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Participants Interests

lisbk — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:25:16 CDT

In the first exercise the five groups came up with the following areas they would like to be addressed during the workshop:

1 Learn something interestiing; Learn something useful

2 Develop a web 2.0 eco-system (workflow). Play with the technology to find what it can do.

3 How to collaborate. How to sort the information.

4 Sustainability and longevity of services and data.

5 How we can apply new mobile technologies to teaching and learning
How to get over institutional barriers to Web 2.0.

This summary was made by Adrian Stevenson, one of the workshop facilitators.

Note that the information given above was used in the second group exercise, which is available elsewhere in this Wiki.

In addition, this information was also summarised by Scott Wilson, another of the workshop facilitators, on the 43Things.com Web site.

Also note the the workshop facilitators have produced the following responses:

1 Learn something interestiing; Learn something useful
We hope this has happened :-)

2 Develop a web 2.0 eco-system (workflow). Play with the technology to find what it can do.
Workflow issues: RSS can be valuable for output and integration. Web Services technologies may address the broader workflow issues, but this is a non-trivial issue.

3 How to collaborate. How to sort the information.
The workshop session rpovided an opportunity to make use of a number of lighweight communications and collaboration tools.
Sorting information may be more difficult - however we did mentuion the importance of folksonomies (tags) for pulling together related information from a variety of sources.

4 Sustainability and longevity of services and data.
We mentioned a risk management approach to use of Web 2.0 services.

5 How we can apply new mobile technologies to teaching and learning
How to get over institutional barriers to Web 2.0.
We discussed these issues during the workshop.

Home

lisbk — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:09:18 CDT

This Wiki was set up for use by participants on the "Enough Talking - Let's Use The Next Generation Technologies!" workshop session to be held at the ALT-C 2006 conference on 6 September 2006 16.00-17.30.

During the workshop the Wiki could be used by anyone, without the need to login, Access has now been restricted in order to ensure that the contents of the Wiki are not corrupted.

Any workshop participant who wishes to edit the Wiki should contact Brian Kelly, UKOLN - one of the workshop facilitators.

Discussion Group 5

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:51:56 CDT

About This Page

This page was intended for use in the "Enough Talking - Let's Use The Next Generation Technologies!" workshop session at ALT-C 2006.

It was intended for use by discussion group 5 to keep a record of their discussions. However discussoin groupp 5 did not have access to a lap[top and so used a flip chart for their discussions

Exercise 2: Six Thinking Hats

Keep your notes here.

Discussion Group 4

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:49:23 CDT

About This Page

This page was use in the "Enough Talking - Let's Use The Next Generation Technologies!" workshop session at ALT-C 2006. It was used by discussion group 4 to keep a record of their discussions. In the first exercise the groups identified what they wanted to get out of the session. In this exercise they used the 'six thinking hats' approach to address the issues from six perspectives.

Exercise 2: Six Thinking Hats

Goal: learn about something new.

White hat
Available data
New Web 2.x stuff, exciting stuff, enthusiasm evident

Past trends
Always new stuff to be excited about, what next we wonder?

Gaps in the data
There are going to be new things we haven't yet discovered, new ways to use the things we have discovered. How do we use this stuff, how do we know or validate how we use it?

Red Hat
Intuition
New toys are often fun to play with, Are we excited because of the novelty or because of the functionality?

Gut reaction
WOW!

Emotion
WOW

Black Hat

Its just a time waster. Old wine in a new vessel. A sheep dressed up in Wolf's clothing. Weren't we doing this in the 70's anyway? There's nothing new. It will never take off. It won't work. People won't take it seriously. If its doesn't cost anything no one will appreciate it. The new version will be different, and we will have to start again.

Yellow hat

This is fun, it works, its entertaining, its going to be effective, it will do away with Librarians, Its free! it will promote diversity and sharing. Are jobs are secure! The learners will turn up to their lectures (which they won't need anymore)

Green Hat

We could do this with paper, Doing nothing isn't an alternative. Use it or lose it. Teaching and learning can become activity based, content is less important. Just do it.

Blue hat

Choose the education your way - remove outdated and unpopular learning environments, new or virtual.

Discussion Group 3

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:42:39 CDT

About This Page

This page was used in the "Enough Talking - Let's Use The Next Generation Technologies!" workshop session at ALT-C 2006.

It was used by discussion group 3 to keep a record of their discussions. In the first exercise the groups identified what they wanted to get out of the session. In this exercise they used the 'six thinking hats' approach to address the issues from six perspectives.

Exercise 2: Six Thinking Hats

Aim: How to use chat as a collaboration tool

White hat:

No deep learning?
Best as a social tool?
6 max group size.
Students do it for themselves
Students feel they can use it collaboratively
Chat in Google, MSM, Yahoo, etc - how to coodinate.
Foreign language studetns tend to go into a separate one
Blackboard one no good
Trillion integrate all these
Distinction between it literate students and others
netgen coming along!
VLE tools too clunky - student expectaions and previous experience

Red hat:

won't feel right
support for students who are self conscious, wary
peer support for this?
on-campus strategy for induction and support

Black hat:

Poor tools compared with what students experience
will only use institutional system if credited
staff won't touch it with a barge pole
student and staff ambivlence to text exposure
IT systems will not support
Bandwidth issues
Some unis block MSN

Yellow hat:

Personalise contact relations with students
informal
equality of presence
ownership of tools
democratisation of communication?

Green hat:

Wiki
Writley
Fora
Texting
Skype

Blue hat:

Institutional context/obstacles

Exercise 1: xxx

Keep your notes here.

Exercise 2: xxx

Keep your notes here.

Discussion Group 1

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:38:58 CDT

About This Page

This page was used in the "Enough Talking - Let's Use The Next Generation Technologies!" workshop session at ALT-C 2006.

It was used by discussion group 1 to keep a record of their discussions. In the first exercise the groups identified what they wanted to get out of the session. In this exercise they used the 'six thinking hats' approach to address the issues from six perspectives.

Exercise 2: Six Thinking Hats

What is our goal?

play with the technology to find out what it can do

Data oriented hat:

what are the candidate technologies? - what is needed to allow us to be able to play with them?
how do we find the data and what the gaps are?
ask people who might know; Google for info; look for blogs, etc.
if we want to play with them, are they 'fun' things?

Intuitive/gut reaction/emotional hat:

each try a differnewt one and get gut reactions to the technologies
a lot of what we have seen is funky and cool and drew us in - not able to fully engage as don't have wifi access
we have just asked the question on Gabbly
some didn't like SMIL - appealed to the 'inner geek' for some people - is it mature?
Gabbly seemed like any other chat - attaching to a webpage so all can look at same time is good idea
has to be easy to use to be successful (intuition or self-evident?) - look at what is popular that we haven't used

Pessimistic hat - why won't it work?

no university money to do it
could be subversive
will they really be used for swapping ideas or just to fix up the bar time?
feel that we always lagging behind and running to catch up
will it reach the older generation of teaching staff? - but not all students are young
is it all a new labour type spin or is ther depth there?
pushing costs off to students who have already paid for their education?
don't have control over things like del.icio.us - need stuff on own servers etc.

Positive hat:

wikis good for reflection in groups - learning from mistakes before encounter them in real lfe
puts value on student experiences - making them more like scholars
linking formal and informal learning
trouble with these linear workshops - we keep thinking back to the pessimistic ones
contributions can be anonymised

Creativity hat (alternatives) to reaching the goal:

not do it in a workshop ;-))
systematically 'play' with the technology - more organisation; learning from others experiencing the same issues/problems
share uses and experiences of using technologies - buddying with others so not doing in isolation
trying to use two or more technologies together - new ways of linking things together - need for mobile uses

Process control hat (big picture, overall context):

means to and end - disseminating the technology and drawing the students in - keeping our eyes on the ball
is multi-directional ways of looking at things
share ideas with students and get their experiences to improve our trial and error

Discussion Group 2

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:36:42 CDT

About This Page

This page was used in the "Enough Talking - Let's Use The Next Generation Technologies!" workshop session at ALT-C 2006.

It was used by discussion group 2 to keep a record of their discussions. In the first exercise the groups identified what they wanted to get out of the session. In this exercises they used the 'six thinking hats' approach to address the issues from six perspectives.

Exercise 2: Six Thinking Hats

Aim: To use mobile technologies to assist in medical and veterinary arenas

Issues:

How many students have the mobile kit?
ICT readiness of students?Abilities of ICT to cater for mobile uses?How many PDA/laptops etc?
Rural Connectivity?
Durably stats/information?
Alternative technologies?
Types of connection?
What devices/software will work with VLEs?
Convincing ICT that web 2.0 can be used and can be secure, and therefore should not be ignored
Would I want my doctor looking up on a PDA?
What if the battery runs out?
Will patients trust new technologies?
As a teacher, gut reaction would be very good?
Student might get dependent on?
Great way for data to be 'converyed' transferred
Problems with networks
Problems with reliability
Viruses? Security?
Battery life?
Poor ease of use?
Cost?
Support?
Lack of enthiusiasm
Converting materials - big job....possible barrier
Better informed
Up to data info
Time saved
Easy and richer data transfer to others
Makes user part of a located community
Easy to carry
Can be lower cost.....
Information is cheaper than traditional sources
Rich media brings new opportunities
Phone a friend
Read book
Learn stuff....
Guess?
Medibots
Wire in the patients?
Embed technology?
Application to any 'diagnostic' enterprise?

Test area

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:53:04 CDT

Ill just try some BOLD then

And how easy would it be to get a picture in???

Pretty easy !!!!

Brian Kelly

Scott Wilson: Hey, nice interface.