Using Web 2.0 Technologies in Your Teaching

Paul Latreille, Swansea University & Steven A. Greenlaw, University of Mary Washington

Key Contacts Conference, 8 September 2009

Think Social Media is a Fad?

• “I don't necessarily consider myself tech savvy. On a daily basis, I use cell phone, laptop, TV, iPod, iPhone, Skype"

Steve Maher - “Growing Up Online”

My name is Paul...

...and I am (a bit of) a geek

(and an Economist)

But I am not a

‘techie’(or an

expert)

I’m here...

Time

Lear

ning

Or maybe here...

Web 2.0 Tools:

Twitter

Web 2.0 Tools:

Blogs

Web 2.0 Tools:

Wikis

Web 2.0 Tools:

Social Bookmarking

Web 2.0 Tools:

Flickr

“Mediation,

long used to settle commercial

disputes, has seen slower growth

in the workplace.

That is beginning to change...

and the benefits could be

enormous” (People Management, 13 November 2008)

“after they’ve

gone through a

formal route and are

trying to settle things back

to normal, we might use it there as well”

(Mediation coordinator)

“conducting

research,

evaluating and

communicating the results to

stakeholders is

essential to a program’s

success”

(Hallberlin, 2001: 382)

Web 2.0 Tools

RSS Feeds

Report back to the Workshop

You can find documentation on everything we’ve discussed today at http://enkccwiki.pbworks.com/

Questions: sgreenla@umw.eduP.L.Latreille@swansea.ac.uk

Title slide image: http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/1074604/kcc6