This document discusses collaborative communication tools and strategies for education. It introduces Dr. Leigh Zeitz and provides links to resources on blogs, wikis, Google Docs, Twitter, YouTube, and other social media tools. These tools can foster collaboration, sharing, and the development of personal learning networks among students. Filling out surveys and participating in polls is encouraged to get to know others within this collaborative network.
1. Dr. Z’s Creative Cookbook for Collaborative Communication Dr. Leigh E. Zeitz University of Northern Iowa While waiting, please go to http://tinyurl.com/GetToKnowAboutYou and fill-out the form
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Dr. Z’s Creative Cookbook for Collaborative Communication
Begin with a telephone poll Answer the question and text the phrase that matches your answer to 41411 Remember the include Cast so that it will be read Cast 11997 if you want the first answer. Must warn you that all regular texting charges apply and it might cost you 10 or 20 cents or ?? Some services don’t accept this type of poll so it won’t work with all of you Most importantly, I am use a free polling service and only the first 30 of your will get through. If you receive something saying that your message was rejected, it will probably be because we have already reached our limit.
Information form. Please fill out this form if you haven’t already done that. Each person who has access to the internet can do it, not just one per site Will use your information later in the webinar I collecting this information for demonstration later in webinar. It will NOT be shared with anyone. Would like to have someone who has experience in using Google Docs to share a document later on so I have asked some questions help my assistants select the people to help me.
Presently there are over 1.5 billion users. North America only makes up 17% of world usage Asia composes 40% and Europe has 26% English is the major language (29%) Chinese follows (19%)
Angelia Maiers, an educational consultant in Iowa has an answer to this question She refers to Digital Natives as Digital Comfy or Digital Savvy Digital Comfy means that digital devices are a part of life. But it doesn’t mean that they know how to use it. Digial Savvy refers to the Digital Native who is not only comfortable but also knowledgeable in using technology. That is what we as teachers need to strive to support. So let’s talk about the arena where this is all happening.
Web 2.0 is Participatory It is an application unto itself It is social and collaborative Facebook Generation - about Connecting People 3 kinds of death - body, brain, off line So in this world of social collaboration, what do you need? . . . .
Cooperation is where everybody does the same thing to create a final product. Often when we have students work in groups, they tend to do things cooperatively where everyone works on the same jobs in creating a project. This is cooperation, we need collaboration
Collaboration involves using people’s strengths to create a final project . Notice that we have some people working on the roof and some working on the walls. This strategy uses individuals’ strengths and creates a finer product.
So how do we support Collaboration through the Web? We use tools that optimize the capabilities of Web 2.0 Here are some of the characteristics of such collaborative tools. Multiple editor access Same/different time editing Revision tracking Collaborative communication Update notification
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Horizon Report 2009 and Don Tapscott – Grown Up Digital and Wikinomics post weekly questions to the Discussion forum and leave video messages to the students. Flat Classroom Project – Study Friedman’s Earth is Flat. Study the 10 Flatteners (11) and create videos Digiteen - will discuss issues, research and take action to do with being online in the 21st century. E-racism – use VoiceThread to debate “Differences make us stronger
Show the video from YouTube (3 minutes) Common Craft – Lee LeFever
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28% of online teens have blogs 54% girls post online photos/ 40% boys 19% boys post videos/ 10% girls 66% of teens restrict access in some way / 77% of teens restrict access to photos.
11% adults use Twitter, 6% in May 2008 2008 California Wildfires, Mumbai massacre, Jan 2009 US airways crash into the Hudson Educational Applications Building Communities Collecting Data Keeping up with the leaders in the field. Making yourself known to others Sharing yourself and your work with others.
Jing is a screencapture and screencasting utlity It is a free version of Camtasia by TechSmith ----------Limited to 5 minutes I am going to share Steve Hargadon’s Ning, Classroom 2.0 You might say that I am going to Jing a Ning Hey, Did you hear that Ding ? You might say that it is a Ding that did Ring while having a Fling. If only I had some King Bling Now that we have captured some video, we can save it as a flash file to my own computer Or I can upload the whole video to the Screencast server and they will give me the URL that I can then send or post for others to access. Jing Pro - $15/year
Turn Off Skype Create a You Tube video Leighzeitz Regular
Wikimapia Describing the world one person at a time. You get to place your ideas on Google Maps
Begin with a telephone poll Answer the question and text the phrase that matches your answer to 41411 Remember the include Cast so that it will be read Cast 11997 if you want the first answer. Must warn you that all regular texting charges apply and it might cost you 10 or 20 cents or ?? Some services don’t accept this type of poll so it won’t work with all of you Most importantly, I am use a free polling service and only the first 30 of your will get through. If you receive something saying that your message was rejected, it will probably be because we have already reached our limit.
Dr. Z’s Creative Cookbook for Collaborative Communication