Next Gen Online Learning W V H E T C09

Next Generation Online Learning

Richard. [email protected]

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Skype richardjpierce

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Top 10 Web Trends

The End of Print

The World network

Virtual Reality

E-mail is Dead

The Read/Write Web

Information Overload

The Web as the Platform

The End of Walled Gardens

Community

Mobile

1. Mobile

Top 10 Web Trends

The End of Print

The World network

Virtual Reality

E-mail is Dead


The Web as the Platform / The Read/Write Web

The End of Walled Gardens / Community

Mobile

1. Mobile

Google products

…..Currently in unhappy relationship

…seeking flexible partner

.…who likes children (PK-12)

…and teachers

…who plays well with others

• Microsoft is rolling out lightweight, FREE, Web browser versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote.

• 3 screen strategy

• Browser / Computer / Phone

Path of least resistance

Blackboard Jungle

• Java

• JavaScript

• Pop-up blocker.

• Cookies

• ….the server has been down

IE8

• The latest version of Microsoft Internet Explorer has been known to cause problems with Blackboard. IE8

Goodbye to Blackboard

• You can always access the information outside of the Bb system by going to…..

• http://sites.google.com/site/educ2201/6305-activities

Good riddance

• Extended Blackboard Vista outage Sunday,

• Blackboard Vista will be unavailable on Sunday, starting at 12:01 am and possibly lasting for 24 hours..

Google

• Gmail suffers only about 10 to 15 minutes of downtime per month, giving it an average uptime rate of 99.9 percent.

• http://www.pcworld.com/article/160153/gmail_outage_marks_sixth_downtime_in_eight_months.html

The last straw -assignment tool blues

Courses go online w/Google Sites

Course Activities

Course Activities

Use a Google spreadsheet

• Not associate with a course section or date range.

• Easy to edit

• Easy to re-use (change dates)

• Can be used for multiple classes, sections

• Can edit off line

Student Blogs

Teacher Blog

Email graphic

Email = information overload






How do students submit their work?

They create

• Hello Google Apps admin,

We wanted to let you know about some important changes around published documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.

In a few weeks, documents, spreadsheets and presentations that have been explicitly published outside your organization and are linked to from a public website will be crawled and indexed, which means they can appear in search results you see on Google.com and other search engines.

They Archive

They organize

They organize

Where’s the work?

I don’t care. I just want access.

They share

They share

They discuss

They publish

They publish

The bond

…they bond

They bond

They Take Ownership

…they assume multiple roles

Protégé'

How do I communicate with students /faculty?

• Web sites

• Blog posts

• Blog comments

• RSS feeds

• Some email*

• Synchronous – tools

Skype is one solution

To Make FreeCalls

Millions of people

408 million 8/1/09

Spend billions of minutes

Increasingly using voice + video

Google Chat

Google Chat

Chat ie.

• Student’s work is all online and public.

• Student has reviewed his classmates online work.

• These are new experiences.

Video + chat are powerful tools --- they are synchronous

Top 10 Web Trends

The End of Print

The World network

Virtual Reality

E-mail is Dead


The Web as the Platform / The Read/Write Web

The End of Walled Gardens / Community

Mobile

1. Mobile

• Student created – Organized

– Published

• No textbook(s)

• Nothing passed out

• Nothing returned

• Everything is public – a community of learners

Teacher Preparation 2.0

• Next: An Internet Revolution in Higher Education

• Web technology is poised to shake universities, the way it rocked newspapers and the music industry—with convenient, cheaper alternatives

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2009/tc20090914_969227.htm

Can cash strapped schools afford not to be on board?

• Leverage existing technology

• Expand faculty skills

Questions?? Comments

• Richard. [email protected]

• [email protected]

• Skype richardjpierce

I would love to continue the conversation.




Phones

Google Voice

`On-line Community

• Course materials– Google Docs

– Google Sites

– Ning

• All student artifacts– Peer reviews

– Peer mentoring

Loopt

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• a 1960s band so obscure that their music is not even available on iTunes.

• And who would want to listen to anything so inconveniently delivered on massive four-inch metal discs with sharp, dangerous edges?

No more walled gardens

Zebra community

Top 10 Web Trends

The End of Print

The World network

Virtual Reality

E-mail is Dead

The Read/Write Web


The Web as the Platform

The End of Walled Gardens

Community

Mobile

1. Mobile