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February 2-8, 2009 - Week 4: Communication through the new literacies

This week we focus more thoroughly on the tools of connectivist knowledge and discern patterns in what makes these tools facilitative of enhancing knowledge in distributed learning networks.  Some of these tools filter into a container we currently call 'digital storytelling' and we'll look at these tools in particular and think of ways of using them in developing our e-portfolios.

Picture links to http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2008/12/26/Study_Facebook_generation_learning_skills/UPI-87531230317801/

• Content
  • Web 2.0
    • EdTechWeekly#100 Extravaganza, Top 100 Links from our first 100 shows, October 26, 2008, http://edtechtalk.com/EdTechWeekly100
    • Tools grouped according to learning styles: Christina Laun, 100 Helpful Web Tools for Every Kind of Learner, College@Home, http://www.collegeathome.com/blog/2008/06/10/100-helpful-web-tools-for-every-kind-of-learner/
    • Jane Hart's E-Learning Pick of the Day: Top 100 Tools for Learning 2008, http://janeknight.typepad.com/pick/2008/11/top-100-tools-for-learning-2008.html
  • Digital Storytelling
    • Alan Levine's famous 50 ways to tell a digital story (updated): http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryTools
    • Straightforward steps and lists of resources: Scott Firenza's Technology Page on Digital Storytelling http://www.lubbockisd.org/sfirenza/storytelling/
• Synchronous discussion
  • When I review the materials above I notice tools I wasn't aware of, or maybe I was aware, just, but I'm always struck by the ones that I think might prove useful in my work, but I havent' tried them yet.  Which of these strike you in the same way and why?
• Projects
  • As a group, compile a listing (of podcasts)
  • What aspects of digital storytelling would you include in your e-portfolio
• Tools
  • Synchronous

    • Webcasts

    • Second Life; e.g. Vance Stevens, Second chance for Second Life,  http://sl2ndchance.pbwiki.com/ (references other resources)

  • Asynchronous

    • Podcasts

      • Edtech Talk http://worldbridges.net
      • Chinswing
      • Odiogo

    • Voicethread

    • Slideshare

    • Google docs and similar; e.g.

      • Live Documents: http://mashable.com/2007/11/23/live-documents-a-microsoft-office-killer/

      • http://www.zoho.com/

      • http://www.openoffice.org/