1. Web 2.0, Academia & PLEs Presented by Joan Vinall-Cox http://joanvinallcox.wordpress.com/my-e-portfolio/ Niccolo Machiavelli - "Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times."

2. Web 2.0, Academia & PLEs Premises  Education exists to share and extend knowledge  Information is increasing at an incremental rate  We are living in the most extensive and rapidly changing communication environment ever  Our culture is engaged in creating and learning how to ‘be’ within this new and constantly shifting environment

3. Definitions  Web 2.0  Social Media  PLE / PLWE - http://joanvinallcox.posterous.com/ple-3-views http://joanvinallcox.posterous.com/ple-3-views  Knowledge Workers - PLNPLN

4. Why Go Beyond the CMS? JOLT, June 2008 Bryan Alexander, National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education http://jolt.merlot.org/vol4no2/alexander0608.htm

5. My PLE http://www.wisdomap.com/shared/1fdc http://joanvinallcox.screenstepslive.com/lessons/ 1545http://joanvinallcox.screenstepslive.com/lessons/ 1545 http://tinyurl.com/5mr53c

6. Small Pieces, Loosely Joined Initially more work BUT Access to the greatest library ever existing Skills and know-how required beyond microfiche and Dewey Set-up and monitoring equivalent to keeping-up in your discipline

7. Your Choices A speedy covering of the following Web 2.0 applications Pausing only by request

8. PLE Essentials Search Google & Google Scholar - http://scholar.google.ca/http://scholar.google.ca/ Social bookmarking del.icio.us - http://del.icio.us/shiftingsemiosishttp://del.icio.us/shiftingsemiosis diigo - http://www.diigo.com/user/joanvinallcoxhttp://www.diigo.com/user/joanvinallcox RSS Reader Bloglines Google Reader

9. Social Media Basics Social Media –Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/http://www.flickr.com/ –LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/in/joanvinallcoxhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/joanvinallcox –Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/http://www.facebook.com/

10. SM for Teaching/Learning Blogs –Blogspot - https://www.blogger.com/starthttps://www.blogger.com/start –Elgg - http://elgg.org/http://elgg.org/ –WordPress - http://joanvinallcox.wordpress.com/http://joanvinallcox.wordpress.com/ Wikis - http://whyusewikis.wetpaint.com/http://whyusewikis.wetpaint.com/

11. More Learning Tools Zotero - http://www.zotero.org/ - Research Toolhttp://www.zotero.org/ EasyBib - http://www.easybib.com/ - Bib. Toolhttp://www.easybib.com/ EverNote - http://evernote.com/about/what_is_en/ - Saving, especially for visual people http://evernote.com/about/what_is_en/

12. More Free Teaching Tools Voice Threads - http://voicethread.com/#homehttp://voicethread.com/#home –Visual & voice – social commentary possible Skitch - http://skitch.com/http://skitch.com/ –Capture, edit & annotate images for online or off Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ –Record and edit sound > mp3s Jing - http://www.jingproject.com/http://www.jingproject.com/

13. Oral Rhetoric http://oralrhetoric2007.blogspot.com/ Tools –Blog, –Wiki – for class information, jigsaw sharing of assignments, and posting completed assignments –Audacity – for audio recording and editing –Box – for hosting mp3s of assignments

14. Thanks For further information –joan.vinallcox@gmail.comjoan.vinallcox@gmail.com Creative Commons Copyright –http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ca/http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ca/