Solstice Slam

Mark RocheManchester Metropolitan

University

What are we going to do?

• Introduction (10 mins)

• ‘Box of Tricks’ (45 mins)

• Break (5 mins)

• Build your slam (45 mins)

• Performances (30 mins)

• Voting and prizegiving (5 mins)

• Final questions

What is Web 2.0?

• Creating• Sharing• Collaborating• Tagging• Embedding• Social

I can do that!

How to make your own content

• Research

• Gather

• Produce

• Publish

Researching

• Use Google

• Or Wikipedia

• Or a Social Bookmarking tool like Delicious or CiteULike

• Creative Commons search

Gathering content

• Images – Flickr

• Video – YouTube, mobile phones (Qik), cameras

• Audio – voice recorders, phones

• Screencasting – Jing, Screentoaster

• Use a mindmap to plan it – Mindmeister

Producing content

• Images – Picnik, Windows Photo Story 3, Scrapblog,

• Video – Windows Movie Maker, Qik,

• Screencasting – Jing, Screentoaster

• Others – Voicethread, Slideshare, Wordle

Publishing

• Blogs – Blogger, Wordpress

• Wikis – Wetpaint, pbWiki

• Social networking sites – Facebook, MySpace, Ning

• YouTube, blip.tv, Qik, Bambuser

Some issues

• Copyright!

• Sites may disappear or start to charge

• Almost certainly require broadband access

That’s all folks…

Mark Roche

Centre for Learning & Teaching, MMU

0161 247 3362

[email protected]

twitter @narcomarco