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Against the odds

This is the handout for a presentation I made at an ALIA seminar at Flinders University. The seminar was titled, Web 2.0: From the cradle to the future, and I was asked to talk about Web 2.0 issues in South Australian school libraries.

Web 2.0 in South Australian school libraries: against the odds

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Posted at 05:10AM Jul 17, 2009 by Pru Mitchell  |  Comments[0]

Sustaining social networks

This afternoon I am presenting at the Educause Australasia 2009 conference at the Perth Convention Centre. The papers are being published post-conference, but here are links to the presentation as it stands 1 hour before the session.

Sustaining social networks in education [ppt 4896Kb]
Published on Education.au website: Papers and Presentations
Slideshare version
http://www.slideshare.net/pru_mitchell/sustaining-social-networks

Backroad Connections. (2003). What are the conditions for and characteristics of effective online learning communities? Australian National Training Authority.
http://pre2005.flexiblelearning.net.au/guides/community.pdf

boyd, d., (2007, August 6) Generation MySpace - Social networking and its impact on students and education. [Sound recording] Dulwich, Education.au.
http://www.educationau.edu.au/2007-generation-myspace

Canter, Marc (2008, September 1) How to build the open mesh, Marc's voice 
http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/09/01/how-to-build-the-open-mesh-presentation

Cho, H., Gay, G., Davidson, B. & Ingraffea, A. (2007). Social networks, communication styles, and learning performance in a CSCL community. Computers & Education 49(2), 309-329.

Dibben, K. (2003). Making online communities work. EDUCAUSE in AUSTRALASIA 2003 Conference.
http://www.educationau.edu.au/sites/default/files/online_communities_educause.ppt

Drumgoole, J. (2006). Web 2.0 vs Web 1.0. Copacetic
http://joedrumgoole.com/blog/2006/05/29/web-20-vs-web-10

Evans, V. (2007). Networks, Connections and Community: Learning with Social Software . Australian Flexible Learning Framework.  http://pre2009.flexiblelearning.net.au/flx/go/pid/377

Geer, R. (2005). Imprinting and its impact on online learning environments. ASCILITE 2005 Proceedings.  http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/brisbane05/blogs/proceedings/26_Geer.pdf

Geng, H. (2008). Investigation of elements in an online learning community (edna). unpublished.

Gray, B. (2004). Informal Learning in an Online Community of Practice. Journal of Distance Education, 19(1), 20-35. http://www.cndwebzine.hcp.ma/IMG/pdf/GRAY_article.pdf

Hayman, S. & Lothian, N. (2007). Taxonomy directed folksonomy: Integrating user tagging and controlled vocabularies for Australian education networks IFLA 73. Retrieved February 15 2009 from http://archive.ifla.org/IV/ifla73/papers/157-Hayman_Lothian-en.pdf

Johnson, K. (2008). It's all about me [Videorecording] TeacherTube. http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=66284

Johnson, S. (2006, December 16). It's all about us. Time 168(26) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1570717,00.html

Madden, M., Fox, S., Smith, A, & Vitak, J. (2007, December 16). Digital footprints: online identity management and search in the age of transparency, PEW/Internet. 
http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2007/Digital-Footprints.aspx

McDermott, R. (2000, March). Knowing in Community: Ten Critical Success Factors in Building Communities of Practice. IHRIM Journal.   http://www.co-i-l.com/coil/knowledge-garden/cop/knowing.shtml

McLoughlin, C. (2002). Computer supported teamwork: An integrative approach to evaluating cooperative learning in an online environment. Australian Journal of Educational Technology, 18 (2), 227.254.  http://www.ascilite.org.au/ajet/ajet18/mcloughlin.html

me.edu.au FAQs. (2008). Dulwich, Education.au.
http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go/help/me/pid/2033

Mitchell, P. (2007) Learning journeys: sharing the passion. ASLA XX Proceedings
http://www.educationau.edu.au/sites/default/files/PLE_ASLA.pdf

Mueller-Prothmann, T & Siedentopf, C (2003) Designing Online Knowledge Communities: Developing a Usability Evaluation Criteria Catalogue, 3rd European Knowledge Management Summer School http://www.providersedge.com/docs/km_articles/Designing_Online_K_Communities_-_Developing_Usability_Eval_Criteria_Catalogue.pdf

Nielsen, J. (2006, October 9). Participation Inequality: Encouraging More Users to Contribute. Alertbox
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/participation_inequality.html

Oliver, R., & Herrington, J. (2003). Exploring technology-mediated learning from a pedagogical perspective. Journal of Interactive Learning Environments, 11(2), 111.126.

Preece, J., Nonnecke, B. & Andrews, D. (2004). The top five reasons for lurking: improving community experiences for everyone. Computers in human behavior 20(2), 201-223.

Salmon, G. (2003). 5 stage model. E-moderating, 2 ^nd ed. London, Taylor & Francis.
http://www.atimod.com/e-moderating/5stage.shtml

Siemens, G. (2006). Connectivism: learning and knowledge today. Global Summit 2006 Papers, Dulwich, Education.au.  from http://www.educationau.edu.au/sites/default/files/gs2006_siemens.pdf

Smarr, J. & Canter, M. (2007, September 5). A Bill of Rights for users of Social Media. Open Social Web.
http://opensocialweb.org/2007/09/05/bill-of-rights

Stephenson, K. (n.d.). What knowledge tears apart, networks make whole. Internal Communication Focus, 36 .
http://www.netform.com/html/icf.pdf

Stuckey, B. & Arkell, R. (2006). Development of an e-learning knowledge sharing model. Knowledge Sharing Services Project. Australian Flexible Learning Framework.
http://www.flexiblelearning.net.au/flx/webdav/shared/KSS/Development_of_an_%20e-learning_knowledge_sharing_model.pdf

Tu, C., & Corry, M. (2001). Research in online learning community. Journal of Instructional Science and Technology 5(1)  
http://www.usq.edu.au/electpub/e-jist/docs/html2002/chtu.html

Wenger, E. (1998). Communities of Practice. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Wilson, S., Liber, O., Beauvoir, P., Milligan, C., Johnson, M. & Sharples, P. (2006, September 19). Personal Learning Environments: Challenging the dominant design of educational systems. TENC Publications and Preprints, Open Universiteit Nederland.
http://dspace.ou.nl/handle/1820/727

Wordspy (2008). Lifestreaming http://www.wordspy.com/words/lifestreaming.asp

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Posted at 04:16PM May 05, 2009 by Pru Mitchell  |  Comments[0]

Educause 2009 paper: Sustaining social networks in education

If web 1.0 was organized around pages, web 2.0 is organized around people  (Johnson, 2006)

This paper presented at Educause Australasia 2009 draws on experience in innovation projects at Education.au in the past two years considering how social networking might enhance professional learning for educators. The resulting service (me.edu.au) aims to put the individual rather than the institution at the centre of learning, and to provide individual educators with support as they step into Web 2.0. While professional learning and collaborative knowledge construction are desirable goals of professional social networking, this case study outlines challenges faced through the Innovate - Collaborate - Sustain phases of such projects. It provides an evaluation of Education.au's online professional networking project using the 5 stage process of computer mediated communication as a model (Salmon, 2003).

Slides on slideshare
Audio from conference
Sustaining social networks in education conference paper

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Posted at 03:10AM Apr 05, 2009 by Pru Mitchell  |  Comments[0]

Colleagues

This afternoon I am getting started on research for an article on social networking, and interested to find that according to the OED 'colleague' is one of those nouns that can be 'verbed'. A pretty obscure, historical usage that may have found renewed purpose. So when we link up with a colleague in me.edu.au it is quite correct 'to colleague' them - we just have to get used to saying it.

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Posted at 05:48PM Aug 09, 2008 by Pru Mitchell  |  Comments[0]