Blogging • Encouraging students to Creative Web 2.0 Learning

Creative Web 2.0 learning! CTLA Conference Judy O’Connell, 23 May 2007 Photo source: running with seagulls

This is an edited version of the slides presented at the annual CTLA Conference, held in Sydney. Links are included for videos, and to visited and recommended sites. Links are underlined, or embedded in images. The Human Network Welcome

communication, conversation, connecting, community

Pandora

changing our context The Machine is Us/ing Us

social networking

Ten Years Past Few or no experiences with.... websites, email, spam, phishing, computer viruses mobile phones were rare and expensive a Sony Walkman was state of the art CDs were pretty cool WiFi was almost unknown MySpace was my unit or apartment!

the computer is personal again an attitude

Library 2.0

RSS Mashups Social Software Folksonomy / Tagging Collaboration Library 2.0 Blogs Wikis Filesharing Podcasting Photosharing

who’s watching your space

from Gutenberg

to Library ATM • The Expresso - a $US50,000 vending machine with a conceivably inﬁnite library - is consumer ready, and is debuting in 10 to 25 libraries and bookstores in 2007.

http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/

virtual presence! Second Life - Library 2.0

virtual learning EduNation - SecondLife

BobCat Village Texas State University Virtual Campus Tour

web 2.0 conversation • Teacher’s voice • Student’s voice • Librarian’s voice • Library voice • Our conversation

We need libraries to matter in a web-savvy world. Is your library already using wikis, blogs, podcasting, folksonomies, social networking, or other Internet media? Is your library blogging, using Instant Messenger, RSS, promoting services through Flickr and MySpace, or using a customized OPAC complete with user reviews and electronic book enrichment? Academic, school, public, and special libraries are incorporating Library 2.0 technologies? ........ Are you?

resource environment • MARC compliant library catalogue • 24/7 online access for information services • Blended content enrichment • Federated searching, Open URL • Taxonomy supported by global metadata standards - SCOT, SCIS + Dublin Core etc

web 2.0 platform • • E-Learning Folksonomy LMS, CMS, VLE, etc Tagging for personalisation • Social Networks • MySpace, Beebo etc Searching Blogs & Wikis Browser/Desktop API Ning networking Visual & personalised Social Bookmarking • Image & media sharing Mobile computing Audio & video • RSS feeds • Instant Messaging Pipes plus! MSN, Yahoo, Meebo • Twitter etc Mashups

• Blogs & wiki - everyone can communicate • RSS - everyone can read about it • Del.ici.ous - sharing favourite web pages • Flickr - sort, store and share your snaps • Ofﬁce Tools - Gliffy, Writely, Slideshare.... • Video Sharing - YouTube, Google Video, TeacherTube... • Podcasting - mulitiple literacies in action • Wiki - Power of the crowd • Online Friends - MySpace, Ning, Beebo, FaceBook

Librarian 2.0 • • Embrace Web 2.0 tools Touch the entire Web and without technolust build better data • • Content is conversation - Expand library be guided by how users bibliographic services access, consume and • create content. Package and push metadata - make resources • Build new services with discoverable Web 2.0 technologies • Expand delivery - RSS and • Physical and virtual beyond services

Learning 2.0 http://plcmcl2-things.blogspot.com/ http://stmbtech.edublogs.org/2007/04/25/28/

Birmingham Public Library

new spaces learning commons

learning commons

• Reading materials for pleasure and study • Information retrieval and critical analysis support • Learning activities - Social activities • Academic writing guidance • Special education learning support • Information technology support • Multimedia design and production • Traditional bibliographic services • 24/7 Learning support creativity NOT productivity

key questions • What is the purpose of the ‘commons’? • What needs will be addressed? • What programs will be put into place ? • What faculty will be involved? • What kinds of hardware, software, furnishing? • What kinds of staff are needed? • What promotion and training is needed? • How will you measure success? B

then decide!

where to begin? RSS F Check all the links on this page!

Blogging • Encouraging students to write • Communicating through an exciting medium with engages the learner • Provide a resource to students and teachers • Accessing the minds of “experts”

http://heyjude.wordpress.com

Text http://heyjude.vodpod.com/ Try this digital handout! Then make your own! = http://parracoordinators.blogspot.com/

a teacher’s voice

a student’s voice

our voice

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twitter Text

twitter Text Stephen Abram

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bookmarking ideas

bookmarking ideas http://del.icio.us/heyjude

bookmarking ideas • Filter and manage • Targetted networking information • Collaborative pooling • Create a knowledge of information network • TAG - Your own • Provide learning virtual ﬁling cabinet support • Folksonomy

bookmarking ideas folksonomy, redeﬁnes web navigation. In addition, if Del.icio.us could aggregate the bookmarks over all users, they could come up with a folksonomy for everybody, based on how the total population actually valued and referred to the content. technorati, google blog search and others are aggregating this folksonomy information and creating a web of relationships. TAG horizonproject07 - the power of folksonomy

RSS Feeds

RSS browsing

RSS feeds http://www.bloglines.com/public/heyjude

image feeds http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/heyjude

wikis and podcasts • delivering rich educational content • communicating • collaborating • exciting new learning opportunities

the horizon project

• Evaluate the global library experience • Embrace Web 2.0 technologies • Preserve knowledge and communities • Experiment with creative spaces • Make search technology work for you!

thank you http://heyjude.wordpress.com http://www.parra-bib-blog.blogspot.com/

Blogging • Encouraging students to Creative Web 2.0 Learning

Judy O'Connell

Blogging • Encouraging students to