A Whirlwind Tour of Web 2.0 Emerging Technologies for Education

for the Sloan-C Emerging Technology Symposium '08

 

If you feel that finding just the right emerging technology to support the learning goals of your courses is too time-consuming, this hands-on workshop is for you! Come join us as we take a tour of some of the best, easy-to-implement emerging technologies available.  We’ll introduce you to text, audio, video, image, and animation tools the promote communication, collaboration, and content creation and sharing in your courses.  By the time we finish the tour, you will: have a basic understanding of some primary web 2.0 tools you can use in your courses, feel more confident in your ability to select and use a web 2.0 tool that supports the educational goals of your course, and learn some tips and strategies for using web 2.0 tools successfully.

A Whirlwind Tour of Web 2.0 Emerging Technologies for Education Workshop Agenda & Outline What is Web 2.0 RSS: The Backbone of Web 2.0? Warming Up with Blogs and Wikis ScreenCasting: Student Support Made Simple Audio: It's about more than just Podcasting. Video: Let 'em see you smile. Other Tools You're Going to Want to Try Wrap Up and Last Thoughts Research & Resources

 

 

Workshop Agenda & Outline

This is an approximate agenda. We will spend more or less time on each section as needed by you!

 

 

What is Web 2.0

• Participant input - Web20 Tour Contributions
  • Note: to contribute to wiki without creating an account 

    login = tekguest@gmail.com / password = tekguest

• Key Web 2.0 characteristics briefly discussed
• Finding Web 2.0 tools & Selection Criteria: A few thoughts.

 

RSS: The Backbone of Web 2.0?

• What is RSS and why should it be important to you?
• Practicing with RSS using Google Reader
• Some advanced RSS work: Mashups with Start Pages
  • Protopage, NetVibes, PageFlakes
• Last thoughts on making RSS work for you!

 

Warming Up with Blogs and Wikis

• What are Blogs and Wikis and why would you want to use them?
• Blogger: An entry-level tool with tons of great features.
• PBWiki: A great choice for wiki newbies.
• Creating your Whirlwind Tour test site! (You gotta have a place to practice with some of the features of the tools that follow...)

 

ScreenCasting: Student Support Made Simple

• Why you should add screencasting to your toolkit.
• Trying out Screencast-O-Matic

 

Audio: It's about more than just Podcasting.

• The many glorious ways to include asynchronous audio in your courses
• Trying out Utterz
• Giving Vaestro a shot
• Podcasting with GCast (and interactive podcasts with CrowdAbout)

 

Video: Let 'em see you smile.

• Creating a deeper sense of presence with video.
• Video messages using EyeJot
• Video discussions with Viddler

 

Other Tools You're Going to Want to Try

• Interaction  and collaboration: the heart of Web 2.0
• SlideShare for uploading, sharing, rating, and commenting on presentations
• PrezentIt for collaboratively creating presentations
• VoiceThread for interacting with content
• Viddix for creating multi-media interactive presentations (advanced!)

 

Wrap Up and Last Thoughts

• Sharing Your Knowledge and Skills - Invitation to contribute to this wiki, the Distance Teaching wiki, and the Sloan-C wiki.
• Exploring Go2Web20.net, C4LPT, EDUCAUSE Connect, and Sloan-C (of course!!)
• Your courses will never be the same!
• Please tell me what you thought of this workshop on the contributions page.

 

Research & Resources

• Moore, M. G. (2007). Web 2.0: Does it really matter? American Journal of Distance Education, 21(4), pp. 177-183.
• Hartman, J. L., Dziuban, C., & Brophy-Ellison, J. (2007). Faculty 2.0. EDUCAUSE Review, 42(5), pp. 62–77.
• Alexander, B. (2006).  Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning. EDUCAUSE Review, 41(2), pp. 32–44.
• Brown, J. S., & Adler, R. P. (2008). Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learnng 2.0. EDUCAUSE Review, 43(1), pp. 16–32.
• EDUCAUSE Connect. EDUCAUSE Web 2.0.
• O'Hear, S. (2006, August 6). eLearning 2.0 Read Write Web.