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		<outline text="eLearning Processes Using Small Technologies Loosely Joined">
			<outline text="Rob Wall" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 05:54:51 GMT">
				<outline text="Teacher, NBCHS" created="Fri, 19 Aug 2005 02:40:24 GMT"/>
				<outline text="M. Ed. student, EDCMT program at U of S" created="Fri, 19 Aug 2005 02:40:36 GMT"/>
				<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://stigmergicweb.org&quot;&gt;http://stigmergicweb.org&lt;/a&gt;, robwall AT gmail DOT com" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 05:54:56 GMT"/>
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			<outline text="Find a link to this presentation at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stigmergicweb.org/index.php/portfolio&quot;&gt;http://stigmergicweb.org/index.php/portfolio&lt;/a&gt;" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 05:55:10 GMT"/>
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		<outline text="Learning object" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 05:55:26 GMT" s5Incremental="false">
			<outline text="From David Wiley - &lt;em&gt;Any digital resource that can be reused to support learning&lt;/em&gt;" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 05:55:39 GMT"/>
			<outline text="Usually used in to refer to digitized knowledge, for example:" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:14:01 GMT"/>
			<outline text="&lt;img src=&quot;John_Napier.gif&quot; alt=&quot;John Napier&quot;&gt;" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 06:24:59 GMT"/>
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		<outline text="A Perspective on eLearning" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 06:03:25 GMT" s5Incremental="true">
			<outline text="Enhancing learning through the use of computer and communications technology" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 06:03:29 GMT">
				<outline text="Seymour Papert called them &lt;em&gt;tools for thinking&lt;/em&gt;" created="Fri, 19 Aug 2005 15:51:58 GMT"/>
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			<outline text="eLearning Systems can include:" created="Fri, 19 Aug 2005 03:00:04 GMT">
				<outline text="Learning Content Management Systems" created="Fri, 19 Aug 2005 02:55:03 GMT"/>
				<outline text="Courseware" created="Fri, 19 Aug 2005 02:57:04 GMT"/>
				<outline text="Web-based training" created="Fri, 19 Aug 2005 02:58:07 GMT"/>
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			<outline text="eLearning Systems are made of discrete components" created="Fri, 19 Aug 2005 03:01:55 GMT">
				<outline text="Web pages for submitting content" created="Fri, 19 Aug 2005 03:02:13 GMT"/>
				<outline text="Portfolios showing student work" created="Fri, 19 Aug 2005 03:02:30 GMT"/>
				<outline text="Discussions via mailing lists are archived" created="Fri, 19 Aug 2005 03:03:34 GMT"/>
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		<outline text="Small technologies" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 05:59:02 GMT" s5Incremental="true">
			<outline text="Applications that perform specific functions" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 06:01:57 GMT">
				<outline text="Blogs - allow students/teachers to develop sites showing their work" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 07:15:50 GMT"/>
				<outline text="Wikis - web pages editable through a browser" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 07:15:52 GMT"/>
				<outline text="RSS - allow content from separate sites to be aggregated" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 07:15:47 GMT"/>
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			<outline text="Easy to learn" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 07:14:11 GMT"/>
			<outline text="Easy to tweak/hack" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 07:34:38 GMT"/>
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		<outline text="Loosely joined" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 06:13:59 GMT" s5Incremental="true">
			<outline text="Applications are not tightly integrated as they would be in a monolithic package." created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 07:14:42 GMT"/>
			<outline text="This allows Small Technologies Loosely Joined to be connected together by educators based on their needs" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 06:14:05 GMT">
				<outline text="&lt;em&gt;So this is not about advocating best tools, which RSS protocol should be king, or who has a better wiki software, it is how educators can deploy, connect, de-connect them in useful and interesting ways.&lt;/em&gt; - Lamb, Levine, Norman et al at &lt;a href=&quot;http://careo.elearning.ubc.ca/wiki?SmallPiecesLooselyJoined&quot;&gt;http://careo.elearning.ubc.ca/wiki?SmallPiecesLooselyJoined&lt;/a&gt;" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 06:14:39 GMT"/>
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			<outline text="&lt;em&gt;DIY eLearning System!&lt;/em&gt;" created="Fri, 19 Aug 2005 03:10:25 GMT"/>
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		<outline text="Two Case Studies" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 06:37:59 GMT" s5Incremental="false">
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nbchs.north-battleford.sk.ca/grassroots04/&quot;&gt;North Battlefords Comprehensive High School Grassroots Projects 2004&lt;/a&gt;" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 06:38:13 GMT" s5Incremental="true">
				<outline text="students focus on content creation, not design" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 07:17:35 GMT"/>
				<outline text="classroom teachers work on design in collaboration with a designer" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 07:18:13 GMT"/>
				</outline>
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://omegageek.net/crops&quot;&gt;Biology 20 Crop Wiki&lt;/a&gt;" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 06:38:20 GMT" s5Incremental="true">
				<outline text="monitor student progress as they research and write" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 07:19:11 GMT"/>
				<outline text="allow students to work on project outside of class time" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 07:19:18 GMT"/>
				<outline text="publish work to a wide audience" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 07:19:29 GMT"/>
				<outline text="save a small forest" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 07:33:23 GMT"/>
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		<outline text="So where are the learning objects?" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 05:55:26 GMT" s5Incremental="true">
			<outline text="Remember - &lt;em&gt;Any digital resource that can be reused to support learning&lt;/em&gt;" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 05:55:39 GMT"/>
			<outline text="A blog is a reusable digital portfolio" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 06:24:59 GMT">
				<outline text="easy content entry" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:11:43 GMT"/>
				<outline text="comments and reflections by peers" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:11:47 GMT"/>
				<outline text="student work is published to the world" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:12:04 GMT"/>
				</outline>
			<outline text="A wiki is a reusable digital whiteboard" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:12:22 GMT">
				<outline text="Monitor students work on reports as they are working" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:12:48 GMT"/>
				<outline text="Give feedback instantaneously" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:13:02 GMT"/>
				<outline text="Publish knowledge to the world" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:13:17 GMT"/>
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			<outline text="The components of the &lt;em&gt;DIY eLearning System&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;are&lt;/strong&gt; the Learning Objects" created="Fri, 19 Aug 2005 03:14:17 GMT"/>
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		<outline text="Advantages of DIY" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 05:56:57 GMT" s5Incremental="true">
			<outline text="Big systems are" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 07:44:08 GMT" s5Incremental="true">
				<outline text="(-) expensive" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 07:44:29 GMT"/>
				<outline text="(-) difficult to learn (or appear to be)" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 07:44:31 GMT"/>
				<outline text="(-) functionality is not easily customizable without vendor support" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 07:47:42 GMT"/>
				<outline text="(+) support from vendor is often included in the price" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 07:45:41 GMT"/>
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			<outline text="DIY systems" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 07:45:58 GMT" s5Incremental="true">
				<outline text="(+) inexpensive (free!)" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 07:46:06 GMT"/>
				<outline text="(+) easier to learn" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 07:46:15 GMT"/>
				<outline text="(+) can be customized/tweaked as needed" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 07:47:18 GMT"/>
				<outline text="(+/-) support comes from a user community" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 07:46:31 GMT"/>
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		<outline text="Discussion" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 07:52:24 GMT">
			<outline text="&lt;img src=&quot;smallpieces_sm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Small Pieces comic&quot;&gt;" created="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 07:52:31 GMT">
				<outline text="by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.darcynorman.net/&quot;&gt;D'Arcy Norman&lt;/a&gt;, created using &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&amp;start=1&amp;q=http://www.gnomz.com/&amp;e=912&quot;&gt;Gnomz Comics&lt;/a&gt;" created="Fri, 19 Aug 2005 15:25:07 GMT"/>
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