Web 2.0, Academia & PLEs Presented by Joan Vinall-Cox Niccolo Machiavelli - "Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times."

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

Definitions  Web 2.0  Social Media  PLE / PLWE  Knowledge Workers - PLNPLN

Why Go Beyond the CMS? JOLT, June 2008 Bryan Alexander, National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education

My PLE http://joanvinallcox.screenstepslive.com/lessons/

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

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

PLE Essentials Search Google & Google Scholar - Social bookmarking del.icio.us - diigo - RSS Reader Bloglines Google Reader

Social Media Basics Social Media –Flickr - –LinkedIn - –Facebook -

SM for Teaching/Learning Blogs –Blogspot - –Elgg - –WordPress - Wikis -

More Learning Tools Zotero Research Toolhttp:// EasyBib Bib. Toolhttp:// EverNote Saving, especially for visual people

More Free Teaching Tools Voice Threads - –Visual & voice – social commentary possible Skitch - –Capture, edit & annotate images for online or off Audacity - –Record and edit sound > mp3s Jing -

Oral Rhetoric 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

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