This is a presentation I created for the Connections Conference at Okanagan College - August 2010.

1. Okanagan
WELCOME TO
College
‘Connections’
THE CREATIVE MEDIA TEST KITCHEN August 2010
A place to collaborate, discover, and experiment with New Media
http://www.flickr.com/photos/h_is_for_home/
2284037843/in/set-72157613151347489/

2. Who am I?
Anne-Marie Holmwood

3. Web 3.0 ?
Text
Web 2.0
Web 1.0
cc licensed flickr photo by transCam:
http://flickr.com/photos/transkamp/54371294/

4. What digital natives want - 3 year old Abbey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_zzPBbXjWs

5. Connectivism: A Learning Theory for a Digital Age
George Siemens
“Nurturing and maintaining connections are needed to facilitate
learning”
Connectivism is driven by the understanding that
decisions are based on rapidly altering
foundations. New information is continually being
acquired. The ability to draw distinctions between
important and unimportant information is vital.
The ability to recognize when new information
alters the landscape based on decisions made
yesterday is also critical.
(George Siemens)
http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm

6. Confronting the Challenges of
Participatory Culture
Henry Jenkins
According to Jenkins a participatory
culture has "relatively low
barriers to artistic expression and
civic engagement, strong support
for creating and sharing one's
creations, and some type of
informal mentorship whereby what
is known by the most experienced is
passed along to novices. He goes on
to state that in a participatory
culture members believe that their
contributions matter and feel some
degree of social connection with
http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation-henry- one another".
jenkins-media-video
available free at iTunesU

7. Simply stated:
Learning processes
and teaching
methods are being
rocked to the core
by our ability to
connect using the
internet.
cc licensed flickr photo by Stuck in Customs:
http://flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/388394597/

8. Embrace
“open education”
cc licensed flickr photo by Walter
Parenteau:
http://flickr.com/photos/mwparenteau/
3079612428/

9. What is your digital identity?
cc licensed flickr photo by Gideon Burton:
http://flickr.com/photos/wakingtiger/3157622308/

11. How do you use the web?
Social
Connections
‘being on-line’
versus
platform for
‘going on-line’
applications
interactive & digital self-
participatory: expression
read/write

12. cc licensed flickr photo by rosswebsdale: cc licensed flickr photo by joebart:
http://flickr.com/photos/rosswebsdale/ http://flickr.com/photos/joebart/
2234420616/ 3814874040/

13. Collaboration
cc licensed flickr photo by wlibrary:
http://flickr.com/photos/99107397@N00/4011844231/

14. To be connected on the web I use...
Facebook YouTube
Twitter Wikis
http://cmtk.wikispaces.com/
WordPress Delicious
http://amhwrites.wordpress.com

15. Social bookmarking:
the practice of saving
bookmarks to a public
Web site and “tagging”
them with keywords. You
can designate bookmarks
as public or private.
Great for sharing
resources!

16. Video Sharing

18. an Okanagan College Event!

19. Blogging

22. Visitors to my blog
cc licensed flickr photo by
woodleywonderworks:
http://flickr.com/photos/wwworks/
2222523486/

23. The Story
•movie created using images
from the web
•movie uploaded to YouTube
•movie embedded in my blog
•discussion begins as I get
comments – many from my
twitter ‘peeps’ and their
connections...
http://www.youtube.com/user/mminions#p/u/5/A_9gxa93twY

24. Consider Twitter

25. Develop a Personal Learning Network
(PLN)
http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/
about
Dr. Alec Couros
“Open Thinking”
University of Regina

26. location
link to blog
or website
short bio
My twitter handle
@amhwrites

28. Facebook is for people you used to know,
Twitter for people you want to know.

29. The Kitchen
Tools
cc licensed flickr photo by 60 in 3:
http://flickr.com/photos/60in3/2301953533/

30. Use the tools
Some are for connecting and creating & sharing content – some are
just for fun. Check the ‘cmtk’ wiki for links to these and many other
great resources!
Collaborate Present Blog
•Wikispaces •WordPress
•Twitter •Prezi
•SlideShare •edublogs
•Ning •blogster
•Dimdim •Animoto
•Blogspot/Blogger
•Google Apps
•PollDaddy
•Delicious Remember & Save
Look & Listen •Dropbox
•YouTube •drop.io
Read & Write •Vimeo •Evernote
•Goodreads •Blip •delicious
•Libary thing •TeacherTube
•Shelfari •ScreenToaster
•Scribd
•Wordle
•VoiceThread
•Flickr
Talk
•Google Apps •Picnik •Academic Earth
•Archive.org •TED:Ideas worth spreading
Explore •Podomatic
•Zamzar
•Second Life

31. My Wiki: the Creative Media Test Kitchen (CMTK)

32. Flickr

35. cc licensed flickr photo by -
=RoBeE=-: http://flickr.com/photos/
robertszlivka/2741653860/
http://
userscripts.org/
scripts/show/
49395

37. http://prezi.com/
r2lbb3lfomg5/playing-to-
learn-math/

39. Concerns about Web 2.0,new media
technologies, and social media
cc licensed flickr photo by svenwerk: http://flickr.com/photos/svenwerk/
107267802/

40. What’s the answer
to #37 ?
cc licensed flickr photo by Mr_Stein:
http://flickr.com/photos/5tein/
2348651674/
cc licensed flickr photo shared by
adventuresinlibraryschool

41. cc licensed flickr photo by Scott McLeod:
http://flickr.com/photos/mcleod/3909431214/

42. cc licensed flickr photo by dklimke:
http://flickr.com/photos/dklimke/
2828380947/
cc licensed flickr photo by Andres Rueda:
http://flickr.com/photos/andresrueda/
3259487071/

43. Most images in this presentation are attributed
Creative Commons licensed pictures found in
Flickr. There are also some screen shots and
original photos. I was unable to locate original
sources for two pictures - my apologies to the
creators (I will remove them if requested).

44. Now it’s your turn to
cook!
cc licensed flickr photo by nzebula:
http://flickr.com/photos/zebuladesign/
3411073143/
cc licensed flickr photo by Lori Greig:
http://flickr.com/photos/lori_greig/
3097914431/