The growing importance of e-communities on the web:

 The web is more and more a technological basis for the information and knowledge society.
 The impact they have on the way our society works is tremendous.
 Their role and potential has just been discovered and is bound to further increase in the course of the time.

2.1 Wiki

 Wiki or “wiki wiki” means quick in Hawaiian.

WARD CUNNINGHAM
 Designer of the said cite from Portland.
 Described wiki as:
“ the simplest online database that could possibly work”.

“CamelCase”
> describes link to other pages
> specialty of a wiki-syntax

. Important features of wiki:

 A sophisticated version control which enables users to see recent changes and the history of the changes of a Web page.
 Wiki page makes sure that there are cross links between pages in wiki.
 The old version of wiki page can easily be reconstructed by the use of version control.

2.2 Blog
 Shortened term for Weblog which;
> describes on which an individual or a group frequently generate text, upload photographs, video or audio files and links.

 A blog is even easier to create and maintain using common free software.
 A blog is “additive”
Different Type of Blogs;
 Personal blogs
> often act as an online diary containing very personal opinions and facts.
 Collaborative blogs
> interesting type of blog
>written by more than one person.
IMPORTANT ADVANTAGE:
> the speed of such a medium.
 Blogs about news
 Politics blogs and,
 Topical blogs
2.3 Discussion Forums on the Web
 Discussion Forum
> a popular tool for theme-based communication on the Web which is methodologically similar to the first based client.
> come in many flavors and can be un-moderated or moderated.
> often offer good structure that are not preferred over blogs.
Other Interesting Services/Tools/Technologies for e-communities
Tools and technologies are emerging almost everyday.
EXAMPLES:
Google Earth 2005
> a software that enables users to search for places all over the planet.
NASA World Wind 2006
> an open software geographical system which offer similar features like Google Earth but in a more scientific manner.

An experience worth remembering...

An Experience Worth Remembering…It’s good to have this kind of learning.Fun and thorough. It can stress your mind from thinking, but nevertheless, the experience that I had is all worth the stress, time, and money.
Nature and Focus-> to let my attention focus on the community.-> it widened my knowledge and expanded my vocabulary.-> it gives me a lot of responsibilities that I should make.-> it gives me the strength and courage to use more about innovative learning.

Educational Technology Is..?-> Exciting, fun, interesting-> Expensive, and-> Need enough time.
As a Blogger…-> Thrilled at the idea that I can create my own blog.-> I composes my own idea and words.-> Nervous that I can’t do things right the way it is, and lastly,-> It’s fun to design my blog as what I want it to be.

As a Ning Student…??-> It enhances my ability to read faster, but accurately and precisely.-> It help’s me to find out that it’s easy to make comments when you’re mind is really into
As a Wiki Spacer…-> It enhances my capability to read and follow directions.-> It developed my ability to browse and browse until I found what I have been looking for.
Disadvantages…???-> it cost me a lot of money.-> I don’t have mu own computer to use when it’s time for online net.-> sometimes, I forgot to eat first.
Advantages…-> it developed my skills to surf, type, and read.-> it never makes me bored.-> it helps learning to become easier and fun.

My Experiences…..-> educational technology is an interesting subject.-> it’s fun to use-> it taught me how to use more on advance technologies.

So far, even though it’s hustle because I don’t have my own computer, it’s good that I am able to do it my own way. It helps my skills to grow on how to run the computer without asking the administrator. Another is, it taught me on how to stand all by myself to answer the given questions on the given data.

what is meaningful learning?

Meaningful learning refers to the concept that the learned knowledge is fully understood by the individual and that the individual knows how that specific fact relates to other stored facts.

What drives learning?

Ø It is the understanding of and effort , invested in completing a task or activity.

Ø It is the nature of the task that students . intend to perform that will best determine the nature of the learning that results.

Tasks that require. intentional,. active, constructive, cooperative, and authentic learning processes will result in more meaningful learning.

tests assess skills

Ø The testing process is individual, so students are enjoined from cooperating with others.

Ø The tests represent only a single form of knowledge representation, so students are not able to develop conceptual understanding, which requires representing what you know in multiple ways.

Simply stated, learning to take tests does not result in meaningful learning.

q In order for students to learn meaningfully, they must be willfully engaged in a meaningful task.

q In order for meaningful learning to occur, the task that students pursue should engage active, constructive, intentional, authentic, and cooperative activities.

Active (Manipulative/Observant)

v Learning is a natural, adaptive human process.

v Humans have survived and therefore evolved because they were able to learn about and adapt to their environment.

v humans interact with their environment and manipulate the objects in their environment.

Meaningful learning requires learners who are active-actively engaged by a meaningful task in which they manipulate objects and parameters of the environment they are working in and observing the results of their manipulations.

Constructive (Articulative/ Reflective)

Ø Activity is necessary but not sufficient for meaningful learning.

Ø It is essential that learners articulate what they have accomplished and reflect on their activity and observations-to learn the lessons that their activity has to teach.

Ø New experiences often provide a discrepancy between what learners observe and what they understand.

->The active and constructive parts of the meaning making process are symbiotic.
->They both rely on the other for meaning making to occur