ETUG Fall 2007 Workshop

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9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m: Welcome and Introduction
Gina Bennett, College of the Rockies/SCETUG Chair and
Bryan Fair, BCIT/SCETUG Vice-Chair

Review of Web 1.0 by Gina
Introduction of Bryan
Web 2.0 - What is it?
Including the users in the culture of the web


The pink elephant in the room at these kind of events that Web 2.0 culture conflicts with academic culture - jt

10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m: Technology Update
Steve Dotto - http://www.dottotech.com∞
Call to arms, engage with the technology.
Educators must understand the tools their students are using with each other

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11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m: Wiki: Software for Communities of Inquiry
John Maxwell, Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing SFU
Jason's blog post from Northern Voice∞
What is Web 2.0 ?
Peer to peer/ Many to many
Bottom-up architecture
Web as a platform

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki∞
Cunningham's wikiwikiweb
"Radical Trust"
Wiki vs. Blog The Case Against Author/ity
Blogging likewise exalts the individual author.
But there is more to life than authority.
Positioning WIKI
CSILE - Knowledge Building
"A collaborative inquiry tool"
Constellations - Perspective Technologies
Video annotation too. Collaborative video ethnography, annotation environment
"Configurational Validity"
CoWeb - Discovering WIKI

Learning as a culture building process
Creating Culture
Wiki is about writing, and rewriting. Creating a document that represents a culture.

"Complexity is the devil"

SocialText

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Institutional updates
Douglas College ~ Commitment to publishing classes to the web. Video / Audio / Student interactions archived in WebCT. The class will also be podcast. Software will track student traffic. Rigistrars office holding virtual sessions in Illuminate.
Malespina ~ Implementing Office 2007.
UBC campus of the Okanagan ~ Clickers, Horizen Windows Voicetools, (using audio in the LMS),
BCCampus ~ Dare to be digital

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1:15 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Roundtable Coffee Chats on Web 2.0 topics
(Two repeat sessions of 25 minutes each.
Roundtable Coffee Chats– Web 2.0 Topics:

• Blogs/vlogs/wikis
• Collaborative content
• Facebook & social networking sites
• Mobile content/cell/text messaging
• Open source content
• Podcasting
• Safety in the Web 2.0 world
• Shared service model for Web 2.0 services
• Second Life & educational applications
• Student contributed content/mashups

SecondLife
OpenSource

Collaborative Content
Group projects - Google Docs allows collaborative document development while maintaining former versions.
Eg. people are using SharePoint Microsoft apps. - Considering using SharePoint for issue-tracking.
Q: within the classroom environment, how do you mark collaborative content? Peer evaluation and feedback.

Student Mashups
Eg. Goodgle Maps and Map My Ride integrated to check for hills, mileage for best routes.
Eg. integrating 2 or more songs - beat from one and voice from another.
A teachable moment could be the copyright issues when students are trying to use mashups.
See: wikipedia/mashups: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashup_(web_application_hybrid?∞)

2:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Web 2.0 Educational Whats, Whys, and Hows
Summary from roundtables and open discussion
Can get a guided tour of Second Life on BCcampus

3:15 p.m. - 3:20 p.m.
Closing remarks
ETEG Spring Conference on Creativity at Emily Carr - looking for organizers.