Web 2.0 Overview
postseminar discussion
What types of requests or issues have you been encountering on your campuses?
Response notes
Questions A
Brainstorming in small groups (5-6 people) that post on their own wiki page
*How can you use these technologies to enhance teaching and learning at
your institution (depending on your role)? Is there a particular course
you are considering?
*How can you use these technologies to enhance communication between IT
staff and users?
*How else can you use these technologies to enhance communication among
IT staff?
Notes from groups:
Table 1
Table 2
Table 3
Table 4
Table 5
Table 6
Questions B
*Pros of what you have seen or know of?
*Cons of social software in general?
*How to address these concerns?
*What to consider when planning implementation?
Bryan Alexander (bryan.alexander@nitle.org)
Donnie Sendelbach (sendelbach@lakeforest.edu, starting Nov. 17 donniesendelbach@depauw.edu)
Wikis
Examples: Wikipedia, Workshop Exercise, Jerry Kane's Wiki, NITLE Research Wiki, NITLE wikis, Wikipedia's Enterprise Social Software, Macalester College's Help Desk Wiki, USC's Customer Support Center
Resources for creating a wiki: PBwiki, PmWiki, Wikispaces, MediaWiki, Google Docs, TWiki a more robust wiki, WikiMatrix to compare wiki platforms
Research: Gene Wiki
Instructions: Moodle wiki, PmWiki
Blogs and RSS
Examples: OWL at Purdue U/U of South Australia Grammar Blog, U of Chicago Law School Blog, The Green Grok, Henry Jenkins, Infocult, NITLE bloggers, U of Puget Sound IT Blog and Department Info, including Web 2.0 use, Bryn Mawr Blog for user support
For searching blog topics: Technorati, Google Blog Search
Resources for creating a blog: Blogger/Blogspot, Edublogs, Moveable Type, WordPress
Instructions: Blogger
RSS Aggregators: Google Reader, Bloglines, FeedBurner
For more than RSS aggregation: NetVibes
Instructions: Google Reader
Images
Examples: The REALIA Project, IDEAS, National Museum Wales Up Close with Nature, The Brooklyn Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Art Institute of Chicago Historic Architecture Resources, U of Michigan's MLibrary 2.0
Image sharing: flickr, Picasa
Instructions: Picasa
Mapping
Examples: Cairo Page, Virtual Burnham Initiative, Global Inequity, UNEP Maps, MLA Census Map, DePauw University Campus Map
Maps and map sharing: Google Maps and My Maps
Street-level mapping Streetview
Google Earth download: Google Earth
Map sharing: Wayfaring, ZeeMaps, YourGMap, Platial
Instructions: My Maps, Streetview
Social Bookmarking
Examples: Donnie Sendelbach's bookmarks, Bryan Alexander's bookmarks, DePauw University's Faculty Instructional Technology Support
Resources for social bookmarking: delicious, diigo, digg
Instructions: delicious
Libraries' social bookmarking: Lewis and Clark explains, SLC Reference
Related resources: CiteULike, BibSonomy, Connotea, Zotero
Audio
Examples: EconTalk, Podcasts from the Society for Applied Anthropology, The Math Factor, DePauw University's Resources for Parents
For searching podcasts: Odeo, Podcast Alley, The Podcast Network, Podcasting News, Juice
For audio and video searching: Podscope, EveryZing
For audio and blog searching: Weblogs.com
Creating audio: Audacity, GarageBand on Macs or use video editing software
Uploading podcasts: Free podcasting with Gcast, Libsyn
Bryan Alexander's podcast map
Instructions: Audacity, Converting to MP3
Video
Examples: Science Friday, TeacherTube, Balinese Chant Lawrence Girl Choir, Study Abroad Project in Uganda
Resources for uploading video: YouTube
Instructions: iMovie
Videoblogging/Vlogging
Example: Rocketboom, Page's Videoblog, Arlington Height's Library
Digital Storytelling
Examples: Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling, Red Wellies, East or West, Web 2.0 Storytelling
Resources: Center for Digital Storytelling
Videoconferencing
Example: Dickinson College's Language Exchange, Student Information Technology Exchange 2.0
Resources for videoconferencing: Skype, ooVoo, iChat on Macs, Vista's Windows Meeting Space, Marratech through NITLE
Social Networking
Examples: LinkedIn, Facebook, EDUCAUSE Facebook Group, MySpace, Friendster, Earlham College's ICI Presentation on Elgg, Twitter for microblogging, Meebo for instant messaging
Selected readings
*Bryan Alexander, Using Technology in Teaching and Learning: Resources To Help You Navigate a Digital World, C&RL News, February 2007.
*Linda L. Briggs, The Power of Wikis in Higher Ed, Campus Technology, August 20, 2008.
*John Seely Brown and Richard P. Adler, Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0, EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 43, no. 1, January/February 2008.
*Luke Fernadez, Moodle and Social Constructionism: Looking for the Individual in the Community, Academic Commons, December 2007.
*David Green and Michael Roy, Things To Do While Waiting for the Future to Happen: Building Cyberinfrastructure for the Liberal Arts, EDUCAUSE Review, July/August 2008.
*Cindy Jobbins and Amanda Lenhard, Teens Do Not Consider a lot of Their Electronic Texts as Writing, Pew/Internet American Life Project, April 24, 2008.
*Tim Johnson, The Wild Web, University Affairs, October 6, 2008.
*Doug Reilly and Stefan Senders, Writers' Workshop for Returned Students, The Abroad View Foundation.
*George Siemens, Peter Tittenberger, and Terry Anderson; Conference Connections: Rewiring the Circuit, EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 43, no. 2, March/April 2008.
*Francis Starr, Cyberinfrastructure and the Sciences at Liberal Arts Colleges, Academic Commons, December 2007.
*Daniel F. Sullivan, Why IT Matters to Liberal Education, EDUCAUSE Review, January/February 2008.
*Matt Villano, Wikis, Blogs, and More, Oh My!, Campus Technology, April 2008.
General Resources
Examples of Web 2.0 in use: Academic Commons list
Defining social software: The Machine Is Us/ing Us, Web 2.0 diagram, Social software map
Web 20 and Study Abroad and ESA Addendum
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