W29-Engaging Millenial Students with Web 2.0 Tools

W29 Engaging Millennial StudentsWith Web 2.0 Tools
Mark Frydenberg
Bentley University, Waltham, MA
Twitter: @checkmark

http://tinyurl.com/ctconf2009

“kids back then didn’t expect to be engaged
by everything they did”

Today’s Students

tweet @poll 39728 and your message

Live Blogging: coveritlive.com
Create a “backchannel”
Ask students to take notes
Post questions

“Digital” Students:
Continuously multi-tasking
Work in teams
Create and consume content
Handle lots of information
Google everything
Are always connected

Learning?

Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.”
Mark Prensky
http://www.markprensky.com/writing

Learning with Web 2.0 Tools
Web 2.0

Learning Today
Happens Anywhere
Experiential
Relevant / Real World
Engaging, Active
Problem Solving
Critical thinking
Collaborative
Produce, Consume, and Organize Knowledge
“Figure it out” attitude

Learning in a Web 2.0 World
What do you want to learn?
Where does the data /information come from?
How can it be shared?
What do we know?
What connections can we make?

Memorize

Analyze,Synthesize

Tools for Engaging Today’s Students

Whose class is it?

Whose class is it now?
Wikis
Google Sites

Hint: Use Your Google Site as a Course Entry Point in Blackboard
To change your landing page in Blackboard, go to Control Panel 
Course Options  Manage Course Menu  External Link. Create an external link to your Google site.
Then go to Control Panel  Settings -> Course Entry Point and select the Google site as the entry point.

Live Polling
Embed on Blog or Web Site
Include in PowerPoint
Some offer Cell Phone or Twitter Polling

Scheduling EventsPolls

Create Web Video:viddler.com
Video for yourBlog or Web Site

Slide Sharing:slideshare.net

CollaborativeBrowsing:
Dimdim.com
twiddla.com

Live Video Streaming:ustream.tv
Turn your PC into a TV Studio
Chat with your viewers.

Desktop Sharing:crossloop.com
Download the Crossloop client.
Yuuguu.com is another browser based cross—platform desktop sharing tool

Micro-blogging:Twitter
Find people like you to follow
Twhirlclient on your PC
Build a social network!
Twitter Educators to follow

wiffiti

How cool was that?
Mark FrydenbergTwitter: @checkmarkEmail: mfrydenberg@bentley.edu