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• Blogging
• Podcasting
• Wikis
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e-learning can provide:
• opportunities for student-centred and collaborative working
• change from power over learners to “power of the learners”
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Blog is an abbreviation of “weblog”
A weblog is a diary or journal which is published on the Internet and is updated periodically.
Some schools and colleges are setting up departmental blogs as a means of communicating with students, keeping them informed and reminding them of forthcoming events, exam timetables, deadlines and similar. For example, athttp://www.chemistry.blog-city.com/
This is a blog written by an IT tutor who uses it to review and share free IT resources for adult education.http://aceuk.blogspot.com/
One Day in Historyhttp://www.historymatters.org.uk/output/Page99.asp
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www.bloglines.com
www.blogger.com
Getting started with Blogs…
…contact Anna for help
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Getting started with Blogs…
Activity:
• (1) Visit www.bloglines.com - sign up for an account - subscribe to some blogs of interest (try using “quick pick subscriptions”)
• (2) Visit www.blogger.com - Scroll to the bottom and look at Blogs of note & Random Blogs - Consider creating a blog
What is a 'podcast'?
(1) According to Creative Labs, it stands for "Personal On Demand broadCAST"
(2) Ben Hammersley first used the phrase in the Guardian on February 12, 2004, as a synonym for "audioblogging“ as a contraction of "broadcasting" and "iPod" (as a byword for MP3 players).
Podcasting has the potential to offer:
• Learning on demand, at anytime and anywhere (including on the bus or train)
• Engagement through the use of emerging technology
Podcasting
Podcasting
Ready Made BBC Podcasts
Sample news file
Podcasting in Education – examples and ideas
Other Audio Content
Spoken Wikipedia Articles
Educational Podcasts
Example Activity – Using Audio
Helen Keller
(1) How old was Helen Keller when she died?
(2) What is the likely cause of her deafness and blindness?
itunes for free podcasts
PodcastingActivity
Audacity Demo…
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder
You can use Audacity to:
• Record live audio.
• Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
• Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files.
• Cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together.
• Change the speed or pitch of a recording.
..and more
Wikis“Wiki“ is a Hawaiian-language word for fast.
The word is sometimes interpreted as the backronym for "what I know is", which describes the knowledge
contribution, storage and exchange function
WikiA website or similar online resource
which allows users to add and edit content collectively
Ideas for Using Wikis to Support Learning
• A teacher could post some key revision words for students to expand into
definitions / pages.
• Students could work in groups on collaborative documents such as a group report
• Course notes could be refined over the duration of the course by both students and teachers
• Students could research new topics and contribute their findings
• Teacher can start a writing prompt and have students add parts to create a comprehensive class writing activity.
• A teacher could start a story and students could create links off it which would allow the story to follow different, interactive paths.
• A wiki could be a great tool for collaboratively constructing answers to exam questions
Wikis
Activity
(1) Edit one of the Wikis
http://animalsalphabet.pbwiki.com/
Stretch Activities - If time allows:
(2) Look at the page on podcasts (& follow links and contribute)
(3) Visit wikipedia and search “spoken articles”
(4) Set up your own Wiki at www.pbwiki.com
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