Web 2.0 and Other Technologies at UVU

UVSELF 09.14.09

Web 2.0 - What is it?

Two way.

What does it affect?TechnologiesToolsPhilosophyMethodology

A paradigm shift? Perhaps.

Do we have it?Yes.

* 23 blogs, * 80 Facebook groups, * 4 institutional Flickr accounts, * 7 LinkedIn groups, * 12 Twitter feeds, * 4 wikis,

What we have* 1 yammer account (with over 80 members) * 5 YouTube accounts * 1 RSS feed * 2 Podcasts * 1 Itunes U

Lets see: http://www.uvu.edu/visitors/social-media-directory/index.html

Official Web Management Structure at UVU

Web 2.0 Tools- Social Bookmarking (Folksonomy) - Social Networking & Profiles - Blogs & Microblogs- Collaborative & Interactive Environments - Open Educational Resources - Open Access Journals & Publications - Document Sharing - Feed Readers, News Aggregators & News Rating - Community Engagement Tools - Feedback and User Review - Productivity and Research Tools - Photo and Video Sharing and Editing

Social BookmarkingCommunities of users based on their decision to link to, cite, and otherwise reference specific websites, journals, and other resources

Lets try two:http://del.icio.us/http://www.trailfire.com/

Social NetworkingFocuses on building online communities of people who share interests and/or activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others

http://www.facebook.com/http://www.ning.com/ http://www.lymabean.com/

Blogsmaintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Often end-users can respond directly, and publically, to blog postings.

http://www.gouvu.blogspot.com/http://uvucyclingteam.blogspot.com/

Collaborative Environments

the user can interact with the site itself, with others, and sometimes with the originators themselves.

- Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Valley_University- http://wikilearn.uvu.edu/webtools/Main_Page

Open Educational Resources

Free. Open Access. Educational.

http://www.academicearth.org/

Learning objects:http://cnx.org/http://www.merlot.org/

OpenCourseWarefreely available, stand-alone college-level online course and teaching materials

http://ocw.mit.edu/http://www.ocwfinder.com/

Open Access JournalsScholarly journals publicly available at no cost to the end user

http://www.doaj.org/http://works.bepress.com/

Document SharingShare and collaborate online

http://docs.google.comhttp://280slides.com/http://www.mendeley.com/

News & ReadersFeeds permit subscription to regular updates, delivered automatically via a web, reader, or email.

http://alerts.google.comhttp://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/livebookmarks.htmlhttp://digg.com/

MicroblogsAllows users to send brief text updates or micromedia such as photos or audio clips and publish them

http://twitter.com/http://www.yammer.com/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10282

Engagementhttp://www.volunteermatch.com/http://www.allforgood.org//http://beextra.org/http://www.kinded.com/

http://upcoming.yahoo.com

Feedback & Reviewhttp://www.ratemyprofessors.com/

http://www.communiversity.com/http://www.stuvu.com/http://theuniversityreview.com/

Productivityhttp://www.evernote.comhttp://www.bookgoo.comhttp://www.awesomehighlighter.com

http://www.zotero.org/

Photo & Video Sharinghttp://www.youtube.comhttp://www.flickr.com (uvumarketing/gogreen)

CommentaryAs the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) notes, “Web 2.0 tools can provide highly interactive and participatory environments that establish communities, open a myriad of communication channels, and ensure each individual and group a voice. In fact, there is a growing body of evidence that the collaboration inherent in the participatory nature of Web 2.0 tools can be leveraged to deepen student learning through authentic, real-world learning” (CoSN, 2009).

In ClosingIt takes a certain amount of giving up control. One thing to keep in mind is that these comments and these exchanges are happening out there anyway...if you don't engage with your perspective, you're giving up on the discussion. So we try to embrace controversy and show confidence that we're willing to engage with an audience in the social media space. It's a reality of communications today.