web 2.0 symposium edmedia 2007

1. mashups standards interconnectivity tasks authentic Responsive to the needs of institutions and users engagement motivation Are students adults? Forcing students to web 2.0? IT strategy/ assessment strategy Human nature competes web 2.0 activities Blogging like never blogged before Who feels comfortable with what environments No subject, tutor supports your strategy choice Intentions define choice of environments User control in these environments Archive data What kind of corporate mindset LMS creates? Ease with challenges Working with tools after graduating? Who picks tools; instructor or learner? Do we use same tools for different tasks Keep systems simple Centralizing not on tools but protocols Technology challenges practices Right to be behind the garden wall Writing has consequence, engagement in open web Learning safety should be less dangerous/ scary than learning web 2.0 alone Lag between real world technology and institutional technology: is genuine authentic engagement to tasks impossible? Educational technology research application is rather poor LMS as organizational technologies? Should university be a safe place? Learning is scary Digital taxidermists? Acknowledge diversity of tools LMS for supporting rendezvous in other systems LMS: split LM and MS Teach them to swim do not ban everything!