http://www.editlib.org/view/31437 - online conference archive

The main website is as follows: Great group of people to connect with - NING sites create discussion on education with technology

http://www.aaceconnect.org/group/socialmedia - Improving Learning with Technology

Yet another tool: AudioBoo and vocab

Does this never end? There is so much technology and web support it's crazy!

Here are audioboos from the conference http://audioboo.fm/profile/mebner

thanks to #mebner (someone to follow) - see the social media tweet vocabulary page he found, as well http://bit.ly/4rIZKq

The Mother of All Demos

If you haven't seen it, you should: The Mother of All Demos http://bit.ly/2Q5NB #edmedia

Tony Hirst at #edmedia 2009

Inspiration presentation by invited guest, Tony Hirst, from the Open University, UK entitled: They Put Silage In Solos, Don't They? So Feed Me. [sic] He states, in his abstract: ...Unbundling content so that is is amenable to publication via web syndication feeds (such as RSS, Atom, and OPML) and content transclusion (the inclusion of content in one document from another document) makes it portable in a wide variety of ways. Writing content for delivery via syndication feeds (for example, by blogging your course materials) implicitly packages that content in a particular way. And writing content in the context of a bloglike ecosystem allows rich and potentially complex (yet still navigable) structures that connect both content and conversation to emerge in natural and organic ways.

In his talk he spoke of "radical syndication" and "the uncourse attitude", and demonstrated some ways in which content is packaged, bundled, unbundled, mixed, remixed, (represented vs. re-presented).

I learned new symbols and vocabulary like "no derivatives (a creative commons)", bitly for example http://bit.ly/2ra9LZ where urls are shortened and rerouted in a more easily handled piece (translated url: http://blip.tv/file/959514/). I highly recommend the video at this bitly entitled "changing expectations". Like David Orr says in his book, Earth in Mind, we need to change how we educate.

Other new words are pageflakes and widgets which talk about how pages are organized. We learned last week at BCIT's D2L workshop about widgets - a fun word of the past that is being reinvented.

Tony described other ways to use feeds like copying tweet comments and creating a way to narrate YouTube videos with annotations. A little beyond me, but I love the idea. Read about it on the bitly: http://bit.ly/Y6rpD

When asked about content ownership of higher educational institutions he said that we are revisiting the control of content; the content is not as important as the structure of the content.

He tells his students we are no longer the fonts of all knowledge, but expert learners who learn alongside students and show them how to use information available on places like Google and Wikipedia. Maybe not the most accurate summary, but an inspirational speaker who helped me think of the job we have teaching the millenials and life long learners. Lots of food for thought.

Here is where to find one of his courses: http://digitalworlds.wordpress.com/

My Course incorporating sustainability

Since BCIT has Sustainability as part of its 5 Year Strategic Plan, I have thought of another way to incorporate sustainability into the curriculum. I'm thinking of making a course tweet and have students post their 140 character summaries of what their favourite company is doing to "go greener".

Excellent presenter for gestures, use of space, vocal variety

See my posting on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rmG6TjQ4z0

Tara Brabazon: Keynote address at EdMedia, Honolulu, June 23, 2009

What I'm learning, who's presenting

People going wild on Twitter - I've learned how to address a tweet to a fellow tweeter (sounds hardly cerebral).

Just got onto www.prezi.com and am learning its capabilities as compared with PowerPoint.

Presenter today, Tara Brabazon talked about how she incorporates sound into her online and face to face course. Students can download audios of the lectures, and must also capture audio in their research and projects. Hmm. Food for thought.

Found a BCIT tweet on artistic and creative resumes I'll have to spend some time looking at to see if I can use it somehow:
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/05/30-artistic-and-creative-resumes/