A few of our favorite techie things

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A few of our favorite (techie) things

• Ritchie Boyd
• (MSU BTC/CRLab)

Keith Lynip (UM XLS)
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More than a few

• Web2.0 tools
• Blogger
• Simple and free blogging
• Wikispaces, PBWiki
• Free wiki tools
• Ning
• Your own private Facebooksorta thing
• Flickr
• Photo sharing

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More than a few

• Web2.0 tools
• Google
• Apps, Reader, Calendar, mail, etc.
• SlideShare
• Presentations in the cloud
• VoiceThread
• Audio annotation of presentations
• Del.icio.us
• Save, Tag, Access, Share web bookmarks

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More than a few (contd)

• Other cool tools, resources
• Audacity
• (audio capture/edit/convert)
• Jing
• (screen capture)
• Edublogs
• Resources for educators
• Video Everywhere
• (youTube, TeacherTube, Vimeo, Hulu, etc)
• CommonCraft videos
• Short, snappy how does it work videos

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Livening it up.

• Enhance asynchronous with a littlelive. (Within
  limits)

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Keith and Ritchie. this would be a good time to
stop talking and ask for questions and comments
from participants. Participants. comment and
question away!
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Asynchronous interaction and multimedia
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Case Study History

• Objective Get students to engage in the
  interpretation of primary resources.
• Method Use political cartoons from the turn of
  the 20th century to explore cultural
  perspectives, symbols, human failings, mixed
  messages, and the like during a period of
  heightened national imperialism.

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What else could you do with this?

• What about language courses?
• Science courses?
• What about student-initiated voicethreads?

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Focus on Delicious

• Why?
• Excellent example of a folksonomy and social
  networking tool
• Easy to get started
• Useful for personal productivity AND teaching

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Getting startedif you havent created an account
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Getting started with an account
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Add the bookmarking buttons to (ALL) your
browsers!
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Look for the simple bookmark buttons
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And Drag them to your Bookmarks/Links toolbar
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Voila! Bookmarking is just ONE CLICK away!
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Lets go surfing
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So, you say you found a great web resource?
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Try to remember to grab some descriptive text
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And then use your new bookmarklet to save the
page to Delicious
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This is what Delicious sees
A URL
A page title
And maybe some recommended and popular tags
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Paste that text, or add your own notes, or both
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And be sure to add TAGS and then Save the
bookmark
Delicious even helps out with tags by pulling up
a list of ones youve already used!
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And heres how it looks !
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The social aspect of social computingLets look
at those bookmarks again
Hmmm only two people found this interesting
Ill click on the blue 2 !
As opposed to 22,000 for this one!
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And I see who else liked this page
This user lcarver44 likes web2.0 I think Ill
click on the name to see what else they are
interested in.
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Getting started
Interesting pages, interesting tags I think Ill
add them to my network!
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Delicious asks if I know what Im doing
And I say OK and I have a new member of my
network
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My whole network(Note that on this day the
tagging is dominated by a nerd!)
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The upper part of my tag cloud(Delicious
invented the tag cloud)
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I can also subscribe to tags and see what other
people are finding and tagging. Now its getting
interesting
(BTW look how many bookmarks
there are!)
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Other people can send me interesting sites too.
They just have to add the tag forjrboyd, and it
shows up in my Inbox, where I have the option to
tag it and save it myself
(Thanks, Ian!)
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And weve barely scratched the surface!
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Our perspective

• Its possible to find authentically useful tools.
  
• Its also possible get too enticed by the sirens
  call.

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So, where does that leave us?
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Where can I learn more?

• Educause general TL resources
• http//connect.educause.edu/term_view/Teachingand
  Learning
• Educause Learning Initiative (ELI) General
  resources
• http//www.educause.edu/ELIResources/10220
• And the ELI "7 things" series
• http//www.educause.edu/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutS
  eries/7495
• Ritchies Educause blog on educational
  technologies
• http//connect.educause.edu/blog/169and the
  section on tutorials and examples in particular
• http//connect.educause.edu/blog/jrboyd/helpfulres
  ourcesforweb20t/45297

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Where can I learn more?

• Ann Randalls Ten Tech Tools list from WCET
  2008
• http//facultyonline.pbwiki.com/Ten-Tech-Tools
• See Ritchies Delicious bookmarks
• http//delicious.com/jrboyd
• Come discuss these and more on the MUS
  e-Learning Google Grouphttp//groups.google.com/
  group/montana-elearning