Web 2.0 and Presented at ELI Meetings

Students in a comparative political media course used web 2.0 technologies including blogs, wikis, podcasts, YouTube, folksonomies, and syndication to explore the emerging landscape of political media. They explored how and when to use each tool, technical production in the tools, and more generally where political media is headed.

The Miami University English department and Academic Technology Services developed new laptop classrooms, digital writing curricula, and instructor training programs. Currently 30 percent of all required first-year writing courses are taught in networked laptop classrooms. We will focus on English/IT collaborations, instructor preparation, and the impact on student learning. Qualitative and quantitative data, including video interview clips with students, will be shared.

Given all the web 2.0 tools available, a well-defined process helps time-pressured faculty make choices that promote effectiveness and efficiency, identify resources, and help staff deliver a pedagogically sound product. We will discuss project stages, how a decision is made to pursue a project, faculty engagement, project tracking, and project assessment.

Moodle, an open source course management software, is not only a tool for communication and reflection but also a virtual learning object. Explore how students in an information-literacy course respond to, comprehend, and use a variety of web 2.0 technologies in a single online environment.

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? Join us to face this fear together in a multimedia, interactive miniplay.

This video from the University of Central Florida presents students discussing their role as content creators as well as consumers in a Web 2.0 world, noting that students come to the role of content creation with varying degrees of knowledge and skill, as well as different levels of understanding about the role's underlying responsibilities.

Are you interested in enhancing the Web 2.0 skills of your existing staff but have a limited training budget? At McMaster University the library staff are enhancing their 2.0 skills through a self-taught “Learning 2.0” online 12-week program that encourages them to explore everything from blogging to Second Life.

Are you interested in enhancing the Web 2.0 skills of your existing staff but have a limited training budget? At McMaster University the library staff are enhancing their 2.0 skills through a self-taught “Learning 2.0” online 12-week program that encourages them to explore everything from blogging to Second Life.

Virtual Learning Environments in 3D We've passed through Web 1.0, entering the architecture of participation. Wikis and other read/write Web 2.0 capabilities provide a collective voice and opportunities for collaboration. They remain, however, fundamentally textual. Emerging now is the Web with shape and form--the 3D virtual world (VW). As education becomes global, will immersive 3D VWs learning spaces provide a persistent new home campus? Discuss.