Sachania Web 2.0 Economics Teaching
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The Use of Web 2.0 Technologies in Economics Teaching*
Bhagesh Sachania
Information Manager Economics Network
*& Research, Policy, Analysis and Public Engagement
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What is Web 2.0?
• Umbrella term for a range of internet applications
• Examples include blogging and various social network sites
• Moving static to more dynamic web content
• Encourage interaction between and within groups
• User driven and strong emphasis on sharing
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What We Will Cover
• Blogging– Introduction/possible use in teaching
– Examples
– Activities
• Social Bookmarking (Delicious)
• Video (YouTube)
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What We Can’t Cover:
• All the technical and related issues • New revised Guide to Using Blogs in
Economicswww.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/showcase/ayres_blogs.htm
• Looks at software options, writing and managing content, risks, specific uses for Economics and the future for blogs
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Blogs: Key Characteristics
• Journal format
• Messages or posts
• Links
• Use of tags
• Invite comments
• Single or multiple
• Personal
• Departmental/Institutional/Corporate
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Blogs: Key Characteristics
• Ease of use
• Non-technical
• Customisable
• Accessible
• Increasingly a social/networking activity
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Blogs: Educational Uses
• Online teaching resources/research interests
• Course web page
• Online discussion
• Group blog
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Blogs: Examples
• Teaching blogs
• Economics blog aggregators
• Economics podcast blogs
• Individual academic blogs
• Group blogs
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Pedablogy by Steve Greenlaw
• Excellent US blog on Economics teaching
• Emphasis on the use of technology in teaching
• Useful archive going back to 2005, as well as current commentaryhttp://jerryslezak.net/pedablogy/
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Economics Roundtable
• Aggregator site of over 120 Economics blogs
• Can view latest posts, explore links to individual blogs and get a feel for what is happening in the Economics blogosphere
• Good for identifying blogs in your specific subject area, but lots of posts to readhttp://www.rtable.net/index/rt/economics/recent/
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Palgrave Econolog
• Aggregates content from Economics blogs
• Filters posts into: reviews of papers, conference reports, original research and everything else
• Zeitgeist and Hot Topics features pick out trends in the Economics blogospherehttp://www.econolog.net/
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EconTalk
• Part of the Library of Economics and Liberty website
• Features extended audio interviews with Economists and others
• New interviews added every weekhttp://www.econtalk.org/
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Economics in Action
• Part of the Why Study Economics initiative from the Economics Network
• Aimed at encouraging broader understanding of Economics, especially among prospective University students
• Films, audio interview and articles aimed at a popular audiencehttp://whystudyeconomics.ac.uk/blog/
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Greg Mankiw’s Blog
• Supports his teaching at Harvard and his commonly used textbooks
• Uses the blog to keep in touch with current / former students and discuss current topics http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/
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Robert Reich’s Blog
• Former Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration, now teaching at Berkeley
• Extensive comments on current economic policy issues that are also accessible to the general reader
• Supplements his many TV and radio appearanceshttp://robertreich.blogspot.com/
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VOX
• Not a blog but a policy portal to analysis and commentary on economic issues
• Good example of collaborative writing increasing impact
• Articles aimed at a level between journalism and academic journals
• Produced by the Centre for Economic Policy Research – also includes audiohttp://www.voxeu.org/
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Crooked Timber
• Another example of a group blog
• Covers a range of Social Sciences subjects, including Economics
• One of the few sites where you can learn as much from the comments as from the original blog postshttp://crookedtimber.org/
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What’s Changed
• More portal sites, aggregators and group blogs for Economics
• Fewer teaching blogs as more material brought into VLEs
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What’s Changing
• Greater integration of other Web 2.0 content into blogs from YouTube videos, Delicious links and other applications
• US stranglehold on the Economics blogosphere will slowly be broken
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Activity 5: (Social) Bookmarking
• Create a delicious account
• Add a bookmark form your previous list
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Uses
• Excellent way of sharing and managing all your bookmarks
• Find out what other people have been viewing: bhageshsachania
• Choose what to share
• Who to share with
• Potential for collaboration (learning/research)
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What is YouTube?
• Number one video sharing site on the Internet, top 10 of all Internet sites
• Approx. 40% share of online video market - if it's not on YouTube, it doesn't exist?
• Viewers watch 10's of millions of videos each and every day
• Vast majority of videos are "user generated content" - made by people like you and me
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A YouTube profile can
• Upload videos
• Assemble videos into playlists with their own URL
• Recommend videos to other people
• Subscribe to video providers (e.g. Nobel Foundation)
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What you need (1)
• Camera – Flip £90 on Amazon
• Video editing software (Movie Maker/ iMovie) – no charge
• Account on YouTube or other video sharing site – no charge
• Consider a dedicated laptop
• May need a firewire cable or interface if getting a higher-spec camera
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What you need (2)
• Something to say!
• YouTube is a community website, be prepared to engage
• You don't have to have to be the BBC - it's a world of webcams
• Perhaps you'd prefer to be Tim Harford instead
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Example: Economics Network
• Uploading student videos
• Playlists
• Recommending Oxford Brookes student presentation videos
• Monitoring other providers
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Educational Uses
• Distance learning
• Supplementary lectures (e.g. maths skills, presentation skills)
• Contextualising an issue, e.g. old news footage
• Perspectives for students to examine critically (news coverage, activist videos, TED lectures)
• Screen capture (e.g. demonstrating software)
• Short humour items to break up a long lecture
• Student video assignment?
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Audience feedback
• “Inspired and emotional. I go all teary-eyed watching this.”
• “This guy makes Statistics much more fun. I am speechless to him, a truly amazing guy.
• “This is absolute mastery, I'm awed.”
• “Educational talk, yet innovative enough to stick in your mind forever.. Sticky Statistics!!”
• “I love this man. What I like most of him is the hope in a better future he gives with the strength of solid arguments.”
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Finding more videos (1)
• Findability on YouTube is awful - try the Education section, try searching for Economics
• Video can't be indexed in the same way as text - relies on user input / metadata
• Third parties can help to get beyond the what's popular / new lists
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Finding more videos (2)
• Intute Social Sciencesintute.ac.uk/socialsciences
• Economics Network video indexeconomicsnetwork.ac.uk/teaching/video
• Subscribe to EN’s YouTube profileyoutube.com/economicsnetwork
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SlideShare - what is it?
• Upload PowerPoint presentations so they are freely available online
• Easily embeddable in other services e.g. blogs
• Add an mp3 soundtrack / narration and sync it with the slides
• YouTube for PowerPoint
• Community features such as tags, comments, favourites, related SlideCasts etc.
• http://www.slideshare.net/
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SlideShare - an example
• Initially presented to 25 people at the DEE conference in 2007
• Now viewed over over 1300 times, downloaded over 50 times, embedded in 5 other websites
• Adding an audio track makes a SlideShare much more useful
• http://www.slideshare.net/cfbloke/the-effective-use-of-blogs-in-economics-education/
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SlideShare - possible uses
• Disseminating lecture material for revision purposes
• Discuss lecture material using the comments feature to aid understanding
• As a student assignment assessing virtual presentation skills
• Find other presentations on your topic - save reinventing the wheel
• Building up a body of resources over time on a particular topic
• Drawing together conference / seminar materials using a common "tag"
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Stephen Kinsella
• Great example of using a blog for teaching
• Uses polls, lecture videos and short articles to support each lecture
• Brings together content from a range of Web 2.0 sites – Twitter, Delicious, SlideShare etc.http://www.stephenkinsella.net/
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Advice and Information
• Start with a hosted service
• Have a clear idea about what to produce– Examples: personal web page, research blog,
course outline
• Build it into your work routine, so it’s not an extra job
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Intute
Intute: Social Sciences - a guide to the best of the web for education and research
http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/economics/
Over 1000 high quality economics Internet resources
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Economics Network
Economics Network
http://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk
Bookmarks and presentation will be available on