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Discover the power of Fused in enhancing learning through collaborative activities on the Social Web. Learn how Fused aggregates content, promotes identity, and empowers individuals to create, discover, participate, and share. Experience seamless anywhere, anytime learning with this innovative platform.

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  1. Background • Learning is a ‘social’ thing • ‘Connecting’ with others to learn • Think about some recent learning you did, either formal or informal – (how) did it involve others? • A ‘good teacher’ is a leading learner in a community of learners • How do you find an expert?

  2. The rise of the Social Web • Evolution of the ‘Web’ • Realising the promise of the inventors of the Web: • A platform for collaboration • Web 1.0 -->Web 2.0 • Empowerment of the individual (learner) • Publishing --> participation • Taxonomy --> folksonomy(tagging) • LMS --> Personal Learning Environment (PLE) • Fused: a platform for learning

  3. Streaming your education • What is a lifestream? • From the lifestream blog, it is ‘a chronological aggregated view of your life activities both online and offline.’ • Why do it? • For the benefit of others • Promote your online identity • To follow people • To enhance your learning

  4. Fused • Activity streaming for teaching and learning • Aggregates content from all over the Web • Anywhere, anytime learning • Can be deployed as a public or private service • Realising the potential of the Web for learners • Create • Discover • Participate • Share

  5. An Exemplar • me.edu.au, the first public implementation of FusED • Provides Australian education and training professionals with an online networking and profile space • Use me.edu.au to: • Create an online professional profile • Connect with educators who have similar interests • Share links, news, photos, ideas, opinions • Blog about your work and professional learning • Aggregate your online activity to showcase what you are doing online

  6. Let’s take a look… What people are doing Popular communities

  7. …about me Link to my blog Aggregated list of my activity on the Web Some stuff about me

  8. My activity can be anywhere on the Web. It is all aggregated by Fused

  9. blogging Blogs are an important part of a collaborative learning environment In Fused you may choose an external one or the one provided Here’s an external one

  10. Here’s a friend’s blog, using the inbuilt Fused blog blogging

  11. collaboration Finding and connecting with others is key to learning Use Fused to subscribe to people

  12. Communities Create/join, and contribute to a community of interest

  13. Search Find and connect to people, communities, content etc

  14. Share Tag and share content with friends and communities Anything you create can be exported Import your bookmarks / tags from Delicious, Diigo etc Organise your stuff

  15. iFusED • Did we say anywhere, anytime? Meet iFusED

  16. Some important stuff • Fused is built on standards: • Those standards and specifications must be: • Lightweight • Easy to use • Web 2.0 friendly • Must integrate with other services • All content created by users belongs to them • Can import/export all their content at any time • The Web is the platform • Fused brings it all together for learning

  17. So..why use Fused?

  18. Lets’ see that again

  19. Fused • For more information on Fused please go to • http://educationau.edu.au/fused

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