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Are you ready for the Fall Semester?
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75%1.Yes, I’m ready!2. I’m almost ready3.No, I really need
to get going!4.What semester?
What is Web 2.0?
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1.Wor-Wic’s new website design
2.Second generation websites
3.Apple’s new operating system
4.A geek term for Halloween
Web 2.0 - New Technology Defined
•What we are used to is Web 1.0
•Coined by Tim O’Reilly (founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media ) at a brainstorming conference
•refers to a perceived second-generation of Web-based services
•Think of it as read/write - COLLABORATION instead of just read!
•Web 2.0 article by Tim O'Reilly
Blogs & Wikis
•A blog is a journal that is available on the web. It allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog.
–Examples:
•Edublogs
•Livejournal.com
•Blogs in Education
•Wiki - a software that allows users to create and edit Web page content using any Web browser.
–Examples:
•Wikipedia – good or bad?
•Using Wiki in Education
YouTube - Anyone’s Video
•Action Pi
•A Marriage Equality Story
•Stupid in America
•The Greatest Political Videos of All Time
•Free Speech on College Campuses
•Women in Art
Podcasting
Podcast - a digital media file that is distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds.
For playback on portable media players and personal computers.
Like 'radio', it can mean either the content itself or the method by which it is syndicated – also called podcasting.
The host or author of a podcast is often called a podcaster.
You do not have to have an iPod or iTunes to hear a podcast.
Podcasting
education podcasts - over 1,300 in Podcast Alley - over 5,000 in iTunes.
Educational podcasts are usually free
Search possibilities for iTunes:By subject - historyUniversity – Yale, PrincetonMuseums – Museum of Modern Art, National Museum of African Art, Dr. Pepper Museum
Educause Connect – podcasting
Podfeed.net – podcast directory
Googledocs & Spreadsheets
an easy-to-use online word processor and spreadsheet editor
create, store and share documents and spreadsheets
collaborate online in real time
monitor student progress
group work on assignments
see document’s revision
Turn documents into pdf, html or word format
Education World Site Review gives Google Docs and Spreadsheets an
Google Doc’s Academic Potential and Importance
– Edutechie.com
Sign up with only your email address and a password
Use Internet Explorer
http://docs.google.com
Googledocs & Spreadsheets
What is social bookmarking?
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studying2.Collecting
bookmarks with your friends
3.Tagging web pages to search and share
4.A new form of speed dating
Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking is a way for internet users to store, classify, share and search Internet bookmarks.
The process of tagging is intended to make a body of information increasingly easy to search, discover, share and navigate over time.
Resources:–del.icio.us – download free the most popular
software
–Configuring and using del.icio.us tutorial by Chris Shields at Drexel University
–Social bookmarking in education
–7 Things You Should Know About Social Bookmarking from Educause Learning Initiative
TurningPoint - Audience Response Software
•Integrates 100% into PowerPoint®
•Displays questions, surveys, opinion polls and games
•Students select a response via their wireless ResponseCard® ("clickers") and transmit the data to the presentation.
•Assesses student learning retention, prompt student interaction, award participation points or deliver quizzes and tests
•Higher education case studies
WebCT/Blackboard Supplemental Class Sites
Go beyond your faculty website:
• Closed email
• Post grades
• Graded quizzes
• Use surveys
• 24/7 discussions
• Submit assignments
• Student home pages
• Image database
• Whiteboard
• Chat rooms
Go to WebCT login on Wor-Wic’s Home page – enter the word sample (lower case) as both the login name and the password to access the sample WebCT course.
•Intro to WebCT Workshop on August 31, 2007 @ 1:00 p.m. in MTC 204 – email Kathy Turner [email protected] if you are interested
Faculty Websites
Select a faculty website
In your faculty website:
• easy to use
•post your syllabus
• upload course documents
• create announcements
To obtain a faculty website:Contact Matt Sollars at [email protected]
Go to the Faculty Resource web page and submit the information
Which multimedia tool do you think you’ll use?
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2. WebCT
3. Podcasting
4. Social Bookmarking
5. Google Docs
6. You Tube
Questions?
• Contact Information:– Safaa Said– [email protected]– 410-334-2961– Hours: MWF 8:30
a.m. – 4:30 p.m.– This PowerPoint is on
the Faculty Resource website in the Workshops link