eLearning and Web 2.0

Look at this website for a basic knowledge of elearning and four major functions related to web 2.0:

RSS feeds

Wikis

Social bookmarking

Social networking

These videos embeded in the website have been provided by common craft, a very brilliant organization aiming at explain complex definitions and phenomenons by very simple pictures and text. (Sharon)

Resource For Lesson Planning

(Azalea)It ia a good introduction of lesson planning, with some guidelines and methods for introducing how to make a lesson plan:

Lesson Plan

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What do you think about room 321?

Tell us what you think about the benefits of this room and any possible issues/problems with it?
How could it be used to enhance teaching and learning?

2010-3-15 (session 6): Group Activities 1: What is educational research?

What does educational research mean to you?

Educational research is research conducted to investigate behavioral patterns in pupils, students, teachers and other participants in schools and other educational institutions. Such research is often conducted by examining work products such as documents and standardized test results. (Wikipedia)

Contribution from Joe:

Purdue OWL

fno.org: the educational technology journal

The Journal: transforming education through technology



Contribution from Sharon:

Educational Research Journal

Educational Research Journal (issue and volume, details)

Taylor&Francis Group Website

JITE (Journal Name)

Delicious on VoiceThread (Sharon)

How can social bookmarking tool (such as delicious,) support T&L？

Bump into this webpage when searching on how delicious could benefit teaching and learning. And I find it is very detailed to tell people how useful it is to use delicious to assist learning in education. Please refer to here for details. Here is some contents quoted from the web:

Grosseck described several ways in which Delicious could support teaching and learning, including (Grosseck, 2006):

* Use on multiple computers
* Support for lectures
* Mechanism for building learning communities
* Research resource
* Bibliographical aid (in fact, all references for this article can be accessed here)
* Insights into student interests and needs
* Feeds into RSS aggregators

Grosseck, Gabriela (2006). Using DEL.ICIO.US in Education,
http://www.scribd.com/doc/212002/ Using-Delicious-In-Education

You could also see a PDF document within the webpage named after 7 Things you should know about social bookmarking. Hope it helps if you are not a fan of using online bookmarking for web surfing yet.

Social Bookmarking–Repository–Networking: Possibilities for Support of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (Daniel Churchill, Wing Wong, Nancy Law, Diane Salter, Benny Tai,2009)

I'm now a frequent user of Delicious.

I've tagged every favorite web into Delicious.


You could come and check what's in Sharon's life on Delicious.

how can wiki support teaching and learning

Here, I am going to point out that, besides wikipedia, there are also many useful online wiki pages can be used to facilitate our teaching and learning:
Like PBworks,


it is a “secure online workspace” for users to create, share, contribute to their own or others contents. It is easy to sign in and easy to build a group. So for collaborative projects, it’s a good platform for both teachers and students to contribute on. And, with each student has a unique login and password, you can easily know who made what change. When you need to assess the contribution from students, it could be a good criterion of judgement.

Comparing its editing function with moodle or other discussion forum and blogs, the obvious difference is these wiki pages can be re-edited or modified by any person. And, “generally, wikis have a history function, which allows previous versions to be examined, and a rollback function, which restores previous versions.” So in this aspect, I think wiki is more open access and collaboration-welcome.
(Azalea)