This document discusses how social media and Web 2.0 technologies can be used to help teachers and learners. It provides examples of social media platforms like wikis, blogs, Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter that can be used in higher education. The document outlines goals of using these technologies, like fostering collaboration and preparing students for future work environments, as well as potential risks around information overload and privacy issues. It suggests that adopting these tools requires commitment, a culture of sharing, and involving students.

1. University & Web 2.0 How social media can help teachers & learners

2. What do you think when you hear “Web 2.0”? (Brainstorming)

3. What are your expectations today?

8. What’s in it for us? Some examples. A few examples to get us started: Wikis / Blogs / Flickr / YouTube / Facebook / Twitter Plus: Some use cases in higher education

9. Wikis knowledge transfer easy collaborative + - time-consuming

10. Wiki (facts, collaboration)

11. Wiki: Social Media Classroom By Howard Rheingold (UC Berkeley, Stanford University): “ The Social Media Virtual Classroom will develop an online community for teachers and students to collaborate and contribute ideas for teaching and learning about the psychological, interpersonal, and social issues related to participatory media.“

12. Google Docs knowledge transfer easy collaborative wiki-like, but strong privacy controls walled garden (kind of) proprietary hosted in the cloud (data security?) + -

13. Google Docs (documents)

14. Blogs great archive ‘link love’: Google loves it foster dialog great exposure comments! comment might need moderation smaller groups of authors + -

15. Blog / Weblog (text/links)

16. Flickr (photos) knowledge transfer easy collaborative easily shared photo library self-organizing (tagged) archive time-consuming limited usefulness + -

17. Flickr (photos)

18. YouTube simple video-based hosted (no bandwidth costs) ‘sleazy neighbors’ video is time & labor-intensive copyright / intellectual property + -

19. YouTube (videos)

20. Facebook privacy controls real people strong academic community (FB was founded for Ivy League students) distraction walled garden + -

21. Facebook (real people)

22. Twitter powerful networking tool very simple produces RSS feed ("hackable") great exposure privacy issues requires a certain culture white noise + -

23. Twitter (really short messages)

25. Twitter (really short messages) Video: Twitter in plain English (http://www.commoncraft.com/Twitter)

26. and: RSS (to make it all talk) RSS pushes information. To your users & students. Example: Podcasts

27. RSS: Podcasts

28. RSS (to make it all talk) RSS also pushes information from one service to another. And another. And another.  Mashups

29. Mashups Mix information from two or more sources and you get a mashup: Flexible, customizable, basis for an information ecosystem.

30. Mashups: Google Maps + X Example: Twittervision Google Maps + Twitter = Real Time Monitoring (enabled by RSS feeds)

31. Do we really need this? Judge for yourself. (I’d say: Yes!)

32. Goals, risks & gains What can we expect from Web 2.0?

34. Goals … to prepare your students for their future work environment (Benkler 2006 on peer production): “ (…) radically decentralized, collaborative, and nonproprietary; based on sharing resources and outputs among widely distributed, loosely connected individuals (…)”

42. Break (10 mins)

44. Now let’s mash it all up… … to see how RSS works in action.

45. Break (10 mins)

46. Experiences (please share your impressions!)

47. How could we use this to improve your classroom experience? New ideas?

48. Questions?

49. Die we meet your expectations today?

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52. Thank you! Questions & feedback? My email: [email_address] My blog: www.thewavingcat.com Resources: http://uocsocialmedia.pbwiki.com/