sheryl barnes's List: Teaching with Web 2.0

• learning from others or by leading to new collaborations
• A political science class could explore different views of a news story through traditional media using Google News, then from the world of blogs via Memeorandum. A history class could use Blogdex in an exercise in thinking about worldviews. There are also possibilities for a campus information environment. What would a student newspaper look like, for example, with a section based on the Digg approach or the OhmyNews structure? Thematizing these tools as objects for academic scrutiny, the operation and success of such projects is worthy of study in numerous disciplines, from communication to media studies, sociology to computer science.
• insights into the owner�s (or owners�) research, which could play well in a classroom setting as an instructor tracks students� progress. Students, in turn, can learn from their professor�s discoveries.
• user-created tagging
• Web 2.0 services respond more deeply to users than Web 1.0 services
• multi-authored bookmark pages
• affordance of collaborative information discovery

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• does not have many controls for securely communicating with individual students

  • this is a major consideration
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• no special privileges in the system