This page contains an outline, links, and other materials for the NITLE social software in education workshop.
Agenda for the day
9:00 - 10:00 am
1. intros (and the outboard memory wiki)
2. history and principles (a 2009 case)
10:00 - 10:15 - Web 2.0 platforms
wikis: one English course (Bowdoin),
exercise: sketch out your social media ecosystem
10:15 - 10:30 – Morning break
10:30 - 12:00 - Web 2.0 platforms
blogs
English 401 (Wheaton)
exercise:
images: medical class content; Five images stories
exercises: Flickr CC search; Flickr Commons search; Gliffy drawing
podcasts
War News Radio (Swarthmore), eighteenth-century lit (UMW), (one listing of liberal arts campus podcasts)
Podcasts into class (Planet Money), University Channel (Princeton), In Our Time (BBC), Groks (originally Berkeley), Bird Note (Audubon), Out of the Past, Napoleon 101
exercises: compare notes on podcast structure; check Freesound
12:00 - 1:00 - Lunch break: Diamond 342
1:00 - 3:00
YouTube A professor and her classes (cv) (class 1)(Pitzer); a campus channel (Washington and Lee), ss (Pitzer) Boris and Vlad (Middlebury) ethnography (Wesch)
exercise: explore /Education/
RSS reading
exercise: find and add
social bookmarking
exercise: see what you can learn from a social bookmark
3:00-3:15pm - Afternoon break
3:15 - 4:00 - Social software and digital presence
In the Facebook Age class (Bowdoin)
exercise: realtime search; YourOpenBook;
Twitter
zz Teaching one class (Furman)
exercise:
Buzz
Documents over your shoulder: Evernote and Google Apps
exercise: how do you synch docs now?
4:00 - 4:30 - Strategy and futures review
Reflections
Action plan
How do you scan the horizon?