The Teaching, Learning & Technology Center
Seton Hall University
Web 2.0 Tools for Blog, ePortfolio
and Website Design
Title
What’s Writing Got to
Do With It?
Series website http://zedeck.wordpress.com
Guest Speaker: Ken Ronkowitz, PCCC and NJIT
June 9, 2009
Presenter: Mary Zedeck, Instructional Designer

The Teaching, Learning & Technology Center
Seton Hall University
Redefining:
Universities, How We Teach
Title
and Learn
June 9, 2009 Ken Ronkowitz, PCCC and NJIT

Posted on Serendipity35
http://dl.njit.edu/serendipity

What Is Being Redefined?
1. Writing
2. Reading
3. Literacy
4. Publishing
5. Ownership/IP/Copyright
6. Research Are WE redefining these things,
7. Privacy or are they being redefined
without our participation?
8. Class hours

Writing
 What is formal writing?
 What is informal writing?
 I think we all agree that a research paper fits
the former, and that student lecture notes is
the latter, but what about discussion board
postings, blog posts, collaborative
documents… 
 IM & texting is not writing; it’s conversation
 Self-sponsored writing
 Is the essay dying?
endoftheessay.wikispaces.com

Formal and Informal Writing
 Research paper  Student lecture notes
 Email
 Blog posts
 Discussion boards &
comments
 A collaborative document
 Twitter
 Presentation ―script‖

Reading
 If a student listens to an audiobook, is that
reading?
 Can watching a video presentation take the
place of a \"reading\" for a class?
 75% of time spent online is ―reading‖
 But it’s not the ―right kind‖ of reading

Literacy
 Media literacy 1960s
 Digital literacy 1980s
 Web literacy 1990s
 What does it mean to be literate if reading and writing
are changed?
 Writing/reading with links, images, video, collaboration,
dynamic content, social networking, user-interfaces…
 The digital revolution will not be televised.
 See also \"Literacy? Which One?\" and \"NCTE's New
Literacies― on Serendipity35

Publishing
 If I publish a blog post that is hit (read) by
50,000 people, how different is that from
publishing that same text in a magazine that
has 50,000 subscribers (readers)?
 What opportunities did you have as an
undergrad to ―publish‖ your work versus a
student today?
 Should online publishing count towards
promotion & tenure with the same weight as
traditional paper publication?

Old Media & New Media
 Gannett should have invented the Huffington Post
 NBC should have invented YouTube
 Sony should invented iPods and iTunes
 Yellow Pages (or any newspaper syndicate) should
have developed Craig’s List.
 ATT should have developed Twitter
 Fight to preserve journalism, not an old model.
 SCHOOLS should have developed _________ and if
they don’t change, then ___________________

Ownership, Intellectual Property,
Copyright, Fair Use
 Who owns a collaborative web page?
 Who wrote a wiki article?
 How is the open everything movement changing these
areas?
 What is copyleft?
 Does a Creative Commons license actually protect
a work?
 We say we want students to collaborate (and the \"real
world\" of employment tells us it is an essential skill),
but do we encourage it, or do we fear it as a kind of
cheating and plagiarism?

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Center for the Study of the Public Domain
http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/

Research
 Redefining not only the way we do it (digitized
primary sources LoC…)
 but the way we publish it (online)
 and use it (see copyleft)
 If I set up RSS feeds to pull content into my
reader, am I doing research? Is an RSS feed a
research assistant?

Privacy
 Privacy, especially online, has a new meaning.
 How much of you is online? How much have
you deliberately shared and how much is just
there?
 How private is your classroom, your content,
your students' work?
 ―walled gardens‖ like Blackboard are less the
norm
 Facebook ―friends‖ & Twitter followers
 Assumptions of privacy (cell phone
conversations)

Class Hours
 The meaning of \"work hours\" expanded starting with
the telephone, then with email and again in our age of
the Blackberry, virtual workspaces and more.
 It has also happened to \"class hours.\" A decade ago,
the only teachers really using course management
systems were those teaching at a distance to \"online
students.\" Now, every student is an online student and
many teachers are using a CMS, blogs, social
networks, wikis and other tools to continue the
classroom discussion and activities beyond the 3
credit hours listed in the catalog.
 How many hours is now expected of a student and an
instructor for a 3 credit course?

The Web was a push
technology.
Web 2.0 is pull technology.

Time’s Wingèd Technology
Chariot
 30 YEARS –  GETTING THE  MOBILE
computers in the NEWS PHONES
classroom  TV 60%  Using only a cell
 20 YEARS -  NET 13%  20%
Internet  NEWSPAPERS  Only a land line
 10 YEARS – 9%
 17%
laptops, tablets,  Twitter etc. 1%
IM, Blackboard  Using both
 17% remaining?
 5 YEARS –  83%
Google,  No news!
MySpace,
Facebook,
Twitter

The Future of
Blogging
 Educators have already missed some
opportunities for using blogs….
 Redefining Blogging (especially commercial
applications)
 Tumblelogs ronk.tumblr.com
 Microblogging (short posts using Twitter et al)
 Moblogging (via mobile phones)