Discovering the Joys of Social Software. Workshop Agenda Overview of Social Software RSS Blogs Lunch Social Bookmarking Wikis Podcasting Other Stuff.

Discovering the Joys of Social Software

Workshop Agenda• Overview of Social Software

• RSS

• Blogs

• Lunch

• Social Bookmarking

• Wikis

• Podcasting

• Other Stuff

the new shape of knowledge

Dave Weinberger

What does What does this this meanmeanforfor

education?education?

anytimeanywhereanyone

ConnectivityCollaboration

How?

Think

Rip

Remix

Learn

engaging

relevant

ownership

scary

exciting

tagging

xml aggregator

Web 2.0

blogs podcast

feeds

posts

Read/Write WebConversationConversation

joined

small

piecesloosely

R

S

S

eally

yndication

imple

Order

Chronological

Reverse

Less designing

More content

social bookmarking

Less exclusive

More sharing

Wikis

Less isolated

More collaborative

BlogsA weblog is a website that offers one click publishing and avoids the need for any web design skills. It posts ideas in reverse chronological order and utilizes comments and links to create a rich and current perspective. Less designing and more content.Social bookmarkingStoring favourite sites online is not only convenient but allows you to share you sites using tools like RSS. Tagging enables you to organize and search for sites based on your descriptions.Less exclusive and more sharing.Wikiswikis are editable webpages. They can be public or private. Users can make any changes to a document and save them. All revisions are saved so you can never mess up. Less isolated and more collaborative.

Less talk more rock

Alternative Communication

Less restriction

A tale of 2 educations

you have a textbook that is 5 years old.

I will access up-to-date information

I will immediately know when I misspell a word

– you have to wait until it’s graded.

you’ll use a 10 year old atlas

I will explore the world using Google Earth-

-you will share yours with the class

I will create artwork and poetry and share it with the world .

I will have 24/7 access

– you have it 2 periods a week.

I will communicate with leaders and experts using blogs, email, Skype

and IM

– you will wait for Friday’s speaker.

I will collaborate with my peers from around the world

– you will collaborate with peers in your classroom.

-you must wait for the rest of the class.

I will take my learning as far as I want

Let’s dive in…