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While it is widely accepted that life experience which elderly people bring with them is very relevant in senior education, recent research indicates that this is also true for ICT and specifically to design effective learning technologies, methodologies and content for the elderly.
Taking this into account, the APADIS project has initially explored learning technologies to foster group activities instead of individual ones, and strengthen specific social relationships. Social Web 2.0 technologies can play a key role in that.
At the Ágora School of Adult People in La Verneda-St. Martí (Barcelona, Spain), which is based on participation, in fact we have built:
- A virtual gallery based on Yahoo! Flickr, an online photo sharing system, that allows the elderly students to store and browse previously downloaded pictures and to share them with their friends at the school, and with grandchildren and adult children at home, online.
- A blog based on WordPress which enables the elderly to work collaboratively with other students on the same or different projects online.
Both technologies enable old people to demonstrate their ability to use computers to their social circles (namely, their grandchildren who are a source of motivation and adult children, who can play a negative role) by using the Web, which we have found to be one of the most relevant indicators of digital literacy amongst the social networks of elderly people. These technologies also support online group-related educational activities, which are much closer to the elderly than those individually-centred activities fostered by traditional learning methodologies.
More information:
What is APADIS? APADIS is a project funded by the Spanish IMSERSO intended to design and develop an online virtual learning environment using open source technologies that meet the educational needs of elderly people in both online and traditional learning. APADIS builds upon ABE Campus, an online campus for Adult Basic Education, open source (http://www.basicampus.net/), currently being used in a broad array of courses at Âgora. The project is coordinated by CREA, http://www.pcb.ub.es/crea
The paper accepted for publication at the ACM Crossroads, Meeting some educational needs of elderly people in ICT: Two exploratory case studies. by Sergio Sayago, Patricia Santos, Maite Gonzalez, Miriam Arenas, and Laura Lopez, provides more detailed information and analysis. Contact Sergio Sayago at his e-mail address at upf dot es.
Sergio Sayago, Josep Blat and Toni Navarrete. Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain)
November 2nd, 2007
The new ILIAS version 3.8 offers a lot of interesting and useful Web 2.0 features like podcasts, RSS support, tagging with del.icio.us or Google Maps. All courses and groups may now have an own news feed to update their members about ongoing activities in the course or group. Every user can subscribe to a personal web feed with all news of items on the personal desktop and access these news with the client’s feed reader. User may create podcasts by uploading MP3 files to ILIAS and offering also to the outside. Google Maps have been integrated in the member lists of courses and groups. If a course or group member offers his or her personal position in the personal profile, ILIAS displays the position of the member on the map. All content items in ILIAS can be tagged and added to the personal del.icio.us site. Other Web 2.0 features will follow in the next versions. On the roadmap are a XML-based ILIAS wiki and tag clouds for content in ILIAS. For more information have a look in the «ILIAS Roadmap and Release» module.
July 2nd, 2007
I am in Odense, Denmark at a conference organised by the University of South Denmark on Scaffolding learning - web 2.0 and e-portfolios. I gave a presentation on Personal Learning Environments. The presentation focuses on the different ways in which people are using Web 2.0 technologies for social networking and creating and sharing. It goes on to assert that this is a major challenge to the future of education systems and institutions which are in danger of becoming irrelevant to the ways in which young people live and create and share ideas and knowledge. The final section of the presentation outlines the ideas behind the PLE- with the PLE being seen as a concept rather than a particular substantiation of technology.
You can see the slides here and you can listen to the whole presentation by clicking on the MP3 file below.
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May 7th, 2007
This week I am participating in an on-line conference organised by JISC in the UK on the use of Web 2.0 for content sharing in learning and teaching. Its an interesting conference. I was much taken by a comment on the Web Forum by George Roberts who said “I am musing as I listen.
We are distributed, listening to someone speak and with whom we largely agree. It is a lunchtime seminar so we eat our sandwiches quietly. The slides are variously beautiful or informative. We share an aside with a colleague. So far so the same. Different: the presenter can see our aside so we censor or heckle with intent. We are online so we multi-task: a little e-mail, a quick f2f chat with a colleague who assumes I am listening to music and therefore interruptable, a comment here, a quick search on Flickr for a May morning image.
My question is whether we are simply using new technology to do what we have always done in the way we have done it? Or, are we doing something new? The distribution is new. What else? Maybe distributed co-presence is enough.”
That has started quite a discussion which I will try to come back to tomorrow.
You can view the slides from my presentation. And here is the audio.
May 2nd, 2007
With the rise of the Web 2.0, the usage of services has been migrating toward a personalized and decentralized or web-based framework. Such process has also catalyzed the emergence of specialized web 2.0 services found useful by different classes of professionals. We choose to shed a bit of light on the services used by academics and researchers and argue about the framework they constitute.
Nowadays academics are using blogs to share ideas and discuss them among themselves. Commenting and notification services associated with blogs help in keeping academics involved in their blogging networks. Posts and their subsequent comments are found to be highly effective in online knowledge constructivism. This paradigm is different from that of the famous wikipedia where convergence toward common grounds is mandatory and historical evolution of thoughts is not visible.
A quick survey of web-based media sharing tools such as flickr for images and youtube for video reveals that academics do rely on their services both to share media among themselves and to publish media elements for public feedback. Other services used include appointment management tools that facilitate the setting of meetings and conferences by synthesising the preferences of all participants. We also cite collaborative environments for document processing and statistical analysis such as those offered by google document.
Academics also benefit from a web 2.0 toolbox designed for them explicitly. One type of such tools is a special category of social bookmarking services devoted to academic references and citations such as citeulike.com. Connotea.org is another example of such services that allow academics to keep track of online references. It tries to mix both citeulike.com with del.icio.us, a commonly used social bookmarking site that relies on folksonomies to cluster bookmarks collected by users.
The focus on the academic usage of web 2.0 services aims to clarify how free license services form a distributed and personalized framework where academic societies can interactively share and procreate new knowledge. The success of these services puts forward a question about the utility of developing unified locally-hosted frameworks and opens the possibility to contemplate the potential of an integrated online framework that encompasses these services in a personalized fashion.
March 23rd, 2007
A very good video for web 2.0
click here to watch video in youtube.com
p.s. I couldn’t find how to embed video in this post so I added a link to youtube.com
March 12th, 2007
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David Toshin
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The SEOmoz’s Web 2.0 Awards
For me, this list highlights just how many Web 2.0 apps there are. The ones mentioned here are only the tip of the iceberg.
May 8th, 2006
From Josie Fraser’s Weblog:
“Terry Freedman has edited a book about the current state of play in education. Things have changed rapidly with the wild-fire spread of the current generation of social software, and the equally speedy ways in which web 2.0 has been seized upon within education to support engaging, exciting and inspiring learning.
After much hard work, Terry has now released the final, freely available version:
Download Coming_of_age_v1-2.pdf
(2MB PDF)
Please do feel free to pass it on to anyone who might be interested in an overview in recent web developments. There’s some great stuff in there - 20 (!!!) chapters on all kinds of web 2.0 goodness, with contributions from Miles Berry, John Bidder, Mechelle De Craene, John Evans, Peter Ford, Terry Freedman (Ed), Steve Lee, Ewan McIntosh, Alan November, Chris Smith, Dai Thomas, David Warlick, and Shawn Wheeler, And if that list of international edu-luminaries still isn’t enough to tempt you into a 2 meg download, why not take a peek at Peter Ford’s index & biog post.”
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May 8th, 2006
