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Week 2 in Multiliteracies for Social Networking and Collaborative Learning Environments
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Week 1 has become
Week 2: September 12 - 18, 2011 DECLARE
Theme: What is/are Multiliteracies?
and Many clouds: A technological lens
The course as it has evolved so far has patterned itself first on Stuart Selber's triparite breakdown of the topic of multiliteracies
and more recently on Mark Pegrum's five lenses through which to view digital technologies.
It is still useful to view our current course content through the warp and woof of these threads while incoporating the new directions that a study of a topic whose nature changes with each new development must obviously take.
This table encapsulates current vs. past course frameworks:
Cormier's keys to success in MOOCs:
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Pegrum's five lenses:
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Selber's 3 aspects of multiliteracies:
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Week 1 - In the orient phase we introduced some literature on MOOCs and e-Portfolios and had participants find or designate a space where they will anchor their Me-Portfolios for this short course
Week 2 - This week gathers the participants into a distributed learning network that overlaps with other similar networks. Several essential frameworks underpinning multiliteracies will be discussed, and these frameworks will be applied to models of how this course might function (more as a seminar in which knowledge is built through connecting and sharing, as opposed to a course in which the learning paths have been prescribed). Tools which participants can use to foster connections with one another will be introduced. The materials and tools can be sampled and trialed as needed; there is no need to do everything suggested here.
Participants should keep blogs or wikis to record their discovering and progress through the course. This is what is meant by Me-Portfolio: a main URL where other participants can visit to link to descriptions of these discoveries. .
This course is envisaged to function along the lines of a scaled-down MOOC (though not as massive ;-)
By the end of this week or early next (or whenever it's convenient for you) you should be configuring your network tools; e.g.:
Also you should address one or more of the following projects
(these are suggestions; do what interests you):
See the posting here http://tinyurl.com/justcurious100112 for embedded screencast showing setup process
Find out more about how to create your Me-Portfolio for this course here!
http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/past-issues/volume13/ej51/ej51int/
Patrick Murphy, who took the course in Sept/Oct 2010, suggests the introduction to "Educating the Net Generation" by Oblinger and Oblinger. http://www.educause.edu/EducatingtheNetGeneration/5989
He says "The introduction really blew my mind and addresses some of the issues of the relationship between technology and curriculum design I've been thinking about. "Thanks Patrick :-)
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
Bee (Barbara Dieu) has set out an excellent document on threading in mailing lists: http://edutechsig.wikispaces.com/mailinglist
She says: "The most important rule is the one-topic-per-message rule. If if there are two two things you want to talk about, send two separate messages to the list. This is because decent e-mail clients keep track of message threads, which is very convenient if you want to follow any particular discussion on a list. The list archives are also supposed to be viewable by thread, so don't break the threading. Start from a blank message when you start a new topic. Hit the Reply button on the old message if you reply to an old message."
Give some thought to your Personal Learning Environment, and the Personal Learning Network it encompasses
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From "PLN Yourself" (Sue Waters) http://suewaters.wikispaces.com/ |
Scott Leslie's nice collection of PLE diagrams: http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/PLE+Diagrams
This is Kim Cofino on Personal Learning Networks:
From her asynchronous keynote at the K-12 Online Conference 2009
Going Global: Culture Shock, Convergence and the Future of Education,
http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=424
Download here:
KimCofino2009FiresidechatPLE.mp3
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.
Diigo and Delicious
Visit this page: http://www.diigo.com/list/jenverschoor/evomlitweek2 and click on the Webslides button
http://vance_stevens.podomatic.com/entry/eg/2009-02-07T06_54_56-08_00
Tools discussed
We'll set up crowdsource spaces where participants can suggest tools useful for the course. These will be linked here (link forthcoming)
Events this week
See http://learning2gether.pbworks/volunteersneeded