© Imperial College London

The Learning 2.0 team: Andrew Day Jenny Evans

Paula Evans Ruth Harrison

Lawrence Jones Katharine Thompson

http://learning2009imperial.wordpress.com

learning2.0@imperial.ac.uk

By the end of today’s session, you will have an understanding of:

• Web 2.0

• Learning 2.0 Overview, how it works, programme blog (including hands-on)

• Instant messaging Overview and demo (including hands-on)

• Blogs Overview and demo Set up of participant blogs (including hands-on)

Web 2.0

From: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cbmilne33/3517995166/

[Accessed 8th June 2009]

Web 2.0…a definition

"Web 2.0" refers to a perceived second generation of web development and design, that facilitates communication, secure information sharing, interoperability, and collaboration on the World Wide Web. Web 2.0 concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities, hosted services, and applications such as social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies.”From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0 [Accessed 8th June 2009]

Used under Creative Commons

From http://blog.aysoon.com/Le-Web20-illustre-en-une-seule-image

[Accessed 8th June 2009]

Why Web 2.0?• Before we expected our users to come to us

Now we need to go to where our users are

• Many of our students are millennials, digital natives They use their phones more than their PCs (teenagers more concerned

if they lose their phone than if they lost their passport)

From: http://www.meanboyfriend.com/overdue_ideas/2008/07/the-future-is-mobile.html [Accessed 9th June 2009]

• Don’t need to be a techie – you can do it yourself

• Flexible & quick

Why not?

• Possibly short lived and difficult to predict what will or won’t be popular

• Relying on third party providers

• Not controlled/branded

• Evaluate! Some technologies will be useful others won’t

• The original Learning 2.0 programme ‘23 Things’ was run by the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County in the U.S. http://plcmcl2-things.blogspot.com/

• About learning through play and self-discovery

• Adapted by many different types of libraries across the world

Not just about libraries…

• Now adapting the programme for other organisational staff

• In universities Academic support staff Academics Students

• Imperial is using these technologies Staff blogs, student blogs, podcasts, online lectures, Twitter The Faculty of Medicine in Second Life

• Use the technologies you learn about to complete the programme

• Mix of workshops and online learning

• No right or wrong answers

• More directed than the original

How it works

• Each Friday we will post the activities for the following week

• Participants will receive an email to let them know that this has happened

• Set up an RSS feed to the blog (week 2)

• You post your blog entry for the week (preferably by Friday afternoon)

• Catch up weeks built in to the programme

What you need to do• Aim for an hour a week

Google and find out what’s going on in the outside world or look at the relevantImperial pages

Think about how you can use the technologies personally as well as professionally Or if it is easier aim for 15 minutes a day

Suggestions adapted from a blog post by Kathryn Greenhill @ Murdoch University Library

• Write a blog post reflecting on each week’s activities approximately 100-150 words your opinion counts – if you don’t like a technology or think it’s irrelevant say so – but also why what you could use as a staff member what we could offer as a Library service / College service / Departmental service

• Remember we are introducing you to new technologies not teaching you absolutely everything about them

Learning groups• Web 2.0 technologies are social technologies

• About people interacting

• Important part of this programme – interaction with fellow participants

• Keeping up with what all participants doing may be overwhelming so learning groups enable you to focus on a few

• Katharine will talk to you about blogs and commenting on your fellow participants blogs

Workshops...and drop-in sessions

• Workshops Introductory workshop Multimedia in HE Virtual worlds/gaming Please let us know that you can make it

• Drop- in sessions Just turn up No set programme Learning 2.0 team available to help with that week’s activities or

any general problems you have encountered Space available for those who want time to get away from their

desks

Instant messaging (IM)

• “a text-based computer conference over the Internet between two or more people who must be online at the same time. When you send an IM the receiver is instantly notified that she/he has a message.”

From: http://mason.gmu.edu/~montecin/netterms.htm[Accessed 8 June 2009]

• Examples of how libraries are using IM McMaster University http://library.mcmaster.ca/justask/ Princeton University http://library.princeton.edu/help/chat.php

How to use Instant Messaging

• Software you can download MSN, Yahoo, Skype

• Chat plugin inserted into a webpage/blog Meebo, Plugoo

• Web messaging service MSN Messenger (this is what we will be using)

Useful websites / further reading

23 Things blog http://plcmclearning.blogspot.com/

43 Things I might want to do this yearhttp://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FWE/is_2_10/ai_n16133338

Spanbauer, S. (2004) Internet tips: A grown-up’s guide to instant messaging. [Online] Available from http://www.pcworld.com/article/114161/internet_tips_a_grownups_guide_to_instant_messaging.html