Slide 1: Dan Craig dan@danielcraig.com Seoul National University Language Education Institute
Slide 2: Individualized Web Instruction 2.0 Syndication/Aggregation An Approach to Delivering Content
Slide 3:  Courses designed for general needs  Keeping up with heterogeneous classes  Unique Students = Unique needs  Struggle to accommodate many difficult learner needs (Tomlinson, et al., 2003)  Resources for group needs and individual needs (Henry, 1975)  Proactive & Reactive
Slide 4: Individualization of resources and (some) activities is the rationale for the approach that I will talk to you about today
Slide 5:  Coined in 2001 (O’Reilly, 2005) to describe post-bubble technologies. • Web as platform • Harness the collective intelligence of users (crowd• • • • •  These technical insights are important, but mean little to educators sourcing) Applications are run on data. Data is king. Applications are never finished (perpetual beta) Keep the programming simple Applications run on multiple devices Rich user experiences
Slide 6:  Web 2.0 is more of a social movement than a technology. • From closed systems to open systems • From individual to social • From consumer to producer • Arguably a change in our perception of the world in which we live and our place in it.
Slide 7:  Web 2.0 has no ONE, good definition  Web 2.0 enables users to: • Produce and consume content • Comment on content • Share content with others • Syndicate content for easy distribution
Slide 8:  Some popular Web 2.0 technologies: • Blogs – Blogger, EduBlogs, WordPress • Podcasts - Grammar Girl, Breaking News English, • • • • • • • English as a Second Language Podcast Wikis - Wikispaces, Zoho Wiki, Wetpaint Photo sharing sites - Flickr, Picasa, Photobucket Video sharing sites - YouTube, Google Video, TeacherTube Online social networks - Cyworld, MySpace, Facebook, italki (language learning), and Soziety (language learning) Social bookmarking - del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, diigo Aggregators - Google Reader, Bloglines Personalized start pages – Netvibes, PageFlakes, iGoogle
Slide 9: Web 2.0 technologies supply the content for the approach that I will describe today.
Slide 10:  Syndication • XML Syndication or “feeds” (RSS & Atom) • Text-based representation of content • Script tags for better parsing of content (audio, video, etc.)  Aggregation • Application collects & organizes feeds • Ability to mix (or “mash”) content to fit your needs.
Slide 11: Syndication and Aggregation are the means for delivery and organization of content in the approach that I will talk about today.
Slide 12:  Uses free, online services to organize and distribute targeted content to learners. flexible, responsive practice  Encourages  Encourages students to take control of their own learning.
Slide 13:  Use a service that provides syndication for individual “tags” or keywords. (del.icio.us)  Populate del.icio.us with Web-based resources • Tag resources for optimal distribution • Standardize tags when possible:  Class name (e.g., web2esl)  Skills areas (e.g., writing, grammar, speaking, culture, etc.)  Types of content being linked to (e.g., audio, podcast, video, quiz, blog, etc.)  Student names of pseudonyms
Slide 14:  Demonstration of posting in del.icio.us  Demonstration of a tagged page  Demonstration of a feed  Demo Video (2 minutes)
Slide 15:   Students must use a kind of aggregator (Netvibes) Load aggregator with feeds • OPML • Manual • “Share” with a program like Netvibes  Some suggested feeds to start off with • Your class blog feed – http://web2esl.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default • The class del.icio.us feed - http://del.icio.us/rss/web2esl • Their personal page feeds – http://del.icio.us/rss/web2esl/samplestudent • Skill area pages – http://del.icio.us/rss/web2esl/writing, http://del.icio.us/rss/web2esl/grammar
Slide 16:  Demonstrate use of Netvibes  Demonstrate adding a feed to Netvibes  Demo Video (2 minutes)
Slide 17:  Use it • Use it as main form of communication • Start from the first day of class • Be consistent  Record it • Note everything in your feeds: blog, del.icio.us, or elsewhere. • Build an online repository of resources  Enforce it • Make it clear that they will be responsible for this information and that this is not optional/extra. • Schedule activities or assignments using the class or individual feed. • Post quizzes and other activities that they are required to do (and are graded on).
Slide 18:  Extremely  Not flexible approach. bound to any one product or service.  Most new products/services come with the ability to syndicate. The sky is the limit.
Slide 19:  Focus on the functionality (technology) offered by the services, NOT the services themselves. on the concept of developing learning networks through connecting with content and people. on the fact that the more you grow and tag your repository, the easier it gets to find, process, and disseminate that information.  Focus  Focus
Slide 20: Thank you very much! Any Questions? Dan Craig dan@danielcraig.com http://iucall.blogspot.com http://www.danielcraig.com