This document provides an agenda for two upcoming sessions on May 13th and 20th about using the internet and web resources. The May 13th session will discuss what youth can teach about internet use and the affordances of the web, including demos and questions. The May 20th session will cover a taxonomy of the soul in cyberspace, including enhancing place-bound churches, substituting the internet for in-person activities, and native religious internet activities. The document also outlines different levels of technological capability and lists various internet resources and social networks that could be discussed.

1. Westwood The Net and U
Terry Anderson
terrya@athabascau.ca

2. • May 13
– What can our youth teach us about Net use
– Web affordances - Demos, and Questions
• May 20
– Taxonomy of the Soul in Cyberspace
• Enhancing place bound churches
• Substituting Net for face-to-face activities
• Net Native Religious activities

3. Net is a Disruptive Technology!
Low, High End, Non-consumer Disruptions

4. Five technological capabilities
Awareness Recognise the new technologies, their
products and applications.
User Use the new technological tools to support
learning, work and life.
Maker Apply the new technologies to produce new
‘products’ and services.
Evaluator Make critical judgments about the new
technologies, their products and their impacts.
Holistic Recognise the impact of the new technologies
on how we think.
Prof. David Layton

5. Introductions
• Tell us about an instance when you used
effectively (or ineffectively) web resources, or
their use added confusion.
• Do you have something you want to learn or
share about the net in these sessions?

6. Affordances of the Net
1. Access to Information –
anything, anytime, any format
2. Access to Others –
friends, families, networks, communities
3. Collaborative/Individual Production and
sharing

7. Access to Anything
• Searching Beyond Google
– Yelp reviews
– DogPile
• Photos on Flickr
• Bookmarks on Diigo
• Sites for Book Lovers
• Google Maps and Google Earth
• And of course Wikipedia
• And thousands of web 2.0 sites – go2web20.net

8. Social Software for Networks and
Groups
• Profiles
• Photos
• Blogs
• Calendars
• File management
• See ning and
http://www.ning.com/search/networks?q=uni
tarians&page=1

9. Access to People: Social Networks
• Facebook:
– Profiles – finding others
– Sharing photos, comments on the wall,
– Email and discussion groups
– Applications
– Keeping in touch with distant friends/relatives
• Demo: My Facebook

10. http://wuuters.ning.com/

11. A closed Social Network NING
• Ning –
– Free with ads
– Easy to set as public or private
– Unitarians on Tap
• Elgg
– Sets permissions for all content
– Me2u.athbascau.ca (accessible only by Athabasca
students and staff – sorry)

12. Collaborative/Individual Production
and sharing
• Google Apps
• Blogs – see the Virtual Canuck
• Group sharing/discussing – Voice Threads
• Wikis – collaborative documents
creation/editing for example PBWiki
• Project Management Scrumy

13. Your turn
• Is there a net site or application you would like
to share with us??
• Do you have a burning question
• See you next week we look specifically at
applications for groups, networks and
collectives at Westwood.