Web 2.x workshop

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Web 2.x Workshop

Beforehand

• Add a comment to the blog at http://web2xintros.blogspot.com/ that states what you are hoping to get out of this workshop.

• Create accounts (that we'll use during the workshop) on the following services:

Academic Commons (http://www.academiccommons.org) to allow you to add to the wiki at http://wiki.academiccommons.org )

Del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us) to allow you to add links to a link collection we'll be collaboratively developing. (The tags we want to use can be found at http://wiki.academiccommons.org/wiki/TagSet )

Bloglines (http://www.bloglines.com ) to allow you to aggregate RSS feeds generated by our work.

Please bring a laptop if you have access to one, as we'll be doing hands-on exploring which would benefit from your having access to the web.

• use agreed upon | tags to collect examples.

Agenda

9:30: Introductions

10-12: What is Web 2.0 and why does it matter? What are the classes of applications and the particular applications that various schools are using:

• blogs
• wikis
• social image sharing
• rss readers

 (Bloglines; other readers)
 (OPML)

• social bookmarking

 (preset tags; sample links)
 (use Bloglines to show)

For each:
1. examples
2. solutions (vendors, open source, hosted, etc.)
3. develop functional requirements

12-1: lunch

1-3: Podcasting

• sketch of environment
• tools
• workflow
• IP issues

3-3:30: wrap-up/next steps

Background decision-making for campus solutions in early '07

   * apps
   * vendors
   * process

Structure of the day

   * Presentation
   * Hands-on
   * Discussion
   * Small groups

Examples of Web 2 0 in use

Web 2.x and the Liberal Arts Web 2.x is the latest buzz on the 'net. What should a small liberal arts college be doing about it? Bryan Alexander from NITLE will lead a hands-on day-long seminar at Wesleyan where we will collectively examine a set of interconnected questions:

• podcasting

3. How does one decide between local installation, an outsourced third-party, and an external project? 4. What is the intersection between rich media (web video, gaming) and social software (largely text-centered)? 5.What are mash-ups? What are examples of educational mash-ups that we could look at?