Liberal Education Today

Today a NITLE workshop, Social Software in Education: Introduction to Collaborative Writing Tools, is being hosted by Lawrence University.

Agenda
Morning session: blogging and wikis
Lunch: 12-1:30
Afternoon session: social bookmarking, social images, projects, discussion

Blogging

1. More glimpses of the blogosphere


2. Searching blogs: Google Blogsearch, Technorati


3. Blog mashups - Memeorandum, Blogpulse

Wikis

1. educational uses: Bowdoin's Romantic Audience (article)


2. information literacy: Wikipedia


3. IBM research on wikis


4. exercises for this morning

Social bookmarking

1. explore del.icio.us


2. examples: Philosophy 309, Pericles' bibliogaphy, World Religions in Southeast PA - basic readings

Social images

1. Explore Flickr


2. World Educational examples (scroll down)

Podcasting as composition

• Odeo's easy record sound in the browser

Emergent topics throughout the day

• Widely-used tools get bloggerized: Word blogging; Blackboard Beyond (update)
• Folksonomies are growing, and fighting
• Students are increasingly microcontent creators
• Social search: Gnosh
• Mobile devices plus social software
• Player shakeout
• Curves and politics
• Elections and politics
• Information literacy and Web 2.0
• Privacy in the 21st century (Zoominfo)

Selected readings

• Bryan Alexander, "Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning?". EDUCAUSE Review, Volume 41, Number 2 (March/April 2006).
• Yochai Benkler, "Common Wisdom: Peer Production of Educational Materials".  Presented at the September 2005 Advancing the Effectiveness and Sustainability of Open Education Conference.
• Tony Hammond, Timo Hannay, Ben Lund, and Joanna Scott, "Social Bookmarking Tools: A General Review". D-Lib, April 2005.
• Mary Hodder, “For the Vox Populi: A Comparison of How Some Blog Aggregation and RSS Search Tools Work”. Napsterization, July 24, 2005.
  
• JFC Licklider, "Man-Computer Symbiosis" and "The Computer as a Communications Device"(1960 and 1968)
• Tim O’Reilly, “What is Web 2.0?”, September 30, 2005.
• Howard Rheingold, The Virtual Community (1998)
• Clay Shirky, “Ontology is Overrated”. presentations given during spring 2005.