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Hard to believe, but it is time to share the final assignment for the semester. This is a two part assignment ... the first is to be completed on an individual basis while the second will be completed in your teams. This week we'll give you over half the class to work with your teams, so come prepared with any questions you may have. Also, it is important that you get close to completing the first part prior to class Thursday.
Individual Assignment (Part 1)
You will make three separate blog posts that are designed to be a synthesis your own work from the past semester. We'd like you to draw upon your own posts and synthesize your thoughts around our three themes -- community, identity, and design. Each post will be about one of the themes. Please take time to link to your own posts and to draw upon the work of your classmates that may have influenced you over the course of the semester. When you do draw upon any examples please take the time to link to the originating content.
Team Assignment (Part 2)
As a team, you will be asked to create a single wiki page that will provide a meta synthesis of the 5 core technologies the teams covered in class:
- podcasting
- wikis
- youtube
We'd like you to discuss the 5 core technologies in terms of the of the affordances they provide and their relation to the three themes of the course. We'd like you to draw upon your individual responses from the first assignment as well as from other external sources.
We've created wiki pages for each team that you will use to create your final team synthesis. We will ask you to discuss these in class the last week.
The rest of the Wenger book has been posted to ANGEL. Please read 173 - 221 for next week. That rounds out Part II on Identity. That also means that we should take up identity next week in a pretty serious way and also that you should focus your blog posts on that same concept. The last section is on Design. Feel free to dig into it if you have reading time, but you will need to finish up the rest of the book in the next couple weeks either way. Have a good weekend and I will see you on Thursday.
Drop them as a comment here.
In your teams, take some time to discuss these questions and be ready to share your thoughts.
- What do you see as the higher education translation into k-12?
- You've all been to traditional conferences, did the back channel conversations (powered by social media) change the experience? What are some takeaways as it relates to your own future learning environments?
- Characterize your identity and relationship to the other TLT participants
- Did you get a sense that there was a clear TLT community based on your interactions with the people there? What sort of evidence can you state as to whether it is a community?
Made you look. Actually, thanks to bburns you will not have readings this week. Please post on your experience at TLT symposium this weekend (or whatever alternative activity you were involved in). Obviously, you should try and connect to the three themes (identity, community, and design if you forgot). Next week I will post another section of the Wenger book along with an interesting article about the Web 2.0 mindset and its impact on education/learning. Hopefully you all enjoyed and learned from your TLT experience and will insights to share. See you on Thursday.
Please sign up for the TLT Tag Team. This is the stuff we'll be asking for you to be helpful with:
- Tag your photos [Flickr]
- Tag your writing [blogs@PSU]
- Tag your web sites [del.icio.us]
- Tag your activity [Twitter]
- Tag yourself [stickers]
Those of you still trying to figure out what Twitter is should watch the new Twitter video from the folks at Common Craft. Those of you hooked into the "TwitterStream" can leave comments here about why you have gotten engaged -- I know some of you are Twitter people, so let's hear from you!
Hi all ... Bart Pursel from the College of Information Sciences and Technology will be in class on Thursday to talk to you a bit about virtual worlds and how they play out in a learning landscape. Bart maintains a blog that you might want to take a look at it. He also passed a link along to a PDF he'd like you to skim over. It should be a fun and interesting discussion, so please try to come ready to participate.
It was painful, but we were able to come up with five somewhat interesting uses for podcasting:
- Discover and share podcasts within specific areas of interest
- Formal or informal interviews with students, faculty, professionals
- Focus group related to a specific topics
- Brainstorming and capturing group thinking
- Guiding people through tasks (audio only, screen cast, video cast)
We'd like you to share links to your podcasts as a comment here and help us think about how we can start to use these technologies over the long haul.
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