I ran a workshop at ALT-C yesterday afternoon on mobile learning though didn’t have time to blog about it yesterday.
Session seemed to go well though I did have about sixty people in a long narrow room.
The feedback from the session can be found here:
http://altcworkshop.blogspot.com/
Please feel free to add comments to people’s blog posts.
Recorded Gabcast podcasts from my sessions at #altc2008 today. They are online now at http://tinyurl.com/hood2feedback
I ran a workshop at ALT-C yesterday morning on Web 2.0 though didn’t have time to blog about it yesterday.
Session seemed to go well though I did have about sixty people in a long narrow room.
The feedback from the session can be found here:
http://altcworkshop.blogspot.com/
Please feel free to add comments to people’s blog posts.
Other stuff from the workshop can be found on
Flickr
http://flickr.com/photos/jamesclay
Qik
Seesmic
Jaiku
http://molenet.jaiku.com/
Recorded Gabcast podcasts from my sessions at #altc2008 today. They are online now at http://tinyurl.com/hood2feedback
A few comments from other people’s blogs and links mentioned as part of feedback.
http://www.projectwhite.com/tag/altc2008/
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2286799/Can-we-use-Twitter-for-educational-activities
http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/04/04/live-reviewing-a-book-on-twitter-here-comes-everybody-by-clay-shirky/
and here’s a reflection
http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/04/07/twitter-reviewing-some-reflections/
http://ashleywright.org/2008/09/09/hood-20-its-a-web-20-world/
http://www.projectwhite.com/tag/altc2008/ – loads of stuff , excellent
Thanks everyone, some great feedback and ideas.
So it’s ALT-C time again and this time I am in Leeds.
So far the conference has got off to a good start, I did enjoy the mobile learning pre-conference workshop I went to yesterday.
I also attended the F-ALT session in the bar and that went well as you can see here, here and here.
Off to do my working soon.
So do your students cheat?
Never?
They don’t hand in plagiarised work?
How do you know?
Did you know that essays by the bundle are sold on eBay?
Dave Foord (an external educational consultant) has written an interesting blog post on Turnitin which is a piece of software that can be used to detect plagiarised work. He believes that the software also has a value in acting as a deterrent to plagarism.
What are you thoughts?
I am running two workshops at ALT-C 2008 next week, one on mobile learning and the other on Web 2.0.
Hood 2.0: it’s a Web 2.0 world out there
This workshop will explore how using Web 2.0 can rethink the digital divide.
Gloucestershire College has been using Web 2.0 to enhance and enrich the learning process for a wide variety of learners across the breadth and depth of the curriculum. They have developed a range of learning scenarios and activities that are integrated into the learning process and support a diverse range of learners.
This workshop will demonstrate how Web 2.0 can be used to solve some of the issues facing diverse learners in this era of Facebook. YouTube, Twitter and then some…
The concept of Web 2.0 services in addressing the tensions between formal and informal learning, and empowering learners to take responsibility for their own learning will be examined. Then, how we need to address the pedagogical needs to drive the use of Web 2.0 services and not be blinded or awed by the technology of Web 2.0, will be explored.
During the workshop participants will be able to discuss and debate different learning scenarios and activities which utilise Web 2.0 services. Web 2.0 services will be used to demonstrate these scenarios.
Participants will discuss and debate these scenarios in small groups, covering how they could be utilised within their own institutions, examining the potential conflict between formal learning scenarios and the informal learning scenarios that Web 2.0 offers.
The groups will also discuss how the pedagogy needs to drive the scenarios and not the technology and address how Web 2.0 can empower learners to take responsibility for their own learning. Each group will provide feedback through either a blog entry, an audio podcast or a video presentation. These will then be made available online to allow participants to comment and continue the discussion beyond the workshop, and also allow other conference delegates to participate in the discussion.
After the workshop, the participants will have a greater understanding of the role of Web 2.0 in addressing the digital divide.
They will have considered how Web 2.0 can help resolve the tensions between formal and informal learning; discussed how Web 2.0 technologies in themselves mustn’t drive the learning, but support the pedagogy; and debated how Web 2.0 can empower learners to take responsibility for their learning.
The participants will have presented the results of their discussion and debate, through the use of a variety of learning technologies, to other participants and to other conference delegates.
I am running two workshops at ALT-C 2008 next week, one on mobile learning and the other on Web 2.0.
The mobility of learning: using mobile learning to rethink the digital divide
Mobile technologies and mobile learning have the potential to change the way in which learners can engage and interact with learning.
Gloucestershire College has been using mobile learning to enhance and enrich the learning process, for a range of learners, across the curriculum. They have developed a range of learning scenarios and activities that are integrated into the learning process and support a diverse range of learners.
Mobile technologies will be used by the participants within the workshop to examine how they can be used for learning and will also be used to feed back the outcomes from the workshop.
In this workshop, small groups of participants will examine the potential of mobile technologies and mobile learning to rethink the digital divide, including addressing the tensions between formal and informal learning, enabling access and removing exclusion, and empowering learners to take responsibility for their own learning.
The workshop introduction will provide an exploration of mobile learning and mobile technologies. Participants will discuss and debate mobile learning scenarios, and cover how they could be utilised within their own institutions, examining the potential conflict between formal learning and informal learning that mobile learning offers. They will also debate the idea and concept that mobile learning is accessible and inclusive for all learners. The small group discussion will also address how mobile learning can empower learners to take responsibility for their own learning. The groups will then feedback through a blog entry, an audio podcast or a video presentation. This feedback will be made available online to allow comment and further discussion beyond the workshop and with other conference delegates.
After the workshop, participants will have a greater understanding of the role of mobile learning in addressing the digital divide. Mobile technologies will have been used within the workshop by the participants to understand the learning scenarios, and the participants will have presented the workshop outcomes through a variety of learning technologies.
In my last posting on Chrome I mentioned Moodle issues with Chrome which I had picked up from Kev Hickey’s note on Jaiku.
I have now installed Chrome (on Vista running in VMware Fusion on my iMac) and is running smoothly and very fast as well.
Tried out the Gloucestershire College VLE (we run Moodle 1.5.4) to see how it worked.
Logged in fine, but as you can see in this screenshot when you try to post a disucssion topic (or a wiki page or a lable, etc…) you don’t get the WYSIWYG HTML editor.
Now if you know your HTML you could format that way, but with a wiki page, are all learners going to know HTML, I think not (as does Kev).
The problem is twofold.
Firstly Chrome uses the same backend browser, WebKit, that other browsers such as Safari uses. You have exactly the same issue when accessing Moodle in Safari – which is why I always use Firefox on my Mac when editing the VLE and adding discussion topics on the VLE.
So why doesn’t the HTML editor in Moodle work in WebKit?
This is the second problem, the HTML editor is an old editor which has been discontinued. Newer HTML editors exist which do work in WebKit browsers such as Safari and Chrome.
The answer from browser developers appears to be, update your web sites and applications!
Eventually things will work fine, as Moodle 2.0 uses the newer TinyMCE HTML editor which does work in WebKit browsers.
So if you are using Moodle you may want to avoid Chrome until your Moodle installation is upgraded to Moodle 2.0
Google have gone and released a browser of their own, Chrome.
Windows only at the moment, so I have not yet installed it.
Looks interesting.
Alas I have heard that Moodle does not work with Chrome, so that’s one thing I will be checking out.
Before they got real big like…
Bill Thompson has written an excellent column on the BBC news website.
Suggestions that content-hosting sites like YouTube and Flickr should review material before they were posted were especially ridiculed. Observer columnist John Naughton pointed out that at Flickr, “uploads have been between 1,400 and 4,500 images a minute”, making the task somewhat less manageable than the committee seemed to realise.
But a couple of weeks later telecoms regulator Ofcom has agreed that content delivered to mobile phones should continue to be restricted. It suggested that although the current self-regulatory scheme managed by the Independent Mobile Classification Body is working it could be made a bit stronger in some ways.
Filtering just does not work, as Bill says
web filtering does not work. The filters either let through material that we would like blocked or, far more often, block material that is perfectly acceptable
It annoys me for example that Vodafone Content Control blocks Flickr, but does not block YouTube! One day I must get those blocks removed.
From an FE perspective, filtering though blocks a lot of undesirable content, is more often used to block social networking sites, or video and image sites such as Flickr and YouTube.
I would never say that these sites are free of undesirable content, but wholesale blocking often can remove many potential assets and resources which can be used for learning.
An astute institution will realise that filtering content is only one thing that needs to be done and that educating students on using the web safely is equally if not more important than jsut relying on technological blocks.