Collaborating with the Enemy

Collaborating with the Enemy

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  Collaborating with theEnemy by Andrew Bate E-Learning (LTEO) [email_address] Presentation available online: http://www.slideshare.net/amb28/collaborating-with-the-enemy-presentation/
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  My Personal Tutor’s,Dr “Who”, opinions of LTEO “The Enemy” “They don’t know what … they are doing”
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  What should theinterns do this afternoon? Work at Desk as usual Go home with pay Relax with colleagues with cake and coke Relax with other interns with beer and burgers
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  Projects Use ofWord Clouds at UOB Classification of Twitter Messages Departmental Use of Moodle Classification of Wikis
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  Wordcloud example usingwordle.net
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  What was theprevious wordcloud of? My Facebook Profile contents My Journal entries on intern Moodle page My CV The Monster Raving Loony Party’s Manifesto 2005 The UN Declaration of Universal Human Rights
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  Wordclouds Started withraw data (50 odd responses to PPP SIG paper survey) Put into electronic text, which is then make into a wordcloud using tagcrowd.com Blogged all thoughts, difficulties and workings Developed an article on elearning wiki on Confluence, collaborating with Andy Ramsden The working paper is on OPus
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  Wordcloud based onUN Declaration of Universal Human Rights (source- wikipedia article, 20 th August 08)
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  Twitter Twitter isa free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates Twitter updates are called “Tweets” Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.
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  Twitter Start witha classification and look around for tweets where the classification either fails and is unclear Improve classification and method Take “random” sample and classify their tweets Blogged my findings, thoughts and method
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  Your Experience withMoodle… Moodle? I have not used it I think Well, some of the time. Only if I need something I quite often check up on any changes on my moodle courses Moodle is my life!
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  Departmental Use ofMoodle Look a collection of moodle course and make notes Develop a system of assessing moodle course content Assess moodle courses of a given department using system
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  Wiki Collection ofweb pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content Editing is largely plain text Image from www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/26/wiki-collaboration-leads-to-happiness/
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  Classification of WikisLooked at a handful of wikis in moodle and read background literature Given a list of wikis, had to classify based on previous model Reported my findings via my blog
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  What have Ilearned… Every thought must be blogged and became an effective stalker To collaborate with others Developed my report writing and general writing skills Developed analytic & decision making skills A much better understanding of L&T and the works of a learning technologist
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  And you havelearned... Not much really, but thanks for wasting my time That clickers are fun! ;-) That e-learning does more then just moodle The Presenter’s rather odd
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  The Ultimate slidewww.bath.ac.uk/opus/handle/10247/474 The Wordcloud working paper amb28.wordpress.com/ My blog. ANY QUESTIONS? Andrew Bate [email_address]