WFP 2008 Monday 8/11

Monday, 8/11: Getting Started

Greetings and Introductions (9:00 AM – 9:30 AM)

Staff and participants will introduce themselves to each other, and Fellows will briefly state their reasons and expectations for participating in the program. Fellows introduced to liaisons.

NOTE: All events will be held in the Bosler Microroom unless otherwise indicated.

Introduction to the Willoughby Program (9:30 AM – 10:15 AM)

Presenter: Alvarado

Abstract

This will be an overview of the WIlloughby Program, the place of the Institute within it, and the place of the Program in the wide Academic Commons Initiative. We will review the structure, content, expected outcomes of the week. Fellows will introduce themselves and their projects, and Fellows will meet their liaisons. In addition, we will frame the Institute's activities. The concepts of media fluency and its corollary, information literacy, will be discussed and related as a means of linking the activities of faculty, instructional technologists, and librarians.

Outcomes

• Understanding of Institute goals
• Understanding of Institute program
• Understanding of the Academic Commons Initiative
• Awareness of meaning and significance of information literacy and media fluency as framing devices for technology use.
• Awareness of current trends and issues in using technology for teaching learning.
• Vocabulary for discussing pedagogical impact of technical content during the rest of the institute.

Outline

• The Institute in Context
  • The Academic Commons Vision
  • The Place of the Willoughby Institute in the Academic Commons
  • Role of the Summer Institute
  • Role of the Fall Seminar
  • The Spring 2009 Courses
  • End-of-Year Activities
• Specific Goals of the Institute
  • To build a community of practice
  • To develop Media Fluency
• What is Media Fluency?
  • Compared to Inforamtion Literacy
  • Affordances and limitations
  • Genre and Participation
• Discussion

Handouts

• Syllabus
• LIS 3.0 Vision Piece

Break (10:15 AM – 10:45 AM)

Coffee and pastries will be available outside of the Microroom.

Hunting and Gathering in the New Information Ecology: Google, Delicious, and Other Essential Tools (10:45 AM – 12:00 PM)

Presenters: Alvarado, et al.

Abstract

This will be a hands-on workshop to acquaint participants with the new ecology of information known as Web 2.0. In this environment, the personal computer is not the locus of activity or data, but the entry point to a self-connecting network of people and information, hosted not an any particular set of servers, but in a cloud of constantly changing computing resources. Participants will be introduced to essential Web 2.0 technologies, including: Firefox, Google, Delicious, Facebook, and Twitter.

Outcomes

• Awareness of Web 2.0 concept and philosophy
• Awareness of Web 2.0 tools
• Awareness of Google search algorithm
• Understanding of Google search syntax
• Possession of Delicious account
• Awareness of Twitter and Facebook

Outline

• Web 2.0
  • Web as Medium
  • Web as Social-Semantic Space
  • A New Ecology (Post-desktop)
• Firefox, and Why (Wardecker)
• Hunting with Google (Alvarado)
  • The algorithm
  • Other game: Books, Scholar, Blogs, News etc.
  • Other tools
• Gathering with Delicious (Bryant)(commoncraft video|[1])
  • Tags and "Folksonomies"
• Banding with Facebook and Twitter (Burke)

Links

• How to get Gmail Account

Readings

• Is Google Making Us Stupid?

Lunch (12:00 PM – 1:30 PM)

Throughout the conference, lunches will be served to all participants, with a generous break to encourage off-line conversation.

Return to Camp: Getting Started with Your Course (1:30 PM – 2:45 PM)

Presenter: TBD

Abstract

At this point, we will turn to setting up each fellow's course within Blackboard, which will serve as the integration point for each fellow's links and content. Each fellow will be provided with a template for setting up their course and will begin to customize their site in accordance with their syllabus. Additionally, Fellows will be introduced to a blog or wiki as a place to post reflections and other content during the course of the week.

Outcomes

• Ability to set up a course in Blackboard
• Ability to incorporate external content in Blackboard

Outline

• Creating a course in Blackboard
• Adding structure to the course
• Adding external content
• Discussion of plan for Learning Management Systems

Links

• Gateway (to Blackboard)

Break (2:45 PM – 3:00 PM)

Refreshments will be available outside of the Microroom.