Chapter+7

===Chapter 7: Making a Contribution (Opener #6: Learner Participation in Open Information Communities) === **Shared Online Video (Opener #6):** According to a [| June 2009 report], 13 hours of video are posted each minute to [|YouTube]. It also indicated that Internet users watch nearly 13 billion online videos in November 2008 alone. In January 2009, 136 million people watched some type of professional video content. While most Internet users have watched or shared entertaining online videos from YouTube, educators can find many uses for them. In fact, there are millions of freely available educational videos in [|YouTube Edu], [|TeacherTube] , [|Big Think] , [|NomadsLand] , [|Current TV] , [|Link TV] , [|Howcast] , [|Wonderhowto] , [|Google Video] , [|CNN video] , and [|BBC Audio and Video]. Many schools, universities, and corporate training divisions now have their own channels in YouTube and iTunes U (e.g., [|Stanford], [|MIT] , or [|Berkeley] ). Consulting firms like Deloitte are even sponsoring YouTube video competitions related to working at the company.

 **YouTube Teachers (Opener #6):** The Web turns everyone into a potential teacher or learner. [|Matt Harding] dances around the world and millions watch him. He becomes a geography teacher to the world community. In slight over a year, his 2008 video was viewed more than [|22 million times]. Lee LeFever’s “ [|In Plain English] ” videos from Common Craft have been viewed millions of times. In them, LeFever explains blogs, wikis, and social networking technologies using simple examples and illustrations.

 **Teaching Celebrities (Opener #6):** Lectures from [|Berkeley] professors like Professor Marian Diamond in [|biology] with hundreds of thousands of viewers as well as those in law, physics, computer science, and other subject areas are freely available to watch in YouTube for anyone with an Internet connection to watch. Some lectures are viewed hundreds of thousands of times. As of August 12, 2009, nearly one-quarter of a million people have viewed Google Co-Founder and President Sergey Brin give a talk at Berkeley on “ [|Search, Google, and Life] .” [|Stanford professors] as well as those from hundreds of other universities can be listened to in YouTube as well as iTunes. Professors are becoming celebrities.

 **Scribd is the YouTube of Text (Opener #6):** Tired of shared online video? Perhaps try [|Scribd] ; it is the YouTube of text documents. As of June 2009, there were millions of documents posted to Scribd with 35 billion words in 90 different languages that were being read by 60 million readers each month. Scribd has quickly become one humongous virtual site. It now ranks in the top 150 sites in terms of Web traffic. It has readership approaching the New York Times and is already more than 5 times bigger than Wikipedia in terms of total number of words. The gap between it and Wikipedia continues to grow as more than 50,000 documents are posted daily to it. Small wonder it attracts so many eyeballs. The Securities and Exchange Commission, National Science Foundation, and Internal Revenue Service are among the biggest users, each with more than 10,000 documents posted to Scribd. More impressively, the Federal Register has more than 200,000 documents preserved in Scribd. Anyone can post legal documents, music scores, poetry, homework, term papers, catalogs, how-to-guides, resumes, technical reports, or genealogical records to Scribd. Users can also form social networks to discuss, rate, and share these documents. The text sharing possibilities are endless!

For those not quite ready for the disruptive nature of Scribd, LibraryThing, [], may be a great way to get students and teachers involved in sharing opinions on the web about print books with which they are familiar. Or even Shelfari, [].

**Wikis (Opener #6):** A few years ago, many people said that [|Wikipedia] would not work. Today it ranks 7th in Internet traffic in the United States. There are more than 10 million pages of content in more than 250 languages. As of August 2009, there are nearly 3 million pages in English alone. In addition, the [|Wikimedia Foundation] boosts popular wiki sites such as [|Wikiquote], [|Wikisource] , [|Wikitionary] , [|Wikinews] , and [|Wikibooks]. Thousands of books are being composed free to the world at the Wikibooks website. K-12 and college students might help instructors design lessons in a wiki or share their projects and products. At the corporate training level, places like [|Best Buy] are adopting [|wikis] as a way to allow its 150,000 employees to contribute ideas on business practices, training approaches, employee benefits, and industry trends. In a word, they now have a voice.


 * 1 - Is your school prepared for students to create their own information? **


 * #2 - Is our school division prepared for students to create their own information? **

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 * #3 - What has your school contributed to an open information community; either as PD or student activities? In your answer pay particular attention to Bonks concerns about quality and maintenance. If your school has not previously involved either professionals or students in contributing to an open information community how would you start this process? Give details regarding the specific audience and purpose of this activity including quality indicators and maintenance plans. **

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