Week Three Discussion

Recap and Topics of Interest

• Discussion: Plus / Delta Items from Previous Week
  • Delta
    • "liked to have started the week with more background and knowledge on blogs and wikis ... so my focus could have been on richer information sharing"
    • "Team collaboration might have been better if we had assigned roles soon after Tuesday's meeting"

• Plus
  • "signing up on Yahoo 360 and Yahoo My Web went well"
  • "sharing links with My Web is a lot easier than e-mailing them"
  • "Yahoo Bookmarks allows you to see your bookmarks from home or office"
  • "Yahoo groups worked well for exchanging information with team members"

Question: How could you have used Social Bookmarking this last week?

• Discussion: Project topics, issues
  • Collaborative Learning elements?
    • Positive interdependence - Are you creating sub-teams that will work together, or primarily individual tasks with group processing at end?
    • Individual and group accountability - Relates to previous answer (are they held accountable together)?
    • Interaction - Opportunity for interaction
    • Team / Collaboration / Interpersonal skill development
    • Group Processing - Do you have this in your design?
• Discussion: Social bookmarking, social networking wrap-up

• Topics "missed" in Week 2
  • Tags & Folksonomy
  • Social search
  • Main concepts in eLearning 2.0

Week Three Topics

AddinsMashups

WeekThreeAssignment

CollaborativeLearningFacilitation

ProblemBasedLearning (not covered in class)