Mistaken Goal: Where Student Affairs & Technology Meet


"...technology is not something that happens to us. It is something we create. We must not confuse a tool with a goal. We must, therefore, be sure that technology serves the fundamental purposes of higher education." Stanley N. Katz in "In Information Technology, Don't Mistake a Tool for a Goal"

Tech Tools

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[edit] 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)

[edit] Participants

(see Talk page)

[edit] Incentives

(see Talk page)

[edit] Lessons

[edit] Week 1: Blogs

  1. Week 1 Lesson 1: Blogs: Over 70 million and counting
  2. Week 1 Lesson 2: Register your blog and join the party...
  3. Week 1 Recap

[edit] Week 2: Photos and images

  1. Week 2 Lesson 1: Discover Flickr
  2. Week 2 Lesson 2: More Flickr Fun
  3. Week 2 Lesson 3: Blog about Technology
  4. Week 2 Recap

[edit] Week 3: RSS and newsreaders

  1. Week 3 Lesson 1: Make life "really simple" with RSS & a newsreader
  2. Week 3 Lesson 2: Finding Feeds
  3. Week 3 Recap

[edit] Week 4: Tagging and folksonomies

  1. Week 4 Lesson 1: Tagging, folksomonies & social bookmarking in Del.icio.us
  2. Week 4 Lesson 2: Getting not-so-technical with Technorati

[edit] Week 5: Wikis

  1. Week 5 Lesson 1: So what’s in a wiki?
  2. Week 5 Lesson 2: Playing around with PBWiki

[edit] Week 6: Podcasts, video, and audio

  1. Week 6 Lesson 1: You too can YouTube
  2. Week 6 Lesson 2: Podcasts, Smodcasts!

[edit] Week 7: Online applications and tools

  1. Week 7 Lesson 1: Web-based Apps: They're not just for desktops
  2. Week 7 Lesson 2: Discovering Web 2.0 tools

[edit] Week 8: Social networking

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