Tech Tools
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Overview
This project will create a series of brief lessons that introduce useful, interesting, and fun Web-based technologies to student affairs professionals. The lessons will be posted into a blog every few days over a period of 8 weeks. Each lesson will:
- Introduce a new tool or set of tools or further explore tools that were previously introduced.
- Offer practical examples, including links to live examples (preferably colleges and universities)
- Outline a brief exercise to give students hands on experience
- As available, include links to relevant research, particularly research focused on how students or institutions are using the tool(s)
Participants
(see Talk page)
Incentives
(see Talk page)
Lessons
Week 1: Blogs
- Week 1 Lesson 1: Blogs: Over 70 million and counting
- Week 1 Lesson 2: Register your blog and join the party...
- Week 1 Recap
Week 2: Photos and images
- Week 2 Lesson 1: Discover Flickr
- Week 2 Lesson 2: More Flickr Fun
- Week 2 Lesson 3: Blog about Technology
- Week 2 Recap
Week 3: RSS and newsreaders
- Week 3 Lesson 1: Make life "really simple" with RSS & a newsreader
- Week 3 Lesson 2: Finding Feeds
- Week 3 Recap
Week 4: Tagging and folksonomies
- Week 4 Lesson 1: Tagging, folksomonies & social bookmarking in Del.icio.us
- Week 4 Lesson 2: Getting not-so-technical with Technorati
Week 5: Wikis
- Week 5 Lesson 1: So what’s in a wiki?
- Week 5 Lesson 2: Playing around with PBWiki
Week 6: Podcasts, video, and audio
- Week 6 Lesson 1: You too can YouTube
- Week 6 Lesson 2: Podcasts, Smodcasts!
Week 7: Online applications and tools
- Week 7 Lesson 1: Web-based Apps: They're not just for desktops
- Week 7 Lesson 2: Discovering Web 2.0 tools
