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given in January-February 2012 for EVO, Electronic Village Online.
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Weeks 3 and 4 in
Multiliteracies for Social Networking and
Collaborative Learning Environments
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Week 3: January 23-29, 2012: Network with http://change.mooc.ca
Week 4: January 30-February 5, 2012: Network and Cluster
Theme: Many literacies: A pedagogical lens
Web 2.0 tools can be used within an e-learning framework. combining face-to-face and mobile learning. Students can use different frameworks, but they can coordinate their online experiences through ePortfolios or personal learning environments (PLEs). Teachers are better placed to coach students in the many literacies they will need to make sense of and participate in the new digital culture. This week, participants are encouraged to explore the flexibility of Web 2.0 tools, develop their personal distributed learning networks, and consider how they can expand their personal learning record from just blogging to documenting their progress in an ePortfolio.
How to succeed in a MOOC (on any scale) depends on these 5 steps
Dave Cormier describes what we're doing now and throughout the session as:
Orient, Declare, Network, Cluster, Focus
George Siemens has an easily approachable posting on these 5 steps, directed at newbies, called
How to participate in an open onlline course, in Rather Random, Sept 12, 2011, available:
http://gsiemens.tumblr.com/post/10153633521/how-to-participate-in-an-open-online-course
"The first few weeks of an open online course are the most disorienting. As a learner, you approach the course with expectations that have been defined by previous learning experiences. You look for readings, you look for the discussion space, and you look to the instructor to detail the content that you need to learn and how you will be evaluated. Let go of those expectations. An open online course is quite different. You create your own spaces of interaction ..." in a process he calls 'wayfinding'.
Vance conducted an online discussion of this concept on January 16, 2011 -
This session was recorded and the link to the recording is here:
https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2011-01-16.0517.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr&sid=75
or
http://tinyurl.com/16jan2011evomlit
One way to focus is to do so in an online portal - here we call that ePortfolio
But YOU can focus in any manner of your choosing and call THAT (whatever it is) ePortfolio
According to Dave ... http://youtu.be/bWKdhzSAAG0
This multiliteracies session might help you achieve that focus and direct it at some collection of artifacts online which you can assemble or aggregate in a set of pointers which we call "ePortfolio"
What should you put in an e-portfolio? See this Illustration for 2010 pp107 participants
http://vancestevens.com/papers/tesol/pp107/eportfolios10.htm
Content Suggestions
Mark Pegrum recorded an intriguing rundown of his current thinking on multiliteracies here:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14223834/Digital%20Lit%20Pegrum%20%282010%29.m4v
Here, Mark arrays a spectrum of literacy skills into four "literacy groups"
- Language literacies
- Information literacies
- Connection literacies
- e.g. Participatory literacies (potentially "dangerous" - why? examples?
- Remix literacies
There's more on these literacy groups here: http://e-language.wikispaces.com/mr3
and a group collaboration page entitled Digital Literacies - Gold Coast: http://tinyurl.com/25394pu
Objectives
By the end of this week (or two) you should have addressed any of the following projects that interest you - share your findings with the others:
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