• K-12 Virtual School Initiatives
• National Educational Technology Standards for Students: The Next Generation
• Education Technology & Instructional Design
• e-, Virtual, Blended Learning Environments
• Intellectual Property & Transparency
• What will it take to change today’s higher education institutions into the institutions the next generation needs?

2007 Horizon Report

Key trends affecting higher education—next 5 years

• One year or less

  • Social Networking 
  • User-Created Content 
• Two-Three Years
  • Mobile Phones
  • Virtual Worlds
• Four-Five Years
  • New Scholarship and Emerging Forms of Publication

http://www.nmc.org/horizon/

Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0

Web 1.0 Search & browse Talking with one friend on cell phone Netscape Content produced by few About companies Connecting computers Download culture Control Centralized Britannica Online Just technology

Web 2.0 Publish & subscribe Cell phone has multiple uses Google Content produced by many About communities Connecting people Remix culture Contribution Decentralized Wikipedia An attitude, not just a technology

http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html

Blogging 

• for distributed conversations
• for collaborative writing
• for object-oriented discussion
• as course web pages, encouraging discussion and collaboration
• as private management and communication tools for large campus groups, administrative teams, and communities of practice
• to easily update online newsletters
• to keep a collection of useful, searchable links

English 115F Worlds of Wordcraft Fall 2007 

Columbus’s Metro High School

A public school emphasizing math, science, and technology, partners with Ohio State’s Stone Laboratory  to give its students in-depth, hands-on, one-of-a-kind science: on and often in Lake Erie.

Wikis 

• adapting a document for a new audience
• brainstorming
• chronicle an ongoing event
• class practice tests
• class-produced exam study guides
• classroom learning beyond the classroom
• club activities
• collaboration of notes
• collective note-taking
• computer program coding
• concept introduction
• content presentations
• discussion questions
• exploratory projects
• experiments
• faculty posts
• favorite booklists
• frequently asked questions
• group collaboration on writing sentences
• group presentation
• favorite booklists
• frequently asked questions
• group collaboration on writing sentences
• group presentation
• group problem-solving
• help-desk training
• lessons summaries
• individual assessment projects
• instructional design plan
• interactive library research
• lab reports
• newsletters
• open storytelling
• organizing audience sessions for speech class
• peer counseling
• peer editing
• peer tutor training
• poem construction
• posting web quests
• presentation/paper/course development
• problem-solving
• procedural manuals
• proofreading
• role playing scenarios
• potential indicators
• students papers
• teacher editing marks or corrections
• teacher collaborative on best practices 
• what if?
• website design

Podcasts

• Appeal to the Generation Y
• Easy and low cost to create and distribute
• Caters to different learning styles
• Students review lectures before exams
• Students listen in on classes they've missed
• Students replay at own convenience
• ESL students replay to increase comprehension
• Instructors listen and improve on previous lectures
• Instructors can select short, important segments to transmit

 Social Bookmarking 

• A social bookmarking website that allows you to store and share your bookmarks on the web.
• Using tags, you can organize and remember your bookmarks and access them from any computer. 
• del.icio.us can be used by both students and faculty to tag, share and back up bookmarks for research and collaboration.
• Primarily used to store your bookmarks online, access the same bookmarks from any computer and add bookmarks from anywhere.

Social Bookmarking in Plain English 

Flickr

Flickr embodies so many Web 2.0 characteristics:

• User-created content
• Folksonomy
• Social networking
• Blogging
• Tagging
• Discussion groups
• Creating presentations
• Creative writing assignments
• Graphics generator
• Interactive hypertext mapping

Create a University or Departmental Account

Auburn University

Vanderbilt University

Texas Tech University

K-State Libraries' photos

Flickr as a Presentation Tool

Embed the classic flickr slideshows into any website with flickrSLiDR

Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

Use Photo Sets

The Teaching Files: X-rays

Other Ideas

Create an interactive image (rollovers with popup and links) using flickr notes. http://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/269039506/

Create/explore discussion groups, shared image pools http://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/265744860/

Create a custom logo of any text based on flickr images http://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/265662083/

Syndicate, publish images directly for flickr to other sites http://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/269050017/

Create a slideshow in flickr http://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/265709373/

Explore imahes via tags http://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/266534715/

Explore 3rd party sites that can do even more things with flickr images- create mosaics, postcards, flip albumsm card games, and more http://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/265764063/

Flickr Tell a Story in 5 Frames http://flickr.com/groups/visualstory/

Flickr Six Word Story http://www.flickr.com/groups/sixwordstory/

YouTube

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The Z Scheme - OSU Biology

OSU Football Coach Jim Tressel explains photosynthesis in terms that college football fans can understand.

 

OSU presents the Krebs Cycle - OSU Biology

The OSU Marching Band helps to provide a vivid visual of the Krebs Cycle. 

The Ohio State University Faculty Newspaper 

University of California-Berkeley Courses on YouTube

Narrative Forms in the Digital Classroom

Worlds of Wordcraft: Digital Narrative and Virtual Reality from Vanderbilt University

Aggregators

• From push to pull
• RSS Feeds
  • News
  • Blogs
  • Videos
  • Vlogs
  • Photos
  • Podcasts

Cell Phones