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JALT 2007: Social Software Unworkshop
Welcome to Web site for the JALT 2007 Unworkshop on 'Teaching With Social Software.'
Owen James, ICU, Tokyo. Email: okokoj at gmail dot com (spam safe format)
Links:
1. New**Most recent posts from participants' e-portfolios**New
2. This page on the Web
http://tinyurl.com/2xu5am
3. Unworkshop on 'Teaching with Social Software' http://tinyurl.com/2a3nfg
What is an unworkshop?
Unworkshops are very informal. They can be offered on the assumption that learners learn more, more effectively when they learn in contexts that mirror how they learn in daily life. Much of what of what we need to know is learned on the job, on the spot, at point of need. While unevents are still relatively new, unconferences, unworkshops, unmeetings, and unsalons are now conducted all over the world. It is understandable that an unworkshop will not suit everyone, so I will pause here if you think this is opportunity is not really 'you.'
Still with me? OK then, here are our unworkshop details:
1. Informal learning
If you would like to know more, please watch this video from Jay Cross, an active proponent of informal learning.
2. Rationale
Technology (especially social software) and the in-built capacities of networks are causing overwhelming changes in all aspects of society, which means that new skills, understandings, and attitudes are needed for our success in work and study, and in our social lives.
3. Aims
4. Objectives
Over the next nine (10) days (Sat 11/25 - Mon 12/3) you will complete a task that is likely to take you 3~5 hours. You are encouraged to participate in ongoing, online discussions. You will work in a distributed, virtual network to undertake a collaborative exploration of some key social learning technologies by individually completing a shared, common task.
Photo credit: Personal and Public Knowledge.
G. Siemens, Knowing Knowledge. 2006.
5. Online learnscape
This unworkshop is wholly online. These are the individual pieces which you and I will use to link to each other and to the materials. After you have created your individual pieces, I will then connect everyone together to create the virtual, distributed network that will serve our needs during the course of the unworkshop.
*Homepage. The main learning space for this unworkshop is a collaborative wiki. A wiki is web site that anyone can write & edit. Our homepage also has a very simple discussion board that will be handy to let everyone share ideas, ask questions, or get help. Let's see how we can make it work to support our own learning and other participants' learning. Anyone can start a discussion, just click this button at the bottom of this page: Start a New Thread
**Individual blogs. Each of you will set up your own blog to use as an e-portfolio. You will link individual blogs to this homepage. I will also set the homepage to
automatically recieve updates from each blog. If you already have your own blog, you may of course use that, otherwise I recommend setting up your e-portfolio at Blogger, which is a free Google service.
***Google Docs & Spreadsheets (GDS). You will each create a GDS account, which will give you a free web-based word processor and spreadsheet that will enable you to share and collaborate online.
6. What to do
This is the schedule that I propose, which may be altered over time to accommodate individual needs and the needs of the group as they emerge. Please try to complete these tasks by the following dates:
You're done! Thank you for participating in this unworkshop.
Facilitator: Owen James
ELP, International Christian University,
3-10-2 Osawa, Mitaka-shi, Tokyo 181-8585.
Email: okokoj @ gmail dot com (spam safe format)
Office ph: (81) 0422-33-3371
Home 0.5: http://okoj.net/james/
Skype ID: owen_james
Delicious ID: okoj
Owen James, ICU, Tokyo. Email: okokoj at gmail dot com (spam safe format)
Links:
1. New**Most recent posts from participants' e-portfolios**New
2. This page on the Web
http://tinyurl.com/2xu5am
3. Unworkshop on 'Teaching with Social Software' http://tinyurl.com/2a3nfg
What is an unworkshop?
Unworkshops are very informal. They can be offered on the assumption that learners learn more, more effectively when they learn in contexts that mirror how they learn in daily life. Much of what of what we need to know is learned on the job, on the spot, at point of need. While unevents are still relatively new, unconferences, unworkshops, unmeetings, and unsalons are now conducted all over the world. It is understandable that an unworkshop will not suit everyone, so I will pause here if you think this is opportunity is not really 'you.'
Still with me? OK then, here are our unworkshop details:
1. Informal learning
If you would like to know more, please watch this video from Jay Cross, an active proponent of informal learning.
2. Rationale
Technology (especially social software) and the in-built capacities of networks are causing overwhelming changes in all aspects of society, which means that new skills, understandings, and attitudes are needed for our success in work and study, and in our social lives.
3. Aims
- Learn how to use social software using social software
- Acquire proficiency in the use of a wiki, Google Docs & Spreadsheets, blogs, and discussion forums
- Develop an understanding of what is 'social' about social software
- Develop an understanding of the affordances of social software for teaching, as well as for your personal, professional development (teacher as learner)
- Discover whether you want to use Google Docs & Spreasheets as your new home base to create, share, publish (documents, spreadsheets, & presentations), collaborate, and access your work anywhere
- Discover whether you want to further develop your own e-portfolio
4. Objectives
Over the next nine (10) days (Sat 11/25 - Mon 12/3) you will complete a task that is likely to take you 3~5 hours. You are encouraged to participate in ongoing, online discussions. You will work in a distributed, virtual network to undertake a collaborative exploration of some key social learning technologies by individually completing a shared, common task.
Photo credit: Personal and Public Knowledge.
G. Siemens, Knowing Knowledge. 2006.
5. Online learnscapeThis unworkshop is wholly online. These are the individual pieces which you and I will use to link to each other and to the materials. After you have created your individual pieces, I will then connect everyone together to create the virtual, distributed network that will serve our needs during the course of the unworkshop.
*Homepage. The main learning space for this unworkshop is a collaborative wiki. A wiki is web site that anyone can write & edit. Our homepage also has a very simple discussion board that will be handy to let everyone share ideas, ask questions, or get help. Let's see how we can make it work to support our own learning and other participants' learning. Anyone can start a discussion, just click this button at the bottom of this page: Start a New Thread
**Individual blogs. Each of you will set up your own blog to use as an e-portfolio. You will link individual blogs to this homepage. I will also set the homepage to
automatically recieve updates from each blog. If you already have your own blog, you may of course use that, otherwise I recommend setting up your e-portfolio at Blogger, which is a free Google service.
***Google Docs & Spreadsheets (GDS). You will each create a GDS account, which will give you a free web-based word processor and spreadsheet that will enable you to share and collaborate online.
6. What to do
This is the schedule that I propose, which may be altered over time to accommodate individual needs and the needs of the group as they emerge. Please try to complete these tasks by the following dates:
11/24 Sat
Complete Step 4 Do, task 3.11/25 SunRegister for the 'Unworkshop on Teaching With Social Software' by signing up on this homepage.
11/26 Mon
Step 2 Think11/27 Tues
Step 3 Explore
Step 4 Do, task 1a
Step 4 Do, task 1b. (I will set up this homepage to
automatically receive updates from each blog.)
| Your first name | Your e-portfolio URL |
| Owen | http://okoj.net/james/ |
| Bill | http://bharshbargereport.blogspot.com/ |
| Tchansan | http://tchansan.blogspot.com/ |
| Bern | http://unworkshop-bern.blogspot.com/ |
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11/28 Wed
Step 4 Do, task 211/29 Thurs
Step 4 Do, task 4 & 511/30 Fri
Step 4 Do, task 6 & 712/1 Sat
Step 4 Do, task 8 & 912/2 Sun - Mon 12/3
Step 5 Explain
You're done! Thank you for participating in this unworkshop.
Facilitator: Owen James
ELP, International Christian University,
3-10-2 Osawa, Mitaka-shi, Tokyo 181-8585.
Email: okokoj @ gmail dot com (spam safe format)
Office ph: (81) 0422-33-3371
Home 0.5: http://okoj.net/james/
Skype ID: owen_james
Delicious ID: okoj
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| Tchansan | Charting troubled waters | 0 | Dec 4 2007, 8:39 PM EST by Tchansan | ||
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G'day Owen and Bern,
I had a lot of trouble with the chart in GDS. I think because its on-line real time processing the GDS has prroblems keeping track of the data input and so there is like a delayed effect. Little colored disc spinning. I wonder if you had this problem, Owen? Anyway, it definitely is a weakness of the system because it is one of those frustrating times when you feel like technology lets you down and you just want to break a computer. Anyway, so far, so good. Tchansan
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| okoj | Welcome to the Unworkshop on Teaching with Social Software | 2 | Dec 2 2007, 6:43 PM EST by okoj | ||
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Hi JALT Unworkshoppers,
I am looking forward to learning with you and from you over the next fortnight. This is a very simple discussion board that should be handy for easily sharing ideas, asking questions, or getting help. Let's see how we can use it to support our own learning and other participants' learning. Anyone can start a discussion, just click the 'Start a new thread' button at the bottom of this page. Owen
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| okoj | Hi Bernard | 2 | Dec 2 2007, 6:35 PM EST by okoj | ||
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Great to see you also, Bernard. There is a little problem with your blog settings though I think, I am unable to see it as it is open for invited readers only. You might like to make it temporarily public in the settings just for the course of this unworkshop. I am afraid it will not appear in the feed until here: 1. New**Most recent posts from participants' e-portfolios**, unless it is public. Just let me know here if you need help. Best, Owen.
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