WikiEducator - DIL/Otago Polytechnic

Wednesday 15 July 2008

work on own goals for the first hour - tie up loose ends;
Take post-survey;
Discussion about where to from here;
Timing of focus groups.

Wednesday 2 July 2008 - compulsory

Review progress participants have made in the last week and goals for today.

Participants to work alone or in small groups on tasks to achieve goals.

Merrolee to make times with each participant to review content of action research cycle.

Last 15 minutes, review progress in today's session and set goals for the final two weeks of the project.

Wednesday 25 June 2008 - optional

Discussion via Elluminate with Randy Fisher regarding use of tools such as Wikieducator.

Wednesday 18 June 2008 - compulsory

Introduction to action research cycle, go over task to be completed. People to do this in own time or during workshop today. Merrolee available to meet to discuss, or review and may see clarification (15 mins).

In pairs discuss what's happened during the week in relation to this project. Use this as a base for setting a specific goal for the workshop today. Document goal on paper. (up to 15 mins)

Move to computer lab.

Individual time to work on goal (aided where needed)

Review goal set - was it achieved, where to next (last 15 mins). Remind re action research cycle.

Wednesday 11 June 2008 - optional

Summary of topics covered:

Privacy and social networking The session began with further talk about blogs and privacy.

Generation difference? Do attitudes towards privacy and confidence differ markedly between and within generations? Other differences including those who create in a digital environment and those who consume information.

Change in the way information is disseminated A key shift is where filtering takes place. Previously with newspapers and other forms of publishing the information was filtered before dissemination. The choice lay with those who gathered and edited the information. Now, with Web 2.0 there are opportunities for large volumes of material to be poured out and the filtering happens when people choose what they want to look at, or to have fed to them. They make their own decisions about the merits of the information.

Virus risks Information supplied relating to online safety and Gwen virus protection. This was linked to the use of various platforms.

Individual work This included developing blogs, adding images and video to blogs and wikis.

Wednesday 4 June 2008 - compulsory

3.00 - Round table discussion about people's progress.
A survey was handed out by a participant for the group to test and provide feedback.
One participant is investigating php programming for some online simulation work and online forms etc.
Items such as wikis, podcasting and RSS feeds came up. There was discussion around the true meaning of podcasting. "Podcasting is not just about audio though that is a common misconception, but about broadcasting and sending out packages of information you can download. The trick is to know how to get automatic access to the information by subscribing to RSS feeds."

See blogs for more explanations: Bronwyn and Susan has posted a really nice diagram.

An explanation of Linux and Ubuntu use by a participant - excellent for increasing computer speeds.
4.00 - Moved to the computer lab.
Watched the video called RSS in Plain English - unable to access it on Youtube due to the present organisational overquota, but it played well on BlipTV.
RSS feeds such as Bloglines and Google reader were demonstrated by participants who are using them.
4.50 - People were asked to firm up their goals and make sure they were recording their progress somewhere providing at the very least a summary for the class to view e.g. on the group email.

The next workshop is optional.

Wednesday 28 May 2008 - optional

This was an optional workshop. People worked on their goals. For example:

WikiEducator - the tutorials are useful when getting started. WikiEducator Tutorials
Adding pictures to blogs and WikiEducator.
Accessing blogs and other sites such as Flickr was difficult for some who had mislaid their usernames and passwords.
Animoto for creating video with music from slides.
Using Creative Commons for searching for images, music, video which has some rights reserved items.
Using Flickr to access by attribution images which can be used.
Discussion about access to web facilities - usernames and password difficulties.

Wednesday 21 May 2008

3:00 Surveys were distributed to each participant - copies of what they had filled out online.

Then Sarah was asked to show her blog to the group to meet the objective: 'show and tell' - Who has done something this week that are willing to talk about and show the group?

Sarah showed the group her blog and e-portfolio. There was some discussion about privacy issues. A question was asked about the comparison of Animoto with a similar commercial programme PhotoStory (Microsoft). Animoto can only handle a short show (15 secs). You can pay for a version that will do more. There is also another programme: SlideShare.net. Animoto needs to be compressed or it is very slow to upload.

3:30 Review reflective framework

BH talked about how the reflective framework could be used to write their progress logs/journals and people were asked to write about sarah's show and tell as a practice run.

4:00 Break out sessions - those who would like to learn more from the show and tellers form groups and break out. Those who remain, continue a facilitated discussion to find objectives.

The group went into the computer lab. Three people worked together with LB to find out about screen capture software eg Camstudio and Camtasia. Others worked on their goals, mainly setting up their blogs.

4:50 Action list for facilitators and what they need to organise. Shared actions in the group.

BH to organise a Linux person to meet with one of the participants next week.
Next week will be an optional workshop.

Wednesday 14 May 2008

3:00 - 5:00pm moving between H302 and 310 for computer access if need be

3:00 Overview the session / exits / toilets

3:10 Overview the project / Look at information sheet / project objectives / expectations

3:20 Watch EPIC2014

3:40 Introduction to participants / personal objectives / Facilitator to map complimentary objectives / ideas and discussion about movie

4:10 Discuss relationships in objectives / review format of fortnightly tasks and journal entries / Use reflective framework /

4:20 Complete consent forms / move to computer room

4:30 Do survey

4:50 Set up email group