Web 2.0 in the Classroom
Three excellent presentations in this session, below the fold.
Alex Juhasz, Learning from YouTube
– in large part about the failures of YouTube as a learning environment
– negatives in going public: mainstream media’s reflections of course
– difficulty of controlling their own images both in mainstream media’s retelling and in YouTube’s corporate ownership
– vocabulary of YouTube is all about popularity (hits) — sense that of course you want lots of people to see your work; students quickly came to understand that attention itself wasn’t the desired outcome
– really interesting outcomes among students: thinking through differences between learning and entertainment, academic standards, workings of digital communication
Geoffrey Proehl, “Wiki for a Production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
– web resources for dramaturgy; virtual workspace for collaborations amongst theater artists
– initial need: ability to co-edit texts in preparation for productions
– how a wiki got used
Jason Brown, “Outsourcing the Provision of Blogs and Wikis”
– revised title: Outsourcing Disruptive Alien Threat?
– excellent presentation by jason about the decision to outsource hosting for faculty LAMP uses
– in fact, outsourcing is already happening (email, spam services); need to think rationally about the choices we’re making, but it’s already underway
