Currently, folks are introducing themselves giving a general sense of what people hope to learn.
One thing I am am hoping to learn is about the mobile computing topic that Bryan will focus on a good bit this morning.
Bryan – references his slides on slideshare.
What is emerging is not necessarily new. Often the emergence is a new use of a proven technology – example of a bank that incorporated wiki into daily work in 1998. (Delta Principle) Thus emerging technology is determined by people when they apply the technology to a problem.
Intro to Web 2.0 (Wiki Notes)
Bryan is using Slideshare as his presentation tool. It is quite obvious that he has many presentations. Slideshare seems to allow him to have multiple presentations available at his finger tips. – Could be an interesting option for presenting workshops/conference presentations or even multi section courses?
Agreeable points of Web 2.0
- There was a web before last year
- Focus on micro content both in terms of size and usage
- multiply authored rather that omnicient webmasters.
- sense of openness (Openness + Multiple authors = network constructivism)
- Data mashups (the retooling of data from multiple sources into new media/tool)
- always in a state of continual development now release cycle.
Currently, we are talking about the openness of web 2.0. I think I use reusability to define what we are talking about. Also the “languages” of web 2.0 – images and text – are pretty universal these days.
Back from break and working on tags and folksonomies…both relate to how users organize their stuff on web 2.0 … Museums are redesigning exhibits at museums based on tagging. Visit Steve project…
Sounds like we are moving to Rich Media and Web 2.0 – Nope we jumped to Pedagogies…
- web 1.0 – Hypertext, web audience, discussion forum, collaborative document authoring,
- web 2.0 – journaling, media literacy, lms are moving toward this, distributive conversation (loosely joined conversation), collaborative writing, object oriented class discussions.
- These are taking off with web 2.0 because of ease of entry and personalization…
jumping from pedagogy to storytelling…
from storytelling to net.gen
from net.gen to Gaming…
- cultural presence – average age is over 30years old, both genders play games,
- interface design is being influenced by gaming
- machinima – video from 3d gaming software…
- research on gaming and literacy from James Paul Gee…
What can we do with this? We should build games as educators…
- this is costly. so as liberal arts colleges should take advantage of current games or games produced by larger institutions…
- another possible option is mod gaming (modifying games for their personal goals) MIT built a game to teach the american revolution …
- another level is information literacy… take a look at food force World Food Programme from the UN in 2003.
- how does one assess this game (media literacy) viewing games through a critical lense of society, politics, etc…
Were back for the afternoon after a good lunch and great conversation (thanks Sahifq, Jackie, Tom)
A little about mobile computing -
All that is true about web 2.0 is truer when done in a mobile network environment.
Interesting point on US vs World – We don’t view our phones as computers – this must be related to the quality of our LAN and availability of computers.
Pedagogies of mobility – lessons from Europe and Japan
- Spatial Mapping
- Swarming
- mobile devises for research
interesting site to check out – flickrvision.com
Moving on to Podcasting -
How do we find podcasts? (the search tools just aren’t there yet)
Historical background? – took off 3 years ago because of ease of production and timeshifting nature.
