The Cognition of the Read/Write Web

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’

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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

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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….

Scholars,

Here is the URL to subscribe to our podcast :

http://podcasting.gcsu.edu/4DCGI/Podcasting/NGCSU/Channel_17908/12258.xml

The first memory lecture is there. I will add more as I find time the rest of this week.

Just wanted to brag about your peers (my students) representing NGCSU at the ADCLI conference last week. I had a number of very kewl digital innovators come up to me to say, “your students rock!”, after seeing their presentation and spending some time with them at the showcase. Collaborations are in the works as you read this….

You’ll find more photos on my Flickr Account… ADCLI 2007 photo set is here…

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Congratulations go out to my baby brother, the Big Poppa.

He successfully passed his oral exam and is now a PhD Candidate in Physics at Emory University.

They sure grow up fast…

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Check this out…group projects anyone?

www.ajaxwrite.com:

Functionality

AjaxWrite is a streamlined word processor, comparable to Microsoft Word. To keep the program lean, we left out some obscure advanced features; you’ll find the functions you use most often, right where you’d expect them to be. (We’re still working on the spell checker.) You can import and export documents in all popular formats, including documents with graphics. The save function lets you save your work to a drive on your computer. Also, since you run ajaxWrite from your web browser, it is platform independent and can therefore be used with any operating system.

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Some great screencast info here:

The Impact of New Tools on Teaching » HigherEd BlogCon:

The Impact of New Tools on Teaching

April 3-7, 2006

Many thanks and congratulations to the presenters who helped get this week’s dialogue going, and to Jean-Claude Bradley of Drexel University and his team for their work in organizing the week. A huge thanks, as well, to those who have offered comments for presenters and blogged about the event. If you enjoyed these presentations, you won’t want to miss the screencasts and articles that will be part of the Library and Information Resources track starting April 10, 2006. -DK