Social Computing and Learning
Central ideas behind Web 2.0
- Technical: Web as a Platform, Software as Service, Richer User Experience, Lightweight Computing Models, RSS, Add-ins (next week)
- Social: Everyone as Publisher, Harnassing Collective Intelligence, Folksonomy, Social Computing (e.g., Social Networking, Social Bookmarking) (this week)
newsweek pbwiki blogger myspace del.icio.us wikipedia
Collective Intelligence
Wikipedia - Folksonomy
eLearning 2.0
ClassTagCloud
Web 1.0 - Discussion groups, BBS
Social Networking
http://www.linkedin.com - Demonstration
- Profile & Friends
- Search
- Invite
Social Bookmarking
http://del.icio.us
http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com - Demonstration
- Tag based navigation
- Saving a page (with and without the toolbar add-in)
- Searching within contents
Notes:
- Page caching (so I don't lose the pages I've bookmarked)
- Categories of Friends (so I can have family, work, etc.)
- Web Badge for Integration into my Blog
More discussion: Blog Post
Trick: use a tag that is specific to yourself or your group, e.g., blogthis, linkthis, collab201
Peripheral, not rigorous, but perhaps thought provoking, you might
want to look at what people have tagged as "community_indicators" in
http://del.icio.us/tag/community_indicators and
http://www.technorati.com/tag/communityindicators and/or
http://www.technorati.com/tag/community_indicators (I screwed up on
some tags. What can I say?)
Recent example in com-prac:
Search (Yahoo My Web)
http://www.swicki.com
http://www.rollyo.com
Central ideas of eLearning 2.0
- Extending the platform - e-Learning 2.0 is about using specialized software extensions developed by and for educators, as well as with rich, interactive digital resources.
- Facilitate Social Networking - e-Learning 2.0 is about enabling a social experience that recognizes the course is but one social-organizational group in a broader education environment.
- Enable Lifelong Learning - e-Learning 2.0 is about integrating the educational journey across a longer period of time through techniques such as "e-Portfolios"
- Create Network Learning Environments - e-Learning 2.0 is about moving beyond the course towards a more holistic conception of a networked learning environment
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