You are cordially invited to attend the updated version of the Web 2.0 Tools for Teaching, Learning, and Research hybrid course sponsored by the Office of Information Resources and Technology and the Center for Creating Engaged Learning Environments (C.E.L.E.). Web 2.0 is a term used for Web tools and applications to create, publish and share learning objects that facilitate and enhance teaching, learning, and research.
In this hybrid course, you will have the opportunity to learn how to create blogs, wikis, podcasts (including audio and video components), social bookmarks, and use Google to create easy forms and surveys. As a researcher and teacher, you will also discover how to keep current with the information in your field through the use of RSS feeds. We will provide examples of creative applications of those tools in various disciplines. All these tools are free and easy to use.
This course is broken into seven stand-alone modules. Each module consists of an online component and one 90-minute face-to-face workshop session. You may choose to participate in all modules, or only the ones that correspond to the tools you are interested in learning, and on the day that is more convenient to you.
Week 1 (March 10 and 11): RSS Feeds
Instructor: Ursula Zyzik
RSS stands for Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication. It is one of the most useful web technologies in education and research. RSS technology delivers feeds that contain short descriptions of websites and their links. Only sites that converted their content to RSS format can be read using the RSS technology.
If you want to stay up to date about what new resources have been published on the web in your field consider setting up RSS feeds.
If you are a frequent visitor to certain sites you probably have favorite resources and pages to which you want to have RSS update feeds set up.
At the end of this lesson, you will know:
- The concept of RSS.
- How to locate an RSS icon on a web resource.
- How to subscribe to selected RSS feeds.
- How to set up an account with a web-based feed reader.
- How to discover different applications of RSS feeds in your field.
Instructor: Norma Grassini-Komara
After completing this module, you will be able to:
- Define the concept of podcasting.
- Identify educational approaches to using podcasts in teaching and learning.
- Identify the process of creating and publishing a podcast.
- Identify and use tools for creating and publishing podcasts.
- Create your own podcast.
- Publish your podcast to your students using tools available at SXU.
Instructor: Christopher Stormer
After completing this module, you will be able to:
- Identify educational approaches to using podcasts including video in teaching and learning.
- Identify the process of creating and publishing a video podcast using our CourseCast lecture capture tool.
- Identify other possible tools for creating and publishing video podcasts.
- Create your own podcast.
- Publish your podcast to your students using CourseCast's Blackboard integration.
Instructor: Ursula Zyzik
Social Bookmarking offers numerous applications as learning and teaching tools. As you become more adept at using them, you'll discover how you can incorporate bookmarks in your course syllabi as a bibliography of recommended sources, discover similar resources that other users have posted, and share them with your students and colleagues. You may follow new bookmarks in your area of interest by subscribing through RSS feeds. Through social bookmarks you can connect with colleagues and researchers with similar interests.At the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
- Identify social bookmarking sites by their icons available on websites.
- Understand the concepts of tags and tagging as essential tools for organizing your bookmarks.
- Open an account on a social bookmarking site for storing your bookmarks.
- Save, edit and share a bookmark with others.
- Search a bookmarking site for resources.
- Create a bibliography of bookmarked sources for your research or course.
Instructor: Norma Grassini-Komara
After completing this module, you will be able to:
- Define and described the features and functionality of a blog.
- Identify the differences between a blog and a wiki.
- Identify how a blog can be used in teaching and learning.
- Identify the software platforms available to create free blogs.
- Create a blog.
- Post a message.
- Edit a post.
Instructor: Norma Grassini-Komara
After completing this module, you will be able to:
- Define and describe the features and functionality of a wiki.
- Identify educational applications of a wiki in teaching and learning.
- Identify the several free software platforms available to create and use wikis.
- Create a wiki.
- Customize the design of a wiki.
- Complete a group project by entering and modifying content posted in the wiki pages.
Instructor: Christopher Stormer
After completing this module, you will be able to:
- Identify several of the freely available Google Tools.
- Identify educational approaches to using Google tools in teaching and learning.
- Create a collaborative document, spreadsheet, and presentation using Google Docs.
- Create an online form using Google Forms.
- Share documents, spreadsheets, and presentations with SXU students via their myMail accounts.
- Embed Google documents in your Blackboard course.
