Processos Pedagógicos em E-Learning
An annotated bibliography on Online Teaching Techniques
1) How to manage your Online Teacher workload (Kate Butler)
Being an online teacher represents a different way of working with direct implications in the teacher’s workload. Using the online teaching techniques transfers the work from physical classroom to another place, but doesn’t reduce the amount of time needed to work with and for the students. I found this article on this subject and, though it doesn’t go very deep, it gives some suggestions that are worth reading. Curiously, most suggestions are the same generally given to online students. This article focuses on time and information management, on course design and activity types, and on technical issues.
2) Manual Web 2.0 para professores (org. Ana Amélia Carvalho)
Web 2.0 has brought more new tools to support online teaching techniques. Knowing its existence and acknowledging its importance, doesn’t make us good users of these resources. Thus, I believe this Guide Web 2.0 for teachers is an imperative reading for all those who want to learn to use the Web in elearning. The book consists of the following chapters:
- Introduction
- Blogue, YouTube
- Podcast and using Audacitysoftware
- Dandelife, Wiki and Goowy
- Google Tools: Page Creator, Docs and Calendar
- PopFly as a mashups editor
- Web 2.0 and Mobile Technologies
- Virtual Environments and Second Life
- From Movie Maker to YouTube
- Online Conceptual Maps.
Among all these techniques, one that at the moment arouses me greater curiosity is the use of wikis as a knowledge collaborative constructer. It seems to me an excellent technique to reduce the impression of isolation that an online course may create. In this sense, my next bibliography entry points to the exploitation of this technique.
3) Interview to Stewart Mader – Wiki in Education (Debora Batello)
http://www.contosdaescola.net/interview-with-stewart-mader-wiki-in-education/
Stewart Mader led the creation of Wikipatterns.com, a site for collaboration and content management best practices. He wrote and published in 2008 a book inspired in this project and Wikipatterns is one of the Top 100 Social Media Books. Mader is also author of Using Wiki in Education (2006), a wiki-book (written and sold in wiki platforms) which consists in a collection of case studies from educators around the world that explores the impact of collaboration tools on education.
This interview is an interesting way to introduce us to the importance of wikis in education. I find this technique very interesting, because it helps students to work in group in distance elearning.
This interview takes us back to the book Wiki in Education (see the book) which presents reports made by U.S. professors who used wiki with their students. It discusses what work was proposed, which was developed with each group of students and also the results obtained in each case: positive, negative, difficulties and challenges.
In part, the results pointed to the following conclusions:
- There was an increase in students' participation, since the wiki was monitoring the participation of each student in the history;
- The collective research increases the student's interest in the subject;
- Students learned to respect the opinion of other colleagues, what was necessary to the debate before editing the text;
- Students become builders of their collective knowledge and were always active publishers, not getting the administration and wording of the wiki just for the teacher.
4) Is There a Space for the Teacher in a WIKI? (Andreas Lund; Ole Smørdal)
http://www.wikisym.org/ws2006/proceedings/p37.pdfAs seen in the previous bibliography entries, the use of wikis is a very interesting online teaching technique. However, as the focus becomes the students and their participation in the creation and exploration of knowledge, one can ask what the role of teachers in wiki activities is. This article considers that teachers play an important in establishing balance between learner explorations with a more goal directed effort and stands that Educational wiki designs need to allow such a role in order to support group knowing. It analyzes functions and meta level affordances found in the MediaWiki application and presents a case in which the MediaWiki was used by a class of Upper Secondary School learners in Norway.
5) Wikis in Plain English (commoncraft)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY
In a playful manner, this video gives a full introduction to wikis: what they are, what’s their use and how to use them. It’s based on a fictional situation in which a group of friends need to prepare a camping trip. A Wiki is the best tool for them.
6) Student-Centred Collaborative Learning Via Face-To-Face and Asynchronous Online Communication: What’s the Difference? (Ainslie Ellis)
http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/melbourne01/pdf/papers/ellisa.pdf
Another online teaching technique I consider important is the use of forums, because, like the wikis, they can help create a learning community. According to this article, «the online forum can provide a different collaborative learning environment, due to its studentcentric, asynchronous, written form». A comparison between face-to-face and asynchronous online forms of communication is presented here in terms of collaborative learning. We can also read about the advantages and disadvantages of the online forum. One of the results of this study shows that online forums are more equitable – especially for quieter students. Therefore, more students participate than in face-to-face communication. Plus, details of the discussion remain and it allows backtrack and reread of messages.
7) Teaching with Online Discussion Forums (Mark Fullmer)
A video that analyses the importance of Online Discussion on today’s education. It refers to some of the activities available in Web 2.0, like participating in forum discussions, commenting blog entries and working in wikis.
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