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At the TESOL Arabia 2008 Conference to be held at Dubai Men's College, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on March 13-15, 2008 I present on: Writingmatrix: Engaging collaborative writing through social networking - Abstract: This presentation explains aggregation, tagging, and RSS with respect to filtering content online and describes how these were applied in a worldwide collaboration project involving student bloggers tagging their posts writingmatrix and then using Technorati and Del.icio.us to identify each other's posts and explore mutual interests through social bookmarking. The session is listed at 3:30 Friday March 14 on this document: http://tesolarabia.org/conference/schedule.php
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Writingmatrix: Engaging collaborative writing through social networkingPresented March 4, 2008 at theTESOL Arabia 2008 ConferenceDubai Men's College, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
By Vance StevensLecturer of Computing, Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi,http://adVancEducation.blogspot.com / [email protected]
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How you can find this presentation VanceStevens.com is down right now but
you can Google “Vance Stevens” I’ll post the slideshare and handout links at
http://writingmatrix.wikispaces.com Or you can Google Writingmatrix
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Becoming MultiliterateRequires changing Attitudes Practices in education How we join the “conversation” (some examples)
Twitter http://twitter.com or Pownce http://pownce.com Worldbridges http://www.worldbridges.net/ Webheads http://webheads.info
My course on multiliteracies: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/ppot/p
ortal2007.htm
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Ten aspects of paradigm shift1. Pedagogy:
Didactic --> constructivist2. Modeling:
Do as I say --> AND as I do3. Sharing:
Copyrighted --> creative commons
4. Trepidation:Will they find out? -->
ok to say I don’t know5. Literacy:
Print literacy --> multiliteracies
6. Heuristics:Client server -->peer to peer
7. Transfer: Informal technology is F.U.N. -->
applied to professional practice
8. Directionality:Push --> pull
9. Ownership:Proprietary --> open source
10. Classification: Taxonomies --> folksonomies
Here, I first suggested multiple aspects of paradigm shift required http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/2007alexandria/web20arabia.htm
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Classification: Taxonomies Folksonomies
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Content management vs. overloadKeys to collaboration and control of information resources online Syndication - understanding of RSS Aggregation - add to above, understanding of tagging Mashup - Putting it together in reusable learning objects
This presentation Explains these concepts in terms accessible to educators Describes how the concepts were applied in Writingmatrix:
a worldwide collaboration project
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Syndication --> Aggregation --> Mashup
blogs listservs podcasts online
journals online
newsfeeds Technorati
searches
RSS feeds generated by
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Syndication --> Aggregation --> Mashup
Bloglines or
Google Reader
Pageflakes
and any of these can be subscribed to in
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Syndication --> Aggregation --> Mashup Moodle blocks Embedded videos in blogs
http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2007/10/vances-first-video-production-teaser.html
Pageflakeshttp://www.pageflakes.com/vancestevens/13498617
Netvibeshttp://www.netvibes.com/webdesk
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Writingmatrix: IntroductionInitially involved bloggers in Argentina Venezuela Slovenia
Who utilized tagging social networking tools
to enable the students to locate each other's blogs interact with selected individuals thus identified
as being of similar age and interests.
http://writingmatrix.wikispaces.com
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Writingmatrix: TechniqueTo achieve this, Students are encouraged to blog their interests and concerns tag relevant posts with an identifier unique to the
project Technorati then used to identify the posts of
participants in other countrieshttp://technorati.com/search/writingmatrix?authority=n&language=en http://screencast.com/t/M33ixayEN2J
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Writingmatrix: OutcomesStudents are motivated to form writing partnerships Spontaneously without prior collaboration in projects set by teachers collaborating in the
project
A final aspect of the project is to have students explore areas of mutual interest through tagging
some of their and each other's posts in Del.icio.us, then discern who else is reading and tagging their
posts
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It works! Ronaldo’s comment onhttp://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2008/02/all-i-know-about-blogging-and.html
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