CCLI Workshop 2007

Web-based versions of two popular productivity tools: word processor and spreadsheet program.  You need to login with a Google account.

Web-based photo editing.  Integrates with Flickr and Picasa. Allows you to limit your searches to Creative Commons licensed photos.  Does not require a login for basic editing functions.

Blogging programs like Blogger allow you to publish to the web by typing in a box.

Wikis like Wikipedia also allow you to publish content to the web (and add images, etc.) by typing in a box.

Flickr lets you organize your photographs by adding metadata.  You use tags, or keywords, so that you can find them again.

This mashup combines content from Google Maps, Flickr, and Wikipedia.

MyMaps at Google Maps allows you to create your own mashups

These flickr tags provide an example of folksonomy in action.  Lots of people, organizing their own stuff with words that make sense to them, create a searchable body of stuff that can be accessed in a lot of different ways.

This adds an affective dimension to discovery - you can find stuff because someone feels the same way about the stuff as you do.

This art history professor is using Flickr's dynamic features to create two parallel conversations about this piece of art.  She's encouraging her students to draw connections between different pieces of microcontent AND at the same time she's encouraging them to  use the information they find in the photograph to support their point of view about the larger questions she asks.

This is a static screenshot version of an assignment OSU Librarians give to all beginning composition students at OSU.  We encourage them to go to Wikipedia early in their research process and to use it as an exploratory tool.

Since we started sending students to Wikipedia in the spring of 2006, we have also found that Wikipedia's transparency makes it a good tool to talk to students about the process of knowledge construction itself.

Looking at the Discussion and History pages on a very current or controversial topic shows how the process of knowledge construction is transparent in the Web 2.0 world.

Web 2.0 tools are built with lightweight programming languages that allow the user to refresh part of a page without waiting for the whole page to load.

This allows for dynamic visualizations of text and data, like this one.  The Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud lets users scan all of the State of the Union addresses over the years, looking for trends and key concepts.

TagCrowd allows you to create your own tag cloud from any piece of text.  This is a great way to get students thinking about how the authors in the body of literature they're trying to tap into are talking about their topic.

In 1996 Shapiro and Hughes' model foreshadowed the extent to which we need to conceptualize information literacy very broadly to help our students be information literate today.

This is an example of an interest group on the social networking site Facebook.  It is easy to find these interest groups, but it is much more difficult to find groups with members that are actively participating.

Ning is a tool that lets you build a social network about any topic.

This is an interest group of LibraryThing users who share an interest in science and science books.

Feevy uses RSS to bring information from blogs and other websites you like to you.  Then you can embed those voices onto your blog or website.

See Feevy in action on David Silver's blog Silver in SF

The del.icio.us network explorer is a visualization tool that shows you the connections that exist between different del.icio.us users.

This is Scholar, Blackboard's version of del.icio.us. 

Firefox, and other tools like it are open - which means that a large volunteer developer community is out there designing new tools and tweaks  to make Firefox more powerful.

WordPress - also open, also lots of innovation.

Google Maps Mashups are another example of the power of a volunteer developer community.

this is a great example of using microcontent to spark critical thinking in a class discussion.