MCLI Learnshop: Emerging Technologies

Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies:
Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Social Bookmarking, and Personal Portals

MCLI Summer Learnshop
May 21-24, 2007
9:00am – 12:30 pm
Mesa Community College, AS192

Relevant Links
Registration: http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/events/emergingtech07/
Learnshop Blog: http://techwjetsons.blogspot.com/
Learnshop Wiki: http://jetsons.wikispaces.com/
Learnshop Participants links: http://del.icio.us/rrodrigo/learnshop-may07

Agenda
Monday
• Introduction, agenda, goals/objectives, instructions for getting logged on to computers, permission slips for pictures, video, and audio recordings.
• Introduction to Social Bookmarking
• “Play” with a Social Bookmarking tool
• Introduction to Blogs
• “Play” with a Blogging tool
• Homework

Tuesday
• Introduction to RSS Feeds & Aggregators
• “Play” with a RSS Aggregator tool
• Introduction to Personal Portals
• “Play” with a Personal Portal tool
• Homework

Wednesday
• Introduction to Wikis
• “Play” with a Wikis
• Web 2.0 & CMSs
• Work on Personal Project
• Homework

Thursday
• 5 minute Personal Project Presentations by each participant
• Conclusion, Workshop Evaluation

Workshop Outcomes
As a result of active participation in the workshop, participants will be able to:
• Describe blogs, wikis, RSS, social bookmarking, and personal portal tools.
• Set-up free, web-based blog, wiki, rss aggregator, social bookmarking, and personal portal accounts.
• Outline what blogs, wikis, RSS, social bookmarking, and personal portal tools can do based on hands-on experience with the various tools.
• Discuss reasons for using the various tools.
• Discuss how various course management systems, especially Blackboard and WebCT, are prepared to handle the incorporation of these various tools.
• Identify particular challenges common to incorporating new technologies into courses.