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1. RE: Good work!
May 31 2009, 3:10 PM EDT
Thanks, I will have a look. I have quite a few new sites to add but in the middle of exam marking at the minute so will take a few weeks.
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2. RE: Good work!
May 31 2009, 8:14 PM EDT
I'm currently preparing for my dissertation that explores the use of social media by the students in my university and the reasons the university provided web2.0 portal has failed. I found this wiki very intresting even though most of the tools mentioned cannot be used in higher education, they still interest me as a pfofessional. I will be around!
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3. RE: Good work!
Jun 2 2009, 2:03 PM EDT
I presume you have looked at the JISC website. They have shown quite a bit of interest in web 2.0 in Higher Education recently. In my opinion one of the reasons that web 2.0 hasn't quite taken off in education is that it strikes at the very heart of HE, who controls and validates knowledge. Universties want to control and own the knowledge, especially in competitive systems such as the UK where profits etc are brought to the fore. Web 2.0 opens knowledge up and it is great to see sights such as axademic world sharing knowledge for the good of all. As a result (and I don't know what your university portal was like) university controlled VLEs tend to be quite restrictive and closed environments and the tools available on the open web are simply better and easier to use. Furthermore, in my experience students can also become reluctant to share with fellow students when the focus is on grades and exams-why should I help someone beat me seems to be the view of many. Finally, many university tutors have been slow to embrace the variety of outputs available through digital media. In my experience they simply want an essay rather than say a video dissertation etc. Web 2.0 tools that allow pupils to write may be of interest but the wider range of tools, as you suggest , find it difficult to find a home in HE. These are just a few rambling thoughts, I hope they help.DW It would be interesting to research student use of web 2.0 outside the portal, is the problem with the university portal or the principles of web 2.0. Do you find this valuable? |
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4. RE: Good work!
Aug 17 2009, 12:18 PM EDT
Youtube can be problematic as many teachers cannot access it at school. I am interested primarily in sites that provide subject content for schools although I suppose pupils could access from home if there was a relevant video
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