More, Better, Faster: Harnessing new technologies to save time, organize your research, and improve your teaching.

Breanna Weston – Librarian

Library and Media Services

The Machine is Us/ing Us Michael Wesch – Kansas State University

What is Web 2.0?

What is Web 2.0?

Tim O’Reilly

Clickable Version

RSS

What is RSS?Real Simple Syndication – “format used to publish frequently updated content”

What is a RSS reader?Also called feed reader or aggregator

Software to read RSS content

Why is it cool?Allows you to subscribe to multiple feeds, and the reader automatically checks for updates. Check out my post to see the amazing things you can do with RSS content.

Examples

Bloglines

Google Reader

Other Software

Why?

Time Saver

Ability to share

Richer courses

Keep in touch

BLOGSWhat is a Blog?

Software interface -RSS

Updated frequently, sorted by chronology of posts

Informal – subjects range

Ability to have comments, archives, blogrolls, feedsWhy Blog?

Professional online presence

Leadership

Learn new things

Reflection of thoughts

Classroom Management

Scholarly Communication

ExamplesMeredith Farkas

Michael Wesch

Library and Media Services

Blog Software

Blogger

Bloglines

WordPress

WOU Blog Server

more

Social

Bookmarking

Sites

Del.icio.us

Digg

Furl

StumbleUpon

Reddit

Only2clicks

More …

Why?

Make important resources available to students/colleagues instantly

Share/learn about resources

Insert into Course Management

Bookmarks available anywhere and in one place

Put in multiple locations easily

What is Social Bookmarking?

Storing, organizing, sharing, managing bookmarks on the internet.

Example

Del.icio.us

Wikis

What is a Wiki?

Software that makes it easy to create, edit, and remove webpages. Often used for collaborative projects and have archives of all the versions.

Why Wiki?

Collaborative projects

Course management

Easier than creating a website.

Wiki Software

PBWiki

WOU Wiki

WetPaint

More…

Examples

Wikipedia

wikiHow

eXpresso

slideaware

More…

Uses:

Class/Group projects

Research collaboration

Uses:

Class/Group projects

Research collaboration

IM

Virtual Meetings

Why IM/Virtual Meeting?

Convenience

Quick/easy

Office hours

Why IM/Virtual Meeting?

Convenience

Quick/easy

Office hours

What is IM?

Real time communication via text on the internet

What is a Virtual Meeting?

Real time communication on the internet with audio, video, chat, and/or resource sharing (ex. Powerpoint).

Software

AIM

Meebo

Skype

Skrbl

Example

WOU Library

Other Emerging Technologies Social Networking

Facebook MySpace

P/Vod/Screencasting Slideshare Gabcast

Media Sharing YouTube Flickr

Gateways PageFlakes Only2Clicks

Social Citations BibSonomy CiteULike

Virtual Worlds Second Life

Firefox Add-ons

Terminology Web 2.0 Mashups Tagging- folksonomy, Widget – web,desktop Open source Beta Blog Wiki RSS RSS feed/reader Instant messaging Podcast Vodcast Slidecast

Tips/Tricks It is overwhelming Don’t need one of everything Think about needs – then determine

technology If you need help – ASK! Think creatively (wiki as a calendar) You don’t need to know how to use it to let

your students use it Learn basics of html and css

Sources What is Web 2.0? – Tim

O’Reilly Web Trend Map 2008 Beta –

Information Architects List of Social Software -

Wikipedia Introduction to Blogging –

WordPress Weblog Software – Wikipedia List of Feed Aggregators –

Wikipedia 14 “Other” Ways to Use RSS F

eeds – makeuseof.com

10 Smart Hacks for Google Reader – Lifehack

What is a Wiki? (And how to use one for your projects) – O’Reilly Network

Wiki - Wikipedia List of Wikis – Wikipedia Social Bookmarking –

Wikipedia List of Social Bookmarking

Sites – WIkipedia Software for Virtual Teams –

ReadWriteWeb Instant Messaging - Wikipedia 7 Things You Should Know Ab

out – Educause Social Bookmarking Wikis RSS Blogs Virtual Meetings IM

Getting Caught Up With – Camila Gabaldon