Digital Media Pedagogy
Informal Learning/Social Networking Services
Ning (hard to keep track of large number of users)
http://www.ning.com/
Open source social networking
http://www.elgg.org
https://n-1.cc/
Install this plug-in with WordPress and create a social networking site, http://buddypress.org/
Facebook (create closed groups for students)
http://www.facebook.com/
OPEN LEARNING
Blogging
Microblogging, Free and open source, http://identi.ca/, schedule tweets months ahead, http://twuffer.com/, Twitter (create a hashtag for your class and ask students in large classes to tweet questions during class; project the page for your hashtag), http://twitter.com/
Blogging (literary)
Video blogging, exchange video messages on Facebook
Tumblr, media-rich, twitter-like blogging, http://tumblr.com
http://www.wikipedia.org/
Online database of more than 200 journals
http://muse.jhu.edu/
http://www.doaj.org/
Wikimedia Commons is an online repository of free-use images, sound and other media files.
http://commons.wikimedia.org
MIT's Open Courseware (access syllabi by MIT faculty for free, e.g., engineering)
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm
Digital "community of letters"
What are the realities of open access and open scholarship?
Research Tools
Search 101
http://vivisimo.com/
http://search.yippy.com/
http://search.carrot2.org
http://www.editgrid.com/
http://pubmed.com
Attention/Focus
Temporarily block access to all social sites on your computer with this app, http://anti-social.cc/
Temporarily block the Internet on your computer, http://macfreedom.com/
Annotate websites
http://www.zotero.org/
http://diigo.com
Social bookmarking
http://www.delicious.com/
Bibliography
http://www.librarything.com/
http://citeulike.org
http://www.zotero.org
Archive and reference your academic work
http://www.mendeley.com
Live Streaming
Live stream and archive video of events
http://www.ustream.tv
http://www.livestream.com/
Organizational/ Administrative Tools
General Productivity Tools
Google Docs, http://docs.google.com/support/bin/ topic.py?topic=15115
Allows you to easily paste frequently used snippets of text, http://smilesoftware.com/TextExpander/
Merge pdfs online, http://www.nitropdf.com/free/hammer/ index.htm
Students in large classes formulate questions and then vote which ones should be answered., https://www.google.com/moderator/
Schedule appointments with students or colleagues
http://www.doodle.com/
Share large files
http://www.4shared.com/
https://www.dropbox.com/
Teaching/Participatory Learning
Personal Dashboards
http://www.google.com/ig
Aggregate a variety of websites throughout the semester for your students to read, follow, and respond to., http://www.netvibes.com/en
Collaborative Writing
http://www.mixedink.com/
Students can share and comment on each others' papers. They can also all see your remarks., https://docs.google.com
Collaborative Concept Mapping
Ask students what they learned in your class. They can write concepts and names on post-it notes and then group it on the blackboard. Finally, a group of students with laptops collaboratively transfers all this to the a collaborative map., http://www.mindmeister.com/, http://freemind.sourceforge.net, http://dropmind.com/, http://www.mindnode.com/
Content Aggregation
http://www.google.com/reader
Presentation Tools beyond Keynote and PowerPoint
http://www.scribd.com/
http://omeka.org/
Prezi (requires degree of mastery), http://prezi.com/
http://www.openoffice.org
Upload your slideshows, http://slideshare.net/
Print- On-Demand Publications
Blurb (easiest for beginners, does not allow free pdf version of publication), http://www.blurb.com/
Lulu (does offer free pdf version of publication but does not offer simple design software- better suited for semi-professional use), http://www.lulu.com/
Create web-based timelines
http://linehive.com/
Screencasts (record screen interaction, useful for quick walk-throughs of software)
http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/ snapzprox/
http://www.techsmith.com/jing/
http://screenr.com
Podcasts
Itunes U (listen to lectures from a large number of universities), http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/
Profcast: Record slideshows with audio, http://www.profcast.com/public/index.php
Overview + Manuals for Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FOSS)
Using FOSS is more reliable in the long run because applications are not suddenly shut down for commercial reasons (e.g. Delicious.com, Seesmic.tv), http://en.flossmanuals.net/
Learning and Mobile Platforms
Using a txting mailing on cellphones with undergraduate students gets far more of their attention, texting mailing list, send text messages from your gmail account, http://groupme.com/, few useful mobile learning apps
The Feebackr http://www.benmoskowitz.com/?p=85
Teaching with/on YouTube
Use of Flipcams
Learning through Games
Responding to technological obsolescence
Peer-based grading
Learning To Learn (Bateson)
Paolo Freire
“What Freire made clear is that pedagogy at its best is not about training in techniques and methods, nor does it involve coercion or political indoctrination. Indeed, far from a mere method or an a priori technique to be imposed on all students, education is a political and moral practice that provides the knowledge, skills and social relations that enable students to explore for themselves the possibilities of what it means to be engaged citizens, while expanding and deepening their participation in the promise of a substantive democracy.”
