I gave a guest talk in a LIB100 today on blogs and wikis. Here is the accompanying presentation:
blogs and wikis
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I gave a session and co-presented a session at the Innovations in Instruction Conference at Elon University. My first session had probably about 70 people in the room. It was a great crowd: engaged, ready to contribute, asked good questions… I had a really good time. Here is that presentation:
Learning From The Context
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Web2.0, the Social Media, and Academia: Using Personal Learning Environments to Expand Teaching and Learning
Joan Vinall-Cox – University of Toronto
Premises:
education exists to share ad extend knowledge
information increasing
we are living in most extensive and rapidly changing communication environment
we are engaged with creating and learning how to ‘be’ within this environment
Web 2.0
Social online-hosted applications, cloud computing
Social things [...]
I’m reading The Academic Library and the Net Gen Student by Susan Gibbons right now. I’m not very far into it, but so far everything I’ve read rings incredibly true. As I read it, I can’t help but suspect that it will sound pretty radical to some people, and other people will be like, [...]
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about web services vs. web sites and librarians as content creators. I’ve been excited by the fact that non-techies can push content to the web thanks to 2.0 principles. I’ve been amazed at the rapid development of facebook applications, netvibes widgets, and google gadgets.
This is particularly important [...]
