Teaching and Learning in a Web 2.0 World

1. Teaching and Learning in a Web 2.0 World

2. Today’s Purpose Review of Session 2 • Overview of wikis and blogs • Learning benefits of wikis and blogs • Teaching strategies using wikis and blogs • Wiki search engines; Blog search engines • Wikis by discipline; Blogs by discipline • Custom wiki sites; Custom blog sites • WikiSpaces; creating a custom wiki • Blogger; creating a custom blog • Lesson Plan activity • Assessing learning activities

3. Facebook

4. Facebook What is Facebook? • Facebook is a global social networking site. Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. • Additionally, users can join networks organized by topic, workplace, school, or college. • Social Networks in Plain English • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a_KF7TYKVc

5. Facebook Samples of Facebook

6. Facebook Learning Benefits of Facebook • Students are comfortable with the structure and environment • Informal; inviting atmosphere • Promotes collaboration • Uses current technology; students improve technical skills • Maintains students' interest outside of class • Can have posts and information provided by guest speakers and subject-matter experts. • Promotes personal responsibility - teach students how to use Facebook responsibly handout

7. Facebook Teaching Strategies Using Facebook • Poll Your Class - use polls as an interactive teaching tool • Follow news stories/people/events - news organizations, historic figures (past and present), and historic events (past and present) usually have Facebook pages. • Bring literature (or other topic) to life - students create a Facebook representation of a work of literature • Read book reviews and/or create book reviews using Facebook • Create a Facebook page to be used as a study guide for an exam • Practice a foreign language - students learning a foreign language can connect with native speakers through groups or fan opportunities handout

8. Facebook Dr. Cynthia Ford Add video link.

9. Facebook Facebook Sites – by Discipline • See handout.

10. Creating a Facebook Page

11. Facebook Facebook Training • See tutorial.

12. Facebook Searching Facebook • Search Facebook for: • Appropriate organizations • Journals • Subject-matter experts Activity

13. Lesson Planning

14. Facebook Lesson Plan • Update your lesson plan guide. • Include a Facebook activity that meets the learning objectives by: • creating a custom Facebook page • and • incorporating at least one existing FB page Activity

15. Assessing Student Learning of Facebook Activities

16. Lesson Plan Assessment Assessment • Refer to the Cross Papers booklet on assessment of student learning. • Use one of the rubrics as a model to develop a rubric to assess your Facebook activity. Activity

17. Review

18. Review Review • Overview of Facebook • Learning benefits of Facebook • Teaching strategies using Facebook • Searching Facebook • Facebook pages by discipline • Custom Facebook pages • Lesson Plan activity • Assessing Facebook activities

19. Twitter

20. Twitter What is Twitter? Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers. Twitter in Plain English http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o

21. Sample of Twitter Twitter

22. Learning Benefits of Twitter • Helps students develop skills in information-gathering • Helps students develop skills in writing succinctly • Provides students with a tool for reflection • Provides students with a vehicle for sharing information • Creates a venue for collaborative learning • Directs students' attention to current information regarding course topics handout Twitter

23. Teaching Strategies Using Twitter • Twit Board - Tweet reminders to students regarding homework, project due dates, quizzes and tests, etc. • Summing Up - Helps students focus on and write about a topic in a concise way (to summarize an article, video, or text) • Twitter Stalking - Students can monitor the Twitter feeds from subject matter experts • Micro Write - progressive collaborative writing; students agree to take turns to contribute to a 'story' • Twit Links - Share a hyperlink of current, relevant information • Twitter Pals - pair or group students to discuss important course concepts handout Twitter

24. Meet your Colleague Brenda Ward Watkins

25. Twitter Searches

26. Twitter Searches Twitter Search – http://search.twitter.com The Twitter Yellow Pages – http://www.twellow.com Twitter Troll – http://www.twittertroll.com Who Should I Follow? – http://whoshouldifollow.com handout Twitter

27. Twitter Searches • Use one or more of the Twitter search engines to locate existing Twitter feeds for your teaching discipline and/or lesson plan. Activity Twitter

28. Twitter Twitter Feeds – by Discipline • See handout.

29. Twitter Twitter Strategy – Without Twitter Face-to-Face Classes One-minute Paper with 140 characters. Write what You Know with 140 characters. Summarize a Reading – main point with 140 characters. Online Classes Discussion forum; have students respond to a question, reading, video, lecture, etc. in 140 characters. Assignment; have students respond to a question in 140 characters.

30. Creating a Twitter Feed

31. Twitter Twitter Training • See tutorial.

32. Lesson Planning

33. Twitter Lesson Plan • Update your lesson plan guide. • Include a Twitter activity that meets the learning objectives by: • creating a custom Twitter feed • and • incorporating at least one existing Twitter feed Activity

34. Assessing Student Learning of Twitter Activities

35. Lesson Plan Assessment Assessment • Refer to the Cross Papers booklet on assessment of student learning. • Use one of the rubrics as a model to develop a rubric to assess your Twitter activity. Activity

36. Review

37. Review Review • Overview of Twitter • Learning benefits of Twitter • Teaching strategies using Twitter • Searching Twitter • Twitter feeds by discipline • Custom Twitter feeds • Lesson Plan activity • Assessing Twitter activities

38. Preparation for Next Session Preparation for Next Session • Review your lesson plans • How could the use of video, audio, animations, and graphical elements enhance your lesson plans? • Visit the following: • www.youtube.com • www.teachertube.com • www.merlot.org • What resources do they have that are appropriate for your lesson plan?