The Cognition of Web 2.0

I’m keeping a lot of class info centralized on my website… go there for syllabi, schedules, podcast channels, etc…

I totally need to leave town tomorrow for a conference and I’m making chili for the annual cookoff.

Can anyone help cure cancer by serving my chili up. Of course, there’s always a pirate theme and you’ll get to talk smack about the chili Dr. Lloyd an Dr. Smith serve up.

I’ll have everything ready for you… just look pretty and lick your fingers and go “yummy” put your vote in the skull.

So… I’ve been mostly listening to Pandora lately… not sure why I don’t listen to last.fm much anymore.

I may give it another chance this week and see what I can discover… I’m sure I don’t realize how to use the software.

For instance… check out this site:

It is so much easier to consume and not share… much less create.I guess I could blame my job… but I think it’s me :-( 

Created by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University.

If you like this then you need to check out his other stuff… I think it’s even better… The Machine is Us/ing Us

So I’m leading a workshop at the fall faculty retreat today on using facebook. If the wi-fi will work up here in the woods, we’ll be fine. There really does seem to be a shortage of tutorial material for facebook. However, with its dynamic/mashup capabilities & continual improvements I can see how you could spend a lot of time working on a guide that would soon be obsolete. I’m going to list some resources below, feel free to share what you find as comments. I actually find the absurd / joking / humor sites to be the most informative… you should revisit them when you’ve gained some experience.

Tutorials & start-up guides:

• Newbie’s Guide to Facebook
• 7 Things You Should Know About… Facebook II via Educause
• Social Networking: A beginner’s Guide to Facebook
• Facebook Tutorial from Diversity College

Apps:

• Facebook powertools from Mashable

Jokes (that also inform):

• The Unofficial and Smartass Guide to Using Facebook
• Facebook Etiquette (a college humor classic)
• Steve Speaks about Stalking
• and finally the Facebook songs doesn’t say it all, but it says a lot…

Technorati Tags: facebook, NGCSU, Faculty, social network, aggregation

Goodbye PowerPoint (I’ll keep Keynote for a while longer), Google Docs now has Presentation.

Check out this video from the official Google channel on YouTube… then get to collaboratin’

Technorati Tags: google presentation collaboration

If you have a laptop, bring it to class today… We can go ahead and get it set-up for the social bookmarking.

I am starting a brand new blog just or this project… should be a little neater… better organized.

http://cognition.edublogs.org/

check it out… we’ll tag it later.

Scholars (and the rest of you),

In anticipation of my presentation about communicating with modern day students tomorrow at the NGCSU new faculty orientation in the fabulous CTLE, I am putting together a list of resources that our new faculty might want to play around with this semester. Feel free to comment with suggestions to expand upon this list.

Blogs:

get a blog on our servers through CTLE

get an edublog

or go with something like, wordpress, livejournal, or blogger

Instant Messaging:

go with google talk since our students will have google apps this fall

Meebo is your man if you want it all

alternatives include AIM/AOL, Yahoo Messenger, MSN, …
it trails off after this as far as our students are concerned

Wikis:

if you get an edublog you will get a free wikispaces site too.

You might also try wetpaint or PBwiki

Social Networks:

You must get a facebook account  (myspace is so yesterday)

You might think about getting a twitter account if you like to text or share

Collaborative stuff:

google docs

google notebook

google calendar

other stuff like news readers/aggregators and social bookmarking tools:

del.icio.us

Digg

Flickr

google reader

bloglines

Technorati Tags: web 2.0 NGCSU CTLE collaboration academic

Just tooting our own horn…. Several Cognition and Gerotechnology Lab students went down to the Apple Digital Campus Leadership Institute (ADCLI) this spring and shared two of the projects that we are working on that integrate their life as students today with our current technology.

Hanna Stepp and Courtney Winterbottom presented our departmental approach to academic advising using enhanced podcasts. Katie Scoglietti and Christopher Hilton shared how we develop information literacy skills (and learn more about cognition) by demonstrating and explaining our social bookmarking project for Cognition (PSYC 3310).

In addition, they all made a presentation and participated in a question and answer session at the conference. You can download a podcast of their session here. Just subscribe to the day one podcasts. There session is entitled, “What can they do and what do they want?” The slides that they used in their presentation are available for download here. (download pdf of slides)

Hanna

Courtney

Katie

Christopher

very kewl….