Week 3: Jan 24 - 30 , 2011

Theme: Many selves: A social lens

This week we focus more thoroughly on the tools of connectivist knowledge and discern patterns in how these tools facilitate 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/

Knowledge constructs as they develop within connectivist systems can be explored in George Siemens's book Knowing Knowledge, available free at http://knowingknowledge.com (one of our listings at the fictitious entity BerryBush Books).  For a much shorter 2-minute characterization of how this works, see Dave Cormier's short video:

• 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/
• Jane Hart has a list of 100 digital storytelling tools (to be linked later, Vance)
• 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 own 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
• Ed Tech Crew's favorite podcasts (a LOT of them, and good ones!)
  http://www.edtechcrew.net/2010/04/28/ed-tech-crew-123-other-podcasts/ 
  
• Voxopop
• Odiogo

• Voicethread

• Slideshare

• Google docs and similar; e.g.

• Live Documents

• Zoho

• Open Office