LIBR 246-11 Web 2.0 (Summer 2011)

Tonight's the big night! We will be holding our Elluminate session from 6:30 - 8:00 pm PST where each group will present their proposal ideas. You can find the link to our session and password at http://sociallibraries.com/su11/node/564 (you'll need to be logged into the site to access it). Our Elluminate Assistant, Joyce's contact info is on there too if you find you need some last minute advice.

Good luck everyone!

I just wanted to let you know that if your presentation is a little bit long or short (30 seconds or less) that's not a big deal. So if you're stressing over 20 seconds, don't.

Looking forward to seeing your presentations tomorrow night!

I hate to tell you this, though perhaps you already guessed it, but a great deal of what you've learned in this class will have changed within a year. Companies whose products you played with will no longer exist. New ones will have taken their place. Young people will be using new tools and the already existing hot tools will probably have made many, many changes to remain competitive. This is an area where the only constant is change and relying on anything to remain the same is a fool's game.

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 by Thursday at the latest. 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.

Update: According to Kelly, the code for Youtube will work if you use their old code.  "They have an option when you get the code to get the old code they used to use." Thanks for the tip Kelly!!!

For whatever reason, it seems that YouTube and Screenr embed codes simply won't embed in our Drupal classroom. This has definitely never been a problem with YouTube videos in the past, as other classes have embedded them without incident. So, if you are trying to embed a video from one of those two providers, just provide a link to the video instead.

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'm sure that some of you are Elluminate pros, having used it to present in many other classes. Others of you may be novices and need to do some learning about how to be a moderator in Elluminate. I wanted to remind you that we have a fantastic Elluminate assistant, Joyce, who you can contact with any questions or to set up an Elluminate practice session. There's a student guide to Elluminate here.

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I wanted to say how much I enjoyed reading your collaborative blog posts. It was very clear from reading them that you all worked really well together. I appreciated that you all took different approaches to the post -- some dividing up the work where it was clear there were different voices in each section and others writing something that felt like it was coming from a single voice. They were all really insightful and interesting meditations on collaborative tools in libraries. With that sort of collaboration under your belt, your final project should be a cinch!