Dr. Dunne went over Web 2.0.
According to Tim O'Reilly
“Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as a platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform." (Wikipedia) Some examples are: blogs, wikis, podcasts, flickr, and RSS feeds.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
11-6-08 Red Owl
Topics:
Informal Organizations as Self-Organizing Social Networks
"Seeing" Learning Communities as Social Networks
Techniques of Social Network Analysis for Educators
In groups we developed sociograms and sociomatrices of a social networks such as a learning community.
In groups we used sociograms to calculate and analyze Social Network properties.
A constraint for a teacher instructing a student can be parents telling their kid/student to choose a career based on how much money one can make. The student may not take the course as seriously because they see it as part of a career their parents don't take seriously.
Informal Organizations as Self-Organizing Social Networks
"Seeing" Learning Communities as Social Networks
Techniques of Social Network Analysis for Educators
In groups we developed sociograms and sociomatrices of a social networks such as a learning community.
In groups we used sociograms to calculate and analyze Social Network properties.
A constraint for a teacher instructing a student can be parents telling their kid/student to choose a career based on how much money one can make. The student may not take the course as seriously because they see it as part of a career their parents don't take seriously.
10-21-08 Exploring the Educational Applications of New Technologies
Dr. Dunne went over more technologies and how they can be used.
Wordle.net is a work of art not a technology. Take any text or group of words which create a tsunami. Mashup is a technology that puts together things in a lot of ways. Copyright, Creative Commands. Moodle- Course Management tool. Hosted- no installation necessary. Blog- WordPress, Google Blogger, Page Flakes, Aggregator- something that will take a RSS Feed, podcast- audio and video, Twitter, Virtual Worlds, GoogleEarth, Scratch- create high level, problem solving, math skills outside the context of a school.
Wordle.net is a work of art not a technology. Take any text or group of words which create a tsunami. Mashup is a technology that puts together things in a lot of ways. Copyright, Creative Commands. Moodle- Course Management tool. Hosted- no installation necessary. Blog- WordPress, Google Blogger, Page Flakes, Aggregator- something that will take a RSS Feed, podcast- audio and video, Twitter, Virtual Worlds, GoogleEarth, Scratch- create high level, problem solving, math skills outside the context of a school.
9-23-08 What You Need To Know To Survive and Thrive in Team
Dr. Dunne went over a lot of technology:
Delicious, Marratech, Skpye, Operating Systems- Windows XP or MAC, MAC switched to an Intel chip, GHz is like an easy pass on the Washington Bridge, RAM- Random Access Memory, Drivers- programs that tell your computer talk to devices such as mouse, keyboard, Universal Serial Bus- USB, Desktop people are gamers, JAVA- computer program language, don't open .exe files (unkown user), Google Chrome, Google Docs overcomes Office 2007 problem.
Delicious, Marratech, Skpye, Operating Systems- Windows XP or MAC, MAC switched to an Intel chip, GHz is like an easy pass on the Washington Bridge, RAM- Random Access Memory, Drivers- programs that tell your computer talk to devices such as mouse, keyboard, Universal Serial Bus- USB, Desktop people are gamers, JAVA- computer program language, don't open .exe files (unkown user), Google Chrome, Google Docs overcomes Office 2007 problem.
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