EDUCAUSE | Web 2.0

Podcast: Supporting Faculty Adoption of Emerging Technologies: Wanderlust or Creating a Campus Roadmap?

gbayne — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:41:10 -0500

This hour and thirteen minute podcast features a panel discussion from the EDUCAUSE 2008 Southeast Regional Conference. The participants of this general session, "Supporting Faculty Adoption of Emerging Technologies: Wanderlust or Creating a Campus Roadmap?," include:

W. Gardner Campbell, Professor of English, University of Mary Washington
Jean Ann Derco, Executive Director, Educational Technology, The University of Tennessee
James Groom, Instructional Technology Specialist, University of Mary Washington
Dolly J. Young, Full Professor of Spanish, The University of Tennessee
Session moderator: Julie K. Little, Interim Director, ELI, EDUCAUSE

Faculty who are early adopters of technology are experimenters and risk-takers; they broaden the landscape of effective teaching and learning with technology. Yes, they push the envelope, but they also offer partnership for identifying what’s scalable and sustainable for broader use. Our panelist share their campus perspectives on adopting emerging technologies from Web 2.0 to virtual worlds, their successes and challenges, and the partnerships they’ve formed.

ELI In Conversation: The Fear 2.0 Group

gbayne — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:06:22 -0500

Web 2.0 tools have the power to transform education. Such a transformation requires that faculty, students, and institutions take risks. With those risks comes fear, which is often unarticulated. How do you tackle this fear and make real change?

In this 43 minute podcast we feature a conversation from the ELI 2008 Annual Meeting. Our particpants consist of a group of five higher ed professionals who co-presented the session, "Who's Afraid of Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and the Big Bad CMS? A Digi-Drama About Fear 2.0."

They include:

Laura Blankenship, Senior Instructional Technologist, Bryn Mawr College
Martha Burtis, Director, Teaching and Learning Technologies, University of Mary Washington
Barbara Ganley, Lecturer in English and Writing Program, Middlebury College
Leslie Madsen-Brooks, Teaching Resources Center, University of California, Davis
Barbara Sawhill, Director Cooper International Learning Center, Oberlin College

May/June 2008 EDUCAUSE Review Now Available Online

cluckett — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:42:38 -0500

The May/June 2008 EDUCAUSE Review is now available online. It features Brad Wheeler on the need for providing answers that are good enough and quick enough in the Era of Certitude; John Windhausen Jr. on the demand for "big broadband" connectivity in the United States; a summary of the 2008 EDUCAUSE Current Issues Survey findings; and Chris Dede on Web 2.0 and the seismic shift in epistemology.

Drexel University Libraries' Scholarly Communication Symposium: Scholar 2 Scholar: How Web 2.0 is Changing Scholarly Communicati

jaybhatt — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:54:28 -0500

The Drexel University Libraries, with support from IEEE, will present The 5th Annual Scholarly Communication Symposium titled: Scholar2Scholar: How Web 2.0 is Changing Scholarly Communication. Join us for a half-day symposium featuring a speaker presentation by Jean-Claude Bradley, Associate Professor, Chemistry and E-Learning Coordinator for the College of Arts and Sciences at Drexel University, followed by panel and roundtable discussions. An optional Dutch-treat networking lunch concludes the day.

Date: Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Time: 8:30 AM – 1:30 PM
Bossone

For more information:
Drexel University Libraries' Scholarly Communication Symposium: Scholar 2 Scholar: How Web 2.0 is Changing Scholarly Communication
http://www.library.drexel.edu/scholarlycommunication/

To register:
Registration Form
http://www.library.drexel.edu/scholarlycommunication/registration2008.html

Our Wiki:
Scholar2scholar
http://scholar2scholar.wikispaces.com/

You will need to create your account in Wikispaces (if you do not have one) by clicking on 'Join' in the top right corner. Use your username and password you created to join our scholar2scholar wikispaces.
(Note: Please try to use something resembling your real names as usernames)

Do not forget to explore our evolving section - Further reading on Web 2.0
http://scholar2scholar.wikispaces.com/Further+Reading+on+Web+2.0+and+Scholarship

Podcast: Challenging IT Leaders to Mashup, Twitter, Tag, and Poke: New IT Strategies for a Digital Society

gbayne — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:03:29 -0500

This 57 minute podcast features the opening keynote address from the EDUCAUSE 2008 Midwest Regional Conference. The speech was delivered by Susan E. Metros, Deputy CIO & Associate Vice Provost at the University of Southern California, and is entitled, "Challenging IT Leaders to Mashup, Twitter, Tag, and Poke: New IT Strategies for a Digital Society".

Today's youth are digitally titillated, visually stimulated, and socially connected. To educate and engage this new breed of learners, institutions of higher education are revisiting and revising the basic tenants of a general education by asking, What does it means to be literate in today's society? As educators transform the way they teach and conduct research, IT leaders also must alter their institution's IT strategy to best support a mobile, global digital citizenry.

New ELI Brief Explores Interactive Photo-Sharing Website

pkurkowski — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:47:54 -0600

Flickr is a photo-sharing website where anyone can upload and tag photos, browse others' photos, and add comments and annotations. It provides a platform for sharing creative work and allows users to engage in a conversation about a photo, building a sense of community and enabling collective knowledge construction. The 7 Things You Should Know About Flickr, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative’s (ELI) latest brief in the monthly series, examines how Flickr embodies what has come to be known as Web 2.0 technology.

Browse the complete 7 Things You Should Know About… monthly series.

The 12/10 Conspiracy: Guiding Faculty and Staff Exploration of Web 2.0 as Learning Tools

happyharriet — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:38:02 -0600

Presentation given by FR Nordengren, Des Moine University. He is an education technology strategist and works in the college of health sciences. His job: Assess student engagement with technology, find out how we can maximize the current tools we use. Create a formal faculty mentoring program.

23 Things - Helene Blowers (Librarian) She set up a way for staff to study 23 contemporary tools on the web, they were incentivised and challenged to learn about these tools.

He decided that he needed the FedEx arrow (look between the e and the x) - if you have no budget and you need a person to think about your product, tell them that whenver they see the fedex arrow to think about the product.

So borrowing from these two sources, he came up with 12 resonable tools to represent what Web 2.0 is all about - that the faculty could review, research, study in 10 months. Things such as RSS feeds, google documents, blogger page, flakes, google alerts, tagging information, podcasting, facebook, wikipedia, flickr, ect.

A Terradiddle - story of nonsense. He gave an example of this by picking 12 random people and tied them all together by dates, and random data he found on each of them, thereby creating a "consipiracy theory!"

THIS WAS HILARIOUS. (wish this presentation was video taped)

However, the point was made. He created 12/10 lunch and learns (starting at 12:10 p.m, of course). For instance, he gives an overview of three tools which will help them organize their use of web 2.0 tools, such as Onebook. In a lunch and learn you can only give a brief overview of what these tools can do. He then waits to see if they want more in-depth training on the tool.

Technology boot camps was the strategic plan. Implement an instructional technology assessment, they also had a reorganization of their institutional computing department into information technology services. You must ask yourself does your organization agree on what educational technology is?? or do you have different definitions for it? They conducted a study to find out about the schools technology users. He showed a Pew/Internet study about the categories of typical information technology users and showed a breakdown germain to Des Moine university faculty and students. He then asked about the availability of contemporary hardware/software solutions. They found that the students found their own solutions for use of Web 2.0. Whereas, faculty depended upon IT for their hardware/software solutions.

Conclusions:

Faculty mentoring must be a personalized process. A one size boot camp won't work.
High yeild does not equal high competence with a tool ... even though they may use a tool, they don't know how to use it properly. For instance, linking instead of embedding, etc.
They are still defining what 'basic' skills are

IT Competencies, Information Literacy Skills, Online Interactions, Critical Thinking, Knowledge management; These are areas or skills that they encourage faculty to learn more. They ask faculty to learn or develop these skills and give them incentives for doing so (he did not say what the incentives were). Someone in the audience uses the tenure process as an incentive for participation in this type of learning.

Really great presentation! Good pace, good information, great speaker.

Using Google Apps and Video to Enhance Instruction

happyharriet — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:27:30 -0600

James Varn, Director of Faculty Development, Mississippi Valley State Univ., gave this presentation. Not quite sure there are still people out there who are not familiar with Google docs anymore. However, there are probably some people who may need to know what you can do with google documents. He suggests that chat within Gmail works really well. He gave an overview of Gmail and google docs. The advantage of google docs is that everyone can contribute, you can track the document revisions in real time. You can control who has access to the document. You can conduct peer reviews, work on group projects, review history of revisions, will convert to word or pdf formats, use it for brainstorming or project papers for comments. Google docs allows you to insert comments, compare revisions to determine work each student has contributed. Google docs also has spreadsheets and presentations. Google groups is nothing more than a discussion group. You can create a discussion topics, add people to the discussion, etc. Goggle talk is just a basic instant messaging app.

He says that Google blogger is easier to use than to create web pages (??? ... not sure about that statement, because there are so many free blogging sites already out there), use blogger to create discussion forums, use it like an e-portfolio (which we've already done at UTA - Art History 1301). He gave some statistics on the relationship between the net generation and media basically saying that this generation spends more time on video games than in reading books. Using these types of apps are good for this generation because these students are more visual. They like to multitask.

For using video in his course, he is using/has used video downloader, youtube downloader, orbit, google video search, unplug extension in Firefox to download video in his course. A GOM player plays most any video file... and it's free. He uses MS movie maker to create video clips.

He also discussed Zoho Applications which is seeking to compete with google. He covered wiki's, social bookmarking programs, e-portfolios, etc. He used all of these tools in teaching english. Very basic presentation for a beginner or someone very new to Web 2.0 tools.

ELI In Conversation: Second Life and Virtual Worlds - An Approach to Active Learning

gbayne — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:03:28 -0600

In this 31 minute podcast we feature a conversation from the ELI 2008 Annual Meeting. The topic is Second Life and virtual worlds. How can virtual world participation help students become active learners? How can instructors approach virtual worlds with an eye toward their own curriculum. Are there any privacy or safety issues that must be breached in getting your students on Second Life? Particpants in this discussion include:

Sarah Smith Robbins, PhD Candidate at Ball State University, who presented a plenary session at ELI 2008 entitled, "Virtual Worlds as Web 2.0 Learning Spaces".
Teshia Roby, Assistant Professor of Educational Multimedia at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona who presented a session at ELI 2008 entitled, "Second Life for the First Time: Learning to Use a Virtual World on a Real Campus".
Chris Johnson, Adjunct Assistant Professor at The University of Arizona who co-presented a session entitled, "Implementing a Presence in Second Life: Pitfalls, Procedures, Policies, and Promises".

ELI In Conversation: Web 2.0 and Digital Storytelling

gbayne — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:12:13 -0600

In this podcast we feature a conversation with Bryan Alexander, Director for Research at the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE) , and Gail Matthews-DeNatale, Associate Director for Academic Technology at Simmons College . This discussion was recorded at the ELI 2008 Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas.

Digital storytelling merges leading-edge technology with age-old storytelling processes. Digital stories are typically in video format but can also include Web pages, digital maps, and other emerging technology mashups. With the addition of a Web 2.0 focus, audience also becomes co-author. How do these concepts apply to pedagogy and how can instructors evaluate and assess the process and final product?

Gail Matthews-DeNatale presented a session at ELI 2008 entitled, "Digital Story Making: Understanding the Learner's Perspective".

Bryan Alexander presented a workship at ELI 2008 entitled, "Web 2.0 Storytelling".