Monday, June 2, 2008

Interactive Internet Course Content

Welcome to our class! This should prove to be an interesting and exciting week. As you know, blogging can facilitate meaningful interactive discussions. It also requires a group of participants focusing on common discussion topics.

This will be your chance to practice participating in an active blog while you find links to literature, find some "how-tos", post questions, reflect on images, complete surveys, and formulate ideas for your own class/work.

Please check out the links and let us know if you had any trouble finding the posted information. You'll practice posting to blogs each day by participating in a discussion thread that we'll generate. We're curious to know how you think you might use Web 2.0 tools with your students, socially, or professionally. Any thoughts?

How is a weblog different than a web page? How is it similar?

Class Topics/Assignments at a Glance

Day 1: Web 2.0 - The Read/Write Web
Assignment due today: Richardson p. 17-58, Blog Topic
At home: Choose journal article for Friday discussion/paper
*Post to this blog!

Day 2: Wikis and Social Bookmarks
Assignment due today: Richardson p. 59-74, 89-100.
At-home: edit class wiki.
*Post to this blog!

Day 3: Flickr and Podcasting: Broadcast Yourself
Assignment due today: Richardson p. 101-124,
*Post to this blog!

Day 4: RSS Feeds & Review of Web 2.0 Technologies, Bringing it all together.
Assignment due today: Richardson p. 75-87, 125-138
At-home: Complete 2-page article summary
*Post to this blog!

Day 5: Presentations
Assignment due today: Article Summary, Individual/Group Presentations/Evaluation
*Invite instructors to view your blog.
Final work is due electronically/online one week from the end of the course.