Living…and Thriving!…in a Library 2.0+ World

Library/Web 2.0 and Students’ Use of Technology in Learning

Paula Barnett-EllisSherri Restauri

Web/Library 2.0 is Here

Web 2.0 is “evolving, expanding and diversifying at an astonishing rate,” and it is coming, or has already arrived, at a campus near you.

Brown, M. (2006). Web 2.0 services: these objects are closer than they appear. EDUCAUSE Evolving Technologies Committee. http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/DEC0606.pdf.

Librarian’s 2.0 Manifesto

“I will be willing to go where users are, both online and in physical spaces, to practice my profession.”

Laura Cohen, Library 2.0: an academic’s perspectiveBlog posting:

http://liblogs.albany.edu/library20/2006/11/a_librarians_20_manifesto.html

Multimedia version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZblrRs3fkSU

E-mail

Social networkingInstant messagingBlogs & Wikis Facebook.com (7.5 million + members)MySpace.com (95 million + members)

Gaming/simulation

Natural transition to CMS

The Linked Learner

What’s New?

A critical point:

“Most students spend time reading information that Facebook puts in front of them, not what they seek out on their own.”

Miller, Sarah Elizabeth, and Lauren A. Jensen. 2007. "Connecting and Communicating With Students on Facebook. Computers in Libraries 27, no. 8: 18-22.

RSS Feeds

What’s a Blog?

Web log—primarily textual, reverse chronological, and public; many form-basedAs of December 2007, there are more than 112 million blogs

• PURPOSE?PURPOSE?• PersonalPersonal• ProfessionalProfessional

• PoliticalPolitical• LifestyleLifestyle• EducationEducation• Marketing/RecruitingMarketing/Recruiting

Blog Example

Blogs

Blogger, Wordpress, Edublogs.orghttp://www.weblogmatrix.org/http://www.pbs.org/teachers/learning.now/info/http://www.mchron.net/site/edublog.phphttp://blog.secondlife.com/category/tips-tricks/http://liswiki.org/wiki/Weblogs

And a Wiki?

Collaborative website that allows users to create, edit, and link web pages easily

Community-driven, but private or public

www.Wikipedia.org (top 20 internet traffic sites)

http://tc.eserver.org/

Comparing Blogs & Wikis

Blogs Usually single author Reverse chronological

structure Usually personal External links

Wikis Usually many authors Structure determined by

content and users Usually objective Internal and external links

Tagging

Social Networking

And now… Podcasting

Distributed audio/video in digital formatJSU @ iTunesU…www.Podcast.com

Podcast.net, Digital Podcast and Podcast Alley http://www.apple.com/support/garageband/podcasts/

http://www.campustechnology.com/mcv/resources/podcast/

http://www.podcastforprofessors.org/

RL vs. SL—Virtual Worlds

GridAvatar/LindenSlurl NY:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Poggiodomo/91/192/242

PURPOSE: Socializing Education Marketing/Promo Outreach

•http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Second_Life_Education_Wiki

SL Library SitesInfo Island: SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island/91/130/34 Info Island International: SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island%20International/128/128/0 Cybrary City I: SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cybrary%20City/128/128/0Health InfoIsland: SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Healthinfo%20Island/130/138/23ALA Arts InfoIsland: SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/ALA%20Arts%20InfoIsland/128/107/27

EduIsland: SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eduisland/122/127/23 EduIsland II: SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eduisland%20II/34/126/22 EduIsland III: SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eduisland%203/129/123/23 EduIsland IV: SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eduisland%204/128/128/25 Imagination Island: SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Imagination%20Island/112/186/25 Selected InfoIslands of the Alliance Library System. Source: iLibrarian blog - A Quick

Guide to Second Life for Librarians http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2007/a-quick-guide-to-second-life-for-librarians/

ResearchResearch

Students’ Use of Tech—Course Vs. Personal

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Asynch_Mes Blogs Flickr IM Other Podcasting RSS feeds Second Life SocNet Tagging Wikis YouTube

Applications of Web 2.0 Tools

Research

Group work & SS & FS Interaction

Student & faculty artifacts/eportfolio

Critique

Online learning…or learning in a Web 2.0 world

Considerations & Summing Up

Learning curves (F & S)

Concept vs. application…PMJ 2007

Ownership & responsibility

Recommended Further Reading

Boettcher, J.V., & Conrad, R.M (1999). Faculty guide for moving teaching and learning to the web. River Falls, WI: LERN.

Bolliger, D.U., & Martindale, T. (2004). Key factors for determining student satisfaction in online courses. International Journal on E-Learning, 3(1), 61-67.

Bonk, C.J. (2001). Online teaching in an online world. Available: http://www.jonesknowledge.com/higher/resources_research.html

Bruns, A., & Jacobs, J. (2006). (Eds.) Uses of Blogs. NY: Peter Lang.

Hewett, S.M. (2004). Improving instructional practices. TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 48(5), 26-31.

Richardson, W. (2006). Blogs, wikis, podcasts, and other powerful web tools for classrooms. Thousand Oaks: Corwin Press.

Roblyer, M. D., & Wiencke, W.R. (2003). Design and use of a rubric to assess and encourage interactive qualities in distance courses. American Journal of Distance Education, 17(2), 77-99.

Sandars, J., & Schroter, J. (2007). Web 2.0 technologies for undergraduate and postgraduate medical education: An online survey. Postgraduate Medical Journal 83:759-762.

Ellison, N. B., Steinfield, C., & Lampe, C. (2007). The benefits of Facebook "friends:" Social capital and college students' use of online social network sites. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 12(4), article 1. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue4/ellison.html

Gordon-Murnane, Laura.. (2006). Social bookmarking, folksonomies, and Web 2.0 tools. Searcher, 14(6), 26-38.

Maness, Jack M. (2006). Library 2.0 theory: Web 2.0 and its implications for libraries. Webology, 3(2) http://www.webology.ir/2006/v3n2/a25.html