Developing Online Academic Collaboration

Courses 107&203: Using Web 2.0 for Academic Collaboration

An ICEM Workshop; Higher Colleges of Technology - Abu Dhabi Women's College

October 4,5, 2009, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Sunday 14:00-17:30; Monday 9-12:30

Dr. Marina McIsaac mmcisaac@asu.edu, Arizona State University, USA

Dr. Chih-Hsiung Tu Chih-Hsiung.Tu@nau.edu, Northern Arizona University, USA

Overview

This workshop builds on the prior one in which social networking tools were explored to build academic communities. Here we examine the tools Google Docs, Wikis and Delicious online bookmarking to create and build collaborative academic networks with shared knowledge bases.

The goals of this workshop are for participants to work together to:

• recognize new pedagogical models of social learning
• demonstrate basic understanding of selected Web 2.0 tools
• describe how they might use these tools in their teaching
• explore Google Docs, Wikis and Delicious sites and explain their educational applications.

• SOCIAL NETWORKING COLLABORATION; GOOGLE DOCS, WIKIS, DELICIOUS

• Web 2.0 integrated tools that encourage teachers to create, contribute and collaborate

• Social Networking in Plain English
• (alt Social Networking in Plain English)
• Social Networking in the Classroom

• Google Docs as an educational tool for collaborating on documents, spreadsheets, presentations

• Google Docs in Plain English
• (alt Google docs in Plain English)
• Ideas for Teachers
• Google Docs

• Wikis for classroom work
• OUR WORKSHOP WIKI

• Intro to Wikis
• Wikis in Plain English
• (alt Wikis in Plain English)
• Tony Vincent LoveWikis
• azk12 Start a Wiki

• Using Delicious online bookmarks to collaborate

• Online Bookmarking, editing, tagging using delicious
• Social Bookmarking
• delicious
• Create Your Own Bookmarks

Integrating Social Networking into the Classroom

• Creating Technology Learning Environments
• ETC Community Home