Web2.0 Training

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Topics

  • Blogs
  • Wikis
  • Social Bookmarking
  • News Feeds
  • Social Networking

Notes

  • Two sessions: Research, Teaching and Learning
  • Visit all campuses
  • Provide specific use cases
  • One hour - 90 minute room booking
  • Two trainers
  • Use these sessions to initiate more in-depth classroom training and advanced sessions on using Web 2.0 for research
  • Include short session on web2.0 best practice, legal aspects, etc.
  • Notes from a previous Wiki Workshop.

Overview

Working smarter with the web

Email to staff

  • Include brief steps to do prior to session. e.g. find and subscribe to RSS feed, edit wikipedia, etc.
  • example of email content

Researchers

Working Smarter with the Web: Workshops to Improve Your Research

This workshop aims to help academics improve their research by making better use of the web.

Do you want to:

  • improve the way you search for funding information?
  • improve the way you receive and organise information about research and funding?
  • find out about ways to make research collaboration, networking and manuscript production with others more effective and efficient?
  • find out how to connect and find others with shared research interests?

If you have answered yes to one or more of these questions than this workshop is for you!

In this hour-long session we will show you how free and easy-to-use web-based tools such as RSS, social bookmarking, blogs and wikis can help you quickly complete otherwise time consuming or laborious tasks. We will also explain how to use social media to promote your research and easily connect with other like-minded researchers around the world.

Individuals from all disciplines with any research interests/activities are encouraged to attend.

The course will be held on [DATE] in [LOCATION] at [TIME]. Space is limited so to book your place ASAP, please email training@lincoln.ac.uk.

Recommended preparation

If you have a spare 15 minutes before the session, why not watch a few of these brief, informative videos. We will be covering some of these topics in the presentation and showing how they can help you in your research career. Come prepared with questions:

If you want to find out more, take a look at these online presentations, or read the JISC report to see how web 2.0 technologies are impacting the HE sector now:

Teaching and Learning

Working Smarter with the Web: Workshops to Improve Your Teaching

This workshop aims to help academics make better use of the web in their teaching.

Do you want to:

  • learn about different ways that the web can support student collaboration?
  • improve the way you observe and assess contribution to group work?
  • understand new ways of communicating, supporting and engaging with your students?
  • prepare your students for new and emerging ways of working on the web?
  • understand the benefits and manage the risks of teaching and learning in public

In this hour-long session we will show you how free and easy-to-use web-based tools such as RSS, social bookmarking, blogs and wikis can support your teaching and your students' learning. Follow up, more in-depth classroom-based support is available through the Centre for Educational Research and Development

Staff from all disciplines are encouraged to attend.

The course will be held on [DATE] in [LOCATION] at [TIME]. Space is limited so to book your place ASAP, please email training@lincoln.ac.uk.

Recommended preparation

If you have a spare 15 minutes before the session, why not watch a few of these brief, informative videos. We will be covering some of these topics in the presentation and showing how they can help you in your research career. Come prepared with questions:

If you want to find out more, read the JISC report below to see how web 2.0 technologies are impacting the HE sector now:

Event Planning Form (Research)

  • Title of training event: Working Smarter with the Web: Workshops to Improve Your Research
  • Aim(s): This workshop aims to help academics make better use of the web in their research. In this hour-long session we will show you how free and easy-to-use web-based tools such as RSS, social bookmarking, blogs and wikis can support research activity, from more efficient funding searches to collaboration on research bids. Follow up, more in-depth support can be arranged through the Research Office and CERD.
  • Learning Outcomes:
    • Improve the way you search for funding information and share those results quickly with others.
    • Understand how to use web-based tools to communicate and collaborate with other researchers.
    • Find out how to network with others who share similar research interests.
    • Understand the benefits and manage the risks of promoting your research online.

Who should attend? All staff are welcome though the focus will be on the use of the web for research.

  • Pre-requisite knowledge: None.
  • Minimum number: 2
  • Maximum number: 20
  • Date(s):
  • Time(s):
  • Location(s):
  • Trainer(s): Paul Stainthorp, Joss Winn, David Young

Event Planning Form (Teaching and Learning)

  • Title of training event: Working Smarter with the Web: Workshops to Improve Your Teaching
  • Aim(s): This workshop aims to help academics make better use of the web in their teaching. In this hour-long session we will show you how free and easy-to-use web-based tools such as RSS, social bookmarking, blogs and wikis can support your teaching and your students' learning. Follow up, more in-depth classroom-based support is available through the Centre for Educational Research and Development
  • Learning Outcomes:
    • Learn about different ways that the web can support student collaboration.
    • Improve the way you observe and assess contribution to group work.
    • Understand new ways of communicating, supporting and engaging with your students.
    • Prepare your students for new and emerging ways of working on the web.
    • Understand the benefits and manage the risks of teaching and learning in public
  • Who should attend? All staff are welcome though the focus will be on the use of the web for Teaching and Learning.
  • Pre-requisite knowledge: None.
  • Minimum number: 2
  • Maximum number: 20
  • Date(s):
  • Time(s):
  • Location(s):
  • Trainer(s): Paul Stainthorp, Joss Winn, David Young

Outline of Workshop: Research

Intro

  • What is Web 2.0? (use JISC handout and report as a basis). No agreed definition.
  • Broadly: it's a cluster of technologies (e.g. blogs, wikis, social networks) which give users the power to easily create and share/re-share content with networks and/or the wider public via the internet.
  • In contrast to the early web which was written by few and read by many, Web 2.0 applications allow anyone to easily write and publish on the web. The potential for online collaboration, networking, and the dissemination of information/knowledge is huge.
  • The browser becomes a platform - web sites become programs and you are empowered to do a lot more in terms of content creation and the potential reach of that content is increased.
  • Focus on the most prominent Web 2.0 applications in this workshop: Blogs to promote your research, share ideas and get involved in a community of researchers; Wikis allow a group of people to work on a single document and make changes with complete version control; social bookmarking can help you organise and share links with others - and you can access them anywhere; subscribing to RSS feeds in a reader helps you to quickly read the latest news in one place - you can also use RSS to share content from another blog, or your social bookmarks.
  • We'll show you how web 2.0 technologies help you get things done more quickly and effectively, and allow you to do new things too. We'll contrast the "old way" with the "new way" so you can see the difference and (hopefully) conclude that using web 2.0 tools offers a better way of working.
  • We'll be around for half an hour at the end for questions, and we'll also offer more advanced sessions at a later date for anyone who wants to take it further.

Legal/IP

See here

Social Bookmarking

  • The old way:
    • You find an interesting or useful webpage (e.g. ESRC funding opportunity)
    • You want to save it so you can find it again later
    • You add it to your "Favourites" folder in IE, or you "bookmark" it in another browser
  • Problems:
    • You end up accumulating a long list of favourites in no particular order, or...
    • You spend a long time sorting and organising your bookmarks into folders
    • You can only access your bookmarks on the computer you bookmarked them on
    • It's time-consuming to tell other people about sites they might find useful (usually email - copy and paste a link)
  • The new way:
    • You find an interesting or useful webpage
    • You want to save it so you can find it again later and you want to share it with friends you know will like it
    • You sign up to a social bookmarking service such as Delicious
    • You bookmark it and tag it with relevant keywords
  • Show Research Office Delicious page
  • Advantages:
    • You have a long list of favourites which can be sorted instantly by clicking on a relevant tag
    • You can even narrow down a list further by combining tags: e.g. europe+funding
    • You instantly share with friends/colleagues who are linked to you (though you can make a bookmark private if you want to) - they also share all their bookmarks with you
    • Your bookmarks are available wherever you have internet access


A short practical exercise to give practice and reinforce the concepts presented above:

  1. Go to: www.delicious.com
  2. Browse through the popular bookmarks and tags to get a feel for the site
  3. Join to get a free account
    1. Fill in the basic information (real name not required, but a valid email address is!)
    2. Add a quick link button to your browser (bookmarklet on IE)
    3. Skip importing bookmarks, but you can later if you want to
  4. Navigate to: SLSA Small Grants
  5. Click the bookmark on delicious link in your browser - a window will pop up
  6. You can add notes now if you want, or you can just tag it and click save
    1. Tagging means adding single space-separated keywords
    2. Try tagging with: sociolegal research grant apply
  7. Find another two webpages and save to delicious
  8. Go to my delicious homepage
  9. Click on tags to sort your list
  10. Go to the Research Office delicious page: www.delicious.com/researchoffice
  11. Click Add to my Network
  12. Now visit your network and you can easily see pages saved by Research Office - and save them yourself!

Useful resource: Using Delicious in Education

Blogs

Using blogs to promote your research. See:

Wikis

See here.

  • In the research session, we'll focus on the advantages of using a wiki to collaborate on a research bid or similar.
  • Version control and the ability to see who edited what is really useful.

RSS

  • RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication"
  • Subscribing to an RSS "feed" is a way of keeping up to date with the latest news from websites and blogs you care about - all in one place!
  • RSS can also be used to publish content from other places, e.g. blogs, wikis, social bookmark lists, institutional repository, etc., on your website or blog. And other people can pull an RSS feed from your blog through to their blog - sharing content in a really simple way.
  • The old way:
    • You have a list of websites or blogs that you like to check regularly for information. Let's say you like to check Research Council websites to see if they've published anything new: EPSRC; ESRC; AHRC; BBSRC.
    • Every day/week/fortnight you open the websites and check the news pages to see if there's anything new
  • Drawbacks:
    • It's time consuming
    • You have to remember to check
  • The new way:
    • You subscribe to the RSS feed for all your favourite blogs and websites in a single place - a feed reader such as Google Reader
    • All the latest news and/or funding opportunities from each site is fed into your feed reader
  • Advantages:
    • Everything is in one place
    • You can quickly see what's new at a glance
    • Google Reader allows you to share items with friends
    • You can also tag them (just like delicious) so you can find relevant stories later

Try the following to see how it works:

  1. Sign up for an account on Google Reader: Google Reader
  2. Add the following feed by clicking Add Subscription and copying in the feed address: http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/CallsForProposals/rss/
  3. Now try searching for another feed. Type "ESRC Funding Opportunities" in the Add Subscription search box. Click Subscribe.
  4. Now try to find an RSS feed from a webpage.
    1. Navigate to the AHRC home page: http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/Pages/default.aspx
    2. Scroll to the bottom and click RSS next to the orange icon
    3. This gives you a list of all the different RSS feeds on the AHRC's site - you can subscribe to any of them by clicking on them, copying the URL to your clipboard and pasting it into Google Reader's Add Subscription box
  5. Go to another website you visit regularly and see if you can find an RSS feed to subscribe to - sometimes your browser will detect RSS feeds; sometimes you'll have to search the website. Try BBC news if you're stuck.
  6. In Google Reader, tag an item then move the feed into that tag to create a folder - (IS THIS THE ONLY WAY TO DO IT?)

(IF WE HAVE TIME WE COULD ALSO TALK ABOUT OTHER USES FOR RSS - E.G. FEEDS IN BLOGS ETC.)

Outline of Workshop: Teaching and Learning

Intro

  • What is Web 2.0? (use JISC handout and report as a basis). No agreed definition.
  • Broadly: it's a cluster of technologies (e.g. blogs, wikis, social networks) which give users the power to easily create and share/re-share content with networks and/or the wider public via the internet. In contrast to the early web which was written by few and read by many, Web 2.0 applications allow anyone to easily write and publish on the web. The potential for online collaboration and the dissemination of information/knowledge is huge and impacting on the traditional, hierarchical model of education. Knowledge exchange is 'peer-to-peer'. Offers learners more control and personalisation of learning environments. Empowers learners to contribute to knowledge more easily.
  • Focus on the most prominent of these in this workshop: Blogs to share and discuss ideas and get involved in a community of like-minded teachers/students; Wikis allow a group of people to focus on writing on the web and make changes with complete version control; social bookmarking can help you organise and share online resources with others - and you can access them anywhere; subscribing to RSS feeds in a reader helps you to quickly read the latest updates from many web sites in one place - you can use RSS to share content from another blog, or your social bookmarks.
  • We'll show you how web 2.0 technologies help you get things done more quickly and effectively, and allow you to do new things too. We'll contrast the "old way" with the "new way" so you can see the difference and (hopefully) conclude that using web 2.0 tools offers a better way of working with and on the web.
  • We'll be around for half an hour at the end for questions, and we're also happy to help build this into your course design and visit your classes to similarly discuss this with your students.

Legal/IP

As well as learning about the benefits of Web 2.0, it's important to make you aware of some guidelines on best practice. See here

Social Bookmarking

  • The old way:
    • You find an interesting or useful webpage (e.g. ESRC funding opportunity)
    • You want to save it so you can find it again later
    • You add it to your "Favourites" folder in IE, or you "bookmark" it in another browser
  • Problems:
    • You end up accumulating a long list of favourites in no particular order, or...
    • You spend a long time sorting and organising your bookmarks into folders
    • You can only access your bookmarks on the computer you bookmarked them on
    • It's time-consuming to tell other people about sites they might find useful (usually email, handouts - copy and paste a link)
  • The new way:
    • You find an interesting or useful web page
    • You want to save it so you can find it again later and you want to share it with friends, colleagues, students, who you know will like it
    • You sign up to a social bookmarking service such as Delicious
    • You bookmark it and tag it with relevant keywords
  • Show Research Office Delicious page
  • Advantages:
    • You have a long list of favourites which can be sorted instantly by clicking on a relevant tag
    • You can even narrow down a list further by combining tags: e.g. europe+funding
    • You instantly share with friends/colleagues who are linked to you (though you can make a bookmark private if you want to) - they also share all their bookmarks with you
    • Your bookmarks are available wherever you have internet access. 'Bookmarks' become 'resources'.
    • Groups of people (i.e. students on a course) can bookmark web pages with the same tag and pool their resources.


A short practical exercise to give practice and reinforce the concepts presented above:

  1. Go to: www.delicious.com
  2. Browse through the popular bookmarks and tags to get a feel for the site
  3. Join to get a free account
    1. Fill in the basic information (real name not required, but a valid email address is!)
    2. Add a quick link button to your browser (bookmarklet on IE)
    3. Skip importing bookmarks, but you can later if you want to
  4. Navigate to: Open Shakespeare
  5. Click the bookmark on delicious link in your browser - a window will pop up
  6. You can add notes now if you want, or you can just tag it and click save
    1. Tagging means adding single space-separated keywords
    2. Try tagging with: literature shakespeare texts
  7. Find another two webpages and save to delicious
  8. Go to my delicious homepage
  9. Click on tags to sort your list
  10. Go to the Research Office delicious page: www.delicious.com/researchoffice
  11. Click Add to my Network
  12. Now visit your network and you can easily see pages saved by Research Office - and save them yourself!

Blogs

University of Lincoln blogs

Wikis

See the wiki workshop.

RSS

  • RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication"
  • Subscribing to an RSS "feed" is a way of keeping up to date with the latest news from websites and blogs you care about - all in one place!
  • RSS can also be used to publish content from other places, e.g. blogs, wikis, social bookmark lists, institutional repository, etc., on your website or blog. And other people can pull an RSS feed from your blog through to their blog - sharing content in a really simple way.
  • The old way:
    • You have a list of websites or blogs that you like to check regularly for information. Let's say you like to check Research Council websites to see if they've published anything new: EPSRC; ESRC; AHRC; BBSRC.
    • Every day/week/fortnight you open the websites and check the news pages to see if there's anything new
  • Drawbacks:
    • It's time consuming
    • You have to remember to check
  • The new way:
    • You subscribe to the RSS feed for all your favourite blogs and websites in a single place - a feed reader such as Google Reader
    • All the latest updates from each site is fed into your feed reader
  • Advantages:
    • Everything is in one place
    • You can quickly see what's new at a glance
    • Google Reader allows you to share items with friends
    • You can also tag them (just like delicious) so you can find relevant stories later
    • All Web 2.0 applications support RSS feeds so you can use them to view, monitor and assess your student's online work.

Try the following to see how it works:

  1. Sign up for an account on Google Reader: Google Reader
  2. Add the following feed by clicking Add Subscription and copying in the three feeds from the Library blogs http://blogs.library.lincoln.ac.uk/
  3. Now try searching for another feed. Type something of interest in the Add Subscription search box. Click Subscribe.
  4. Now try to find an RSS feed from a web page.
    1. Navigate to the BBC home page: http://news.bbc.co.uk
    2. Click the 'News Feeds' link next to the orange icon (or click the orange icon if you want the main BBC News feed).
    3. This gives you a list of all the different RSS feeds on the BBC's site - you can subscribe to any of them by clicking on them, copying the URL to your clipboard and pasting it into Google Reader's Add Subscription box
    4. Tag your new feed. Click the feed, go to the Feed Settings button and select a 'Folder' (folders are tags) or create a new folder.

Resources

Plain English Videos

These are short and easy to understand "...for dummies" style videos which explain basic concepts around Web 2.0:

Blogs

Social Bookmarks

Social Networks

Designed specifically for academics/researchers:

Designed specifically for teachers:

General social networks:

Lifestreaming

Misc.

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