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The Social Web (Web 2.0) for learning and
teaching

• Tom Franklin
• Franklin Consulting
• tom_at_franklin-consulting.co.uk

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Outline

• What is the Social Web?
• (Why) does the Social Web matter?
• The Social Web and policy

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What is the Social Web
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What is The Social Web

• Personal
• Customisation
• Look and feel
• Included utilities (widgets)
• Sense of ownership
• User created content
• Sharing
• Social

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Personal
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What is The Social Web

• Personal
• User created content
• Authored
• Annotated
• Aggregated
• Re-mixed
• Sharing
• Social

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User created content - video / audio

• Podcasts
• Vidcasts
• Recorded lectures
• Supporting discussion
• Revision talks
• Complex topics that can be reviewed

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User created content - documents and presentations

• Open access repository
• Put course notes up
• Enable students (and others) to comment on them

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User created content - blogs

• Diaries
• Reflections
• Adverts
• Commentary
• Anything
• Get students to comment on each others course
  related blogs
• Course announcements
• Course reading lists with commentary

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User created content - wikis

• Encyclopedias
• Knowledge creation
• Collaborative working
• Group project recording
• Course handbooks

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User created content - Social bookmarking

• Reading lists
• Memory aid
• Sharing
• Finding
• Get students to rate / review content
• Create a course tag
• Create a course account on del.icio.us
• Course reading lists

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User created content - Aggregating

• Pull together all students blogs
• Pull together a set of relevant blogs

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What is The Social Web

• Personal
• User created content
• Sharing
• With everyone
• With friends / colleagues
• User in control
• Social

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User in control
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What is The Social Web

• Personal
• User created content
• Sharing
• Social
• Friends and Family
• Colleagues
• Peers

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Friends and family
Facebook Myspace Beebo
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Colleagues
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Peers (students)
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The Social Web
The solution to all your problems A waste of time
Will change everything Over hyped
Full of exciting tools that will change how we work Full of tools that will disappear
Fun Loathesome
Completely different Just the same
Puts the user in control Puts corportations in control
Works Only geeks can use it
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(Why) does The Social Web matter?

• People are using it - including your students
• It opens up new possibilities
• Supports particular pedagogies
• Social constructivism
• Constructionism
• Group work
• Supports distributed models of learning
• Work based learning
• Distance learning

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The Social Web and policy

• Intellectual property rights
• Ownership
• Re-use
• Control
• Accessibility
• Learning, teaching and assessment
• Security
• Personal security
• Network and IT Systems Security
• Preservation
• Hosting
• Integration

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Intellectual property rights
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Accessibility
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Security
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Preservation
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Hosting
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Integration
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Resources

• Web 2.0 for Content for Learning and Teaching in
  Higher EducationReport I wrote with Van Harmelen
  on Web 2.0. inludes ideas on how to use it
  learning and teaching http//www.franklin-consulti
  ng.co.uk/Reports.htmlTopic6
• 100 Web 2.0 Ideas for Educators mostly aimed at
  schools but lots of good ideashttp//www.teaching
  hacks.com/2006/10/26/100-web-20-ideas-for-educator
  s-an-intro-to-rss-and-more/
• University of Edinburgh's Web 2.0 Initiative Home
  PageA strategic approach to Web
  2.0http//www.vp.is.ed.ac.uk/projects/Web_2.0_Ini
  tiative
• What is Web 2.0? Ideas, technologies and
  implications for educationJISC TechWatch report
  on Web 2.0http//www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/services
  /services_techwatch/techwatch/techwatch_ic_reports
  2005_published.aspx
• Web 2.0 in EducationWebsite with many links to
  useful resourceshttp//www.shambles.net/pages/lea
  rning/ict/web2edu/

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