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Web 2.0 Adoption In Schools

Presentation given at BAISNet Web 2.0 meeting


Who Participates?

Poll: Who reads the NY Times online? Uses Blogger? Wikipedia? Facebook?

Slide: Five-year trends

Slide: Total known Moodle sites



Top 10 U.S. web sites

1. Google

2. Yahoo!

3. Myspace

4. YouTube

5. Facebook

6. Windows Live

7. EBay

8. Wikipedia

9. MSN

10. Craigslist




Slide: Who Participates



Introduction

Why does a small, wildly enthusiastic group embrace Web 2.0 for teaching and learning, yet the majority do not? A growing club of international edubloggers seek to redefine education using Web 2.0 tools. Students have quickly adopted Web 2.0 to meet their social needs. Yet, only a minority of teachers have embraced Web 2.0 to support teaching and learning in their classes. Almost none employ Web 2.0 in their own professional practice. Why is this so? There must be good reasons, right? Seeking to understand these apparent contradictions may help us better understand what Web 2.0 actually is and what long-term potential the tool has for education.



Connectivism (George Siemens, 2004) may help explain the difference between observing Web 2.0 tools from a distance and embracing them.

• A new theory of learning impacted through technology


• Knowledge continues to expand exponentially and at an ever-increasing rate


• Learning happens in a variety of means, some informal and some through personal learning networks -- what some have termed "School 2.0"


• Focus on the process of knowledge acquisition rather than knowledge itself.


• Challenges the notion that all learning takes place inside the individual



• Technology takes over the tasks of information storage and retrieval ("Hold on while I Google that.")


• Emphasizes skills of acquiring knowledge, making connections, seeing patterns, and making decisions.


• Leadership: highly-connected individuals who help facilitate knowledge flow within the organization.

Potentially Connective Technologies

• Learning environment, learning community


• Blog, wiki, podcast, forum, social network, (video) chat, microblog (doesn't have to be web!)

Examples (focusing on enhancement)

• Summer Reading, Sustainability/Recycling



• Trip Planning Project (kmz file?)


• Reconstruction and Civil Rights Songs


• Pirates of Penzance


• Image galleries


• Becoming a World Class Negotiator


• Knowledge I gain through blogging: school Drupal sites, Riffly, Web Site Baker, K12 Online Conference, EduCon 2.0, connectivism



• The importance of reflective practice in professional improvement: forum diaries, A Window into Gaza

Conclusion

• Still seeking to understand

Suggestions

• BAISNet


• Kassblog blogroll


• Independent School Educators Ning


• Powerful Learning Practice


• Mercy Corps in Gaza

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A teacher came in today with a Quicktime file that had sound but no audio track. How so, do you say? The video and audio were "muxed" (short for "multiplexed') into a single track. While I cannot comment on the advantages of muxing, iMovie couldn't import the file, even though a different copy of iMovie first created the file (by exporting at full quality).

I enjoy Googling for unique words, because you get results so quickly. Google led us to a free utility called MPEG Streamclip, which not only can separate the video and audio tracks of a muxed file, it also purports to convert many other formats, including flv, avi, YouTube (via URL), iPhone, and QuickTime transport files. This looks like required equipment for film teachers and others who use digital video.


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