LIBR 246-04/13 Web 2.0 (Fall 2010)

I wanted to remind you to email me your Group Experience Report after you've completed your group project and to explain why this requirement exists. This is a part of the grade for the final project and it's critical that I receive one from each of you. To refresh your memory:

The SOTES (Survey of Teaching Effectiveness) is available now! For those who don't know, this is a survey that examines your satisfaction with the class and my teaching.

I just sent emails to everyone with your paper attached with my comments and your grade. Please let me know if you didn't receive this from me. If you're not happy with the grade on your paper or your current overall grade in the class (both of which you can also see in Angel) you can do the extra credit assignment that's due November 29th. You can increase your grade by as much as two points for completing this assignment, so if your final grade would have been a 91 (or 910 in the gradebook), you could increase it to a 93 (or 930).

I realized after I said that I would post the slides from our Elluminate session to Slideshare that it actually would make more sense to just give you the link to my slides from the longer presentation from Buffalo, because they contain much more info than I could cover in 60 minutes. You can actually view the slides and see the MANY links to studies, mobile sites, mobile tools and videos demonstrating things like augmented reality on my presentation wiki here.

Hi folks! Just wanted to let you know that I'm going to be out of town this Thursday through late Saturday night. Chances are good that I will not have email access for most of the time, so please do not expect to hear back from me until Sunday.

We've got another Elluminate session coming up this Wednesday from 6-7 pm PST. As always, you can get the link and password to access the Elluminate sessions in the Forums. This week, instead of having a guest speaker, I am going to be speaking to you about another aspect of mobile tech, discussing specifically how libraries can provide services to users of mobile devices.

You'll notice that there are a lot of readings this week and a lot of examples to look at. That is absolutely true, but fortunately, you'll have two weeks to take on the readings on online community and write just one blog post. Building an online community is such a meaty subject and there are so many things to consider (technology, moderation, building a culture, attracting members, dealing with conflict, etc.). I hope by the end of the week you'll have a better sense of what it really takes to build a successful community. I look forward to hearing your insights.

I will be leaving for a quick business trip on Thursday morning and will return home late Friday evening. During that time, I will likely not have much time to check email or the classroom. If you contact me Wednesday night - Friday night, you should expect to hear from me by Saturday morning at the latest.

This was the first semester that I'd ever required students to create a collaborative blog post as a team. I thought it would be nice to get the teams together well before the final project is due so you can get to know each other and get a better sense of how each of you works. I also figured that the week we covered collaborative technologies would be the perfect time to do it. I'd love to get some feedback on how it worked out and whether or not you think I should offer this collaborative blog post assignment the next time I teach the class.

Some of you have already shared your topic ideas for the Social Software Impact paper and I can't wait to hear about the rest. I also wanted to share some suggestions of journals you might want to take a look at that treat topics related to social technologies: