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Week 2 in

Multiliteracies for Social Networking and

Collaborative Learning Environments

 

What to DECLARE in the Multiliteracies course

January 21-27, 2013

 

Themes from the past: What is/are Multiliteracies?

and Mark Pegrum's Many clouds: A technological lens

 



 

Keynotes

 

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 Longer Keynote, specifically for MultiMOOC Jan 20, 2013

Dave Cormier discusses cMOOC and MultiMOOC, connectivism, and openness in learning 

http://learning2gether.posterous.com/dave-cormier-discusses-cmooc-and-multimooc-co

 


 

Week 1 - In the orient phase we introduced some literature on MOOCs and e-Portfolios and asked participants to find or designate a space where they will anchor their Me-Portfolios for this short course

 

Week 2 - Declare who you are and what you hope to achieve in this session

This is where you tell us why you are here

 

This course is envisaged to function along the lines of a scaled-down MOOC (not necessarily massive ;-) Dave Cormier explains what a MOOC is and how knowledge is distributed in it in this simply worded, easily approachable (short) video 

 

 

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

 

This video neatly characterizes the essential frameworks underpinning MOOCs. These frameworks serve to model 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. We will continue to work with tools which participants can use to foster connections with one another. 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.  .

 

Ways to Declare

 

Blogging / Posterous

 

Keeping a blog is a step toward including it, or making it an anchor for, your ePortfolio.  You can call your blog to our attention by making it come up in our tag searches.  The most reliable tag searches these days that we can control are Delicious and Diigo.  Once we find your blog we can find the posts relevant to our session if you tag those posts evomlit and mmooc13.

 

Posterous is one way you can have a voice in MultiMOOC by contributing to, and commenting on, a shared blog.  This post explains more:

http://multiliteracies.posterous.com/declaration-week-in-multimooc-outing-your-voi 

 

Tagging

 

Tagging is the essence of declaring in MOOCs

 

MOOCs organize content differently from courses not designed to scale (such as most EVO sessions). Often in such courses, participants are encouraged to introduce themselves, but the ability to track participants via the information given in such posts diminishes with the size of the group.  MOOCs normally try to address the issue of scale by tracking participants algorithmically.  

 

Technorati used to serve as a tag-finder in blogs. Some years ago a group of colleagues and I managed to get students in various parts of the world to find (and in many cases respond to) each other's blog posts by using Technorati to ferret out all posts with the tag "writingmatrix" <http://writingmatrix.wikispaces.com>. Although Technorati no longer works well for searching blogs without 'authority' some MOOCs use scripts that enable participants to register their blogs, and then in THOSE blogs find the posts with the MOOC tag. Stephen Downes has a script he uses to funnel these posts into a daily newsletter, and ETMOOC has a "hub" where all registered blogs are listed <http://etmooc.org/hub/subscribed/> and an algorithm to tease out and rate featured posts. The MultiMOOC blog http://multiliteracies.posterous.com/ is registered at the hub, and posts made there since Jan 13 have been tagged #etmooc (and we'll see if any get featured, but we're competing with thousands of others jockeying for pole position :-)

 

However they configure themselves, interaction in MOOCs relies on tags. This is why I encourage you to tag all posts and artifacts you find or create with our tags mmooc13 and evomlit (best to use both whenever possible). Once we have a substantial body of tagged artifacts, we can look at our aggregators and see where these tags end up. 

 

Some aggregators are listed in the sidebar at right =======> 

 

<=== Image attribution, cc license

http://ecchirhino.deviantart.com/art/Alligator-Morph-68155873 

 

Apart from the Writingmatrix project mentioned above, exploiting a class tag can be a productive way to organize a blended learning environment, as I've shown here:

 

This week we'll examine a few more ways we can tag content relating to MultiMOOC, and see if we can aggregate that content in some meaningful way.

 

Twitter

 

Twitter 'tweets' frequently include hash #tags, and these tags can be useful in congealing groups ranging from flash mobs to participants in blended learning situations. 

 

Once we compile our Twitter IDs, we can make a twitter list (no following necessary) where we'll have a twitter feed of all MultiMOOC participants at one URL. I frequently use this technique at conferences where delegates tweet using a common #tag. Whenever anyone tweets using that tag, I add them to a Twitter list, and then tweet its URL for the list using the same #tag. That way, like-minded attendees at that conference have a way of getting to know each other. It's brilliant because from the twitter photos associated with each tweet you can look around a session you are in and spot the other tweeters.

 

Delicious and Diigo

 

Another thing we can tag is each other's posts using Delicious in Diigo. I intend to get all your blog URLs from our dbase and visit each of your blogs and tag in with the above tags in Delicious (if you use Diigo, do the same). This is why you should put your blog address here

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aj1610-nt0u4dDE3cHNWYXJidUEwbFNxVWV\0NnZKa3c 

 

There are two ways you can get it there. Maybe the best way is to visit or re-visit this form

http://goodbyegutenberg.pbworks.com/w/page/61341560/participant_form

 

Create an original entry or fill in a duplicate one with any missing information. I can go in and reconcile duplications, no problem. Another way is to get your google ID to me (by this I mean your gmail address) so I can add that address as editor to the spreadsheet, then you can go in and tweak directly. If your gmail address is there already and I haven't added you as editor, I will be doing that shortly.

 

More on Diigo and Delicious

 

 

 

Aggregation

 

There are aggregators in the sidebar you can click on ===>

 

Views may vary, but this is one http://spezify.com/#/mmooc13 view of #mmooc13 where we are starting to crowd out whomever was using that tag before (and also the efforts of a lone spammer :-)

 

 

We'll explore aggregation more in Week 3 (networking).  For now here are some things you can be doing in week 2

 

Week 2 activities

 

Checklist

 

_____ 1. Listen to Dave Cormier's week 2 keynote

 

_____ 2. Write something about this session in a blog post and label that post evomlit and mmooc13

 

_____ 3. Make sure the blog your post appears in is listed on our form
           http://goodbyegutenberg.pbworks.com/w/page/61341560/participant_form

 

_____ 4. Use Delicious or Diigo to tag your post evomlit and mmooc13

 

_____ 5. Tweet about your blog post, or about something else of interest to MultMOOC,
           and include the hash tags #evomlit and #mmooc13

 

_____ 6. Use Delicious and/or Diigo to find other participants' posts at these links

 

_____ 7. Surprise someone! Leave a comment on their blog post :-) 

 

_____ 8. If this process succeeds, create a blog post that reflects on how you might use what you have discovered to support your work or passion and repeat from step 4 above.

 

 

For further exploration

 

Use our tags, mmooc13 for this MultiMOOC session, and for the Multiliteracies community

    

 

Here are more optional projects

 

  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
  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 and mmooc13 

 

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

 

Content Suggestions

 

 

  • 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 :-)

 

 

Linkages with the past

 

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.

 

The course before that was patterned 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 might still be 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:
  1. orient
  2. declare
  3. network
  4. cluster
  5. focus 
Pegrum's five lenses:
  1. technological
  2. pedagogical
  3. social
  4. sociopolitical
  5. ecological

 


Selber's 3 aspects of multiliteracies:
  1. funtional
  2. critical
  3. rhetorical

 

 

 

Events this week

See http://learning2gether.pbworks/volunteersneeded 

 

 

 

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