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Week 2 in Multiliteracies for Social Networking and Collaborative Learning Environments

 

Week 2: January 16 - 22, 2012: DECLARE

Theme: What is/are Multiliteracies?

and Many clouds: A technological lens

 

Keynote Soundbite (< 5 min.): Karen Fasimpaur on 
What draws her to P2PU, and the importance of teachers learning what THEY want to learn, self-driven and from peers

From Teachers Teaching Teachers #273 Thanks for Open Educational Resources with Karen Fasimpaur, Antero Garcia, Daye Rogers 11.23.11: http://edtechtalk.com/node/5048

 

The course as it has evolved so far has patterned itself first on Stuart Selber's triparite breakdown of the topic of multiliteracies

• http://prosites-vstevens.homestead.com/files/efi/papers/tesol/ppot/syllabus.htm 

and more recently on Mark Pegrum's five lenses through which to view digital technologies. 

• http://goodbyegutenberg.pbworks.com/w/page/10972809/Syllabus_Outline2010

 

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: orient declare network cluster focus

Pegrum's five lenses: technological pedagogical social sociopolitical ecological

Selber's 3 aspects of multiliteracies: funtional critical rhetorical

 

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 ;-)

 

What is a MOOC? (Dave Cormier) http://youtu.be/eW3gMGqcZQc

 

 

 

Objectives

 

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.:

 

1. Join the Facebook group if you wish
2. Consider what other networks you are in already or will join (Twitter, for example) and start conversing within them about Multiliteracies (use the hash tag #evomlit)

 

 

    

Also you should address one or more of the following projects  
(these are suggestions; do what interests you):

 

1. Explore 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.de/, using the tag evomlit
3. Check out this presentation for more ideas on tagging and language learning:
   http://braz2010vance.pbworks.com/w/page/27944056/TagGames 
   
2. 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

• Create an aggregated space on Pageflakes, Netvibes, iGoogle, or Protopage 
3. Comment on at least ONE of the readings or viewings for this week ( See Content below)
4. Start a blog or wiki journal to track progress in this course
1. Make at least ONE entry
2. Tag at least ONE blog or wiki posting (or any artifact created for this course): evomlit
3. Visit http://spezify.com/#/evomlit to see what others have tagged

 

Find out more about how to create your Me-Portfolio for this course here!

 

Content Suggestions

 

• Explore the concepts of "The Shallows" and "The Filter Bubble" mentioned in this post: http://justcurious.posterous.com/rethinking-multiliteracies. Consider in particular how you explore these topics, through hyperlinks as opposed to reading the books themselves in depth.  Do you think this way of developing knowledge is a "good" or a "bad" thing?  
• Read the introduction "Many Lenses" in Mark Pegrum's From Blogs to Bombs: http://www.newsouthbooks.com.au/isbn/9781921401343.htm; available here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/multilit/files/EVOMlit2010/pegrum_blogs2bombs_manylenses.pdf
• Jim Buckingham's review: http://jamesbuckingham.net/2010/01/13/blogs-to-bombs-summary-of-introduction-many-lenses-mark-pegrum/
• Carol Tilley: Why Educators Should Embrace Texting, Tweeting and All That Mobile Technology Has to Offer: http://spotlight.macfound.org/blog/entry/playback_why_educators_should_embrace_texting_tweeting_mobile_technology/
• Seminal reading on Multiliteracies: The New London Group (1996). A pedagogy of multiliteracies: Designing social futures. Harvard Educational Review 6, 1. pp.60-92.  Retrieved in 2009 from: http://wwwstatic.kern.org/filer/blogWrite44ManilaWebsite/paul/articles/A_Pedagogy_of_Multiliteracies_Designing_Social_Futures.htm
  Patrick M has written a good critical synopsis of this article: http://pp107pm.blogspot.com/2010/09/thoughts-on-pedagogy-of-multiliteracies.html 
• Stevens, Vance. (2009). Modeling Social Media in Groups, Communities, and Networks. TESL-EJ, Volume 13, Number 3: 

  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 :-)

 

• Michael Wesch, A Portal to Media Literacy, a talk on "Web 2.0 and Learning Environments" Presented at the University of Manitoba June 17th 2008: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4yApagnr0s
• http://www.netvibes.com/wesch
• MORE by Michael Wesch: http://hosted.mediasite.com/hosted5/Viewer/?peid=edd5f8a1a0ad4e2fbacee11257dd2950
• Cristina Costa's Diigo annotation of Wesch's blog posting on this topic: http://www.diigo.com/annotated/d255cb8fcd760a1ce625cf909481ab5e
• Folksonomies: E-language http://e-language.wikispaces.com/folksonomies
• You might consider purchasing Mark Pegrum's From Blogs to Bombs: 
  http://www.newsouthbooks.com.au/isbn/9781921401343.htm; ebook available: http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=565711
  
  In Pegrum's introduction, he says: "we need to ask what changing pedagogy and tools will mean for recognised authority and established truth, as information and knowledge lose their traditional gatekeepers, literacy multiplies into multiliteracies, and languages spawn new registers. What are the consequences of collaborative, interactive educational approaches superseding individualist, transmission-oriented approaches? How should educators accommodate the emerging model of collective intelligence, of which we hear whisperings across the web? Is there any way to reconcile the views of the academics who eagerly, if sometimes uncritically, anticipate the benefi ts of ‘the greatest unplanned collaboration in human history’12 with the concerns of those who insist that ‘Internet learning has, so far, been a tragedy for education’?"
  
  This segues nicely into the Keen / Weinberger materials, below:
  
  
• 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
• Running out of things to do? There are more readings in the archives in the Sidebar ==>

 

Discussion

 

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

 

From "PLN Yourself" (Sue Waters) http://suewaters.wikispaces.com/

Scott Leslie's nice collection of PLE diagrams: http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/PLE+Diagrams

 

Edudemic

• How many of the blogs listed here are familiar to you?
  http://edudemic.com/2011/12/best-ed-blogs/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
• Jeff Dunn suggests 100 Incredibly Inspirational People To Follow On Twitterhttp://edudemic.com/2012/07/inspiration-on-twitter/ 

 

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

• Here Kim talks about the importance of nurturing networks, how those already in such networks can model their cultivation for others, and six ways to start one. This segment is taken from the K12 Online Conference - Fireside Chat with Kim Cofino, http://www.edtechtalk.com/node/4613
• Vance's blog post on hearing this podcast: http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2010/01/i-havent-posted-here-for-some-time-but.html

 

 

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

 

• http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/ReadingLists/delicious.html
• Webslide: Jennifer Verschoor 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

 

 

Tools discussed

 

We'll set up crowdsource spaces where participants can suggest tools useful for the course.  These will be linked here (link forthcoming)

 

• Blogs 
• Blogger with tabs, especially conducive to portfolio approach
• Posterous is becoming one of my favorite blogspaces, so media friendly, and conducive to group work
• WordPress is the choice of many
• Wikis
• My favorite is PBWorks
• which I prefer over WikiSpaces
• GoogleDocs is an excellent wiki for collaboration
• Etherpad clones are great for classwork

 

 

Events this week

See http://learning2gether.pbworks/volunteersneeded