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(Mondays)		 Topics & Readings Participation
29%		 Exercises
47%		 SSLE Design Project 24%
1/24

Week 1

 

 MODULE 0:  GETTING STARTED

MODULE 1:  UNDERSTANDING WEB 2.0 TOOLS

UNIT 1:  Defining Web 2.0

  • Web 2.0 and Social Software
  • Learning Affordances of Social Software
  

  • Course introduction and orientation
  • Post personal introductions to Blog
  • Complete Exercise #0: Set-up basic course tool notifications, establish digital identity, and prepare login management.
1/31

Week 2

 UNIT 2:  Core Web 2.0 Educational Issues

  • Social Software Learning Environments (SSLEs)
  • Open Educational Resources (OER)
  • Security, Privacy and Copyright
 Complete Ex#1 – sketch a concept map of your personal learning network  

 
2/7

Week 3

 

 MODULE  2:  EXPLORING WEB 2.0 TOOLS

UNIT 3:  Blogs and Wikis

  • WordPress, PBworks, Twitter
 Join Disc.1 Complete Ex#2 – setup & configure WordPress blog

Complete Ex#3 – setup & configure Twitter

 

 Submit Design Doc 1 – Design Idea
2/14

Week 4

 UNIT 4:  RSS

  • RSS feed aggregators
  • RSS feed conversion

 

 Join Disc.2

 

 Complete Ex#4 — setup & configure Google reader Submit Design Doc 2 – Audience / Content
2/21

Week 5

 UNIT 5:  Social Bookmarking and Tagging

  • Diigo, Delicious, StumbleUpon

 

 Join Disc. 3

 

 Complete Ex#5 — setup & configure Diigo
2/28

Week 6

 UNIT  6:  Social Media

  • Flickr, YouTube, iTunes, WikiMedia, Slideshare, Scribd, Skype, VoiceThread, and Podcasting

 

 Join Disc. 4

 

 Complete Ex#6 – setup & configure Social Media tool Submit Design Doc 3 – Format

 
3/7

Week 7

 MODULE 3:  CREATING SOCIAL SOFTWARE-BASED LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS

UNIT 7:  Portal Pages, Social Networking & Other Tools

  • iGoogle, Netvibes
  • Facebook, Ning; Google Apps; Flock (the social browser); Zotero (Firefox extension)
 Join Disc. 5

 

 Complete Ex#7 – setup & configure Netvibes

 
3/14

Week 8

 UNIT  8:  Advanced  RSS, Mash-ups & Widgets

  • Small pieces loosely joined — techniques for integrating your tools.

 

 Join Disc. 6

 

 Complete Ex#8 – create mash-up or advanced widgetry Draft Prototype due

 
3/21

Week 9

 UNIT  9: Emerging Web 2.0 Tools/Topics

  • Readings and work on final projects
 Join Disc. 7

 

 Peer Reviews due

Submit Design Doc 4
— Evaluate & Refine
3/28

Week 10

 Final class live web meeting – date TBA

  • SSLE student demonstrations
 Final Design Doc & SSLE Prototype due 4/1