Ict To Enhance Programming

March 2008 Paul Treadwell

ICT to Support Educational ProgrammingWebcasts, Wiki’s, Blogs and More


The Power of ICT

• ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) Provides Tools that can:– Bridge distance– Provide broad access– Encourage collaboration– Build audience


Framing the Use of ICT

• Development– Collaboration– Creation

• Delivery– External– Presentation

• The “Grey Area”– D & D boundaries are permeable.


When to Use Technology

• If you have: – clear goals– adequate support

• And you feel:– Confident Using the tool(s)

• And the tool/method:– Is accessible to your audience


Tools for development

• Development = collaboration• Multidirectional flow• ICT to facilitate collaboration

– Wikis– Google Docs– Concept Maps– Adobe Connect


What’s a Wiki?

• Web pages designed to enable anyone to contribute or modify content


Google Documents

• Provides online tools to:– Create and edit

documents– Spreadsheets– Presentations

• Controlled access


Concept Maps

• Visualize relationships

• Developed at Cornell University

• Have been used to– Develop web site

structure– Develop decision

trees– Model knowledge


Adobe Connect• Web conferencing tool• Integrates document sharing, audio and

video

• Can be used:– To deliver programming– To collaborate on program development


Boundaries and Trust

• Collaboration depends on boundaries and trust

• Web based tools provide mechanisms to:– Control access– Provide awareness– Communicate with team members


Delivering the Goods

• One way flow• Presentation of content

– Blogs– Webcasts

• Adobe Connect

– Podcasts

• RSS


Blogs

• Easily updated• Originally used as chronological

“diaries”• Provide basic content

management features– Categories and tagging

• Provide syndication services


Blogs illustrated


Podcasts

• Audio files on the web• Uses syndication

– Users can subscribe– Packaged for playback on mp3

players

• Internet “radio”– Easy to produce


RSS

• Allows users to “subscribe” to a site• Is common to

– Blogs– Podcasts

• Used in the creation of “mashups”– combines data from more than one

source into a single tool – Ex. – Google maps and Flickr


Structured Learning

• Learning Content Management System – Delivers distance learning

• Integrates tools for:– Content authoring– Learning evaluation– Learner administration


MOODLE

• MOODLE is the LCMS we use


ICT Strengths

• ICT can facilitate collaboration by providing:– Easy to use tools– Anytime/anywhere access– Awareness/notification (RSS)


Social Networks

• Social networks can have educational value by:– Encouraging awareness of others– Exposing shared interests– Facilitating collaboration between

learners and instructors

• A learning community is a type of social network.


Emerging Tools - Ning

• Online service for building social networks

• Modular design allows for easy customization

• Access controls for public or private networks


Emerging Tools - Skype

• Voice over IP (VoIP)

• Can do video calls

• Free for computer to computer calls

• Not “new”, but we are exploring it’s use


Emerging Tools – del.icio.us

• Social bookmarking

• Keyword categorization by users

• Web syndication


Questionable things

• Second Life– 3d virtual world

• Twitter– “micro”-blogging


Contact

• Questions, comments or more info– Paul Treadwell– Email: [email protected]– Skype: pault36– Blog: http://treadwell.cce.cornell.edu/elearn

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