Professor Gilly Salmon Pro Vice-Chancellor Learning Transformations

1. Harnessing technology (& winning hands down!) Professor Gilly Salmon Pro Vice-Chancellor Learning Transformations

2. Two key, inter-related aspects

3. Design Scaffolding Online Learning Gilly Salmon e-tivities

4. 5 stage model for productive learning forums Development Collaboration Co-operation Gilly Salmon e-tivities Culture Building Access & Motivation

5. 5 stage model for productive learning forums 5. Development Link, Feedback, Search 4. Collaboration Interact 3. Co-operation Navigate, Save Time, Personalise Gilly Salmon e-tivities 2. Culture Building Receive & Send 1. Access & Motivation Access

6. 5 stage model for productive learning forums: the role of the e-moderator 5. Development Guide 4. Collaboration Facilitate 3. Co-operation Lead Gilly Salmon e-tivities 2. Culture Building Host 1. Access & Motivation Welcome

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8. 5 stage model & E-tivities in Programs Gilly Salmon e-tivities

9. 5 stage model:Why did it catch on? • Moment in time • Easy to explain & implement • Spark for discussions • Belonging/Communities established • Worked with different definitions of blend including campus based students • Reasonably scalable • Increasingly appealing to diversity • Powerful feeling of inclusions • Pre-empted knowledge contribution • Addressed the role of the online ‘teacher’ Student Achievement Saved Staff Time Scaffolding Gilly Salmon e-tivities

10. Designing For Learners’ Interaction Gilly Salmon e-tivities

11. Driving the e-tivities research Gilly Salmon e-tivities

12. Key features of e-tivities • A small piece of information, stimulus or challenge (the ‘spark’) • Online activity which includes individual participants posting a contribution • An interactive or participative element- such as responding to the postings of others • Summary, feedback or critique from an e-moderator (the ‘plenary’)All the instructions to take part are available in one online message. Gilly Salmon e-tivities

13. Familiar symbols Clear pacing & sequencing PURPOSE Gilly Salmon e-tivities Single Task Per message/forum Spark (to start the dialogue) Where to respond Response to others

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15. Clear pacing & sequencing PURPOSE Gilly Salmon e-tivities Spark (to start the dialogue) Single Task Per message/forum Response to others Times

16. Clear pacing & sequencing Gilly Salmon e-tivities Where to respond

17. HiT 1429 Social Networking in Organisations At Swinburne Clear pacing & sequencing Gilly Salmon e-tivities

18. PURPOSE Gilly Salmon e-tivities E-moderator intervention Spark (to start the dialogue) Response to others

19. Links Gilly Salmon e-tivities Time

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21. E-tivity 1.1 generated huge traffic on the wiki, of which about 1/20th is shown here Gilly Salmon e-tivities

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25. Another hugely successful wiki-tivity. The wiki goes on for several pages! Gilly Salmon e-tivities

26. Gilly Salmon e-tivities Spark (to start the dialogue) Students are then guided into the Learning Group wiki and asked to input information based on their reading provided in the learning materials.

27. Gilly Salmon e-tivities Spark (to start the dialogue)

28. Newer Technologies & Platforms Gilly Salmon e-tivities

29. www.podcastingforlearning.com Gilly Salmon e-tivities

30. Social Media Social media includes web-based and mobile technologies used to turn communication into interactive dialogue Gilly Salmon e-tivities

31. Virtual Worlds Gilly Salmon e-tivities Photo credit Caliburn Susanto [http://www.flickr.com/photos/caliburnsusanto/sets ]

32. 5 stage model : Virtual worlds 5. Development Reflect, share & link to real life Guide 4. Collaboration Jointly build & deploy artefacts, achieve shared goals Facilitate 3. Co-operation Lead Support and offer informationto other avatars Gilly Salmon e-tivities 2. Culture Building Host Personalise avatars, develop identity, connect through artefacts & vw-tivities 1. Access & Motivation Download software, create avatars, learn camera and movement skills Welcome

33. Virtual Classrooms Gilly Salmon e-tivities

34. Recruit • Train • Develop • experience • (environment) • enable • deploy Gilly Salmon e-tivities • Understanding • develop • sustain

35. E-moderating: recruitment Experience as an e-learner Good regular (& mobile) access Pace & use time, ability to multitask, succinct, interruptablity Determination & personal development Gilly Salmon e-tivities In Strict Confidence by computerartsde

36. E-moderating: recruit & induct:understanding online as a social & learning environment Build trust and purpose for groups Appreciation of pedagogy, affordances & scaffolding Create concise, energising messages & responses Build learning from tiny chunks of contribution & resources Switch rapidly from task to task Build e-identity Gilly Salmon e-tivities Great Blue Heron by mikebaird

37. E-moderating: training Enableothers, foster discussion, weave, summarize, restate, challenge, monitor understanding & misunderstanding, promote collaboration Take & give feedback Effective use of personal time Promote vicarious & connected learning Gilly Salmon e-tivities Birds flying in formation over Maghreb by kali.ma

38. E-moderating: training Enable groups, bring in non-participants, pace discussion Understand scaffolding process Scale up Show authority with sensitivity Enhance social & emotional aspects of learning online Gilly Salmon e-tivities Ready to Rock James Jordan

39. E-moderating:development Explore & develop arguments Deploy sparks of information for discussion Promote reflection & consideration Create links with e-learning & make choices for programmes Celebrate & use diversity Be positive about e-learning Gilly Salmon e-tivities Torched by talkingplant

40. E-moderating:development Deploy range of pedagogical approaches Deploy range of technologies E-moderate on the move Communicate with technical designers Communicate without visual cues Diagnose & solve problems Use humour appropriately, Work with emotion, handle conflict constructively Sustain a useful, relevant e-learning community Gilly Salmon e-tivities Bird Houses by See-Ming Lee

41. Weaving: pulling together selected contributions, looks forward, adds value • Summarizing: looks back, inclusive, adds value Gilly Salmon e-tivities Braid, jenny downing

42. Role of storyboarding Gilly Salmon e-tivities

43. Story boarding Gilly Salmon e-tivities

44. Storyboard examples… Gilly Salmon e-tivities Story boarding

45. Using Open Educational Resources Gilly Salmon e-tivities

46. The extent of Creative Commons What licences are available? Kallichj, J. (2010) Creative Commons Intl Map.svg, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Creative_Commons_Intl_Map.svg , accessed 9th August 2011.

47. Open Pedagogy & the 5 stage model . Gilly Salmon e-tivities

48. Take a look for yourself • OER Commons is a place to find and share open educational resources • Jorum • OpenCourseware Consortiumis a collaboration of higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world • List of free and open textbooks • Directory of Open Access Journals over 6,000 journals with more than 3,000 searchable at the article level • http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html • a software search  engine Gilly Salmon e-tivities

49. Using voice Gilly Salmon e-tivities

50. Gilly Salmon e-tivities www.podcastingforlearning.com