CIT2007 - Jetsons @ Web 2.0 - Recently Updated Pages

Keeping Up w/The Jetsons

rrodrigo — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:43:12 CDT

This wiki will be under contruction up to, and probably during, the workshop:

League for Innovation in the Community College
2007 Conference on Information Technology
Learning Center Course
LC9-S225 - Sunday, November 11, 2007 (8:30 AM - 11:30 AM)

This wiki is one of the functioning Web 2.0 support sites for the CIT2007 Jetsons Learning Center Course. Other tools and support sites include:

Del.icio.us (the Jetsons Tag and Jetsons Bundle at rrodrigo)
Blogger (emerging techs workshops)
Pageflakes (CIT2007 Tab)

Wikis

rrodrigo — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:10:05 CDT

Wikis & Document Sharing
Wikis are quickly and easily revised and updated websites. There are also document sharing programs (like Google Documents and Zoho Writer) that act like more specialized wikis.

Wiki Tools:

Wetpaint (http://www.wetpaint.com)
- Wetpaint just announced that their educational wikis will not have advertising!
PB wiki (http://pbwiki.com/)
Wikispaces (http://www.wikispaces.com/)

Document Sharing Tools:

Google Documents (http://docs.google.com/)
Zoho Writer (http://www.zohowriter.com/)
Think Free (http://www.thinkfree.com/)

Resources:

Wikis in Plain English, YouTube: v=-dnL00TdmLY
Wetpaint in Plain English, YouTube: v=F7BAU2XX5Ws
Google Docs in Plain English, YouTube: v=eRqUE6IHTEA
Exploration Guide: Educational Uses of Blogs, Wikis, RSS Feeds, etc. (http://www.tltgroup.org/blogs.htm)
Wild About Wikis (http://www.techlearning.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=191801354)

How might you use Wikis & Document Sharing in Scholarship?

Collaborate with others on projects (Example: http://www.nmc.org/nmcpedia/What_The_2.0)

How might you use Wikis & Document Sharing in Teaching?

Collaborative group projects
In-process view of student work (instructors can easily comment upon it)

How might your students use Wikis & Document Sharing in their lives?

Collaboration with clubs, family members, and community groups (Example: http://www.commoncraft.com/archives/000648.html)
Make their own website without needing to have high-tech web authoring skills

Pastry Chefs of Canada
http://www.pastrychefguild.net

Personal Portals

fast_dude007 — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 11:21:42 CST

Personal portals allow individuals to construct an internet browser homepage (default page) with tools and links that are relevant and regularly used. Most are private pages for the individual logging on, Pageflakes has a “public” option that allows individuals to share their portal pages.
Tools:-)

Google Homepage (http://www.google.com/ig)
MyYahoo (http://my.yahoo.com/)
Pageflakes (http://www.pageflakes.com/)
Netvibes (http://www.netvibes.com/)

Resources

iGoogle…Another Reason to Love Google (http://education.zdnet.com/?p=1033)
Using Pageflakes as a Student Portal (http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/using-pageflakes-as-student-portal/)

How might you use Personal Portals in Scholarship?

Construct specific portal pages for individual projects to keep track of your work, internet resources, etc.
Use portals to share online references for public presentations.
Use portals as starting points for presentations with a lot of online content.

How might you use Personal Portals in Teaching?

Construct specific portal pages for course resource (consider making public for students to access as well)
Have student construct so that they connect all the online resources for one course in one area

How might your students use Personal Portals in their lives?

More readily keeping tabs (and links) available for internet use
Have access to the same internet “homepage” on public computers

Resources

rrodrigo — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 11:02:27 CST

Top 100 Tools for Learning
Matrix: web 2.0's Top 1000 list
Handbook 700

RSS

rrodrigo — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:40:43 CST

RSS Feeds & Aggregators
Really Simply Syndicated feeds with their RSS aggregator (reading tool).

Aggregator Tools:

Google Reader (http://www.google.com/reader/) —web-based agregator
Newsgator (http://www.newsgator.com/)—web based aggregator
Gritwire (http://my.gritwire.com/)—web based aggregator with social elements.
Sage (http://sage.mozdev.org/)—Firefox browser based aggregator
SharpReader (http://www.sharpreader.net/)—downloaded desktop based aggregator

Blog-o-Sphere Search Tools:

Technorati (http://www.technorati.com/)
Blogarama (http://www.blogarama.com/)

Resources:

RSS in Plain English, YouTube: v=0klgLsSxGsU
RSS: The Next Killer App For Education (http://www.technologysource.org/article/rss/)
Countdown to RSS: The Gateway Technology (http://idea.zanestate.edu/rss/)
RSS: A Quick Start Guide for Educators (http://weblogg-ed.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/RSSFAQ4.pdf)

How might you use RSS Feeds & Aggregators in Scholarship?

Follow what other scholars are doing
Syndicate updates on your own research processes

How might you use RSS Feeds & Aggregators in Teaching?

Use an aggregator to organize all your students’ blogs
Have students follow a specific line of information (another scholar’s blog, Google search as RSS feed, etc.)

How might your students use RSS Feeds & Aggregators in their lives?

Keep up on current events
Follow what their friends and families are doing (subscribe to their blogs)

Social Bookmarking

rrodrigo — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:37:51 CST

Social bookmarking allows individuals to share their bookmarks (including annotations) with one another and also allows the user to access resources from any connection to the web. The “social” element also allows users to make “those who bookmarked this site also bookmarked” connections.
Tools:

Furl (http://www.furl.net/)—allows for more detailed annotations, archives/caches
Del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us/)
Diigo (http://www.diigo.com/)—built in social element that makes sharing easier.
Fleck (http://www.fleck.com/)—allows users to annotate specific webpages at the webpage.
Clipmark
Stumble Upon (http://www.stumbleupon.com/)—includes ranking system
Digg (http://www.digg.com/)—allows for more detailed annotation, includes ranking system
Delicious Firefox Addon (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3615)

Resources:

Social Bookmarking in Plain English, YouTube: v=x66lV7GOcNU
Sites to See: Social Bookmarking (http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/sites/sites080.shtml)
Towards a Managed Social Bookmarking Environment in Higher Education(http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/005107.html)
Criteria for Evaluating Social Bookmarking Tools (http://www.iddblog.org/?p=5)

How might you use Social Bookmarking in Scholarship?

Track your own sources
Follow bookmarking of other scholars in your field

How might you use Social Bookmarking in Teaching?

Sharing resources with students
Tracking students’ research process through what they bookmark (and annotate)

How might your students use Social Bookmarking in their lives?

Track their own resources
See what others have collected on a certain topic/theme/issue (follow a chain of research)

Web 2.0

rrodrigo — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:30:02 CST

Major characteristics of Web 2.0 applications:

Web Based
Read/Write
Social
Continual Beta

The quickest way to get started understanding what the heck is Web 2.0...watch

Warming Up

rrodrigo — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:00:20 CST

Pre-Conference Polls

Saturday 11/10/07 (Poll Results)

Thursday 11/8/07 (Poll Results)

Wednesday 11/7/07 (Poll Results)

Tuesday 11/6/07 (Poll Results)

So...what are some of the blogs you like to read:

Lifehacker (I'm a geek that way)
Read/Write Web (a place I learn about new technologies)
MakeUseOf (another place I learn about new technologies)
zen habits (gotta calm the chaos somehow!)
Cole Camplese (great ramblings on teaching and technology)

Monday 11/5/07 (Poll Results)

Follow Up Poll to Monday's Question about Gmail.
(Poll Results)

Blogs

rrodrigo — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 07:30:10 CST

WeB logs (online journals) may be syndicated through an RSS feed and many can also receive comments from readers. More advanced blog programs, content management systems, can construct entire websites.
Tools:

Blogger (http://www.blogger.com/start)
Uniblogs (http://uniblogs.org/)—an instance of WordPress blogging software
LiveJournal (http://www.livejournal.com/)
Drupal (http://drupal.org/)—content management system
Expression Engine (http://www.pmachine.com/ee/)—content management system
Word Press (http://wordpress.org/)—open source content management system

Resources:

Instructional Blogging on Campus: Identifying Best Practices (http://www.campus-technology.com/news_article.asp?id=11311&typeid=155)
The Blogging/Scholarship/Media Interplay (http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/?p=1657)
Educational Blogging (http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm04/erm0450.asp?bhcp=1.)
Blogging as a Course Management Tool (http://technologysource.org/article/blogging_as_a_course_management_tool/)

How might you use Blogs in Scholarship?

Publish “in-process” entries about your research and/or teaching
Get feedback from others interested in your topic as a form of peer “review”

How might you use Blogs in Teaching?

Have students keep an electronic version of the regular course journal
Require students to read and respond to one anothers’ blogs

How might your students use Blogs in their lives?

Publish “in-process” projects (academic, civic, professional and/or personal)
Have an ongoing family or group newsletter (multiple authors)