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/
Here is the link to his slides using "slideshare" taken from his tweet:
ReplyDelete#psychemedia: My #edmedia slides (such as they are); you probably had to be here to make sense of them http://bit.ly/2eHm1f and even then, maybe not...
And here is the link to using RSS feeds to short pieces of text for student interaction. Read all about it in Pageflakes:
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"Write to Reply" MattR might be interested in this technology