The Austarlian Flexible Learning Framework has a program going called Access to Bandwidth - which explores collaboration tools and best practices in VET using good Internet connectivity (bandwidth). VET Virtual is a set of collaboration tools to keep instructors and students together.
Most notably, there is a web conferencing feature or Rooms that stream audio / video / whiteboard / applications / presentations and resources. It is really quite amazing and it is free.
You simply sign up and are instantly given a room to utilize and invite people into.
Here is the direct link:
http://202.12.92.214
Thursday, August 16, 2007
What is Flickr?
- The Best Online Photo Management and Sharing Application
Flickr wants to help people make their photos available to the people who matter to them. Maybe they want to keep a blog of moments captured on their cameraphone, or maybe they want to show off their best pictures to the whole world in a bid for web celebrity. Or maybe they want to securely and privately share photos of their kids with their family across the country. Flickr makes all these things possible and more!
From go2web20.net
Explore and Enjoy!
Evaluating Social Networking Tools
How do we evaluate the plethora of social networking and web 2.0 applications out there?
What does our critical framework need to be?
Robyn Jay suggests focussing on what you NEED to do, and picking the application or suite of applications that will help you achieve your goal vs. getting entangled in the next best thing.
Does Tony Bates model ACTIONS still hold validity for evaluating these applications and tools?
Does anybody Know what ACTIONS stands for?
What does our critical framework need to be?
Robyn Jay suggests focussing on what you NEED to do, and picking the application or suite of applications that will help you achieve your goal vs. getting entangled in the next best thing.
Does Tony Bates model ACTIONS still hold validity for evaluating these applications and tools?
Does anybody Know what ACTIONS stands for?
Pedagogy / Andogogy
Social networking aligns / relates to various schools of thought and pedagogy/androgogy such as:
1. Constructivism, Vygotsky view of socially constructed knowledge
2. Cognitive and humanistic psychology, which views learning as primarily a social process
3. Theories of multiple intelligence (Howard Gardiner) and Emotional IQ (EI) which relates social skills, emotional perceptiveness with our ability to communicate effectively, make social connections and problem solve
Many of these theories which once focussed on explaining child and adolescent development extend into views of life-based and life-long learning, which is core and central to the need for social networking.
1. Constructivism, Vygotsky view of socially constructed knowledge
2. Cognitive and humanistic psychology, which views learning as primarily a social process
3. Theories of multiple intelligence (Howard Gardiner) and Emotional IQ (EI) which relates social skills, emotional perceptiveness with our ability to communicate effectively, make social connections and problem solve
Many of these theories which once focussed on explaining child and adolescent development extend into views of life-based and life-long learning, which is core and central to the need for social networking.
Perspectives on Social Networking
McClelland’s Needs Theory
In his acquired-needs theory, David McClelland proposed that an individual's specific needs are acquired over time and are shaped by one's life experiences. Most of these needs can be classed as either achievement, affiliation, or power.
Look at Me / Us – Need for Acknowledgement
Look at Who I / We Know – Need for Affiliation
Look at What I /We Can Do - Need for Power / Recognition
Look at What I/We Made – Need for Achievement
I see these basic needs as intertwining and intersecting with each other and forming the foundational motivation for social networking.
Studies in distance education have demonstrated that an over emphasis on social presence may be inversely correlated to the facilitation of cognitive presence. We can actually generate certain rules / mores / norms online as we generate community, trust and belonging so that we might circumvent risk taking, more critical inquiry and challenging viewpoints or the co-creation of new knowledge.
In his acquired-needs theory, David McClelland proposed that an individual's specific needs are acquired over time and are shaped by one's life experiences. Most of these needs can be classed as either achievement, affiliation, or power.
Look at Me / Us – Need for Acknowledgement
Look at Who I / We Know – Need for Affiliation
Look at What I /We Can Do - Need for Power / Recognition
Look at What I/We Made – Need for Achievement
I see these basic needs as intertwining and intersecting with each other and forming the foundational motivation for social networking.
Studies in distance education have demonstrated that an over emphasis on social presence may be inversely correlated to the facilitation of cognitive presence. We can actually generate certain rules / mores / norms online as we generate community, trust and belonging so that we might circumvent risk taking, more critical inquiry and challenging viewpoints or the co-creation of new knowledge.
What is Del.icio.us?
A collection of Favorites - Yours and Everyone Else's
Del.icio.us let you keep links to your favorite articles, blogs, music, restaurant reviews, and more and access them from any computer on the web. Share favorites with friends, family, and colleagues. Discover new things. Everything on del.icio.us is someone's favorite - they've already done the work of finding it.
From go2web20.net
Explore and enjoy.
Del.icio.us let you keep links to your favorite articles, blogs, music, restaurant reviews, and more and access them from any computer on the web. Share favorites with friends, family, and colleagues. Discover new things. Everything on del.icio.us is someone's favorite - they've already done the work of finding it.
From go2web20.net
Explore and enjoy.
For the Cerebral Ones Amongst Us!
Risks of Social Networking?
This paper, entitled Semantic Analytics on Social Networks, by a research team led by Amit Sheth of the University of Georgia in Athens and Anupam Joshi of the University of Maryland in Baltimore reveals how data from online social networks and other databases can be combined to uncover facts about people. The footnote said the work was part-funded by an organisation called ARDA.
From 9 June 2006 - NewScientist.com news service by Paul Marks
The Future of Tagging
As you manually labour over tagging either your bookmarks in del.icio.us, or photos and sets in Flickr - imagine a software application that intelligently does this for us. Now have a look at Sea Dragon and Photosynth and ponder the future role of artificial intelligence making these types of connections for us.
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Social Networking Discussion with Robyn Jay Aug 15 2007
21 min discussion on social networking and connected people. Among
other things we discuss how we used to socially network growing up,
the role of technology in that process, social networking tools and
the plethora of web 2.0 applications, selecting and evaluating these
tools and Robyn's view on the future of social networking - is it just
a passing fad?
other things we discuss how we used to socially network growing up,
the role of technology in that process, social networking tools and
the plethora of web 2.0 applications, selecting and evaluating these
tools and Robyn's view on the future of social networking - is it just
a passing fad?
Welcome to Let's Be Sociable: Exploring Social Networking Applications
Hi everyone
In just one quick Friday afternoon we are going to explore the connected world of social networking and hopefully emerge with some useful skills and a much broader understanding about all the fuss!
Topics:
1) Sharing your favourites/bookmarks - del.icio.us
2) Sharing your photos - flickr.com
3) Sharing a room together - virtual conferencing Elluminate and VET Virtual (which is free)
4) Sharing responsibility for evidence collection and assessment (blogger.com)
In just one quick Friday afternoon we are going to explore the connected world of social networking and hopefully emerge with some useful skills and a much broader understanding about all the fuss!
Topics:
1) Sharing your favourites/bookmarks - del.icio.us
2) Sharing your photos - flickr.com
3) Sharing a room together - virtual conferencing Elluminate and VET Virtual (which is free)
4) Sharing responsibility for evidence collection and assessment (blogger.com)
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