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A preview of her ELI 2007 Spring Focus Session. Sarah is a TA at Ball State University who use SL for an immersive learning environment. Discussed are her objectives for and benefits of using SL.
March 30, 2007
links for 2007-03-31
My 23 (give or take) Things
Later this afternoon I meet with my colleague to develop our list of 23 things for the ‘Learning Web 2.0 by Diving In‘ project that we will propose to the RefIT group when next we meet.
In preparation for that meeting I started to think about my 23 things. Obviously, we will probably take many of the orginal 23 Things
23 Learning 2.0 Things*
(Note: Details about each task will be activated every week with posts related to each item)
- Read this blog & find out about the program.
- Discover a few pointers from lifelong learners and learn how to nurture your own learning process.
- Set up your own blog & add your first post.
- Register your blog on PLCMC Central and begin your Learning 2.0 journey.
- Explore Flickr and learn about this popular image hosting site.
- Have some Flickr fun and discover some Flickr mashups & 3rd party sites.
- Create a blog post about anything technology related that interests you this week.
- Learn about RSS feeds and setup your own Bloglines newsreader account.
- Locate a few useful library related blogs and/or news feeds.
- Play around with an online image generator.
- Take a look at LibraryThing and catalog some of your favorite books.
- Roll your own search tool with Rollyo.
- Learn about tagging and discover a Del.icio.us (a social bookmaking site)
- Explore Technorati and learn how tags work with blog posts.
- Read a few perspectives on Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and the future of libraries and blog your thoughts.
- Learn about wikis and discover some innovative ways that libraries are using them.
- Add an entry to the Learning 2.0 SandBox wiki.
- Take a look at some online productivity (word processing, spreadsheet) tools.
- Explore any site from the Web 2.0 awards list, play with it and write a blog post about your findings.
- Discover YouTube and a few sites that allow users to upload and share videos.
- Discover some useful search tools for locating podcasts.
- Take a look at the titles available on NetLibrary and learn how to download audiobooks.
- Summarize your thoughts about this program on your blog.
But, we will drop some and add others to customize this to our experience and allow for each member of the group a chance to share expertise with the group.
I would like to add the following for consideration…
- Combine the feeds of the group’s blogs using Yahoo Pipes, Feedblendr, or a similar service.
- Find a podcast of interest to you and subscribe to the feed using iTunes, Bloglines or another aggregator. Post on one episode of the podcast in your blog and providing a short summary of why this podcast or the episode is of particular interest.
- Something about web based search tools
- Something about refworks, zotero, or google notes and posting benefits.
- Edit or Create a wikipedia article on a topic of your interest. Post about the process and the results.
- Stephen Colbert Wikireality and Wikipedia bits
- Add links to each other blogs in our blog rolls and to at least one outside blog
- Participate on other blogs via trackbacks or comments
- register for an IM account
Learning Web 2.0 by Diving In
My colleague emailed me a link of an idea for a hands on way to learn web 2.0 as a possible idea for a project of the reference and instructional technology group. I short the project identifies 23 tasks and deadlines for participants, in this case public library librarians, to accomplish in an 8 week period to raise awareness of tools and applications of the new web.
The Chronicle’s Wired Campus Blog also did a little piece on the project, Librarians Get a Tutorial in Web 2.0.
We think with a little modification that this will be a fun project for us to adopt. We have already talked a little about some of the new technologies available through the web but not in a systematic way. I think this will be a good opportunity for the group to share an experience and help each other better understand the emerging tools of importance to supporting instruction, research and learning.
March 29, 2007
links for 2007-03-30
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A great use of the wiki -a lesson plan repository. EVERY education department should be offering such an invaluable resource to their students
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SplashCast enables anyone to create streaming media ‘channels’ that combine video, music, photos, narration, text and RSS feeds. These user-generated channels can be played and easily syndicated on any web site, blog, or social network page. When channel
Getting Organized for the NITLE Sakai Pilot
So now that Allegheny has been accepted as part of the NITLE Sakai Pilot there is some work to be done.
First Stuff for NITLE
First coordinating sakai access – priority is for summer courses (Should ask about getting fall courses set up now so we can work on them over the summer.)
- Get Susan Access
- Faculty Access – Names, Emails, Course Names
Choose a Training Session – (is this just for the contacts?)
- Thursday, April 5, 4 Eastern / 1 Pacific
- Friday, April 6, 4 Eastern / 1 Pacific
- Friday, April 13, 4 Eastern / 1 Pacific
- Thursday, April 19, 4 Eastern / 1 Pacific
- Friday, April 20, 4 Eastern / 1 Pacific
User Community Stuff
- make list of names to add to the email list
- October 23rd Meeting
Yet to come – the stuff that needs to happen on campus
March 28, 2007
March 27, 2007
March 26, 2007
links for 2007-03-27
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A good resource to check in with from time to time for examples of blogs on Liberal arts campuses.
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An interesting idea from Wheaton College in Mass. Perhaps developing such a thing would be a neat collaboration for Allegheny’s RefIT group.
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a more sophisticated youtube
March 24, 2007
March 20, 2007
links for 2007-03-21
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combining rss feeds into one
