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=__Web 2.0 and Multiliteracies__=

Developer: Vance Stevens


 * Some background reading, for teachers**

How Choice, Co-Creation, and Culture Are Changing What It Means to Be Net Savvy Educause Quarterly, Volume 30 Number 1 2007 By **George Lorenzo**, **Diana Oblinger**, and **Charles Dziuban**: http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/eqm07/eqm0711.asp?bhcp=1 The original white paper, Oct 2006: http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI3008.pdf


 * __Multiliteracies for PI students 101__

The world of Google** Students are familiar with the search engine, and Google is a 'trusted' site, safe to start an account here, and useful in numerous ways Get a Gmail account; Gmail is not needed, but the acct. name and password can be uses to: > (we'll need to get IT to install this in the labs since users can't install software there) > http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEmss2lg-ug&dpos=1 > //(You Tube is blocked at PI only during 'normal' working hours, or those at PI can access this at home - > We can make camtasia recordings of these videos for students if all else fails, but I think there is a way to capture uTube videos for replay later offline - This just in from Webheads in Action// [|//http://webheads.info//]//: > "//You can save YouTube videos locally with Democracy Player. > http://www.getdemocracy.com/" //- and another one is a plugin called videodownloader)// RSS is an illustration of pull technology; or how consumers of information on the Internet can filter and customize what comes to them rather than, as Falkner once wrote (on losing a at the post office, he would no longer) "be at the beck and call of every [explitive deleted] who's got two cents to buy a stamp" as with a typical push technology such as email
 * access the Google Notebook in your browser's status bar http://www.google.com/googlenotebook/tour1.html
 * start a blog at Blogger http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/blogger_tutorial.htm (updated April 2007)
 * get started with Google Docs and Spreadsheets http://www.google.com/google-d-s/tour1.html
 * The world of Web 2.0**
 * Chris Smith goes some way to illustrating what Web 2.0 is, first at his Shambles site: http://www.shambles.net/web2/ and more obliquely at his blog: http://web2videos.blogspot.com/
 * A practical link to our curriculum: upload PPT slides at [|http://slideshare.net]
 * Open Source Software**
 * A graphically appealing list of open source software: http://www.opensourcewindows.org/
 * A 'busier' list, but usefully, sortable on its different columns - Mohawke's Best of the Best Free and Open Source Software Collection: http://www.digitaldarknet.net/thelist/index.php?page=windows
 * Another comprehensive list of free/opensource and commercial eLearning tools, indexed in several ways, Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies - Making Sense of E-Learning Trends, Technologies and Tools: http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/Directory/
 * PULL vs. PUSH: Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and the glue between them RSS**
 * RSS in very simple terms (video by Lee and Sachi LeFever)
 * Understanding wikis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY
 * Podcasting viewed as a factory that produces apple pies for whales:


 * __Multiliteracies for PI students 201__

Tagging (folksonomies), understanding knowledge dissemination and aggregation in social networks**

This last topic is the essence of a multiliterate approach to knowledge dissemination over the web, but it's a hard one to grasp before the basic concepts are in place. The idea is that FOLKS come up with classification schemes (vs. say the Library of Congress) and then apply these in such a way that content can be aggregated or harvested on these folksonomies (e.g. tags). This concept is essential to how information and in particular KNOWLEDGE is distributed in the modern Web 2.0 where the nodes tend to be peer to peer (not driven from a controlling uber-node or server somewhere). If knowledge distribution is decentralized (and in many institutions the traditonal means of distribution is centralized) then how can people organize and utilize this information when it could be anywhere on the Internet? The answer is in this topic. The techniques are quite interesting. I'm teaching a course on this in Spain this summer and will try to return any breakthroughs in presentation so that it is accessible to newcomers to the topic to my work here at the PI.

Apropos de rien: an EXCELLENT Introduction to Screencasting, from Tech Soup: http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/training/page6885.cfm?rss=1