This document discusses how web 2.0 technologies can support professional development and engagement. It provides examples of how social media, collaborative tools, and online communities can help connect groups of students and business partners across different universities to work on group projects without compromising IT infrastructure. The document also addresses challenges to adoption, such as inertia to change, and provides strategies for evangelizing web 2.0 tools through pragmatism, incentives, and meeting with stakeholders.

1. Supporting Professional Development for EngagementInnovative practice with web2.0Steve BonehamJISC Netskills

2. What’s web2.0 got to do with education?Photo: iStockphoto

3. Remember when…Photo: TV by jpop via flickr

4. The web has shrunk the worldphoto: www.sxc.hu/photo/1065698

5. Web is a platform not just a destinationphoto: www.flickr.com/photos/69567805@N00/2466700821

6. Engaging interfacesphoto: istockphoto

7. Things that think…Everyday devices that connect to the internetphoto: istockphoto

8. architecture ofparticipationphoto: www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/2249064379

9. Not just for <geeks>photo: www.flickr.com/photos/fstorr/168966590

10. Social mediaWe’re all in the media nowphoto: www.flickr.com/photos/92331968@N00/1509548968

11. Join the conversationphoto: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/455316

12. Be a part of yourcommunity

13. Find neutral territorywww.flickr.com/photos/79105258@N00/94326793

14. ScenarioYou want groups of students studying at various universities across the world to collaborate on a group project with external business partners.Can this be achieved without compromising IT infrastructure of all partners?

15. OPEN-i http://open-i.ning.com/

16. I don’t mean to bring you down, but...www.flickr.com/photos/57001982@N00/569307310

17. Inertia: resistant to change** Innovation requires changephoto:www.sxc.hu/photo/452559

18. Where to start?photo: (c) iA used with permission

19. “We are currently preparing students forjobs thatdon’t yet existusing technologies thathaven’t been inventedin order to solve problems wedon’t even know areproblems”Karl FischShift Happens (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ljbI-363A2Q)

20. Manual labourRTFM isn’t workingphoto: www.sxc.hu/photo/883122

21. Evangelism& pragmatismphoto: www.flickr.com/photos/coba/1825369

22. Carrotswith everything...photo: www.sxc.hu/photo/731122

23. Meet the person responsible for yourpracticephoto: www.flickr.com/photos/camil_t/82015664

24. onlineorganisationPhoto: iStockPhoto

25. Identity managementwebsite, blog, facebook, twitter, podcast,tumblr, youtube, vimeo, email, buzz, wave, skype, msnPTO…photo: www.sxc.hu/photo/627728

26. Top-down approach... A big stickphoto: www.flickr.com/photos/9397412@N06/3673549806

27. InstitutionalResponsesIRET 5Rs modelhttp://jisciret.jiscinvolve.org/

28. Instructional design 101Taxonomy, autonomy & experiential learning...

29. Quick pitch…photo: www.flickr.com/photos/74073406@N00/2779096394

30. Microblogging“Watching from the outside, Twitter is like the dumbest thing you’ve heard of… …and yet to dismiss Twitter is a mistake because it’s an incredibly powerful tool for your personal learning and connecting with others” Sue Waters, The Edublogger.

31. “One of the fastest growing mass communication tools of the modern era” Guardian, 28/4/06BLOGSphoto: www.flickr.com/photos/22694920@N05/3250506911

32. Podcastingphoto: www.sxc.hu/photo/780414

33. photo: www.flickr.com/photos/55279617@N00/124659356

34. Events (you can’t afford to miss/go to)Photo: istockphoto

35. Collaborativewriting

36. Social BookmarkingStoreOrganiseShare Discover

37. Know your RSSfrom your elbowphoto: istockphoto