The document discusses various social software tools for use in higher education, including wikis, blogs, and podcasting. Wikis allow collaborative editing of content using a web browser. Blogs are regularly updated websites organized in reverse chronological order. Podcasting involves delivering audio files that can be listened to on demand on portable media players. The document provides examples of how these tools can be used for collaboration and sharing information among students and educators.

1. A workshop on Social software in Higher Education Wikis, Blogs+Podcasting. Presented by Thom Cochrane with facilitation by Richard Elliott

2. Web 2.0 “ Web 2.0 technologies are characterised by a dynamic social element, with a focus on collaboration and sharing of material that distinguishes them from traditional Web technologies which merely transmit information between website and client” (The Learning Technologies Group at Oxford University Computing Services 2006). Connectivism Social software

3. Common Applications Social software Wikis Blogs Podcasting You Tube Second Life

4. Wikis

5. Definition of a Wiki “ Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and crosslinks between internal pages on the fly.” http://wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WhatIsWiki Currently biggest Wiki is…..WIKIPEDIA

9. Blogs

10. “ The web teaches us that we can be part of the largest public ever assembled and still maintain our individual faces. But this requires living more of our life in public. On the Web, the notion of a diary has been turned inside out: weblogs are public diaries. It is likely that the neat line we draw between our public and private selves in the real world will continue to erode, grain by grain…” David Weinberger, Small Pieces Loosely Joined (Perseus 2002, p. 177)

12. Online Family & Friends Global Communities created by Blogging Colleagues

13. Podcasting

14. Podcasting: is delivering audio content to iPods and other portable media players on demand, so that it can be listened to at the user's convenience. Listeners can sync content to their media player and take it with them. Because podcasts are typically saved in MP3 format, they can also be listened to on nearly any computer.

15. Others Web 2.0 developments of interest