Leigh Blackall Afternoon Workshop for Learnscope Showcase Day

Social networking tools workshop

Screencasting http://screencasting.blogspot.com/

Uses webbased services in preference to software requiring installation as they gives more flexibility about how and where it can be used.

Session started with a brief intro to blogs - different parts of the screen. He uses blog to support learning eg with voice recordings for the odd occasion people don't make it to class, or when we have a guestspeaker.

"I've yet to meet a student who is ferociously self directed with online learning."

A few laughs for starting to delete the entry for Launceston in wikipedia (changes were not saved)
Question from the floor about starting a wiki vs a blog: wiki as a community tool much more complex, because blogs are more personal then you have a sense of ownership and ulitmate control. Invest more time as the response is to me as well - much more personal. Tried to make the blendedlearning.wikispaces.com site as a large wikipedia like site about blended learning but basically has evolved into Leigh and Sean Fitzgerald.

Feedbooks - request for live example from audience. Leigh talked about this using bloglines which was not really where the question was heading I suspect.
Brought up the game that a student had modded to include chemistry questions. http://teachandlearnonline.blogspot.com/2005/12/get-your-assessment-questions-into.html

Bookmarking using Del.icio.us - Leigh suggested in his earlier session that the tag of taslearnscope05 for any material loaded to the web from today. Wendy was the willing guineapig from the audience to set up a delicious account. Whilst listening to the session I have also added this blog entry to del.icio.us By using the information provided by del.icio.us about other people who have tagged this site you can start working through the web and finding other people.

Rebecca was then the guineapig for setting up a blog in Blogger at launcestonretailhospitality.blogspot.com
Speed of setting up a blog and posting - great no wait time for getting it checked etc.

Leigh then added Rebecca's blog to his bloglines account.
Janice was the bloglines guineapig.

Tools are about creating and consuming content - blogging takes more effort to make part of lives whereas we have more history of being consumers than creators.

Flickr.com for creative commons imagery - at http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ specifically for the creative commons licensed material. Leigh quickly showed the note feature. Note to self: Without logging in I have not yet been able to find the creative commons link from the front page. Must add to my bookmarks toolbar.

Posted by Kirsty at December 9, 2005 12:36 PM in taslearnscope05