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Social Software Half Day

This page contains an outline, links, and other materials for the NITLE social software in education workshop at Rollins College on Jan. 10, 2008.

Agenda for the afternoon

1:00-2:45

  1. What is Web 2.0/Social Software?
  2. What can it do for education and research?
  3. Social writing tools: blog
workshop examples: Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions, Children's Literature

2:45-3:00 Break

3:00-4:30

  1. Social writing tools: wiki
  2. Social resource sharing: social bookmarking
  3. Resource aggregation: RSS

Slides for this workshop are here.

Web 2.0/Social Software

Defining social software: The Machine Is Us/ing Us Web 2.0 diagram Social software map
Examples of Web 2.0 in use: Academic Commons list

Blogs

Examples: NITLE bloggers Blogging the World Ohio Haughs Infocult
Technorati for searching blog topics
Google Blog Search
For today's exercise: Google’s Blogger/Blogspot
Other blogging resources: Edublogs, Moveable Type, WordPress among others

Wikis

Examples: Wikipedia NITLE Research Wiki
Workshop exercise using PmWiki (on NITLE's research site)
Other wiki resources: Wikispaces PBwiki Google Docs among others
TWiki a more robust wiki

Social Bookmarking

For today's exercise: del.icio.us
Other social bookmarking resources: diigo digg and more

RSS

For today's exercise: Google's Reader
Other aggregation resources: Bloglines FeedBurner
For more than RSS aggregation: NetVibes

Selected readings

Bryan Alexander, Using technology in teaching and learning: Resources to help you navigate a digital world, C&RL News, February 2007.
Yochai Benkler, "Common Wisdom: Peer Production of Educational Materials". Presented at the September 2005 Advancing the Effectiveness and Sustainability of Open Education Conference.
John D. Bransford, Ann L. Brown, and Rodney R. Cocking, eds. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 2000.
Tony Hammond, Timo Hannay, Ben Lund, and Joanna Scott, "Social Bookmarking Tools: A General Review". D-Lib, April 2005.
Mary Hodder, “For the Vox Populi: A Comparison of How Some Blog Aggregation and RSS Search Tools Work”. Napsterization, July 24, 2005.
Ewan McIntosh, "Blog Use in K-12 Scottish Foreign Language Courses: Modern Foreign Language Environment Supports Creative Uses of Technology." IALLT Journal 39.1 (Winter 2008).
Clay Shirky, “Ontology is Overrated”. presentations given during spring 2005.
Barton, Matt and Charles Lowe, “Databases and Collaborative Spaces for Composition”. refereed article on collaborative writing pedagogy
Bomberger, Ann, "Ranting about race: Crushed eggshells in computer-mediated communication." Computers and Composition 21.2 (June 2004). 197-216.