12 Cool-laborative Web 2.0 Tools

Quoted, Technology, Web 2.0 Concepts and Applications

Check out the latest list of Web 2.0 collaboration tools in this month’s Campus Technology magazine.  I was one of the “self-confessed web 2.0 junkies” interviewed for the article. The others were:

Matt Brinton

Matt Brinton is the interim assistant director of student activities at Metropolitan State College of Denver, as well as the NASPA Region IV-W technology knowledge community representative.


Kimberly LaPrairie
Kimberly LaPrairie is the coordinator of the Master of Education in Instructional Technology program at Sam Houston State University (TX), and an assistant professor in curriculum and instruction. She uses numerous web 2.0 tools in her courses, most of which are completely online.

Alexandra Pickett
Alexandra Pickett is the associate director of the award-winning SUNY Learning Network, the asynchronous learning network for the State University of New York. She also teaches Introduction to Online Teaching in the online CDIT master’s program at the University at Albany (NY).

This year’s batch of collaboration tools includes amplify, audioboo, dropbox, eventbrite,  factual, glogster, join.me, jumpscan, pbworks, quora, voki, and zamzar.  How many do you use in your class?

Welcome to the Sandbox!

Bentley CIS, Teaching, Technology

afterIn June, I wrote about the tutoring facility we started remodelling over the summer, and posted a photo of what it looked like before we started.

before

Our grand opening is next week. Here’s something I wrote about our hopes for the new CIS Learning and Technology Sandbox.

I was asked to write about why we created the Sandbox, its goals and purposes, how students will be using it, and what other universities have similar facilities. As we prepare for our grand opening on Monday, September 26, here’s some insights into what we were thinking.

The CIS Learning and Technology Sandbox is the newly remodeled and re-envisioned “CIS Lab” located in Smith 234.

The term “Sandbox” in industry refers to an environment for experimentation and trying new things. That’s our vision – to create an inviting, collaborative space for exploring and learning new technologies, and to support student learning for our courses, in ways that resonate with today’s digital students.

chairs

The Sandbox marks a formal transition from the individualized “computer lab” layout with computers around the perimeter of the room and students facing the walls, popular in the design of computer labs of the 1980’s and 1990s, to a more informal space where learning takes place around small tables or in a lounge setting.

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