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March 31, 2005
RLO Dialogue Day
Brian Lamb from the UBC has come to District to participate in a Dialogue Day at GCC on RLOs, Wikis and other technologies.
Read on to learn more about the event...
He started out having us all create a wiki based on a number of questions - you can check out the questions at http://zircon.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/objects/wiki/wiki?QuestionsQuestions Participants in the dialogue day can create their own wiki by contacting Alan Levine at MCLI.
We discussed some of the short comings of RLOs as well as some of the features of them including Interoperability, Netadata, SCORM, IMS and some great resources which can be found at http://zircon.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/objects/wiki/wiki?ObligatoryLOGlossary
He provided a great analogy of metadata with a soup can - it contains all of the information about that can of soup including who made it, when, where and what is in it...
Some other resources that he shared and discussed are:
Some Learning Object Examples
http://zircon.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/objects/wiki/wiki?LearningObjectExamples
Great tools for creating interactive multimedia timelines: http://www.learningtools.arts.ubc.ca/, as well as some other fantastic tools.
He discussed some the of the disadvantages and advantages of RLOs the terminology and repositories at http://zircon.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/objects/wiki/wiki?LearningObjectRealities
Some of the problems that were encountered at UBC include issues with intellectual property, misconceptions regarding monetary value of content, fear of use by a competitor, and property protection.
An important topic that he discussed was intellectual property and copyright. He had some great resources on these issues at http://zircon.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/objects/wiki/wiki?WhatAboutCopyright including a sample letter to ask permission to use a resource and guidelines on how to choose a creative commons license - this is very easy to use.
He advises us to get an RSS reader to deal with information overload. It will identify whether sites have been updated so you can determine if it is worthwhile to read. It updates within an hour of a site posting a change. You can add them into Course Management Systems and provide the latest news on subjects in your discipline for your students.
Check out this photo sharing resource that includes metadata called flickr You can add hotspots to it very easily and label the individual areas - so cool!! Lots of great instructional applications!!
After lunch, the plan is to discuss how to set up a blog, all about wikis - setting them up and how to use them in the class room and RSS feeds - how to set them up and more info.
To set up a blog, create a free account at Blogger.com
Here are some applications of wikis:
* Meeting planning and meeting minutes
* Here are some examples from UBC
Here is some general info on RSS feeds and how to get started:
RSS Described in Plain English
Finding RSS feeds is rather difficult - if you see the icon, you can coy and paste it - if you use the program Bloglines, it will find it for you, PubSub.com lets you choose a keyword or a series of keywords and keeps track of the RSS feeds. Other services are listed on the wiki. The site Blogdigger lets you combine many feeds and push it out to other sites
According to Brian, our own Alan Levine is one of the leading experts in RSS.
Here is some more information on Flickr.
You can easily create an account and then tag photos so that they will all be viewable by the tag name.
Brian did a great job providing us with some great information on RLOs, Wikis, RSS feeds, sharing digital resources and so much more. We are so glad that he was able to come to Maricopa and share his experience and knowledge with us.
Posted by lyoung at March 31, 2005 06:04 PM in category
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