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PAL Award Training Session 2 (01.11.11)
1. Learning Development
Peer Assisted Learning Leicester Award:
Training Session 2
Matt Mobbs
Steve Rooney
Zoe Enstone
Marta Ulanicka
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2. Plan of session
• Social media
• OER and the Creative Commons licence
• Independent IT/group work
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3. What is Social Media?
Internet services
where online content
is generated by the
users.
Users comment on
and discuss the
content.
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4. Tools for education
Experiencial
Instapaper Interactive
Social
Collaborative
Wordpress
Wikispaces
blogger Posterous
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5. “The only person
who is educated is
the one who has
learned how to learn
and change.”
Carl Rogers
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10. What are OER?
“Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning
materials that are freely available online for everyone to
use, whether you are an instructor, student or self-learner.
Examples of OER include: full courses, course
modules, syllabi, lectures, homework assignments, quizzes, lab
and classroom activities, pedagogical
materials, games, simulations, and many more resources
contained in digital media collections from around the world.”
https://openeducationalresources.pbworks.com/w/page/24836
860/What%20are%20Open%20Educational%20Resources
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11. What is a Creative Commons licence?
“Our tools give everyone from individual creators to large
companies and institutions a simple, standardized way to keep
their copyright while allowing certain uses of their work — a
“some rights reserved” approach to copyright — which makes
their creative, educational, and scientific content instantly more
compatible with the full potential of the internet.”
http://creativecommons.org/about
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12. Where should I look for OER?
http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/careers/ld/resources http://www.jorum.ac.uk
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn
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13. Remainder of this session
• Try out the social media
• Make use of us and ask questions
• Talk and plan in your groups
Refreshments are available in the Library Seminar Room
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14. Proposal: new due date: 14th November
Accessed online:
• Title
• Proposal (200-300 words)
– use the project stages document as a guide
– include timescales and division of responsibility within the team
• What resources will you need?
• What skills will you need to develop?
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16. Contacting us and staying in touch
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palaward@le.ac.uk
(0116) 2231889
2nd floor,
David Wilson library
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Notas del editor
Social networking, social bookmarking, blogging, videos, collaborative writing – all these buzzwords that you hear within Education – social media embodies all of these.
Carl Rogers – famous psychologist and educator, who is credited with introducing the person-centred approach within psychology, or within education, the student-centred approach (the idea of considering and planning education from the individual student’s perspective).By introducing social media, you are obviously adding to their content knowledge, but you’re also enriching their experience and introducing new ways of learning. This is why we are so keen on social media within education.
Blogs as you will know are online journals, with entries typically displayed in a reverse chronological order.Wanted to highlight a few examples. Attic = collaborative blog (note that you can have these)
If you hope to aggregate resources, embed discussion forums etc, Google sites is a good way to do it.
Even if you don’t want to use IT mediated support, do the WP handout
