IT staff member Randy Thornton was invited to be the opening speaker at Lewis and Clark College’s annual Faculty Technology Institute on May 19th.

The topic was “Start Teaching with Web 2.0 Tools” and was an introduction for faculty who are interested in starting to add Web 2.0 tools such as tagging, blogging, wikis and social network to their teaching repertoire. Several UPS faculty sites were used as examples, including some on the Showcase.

The slides of the presentation are available here on Google Docs.

If you are interested in exploring any of the software tools here, or any other tools, please feel free to contact Randy Thornton to come down to the Serious Sandbox area in the Instructional Technology office in Lib 032. If you would like help with Media specific tools such as video or audio editing, contact Stephen Philbrook.

InfoSessions

• InfoSession 1 - The World of Social Software

Online Resources

Audio Recording

• Audacity Audio Recorder and Editor

Bibliographies

• Online Bibliography Makers & Tools

PDF Files

• Creating PDF files from MS Word and other word processing documents

RSS

• How to Use RSS Feeds, Readers and Aggregators

Tagging

• All about Tagging and Social Bookmarking

VoiceThread

• VoiceThread - online, rich-media collaborative presentation software

Wikis

• General information on using wikis
• How to get started with wikis on Wikispaces