User:Leighblackall/Networked learning

The network

This handout will assist you in finding and following information, establishing an online identity and formulating relationships with other people and information based on interest and a motivation to learn.

Every day, all around the world, many thousands of people are looking to learn things, and many thousands are looking to teach things. With the aid of the Internet, these people are able to connect and communicate without limitation of time, distribution or distance, finding each other in a world of networked learning. Networked learning is a process of developing and maintaining connections with people and information, and communicating in such a way so as to support one another's learning.

Examples

• My compost hot water system
• Ivan Illich's 1971 concept for educational webs
• Student authored open text book

Identity

• Set up a Wikipedia User page
• Create Youtube playlists
• Use social bookmarking
• Start blogging and micro blogging (Eg: Blogger.com and Twitter.com). Alternatively, just set up a website like yourname.com and link all your various accounts to it. This is your central online identity. Here's mine for an example: http://leighblackall.blogspot.com

Information

• Search and understand Wikipedia
• Set up an RSS newsreader
• Subscribe to a Youtube search feed
• Subscribe to a Delicious search feed
• Set up a Google search alert

Network

• Communicating in Wikipedia
• Communicating on Youtube
• Communicating across blogs
• Join email groups
• Use Twitter

Learning

• Creating and editing Wiki articles
• Document with video

See also

• Networked teaching

Links

• Why free online lectures will destroy universities – unless they get their act together fast - By Adrian Hon for The Telegraph. 25 November 2010
• Social Media’s Role In Mumbai Attack And Its Potential For Future Terror Incident Response - John Solomon 30 January 2009
• Networked Learning presentation - Leigh Blackall 2005