Derek Wenmoth

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Web2.0 and the School LMS
What's the connection?

• Derek Wenmoth
• Director, eLearning
• Core Education Ltd
• derek_at_core-ed.net

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Change indicators

• URLs
• Upload and download speed
• Web 2.0

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Spot the difference
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What do kids do online?

• Once they were
• Consumers

• Now they are
• Creators
• Contributors
• Communicators
• Collaborators
• Coordinators
• In an architecture of participation

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Consumers

• Encyclopedias
• How Stuff Works
• Google

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Creators

• Text - NeoOffice, OpenOffice
• Graphics - ArtRage, GIMP, GBModelpro
• Sound - Audacity, GarageBand
• Video - iMovie, MovieMaker
• Games - Alice
• Web pages/sites - Nvu, iWeb

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Contributors

• Blog Comments
• Wikipedia
• Flickr
• YouTube

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Communicators

• Blogs
• Podcasts
• Email
• SMS
• Skype - AC, VC, chat
• MySpace, Bebo

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Collaborators

• Wikis
• Frappr
• 43 things

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Coordinators

• RSS
• MySpace, Bebo
• Flock
• Del.icio.us
• Bloglines
• Tagging

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Personal learning tools

• Personal Web Space - eg http//www.myspace.com
• Social Bookmarking - eg http//del.icio.us
• Photo sharing - eg http//www.flickr.com
• Sharing videos - eg http//www.youtube.com
• Collaborative websites - wikis eg
  http//www.jotspot.com

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Synchronous tools

• Instant message - eg http//www.msn.com
• VOIP - (Voice over IP) - eg http//www.skype.com
• Video conferencing - eg iChat, Skype, MSN

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The Read-Write Web
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Key issues

• Authorship
• Ownership
• Identity
• Community (not audience)
• Discovery (metadata vs tagging)
• Power of the collective (harnessing collective
  intelligence)
• The 4 Rs

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What systems do schools operate?

• Student record system
• Content management system
• Library management system
• Learning management system

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School Systems
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Why online?

• Teacher working from home in the evening?
• Student wanting to access homework?
• Parent wanting to access student record
• Relative wanting to view student portfolio items

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What do schools do online?

• Intranet - searching, retrieval
• SMS - student records
• Library management system
• Access resources/content
• School website
• Share with other schools
• Access online learning programmes

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LMS elements

• Services
• Discourse elements - conversation
• Resource elements - content

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OLE - a schools perspective
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OLE - a student perspective
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School-based OLE
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LMS - OLE
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School-based OLE
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Thankyou

• Derek Wenmoth
• Director, eLearning
• CORE Education Ltd
• derek_at_core-ed.net
• http//blog.core-ed.net/derek