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: 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)