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Welcome to Seminar 02F - Social Software, Teaching, and Learning!Your presenters, conveners, facilitators, and presenters:

Participants will introduce themselves at tables, then report back to the whole group about most interesting technologies, and what we should address over the day.Barbara and Bryan will scribe some notes here.  Participants should do so as well!Introduction prompts: current usage of social software; three (3) leading issues you'd like us to cover today.

  • Some tools in use; investigating usage
    • # Blogs, wikis in usageIssue: identify some new tools to use

    • Wikis in elementary school (www.wikikids.nl)

    • Hyves (Dutch MySpace www.hyves.nl)

    • Podcasting and wikis

    • Tools used for IT

    • Library, IT exploring variety of tools and services

    • Library wiki

    • Blogs, wikis, podcasts in experimental usage

  • Developing tools (some)

  • Students using social software personally

  • Difficulties in institutional implementation: giving up control

  • Issue: how to convince campus to use 'em (language, cases)

  • Issue: integration of blogs into teaching and learning (III)

  • Issue: beyond wikis and blogs to... chat, social networking tools

  • Issue: address the fear

  • Issue: nontraditional, older learners

  • Issue: distance learning vs blended

  • Issue: eportfolios (II)

  • Use social software to reach larger world

  • Issue: how to use social software to form community

  • Issue: what services should central IT provide (III)

  • Issue: how to get help desk to support, and understand usage in instruction

  • Issue: students and plagiarism, privacy, security, etc

  • Issue: how to take advantage of widely-owned mobile devices (iPods at saturation level)

  • What are students doing, and how do we work with that? (III)

  • Course management system (CMS) /virtual learning environment (VLE) issues

  • Issues: how to scale one's own hosted blogs?

Blogs in use at our institutions:
 
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