Great video about social networking from the folks at Common Craft. This would be a neat intro for a workshop or class for beginners.
Common Craft (Lee & Sachi LeLever) create all kinds of videos on Web 2.0 topics for the non-techie web user.
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Second Life concerns
Posted in Second Life, Web 2.0, communication, community, ethics, students, teaching, technology, virtual worlds on September 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I’m currently taking a class in Second Life and we posted our first impressions of the virtual world to the class forum today. One of my classmates posted this interesting article about a professor’s “second thoughts about Second Life”, which raises some important legal and ethical concerns about institutions of higher learning using and requiring [...]
EDUCAUSE releases new study
Posted in higher education, information technology, learning, software, students, teaching, technology, undergraduates on September 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »
EDUCAUSE Centre for Applied Research has just released the latest report in its longitudinal study of undergraduates and their use of information technology. It is called, “The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2007” and is,
“…based on quantitative data from a spring 2007 survey and interviews with 27,846 freshman, senior, and community [...]
Web 2.0 apps for students
Posted in Web 2.0, applications, community, higher education, librarians, services, software, teaching, technology, tools, undergraduates on August 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Great compilation of 2.0 tools for students. The tools are aimed at mostly college students, but I suppose the list could be adapted for elementary and secondary ed students. Tools like Zoho Office Suite which has a whole cadre of free word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications. JotCloud and ShortText for taking notes, Facebook and [...]
Public library with a Web 2.0 mission
Posted in Podcasting, Web 2.0, Wikis, collaboration, flickr, learning, librarians, library 2.0, rss, teaching, technology on August 9, 2007 | 2 Comments »
This very cool story about the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County gives me hope for libraries and relevancy in the 21st century! The IT director charged her staffers with finding and using Web 2.0 technologies in the course of their jobs. The results? They developed a program called Learning 2.0 which is being [...]
CommentPress 1.0 released by if:book
Posted in Blogs, Web 2.0, Wikis, collaboration, open source, teaching on July 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The Future of the Book website has just released CommentPress 1.o, a free, open source theme for the WordPress blog engine designed to allow paragraph-by-paragraph commenting in the margins of a text. I’m overjoyed to see this, as I am a firm believer in blogs as easier tools to use and manage than wikis. [...]
For today’s blogs, wikis & podcasting workshop…
Posted in Blogs, Podcasting, Wikis, assessment, librarians, teaching on July 16, 2007 | 14 Comments »
I’m interested in finding out why you are attending today’s session. Tell me what you hope to learn from the workshop by clicking on the comments link below and posting your thoughts.
RRLC Workshop
Posted in Blogs, Podcasting, Wikis, librarians, teaching, technology on July 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Monday I am giving a workshop entitled “Blogs, Wikis & Podcasting”. Its a hands-on workshop for librarians in the Rochester area. I created a blog to use in the workshop called blogwikipod – I’m hoping to use it as teaching tool during the workshop.
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