Opening the Box: Building online learning communities with multiuser blogging environments
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Main topics: * Challenges of online learning * What is multiuser blogging? * How can MU blogging be used in higher education? * Requirements * Who else is using MU blogging environments?
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Opening the Box: Building online learning communities with multiuser blogging environments
- 1. Building online learning communities with multiuser blogging environments Presentation by Michael Wilder
- 2. Agenda • • • • • • Challenges of online learning What is multiuser blogging? How can MU blogging be used in higher education? Requirements Who else is using MU blogging environments? Questions
- 3. Challenges of online learning
- 4. Challenges of online learning Interaction • Student to content • Student to student • Student to instructor
- 5. Old Paradigm Instructor – Student interaction
- 6. Challenges of online learning Persistence of content • No public archive • No resources for capstone
- 7. Challenges of online learning Closed system • Student to world • World to student
- 8. Challenges of online learning Student ownership • Control of learning environment • Contribution to the curriculum
- 9. Overview
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- 15. Easy Publication Easy publication •Full range of editing tools •Spellcheck •No Java! •Copy & paste keyboard shortcuts •Drag & drop media uploader •Custom visibility •Drafts •Built-in custom characters •Word count •Paste from text and MS Word •Categories •Metatags
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- 32. Social Media Hub
- 33. Social Media Facebook “Page” Automatic reposting of blog posts with images and podcasts. Uses the RSS Grafitti app. One-way communication No privacy issues Also: Facebook Like Facebook Connect
- 34. Mobile Wptouch theme Automatically adjusts WordPress posts to display on iPhone, iPod touch, Android mobile devices, Palm Pre/Pixi and BlackBerry OS6 mobile devices. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wptouch/
- 35. Integration into LMS Customized Course menu Most left navigation links in contemporary learning management systems (Blackboard, WebCT, Moodle, for example) can be completely customized.
- 36. Requirements Hosting Solution Server • PHP • MySQL Domain name Self-hosted <100$ a year
- 37. Requirements WordPress Free Open Source Easy to install Easy to update Large development community http://www.wordpress.org
- 38. Requirements BuddyPress Free Open Source Easy to install Easy to update Large development community http://www.buddypress.org
- 39. Requirements Themes 1000+ Free 1000+ Commercial Easily customized Easy to install Easy to update Large development community http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/
- 40. Useful Plugins • Akismet – spam protection http://akismet.com/ • BuddyPress - Social networking http://buddypress.org/ • bbPress – forum software http://bbpress.org/ • FeedWordPress – RSShttp://feedwordpress.radgeek.com/ • podPress – Podcasting solutionhttp://www.mightyseek.com/podpress/ • WordPress Wiki – Turn WP pages to wikihttp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpresswiki/ • Wptouch – Format for mobilehttp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wptouch/
- 41. Who else is using it? WordPress in Higher Education 200+ Major institutions Worldwide http://tinyurl.com/7tazukz
- 42. References Brescia, W., & Miller, M. (2006). What's it worth? The perceived benefits of instructional blogging. Electronic Journal for the Integration of Technology in Education, 5, 44-52. Downes, S. (2004). Educational blogging. EDUCAUSE Review, 39(5), 14-26. Ellison, N., & Wu, Y. (2008). Blogging in the classroom: a preliminary exploration of students attitudes and impact on comprehension. Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 17(1), 99-122. Glogoff, S. (2005). Instructional blogging: promoting interactivity, student-centered learning, and peer input. Innovate: Journal of Online Education, 1(5), Jenkins, H., Purushotma, R., Clinton, K., Weigel, M. & Robison, A. J. (2006). Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, IL.
- 43. References Kerawalla, L., Minocha, S., Kirkup, G., & Conole, G. (2008). An empirically grounded framework to guide blogging in higher education. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 25, 31-42. Paulus, T., Payne, R., & Jahns, L. (2009). Am I making sense here? What blogging reveals about undergraduate student understanding. Journal for Interactive Online Learning, 8(1), 1-22. Xie, Y., Ke, F., & Sharma, P. (2008). The effect of peer feedback for blogging on college students' reflective learning processes. Internet and Higher Education, 11, 18-25.
- 44. Credits/Contacts This presentation made by: Michael Wilder Instructional Design Coordinator E-mail | Web Site
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