Syllabus

= Web 2.0 -- just the beginning =
 * At conclusion of course participants will be able to: **
 * 1) Understand how the Web has become a //community// in which anyone can participate
 * 2) Understand how a team can collaborate and produce knowledge asynchronously without ever meeting face-to-face
 * 3) Register and participate in a Wiki
 * 4) Find blogs of their own interest
 * 5) Utilize Real Simple Syndication (RSS) reader to aggregate the blogs of their interest
 * 6) Register with a blogging service and post entries and manage comments
 * 7) Create a list of other web 2.0 services to investigate (//let's start to color outside the lines)// and share your thoughts with your team.
 * 8) Gain an understanding of how all this can be used for personal and/or professional development

**Participants will require**:
 * 1) Access to their own computer (preferably a laptop) with internet access
 * 2) A personal email account to communicate with team, instructor, and for registration with wiki and blog services.

**Class activities and time line** Orientation face to face (1 hour) - class meets as a group at designated location Participate in a wiki (estimated time on line asynchronously 1-2 hours) Finding, reading and subscribing to existing blogs (estimated time on line asynchronously 1-2 hours) Create and post entries to a blog (estimated time on line asynchronously 1-2 hours) Student investigation of other Web 2.0 services (1-2 hours) **DAY 14** Wrap up face to face (1 hour)
 * DAY1 **
 * 1) Equipment check to be sure all have appropriate access to class resources as required
 * 2) Discuss the activities of days 2-13 to be accomplished on line.
 * 3) Form teams of 3-4 people for the online activities
 * 4) Get participants registered in the course wiki.
 * 5) Demos as required
 * DAYS 2-13 - on-line activities **
 * Create a Wiki page
 * work as a team to add content/knowledge to wiki page
 * understand the wiki change history
 * Students to seek and find 2-3 existing blogs of their interest to gain an understanding of the vast number of topics available.
 * pick and utilize an RSS feed reader to aggregate the 2-3 blogs for access
 * share their experiences with fellow students
 * Pick a blogging service and register
 * Post entries
 * Each student will advertise their blog to the group
 * Students will comment on other students blog entries.
 * Pick from the following categories (certainly do not limit yourselves) of other Web 2.0 services and blog your thoughts
 * Photo sharing services (i.e. [|Picasa], [|Flikr])
 * Video sharing services ([|YouTube], [|Google Video])
 * [|twitter] and other "twitter-like" services -- i.e. [|Plurk]
 * Social Networking networks - [|Ning], [|Classroom 2.0],[|Facebook]
 * Other...
 * Discussion of your investigation in the last activity
 * What is the personal value for participation in collaboration and social networking services?
 * What is the value in education of these type of collaboration and social networking services?
 * What did you learn in the workshop and how can we make this better?