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Week 2: January 18–24, 2010

Theme: Many clouds: A technological lens

This week introduces a discussion of how to see new technologies through technological lens or clouds. As teachers we must figure out what different technologies are good for and leverage that to our advantage. The focus will be on key concepts like tagging, RSS, folksonomies, and aggregation. We will introduce sample implementations using these concepts for language learning and explore techniques and tools for aggregation of content on the web.  Participants will learn to tag and configure their blogs and other web artifacts associated with this course in such a way that their content can be aggregated by other participants here.

Objectives

By the end of this week you should have addressed several of the following projects:

1. Explored and implemented ways of aggregating each other's blogs and wikis, etc .
1. For example, tag at least ONE Flickr photo of YOU with the tag evomlit
2. View the evolving photo planet at http://taggalaxy.com, using the tag evomlit
4. Explored and implemented ways of aggregating content from other EVO courses.
5. Organized collaborative work with at least one other participant using a Web 2.0 space
6. Set up
• Your RSS feed reader: http://justcurious.posterous.com/turning-push-to-pull-ways-to-filter-through-t

  See the posting here http://tinyurl.com/justcurious100112 for embedded screencast showing setup process

• a space on Pageflakes, Netvibes, iGoogle, or Protopage 
7. Commented on at least ONE of the readings or viewings ( See Content below)
8. In your blog or wiki journal to track progress in this course 
1. Made at least ONE entry
2. Tagged at least ONE blog or wiki posting (or any artifact created for this course): evomlit
3. Visited http://spezify.com/#/evomlit to see what others have tagged

Content

• Folksonomies: E-language http://e-language.wikispaces.com/folksonomies
• Mark Pegrum's From Blogs to Bombs: http://www.newsouthbooks.com.au/isbn/9781921401343.htm
• David Weinberger and Andrew Keen debate Weinberger's thesis in "All Things Miscellaneous", posted by Kevin Werbach July 9, 2007 in Conversations Hub: Supernova 2007: http://werbach.com/supernova2006new/downloads/sn-weinberger-keen.mp4

  Full text (of a different debate): http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118460229729267677.html

  Perhaps it's a transcript of this one: http://fora.tv/2007/09/27/David_Weinberger_and_Andrew_Keen

  Author Andrew Keen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Keen discusses his book "The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture" as part of the Authors@Google series, June 5, 2007: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN_n7I0PM3w

• Folksonomies: Tidying up tags, http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january06/guy/01guy.html

Synchronous discussion

• See our Events Wiki

Tools

• Please take a look at our weekly tools for more information

Diigo and Delicious

• http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/ReadingLists/delicious.html
• Webslide: Jennifer has created a Webslides show displaying many of the links above in Diigo

  Visit this page: http://www.diigo.com/list/jenverschoor/evomlitweek2 and click on the Webslides button 

• In 2009 we had Maggie Tsai: "How to Use Diigo for Education" 
• The session was recorded in Elluminate: http://tinyurl.com/090203maggietsai
• An mp3 recording of this session can be found here:

  http://vance_stevens.podomatic.com/entry/eg/2009-02-07T06_54_56-08_00

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