TeachLearn:Virtual Presence for T&L

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Overview
This page contains some notes I will be using for a presentation titled "Developing a virtual presence on the web to assist teaching and learning".

As part of my PhD research, I developed a framework that looked at what structures would be useful to create a Personal web space.

Personalisation
Our content is gathered from many sources: Printed, online, and through discussions with others, and evolves with us over time.

As a teacher we synthesise all the "stuff" out there and create our own unique blend of delivery. Some would say this is very wasteful!!

So given that you are the center of the Universe in your teaching, how can you use the tools on the Web to create a virtual Presence?

For starters - do you have a presence - type your name into Google/Bing/Yahoo - what comes up??

Learner involvement
Students come with us with a wide variety of skills - both content and life skills (and can provide editorial monitoring for content).

For this wiki users can create personal (but public) pages - Special:ListUsers

Research

 * Presentation: The virtualMe: A Knowledge acquisition framework (Verhaart, 2009) - http://www.virtualmv.com/phd/2008Verhaart_PhDExaminationv5.pps
 * Book : Verhaart, M (2009) Personal Web based knowledge Management. VDM Verlag. Retrieved September 17, 2009 from http://www.amazon.com/Personal-Web-based-knowledge-management/dp/363916525X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253144351&sr=1-2
 * Thesis: Verhaart, M. (2008) The virtualMe : a knowledge acquisition framework. Retrieved September 17, 2009 from http://muir.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/851

Technology
A presentation on Web 2.0 (Verhaart, 2008) ( http://www.slideshare.net/virtualmv/2008-verhaart-naccq-web2-0m ) contains my online presence (and Kim H-H).

Closed

 * Moodle(EITOnline): Available to students regisered with the CMS/LMS.
 * Contains:
 * wiki
 * Blogs
 * etc..

Open

 * 1) eMail (gMail): Allows forwarding
 * 2) Blog (WordPress):
 * 3) http://virtualmv.edublogs.org/
 * 4) Allows updating via email (edublog does not have this functionality enabled - yet?)
 * 5) I use this to keep my "interesting stuff" and automatically posts to my Facebook account.
 * 6) Wiki (WikiEducator)
 * 7) Will probably need institutional support (want to investigate this further as part of my ongoing research)
 * 8) Media object tools (be aware of copyright issues)
 * 9) Slideshare: Allows sharing of PowerPoints (they are converted to Flash files). http://www.slideshare.net/virtualmv/2008-verhaart-naccq-web2-0m
 * 10) Glogster: Poster creator. http://virtualmv.glogster.com

Public/Private hosting
Also have publically hosted and private hosting. Unless you have the technical skills (or are willing to learn them, or have someone who will help) this is generally not an option.


 * 1) virtualmv - http://www.virtualmv.com