Teaching in the Wild Wild Web: Web 2.0 Technologies and Student Centered Learning

Pre-Conference Workshop at the 2009 Sloan-C International Symposium on Emerging Technology Applications for Online Learning (To get back to this page, just remember: http://tinyurl.com/WildWildWebSloanC)

PRESENTERS:

• Rochelle (Shelley) Rodrigo, Mesa Community College (shelley.rodrigo<at>gmail.com) @rrodrigo
  
• Alisa Cooper, South Mountain Community College (dr.coop<at>yahoo.com) @soul4real
  

DESCRIPTION:
This three hour workshop on Web 2.0 technologies will offer information and engage participants in dialogue and hands-on activities intended to introduce and familiarize workshop participants with

• Blogs,
• Wikis,
• Document Sharing,
• RSS, and
• Personal Portals.

The goals of the event are to make participants comfortable with, and knowledgeable about, a variety of interactive Web 2.0 technologies:

• Introducing participants to the definitions and key elements of web 2.0 technologies.
• Engaging in discussion about how and why these various technologies can better facilitate teaching and learning.
• Offering the knowledge and experience of faculty who have designed, developed and incorporated different types of web 2.0 technologies into their classes, or work processes.
• Encouraging participants to critically select, review, and possibly adopt emerging technologies to incorporate into their classes, or work processes.
• Having participants set up a variety of different web 2.0 accounts and work through various activities that begin to familiarize them with the technologies.

This workshop specifically targets faculty, instructional designers, and instructional technologists relatively new to the world of web 2.0 technologies; however, as with many of these types of workshops, advanced web 2.0 users would probably learn another trick or two while also enriching the dialogue with their own experiences.

For a better learning experience, please bring your own laptops so that you might set up accounts and play with the various technologies we'll be exploring.