Week Two Discussion

Recap and Topics of Interest

• Discussion: Delta Items from Week One
  • Deltas
    • Time - "an easier way to learn and incorporate these tools"
    • "introducing 3 new technologies (blogs, RSS, wikis) at the same time is a bit much"
    • "Technologies that are designed for the educational market (Elluminate) do not necessarily work well in the corporate environment out of the box."
    • ... limit class size ... team of 5 work well, 22 does not
    • Lack of specific directions
    • "more descriptions of each tool, its history, reason for being developed, best practices, and good examples"
    • "I'm not sure what a Blog is"
    • "Doing research on the web is time consuming"

• Discussion: TeamFormation
  • Question: What is the composition of teams?

• Discussion: CommunicationApproaches in class (Blogs, Wikis, Discussion Groups)
  • Question: What do we put where?

• Discussion: Plus Items from Week One
  • "Constructivism" - learning is an active process of knowledge creation
    • "Let’s hear it for failure based learning"
  • Different kind of understanding of Blog, Wiki, Discussion Group
  • First-hand experience relative to "control" in collaborative learning

Week Two Topics

WeekTwoAssignment

EffectiveTeaming

SocialComputingAndLearning

CollaborativeLearningDesign

YahooWalkthrough (Optional)