Emerging Web Technologies Workshop

June 1 & 2, 2006
Sue Gallaway & Stephanie Carter

Powerpoint Presentation

Resources

Shortcuts:

• Podcasting
• Camtasia
• Wikis, Blogs, RSS - Resource links
• Creating Wikis
• Creating and Exploring Blogs
• Web 2.0 sampler
• All links visited in Sue's half

Podcasting

• Podcasting Session from the 2006 Teaching & Learning Conference
• Sample Podcasts
  • Speaking of History ...
    By Eric Langhorst, an 8th grade history teacher & graduate education instructor at Park University
  • Education Podcast Network
    Brings together "the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century."
    • Dan's Math Cast
    • Drexel eLearning Podcasts
      Short podcasts introducing students to online learning
    • Podcast for Professors at Fordham University
    • iTunes U at UC Berkeley
• Sources of Royalty-Free Music for Podcasts & Camtasia Projects (non-commercial use only)
  • Creative Commons
  • Royalty Free Music
  • Two short clips
    • Clip 1
    • Clip 2
• Software for Recording Podcasts
  • Audacity (sound editor)
    • Manual and Tutorials
• Podcasting Legal Guide

Camtasia Studio

• Download a free trial (good for 30 days)
• Camtasia Studio Tutorials at TechSmith
• Sample presentations
  • Electronic Reserves Tutorial (Screen Capture, Seattle Community Colleges Libraries)
  • What is a periodical? (PowerPoint, Centralia College Library)
  • Searching for Periodical Articles (PowerPoint + Screen Capture, Centralia College Library)
  • Creating a PDF File (Screen Capture, Jean Kent, North Seattle Community College)

Wiki, Blogs, RSS

• Further reading:

• Richardson, W. (2005, May). The ABCs of RSS. Technology & learning, 25(10), 20+. Retrieved June 1, 2006, from ProQuest.

  This article provides a great overview of what RSS is and offers details on how to use an RSS aggregator, specifically Bloglines. Ideas for use of RSS in the classoom.

• Richardson, W. (2005, November/December). What's a wiki? A powerful collaborative tool for teaching and learning. That's what!. MultiMedia & Internet@Schools, 12(6), 17-20. Retrieved June 1, 2006, from ProQuest.

  This article discusses Wikipedia. The author also explains wiki technology and offers some ideas for how this collaborative tool can be used in the classroom.

• Richardson, Will (2006). Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms. New York: Corwin Press.

  This book is on order for the library. If you would like to be alerted when it comes in (after July 1) you can email Sue. Here's the Table of Contents.

• McLaughlin, L (2005, June, 30). Everyone's blogging. PC World, Retrieved June 1, 2006, from http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,121663,00.asp.

  This article provides a good overview of blogging and links to some of the common blogging tools.

• Exploration Guide:Educational Uses of Blogs, Wikis, RSS Feeds, etc.

  From TLT group.

• Gordon-Murname, L. (2006, June). Social bookmarking, folksonomies, and Web 2.0 tools. Searcher, 26-38. Available soon through Ebsco periodical database.

  This article discusses what was barely touched on in the session in relation to services like del.icio.us, namely tags and their functions and a discussion of their strengths and weaknesses. Also includes a review of some social bookmarking services.

• Creating wikis
  • PBwiki - A free, password-protected wiki creator. Easy to use.
  • seedwiki - Another popular, free wiki creator.

• Creating and exploring blogs - This not an exhaustive list, but just a few of the more popular/enduring services. You can also link to a blog you create in your web page or coursepage, essentially incorporating that content into your own space, although you are using the service to easily publish blog content.
  • LiveJournal
  • MSNSpaces
  • Blogger.com - possibly my favorite tool
  • Bloglines - RSS aggregator - you can add blogs manually or by a search feature
    • Sue Gallaway's Blog Feeds
  • Technorati - blog search engine

• Sample of Web 2.0 coolness

• • Flickr - photo storage and sharing
  • del.icio.us - bookmark manager
  • Connotea - bookmark manager --"...a free website to help researchers...manage and share information."
• All links in Sue's half of the presentation (in order of appearance)
  • http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/ - example of static web page from "dim, misty" days of the web
  • http://allrecipes.com/ - example of dynamic web content
  • http://www.flickr.com/ - the new open and participatory web
  • http://del.icio.us/ - like flickr, another great example of social software and use of tags or tagging (also known as folksonomy, in contrast to a taxonomy)
  • http://www.technorati.com/
  • http://www.wikipedia.org/ - I edited the entry on Taylor Hicks on-the-fly during the session
  • http://www.umasswiki.com/wiki/Main_Page
  • http://informationliteracywactc.pbwiki.com/
  • http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000419.html - State of the Blogosphere
  • http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/learning.now/2006/05/ - education and technology blog
  • http://acrlblog.org/ - blogging by and for academic librarians
  • http://humblogs.ifanything.org/ - list of blogs in humanities and social sciences
  • http://sybilisticism.tripod.com/syllabus.html - syllabus for an English class (blog focused)
  • http://eee.uci.edu/programs/comp/39c-student/syllabus.html - argument/research class with blog assignment
  • http://www.bloglines.com/