Social Networking in Higher Ed

Social Networking Session 2007:Faculty Feedback

roxann1 — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:54:43 +0000

Faculty Feedback from the Social Networking Session held on Jan 11, 2007
DiMenna-Nyselius Library

Faculty members were asked to complete a feedback form on the Social Networking session held in the library on January the 11th.

The following represents responses to the questionnaire from the session.

1. Overall, how effective do you feel the workshop was?

Not effective - Somewhat effective - Very effective
1………2…….3………..4……….5

4.333333 Mean
4.5 Median
There were 12 responses.

2. What about the workshop did you like?

Multiple presenters, Excellent presentation & delivery skills, knowledge and expertise of presenters

Exposure to many items: RSS, Flickr, Google

Summary of Web 2.0 applications

Range of info with PowerPoint to illustrate new tech applications

The explanation of what is available and how you can use it

Variety of Web 2.0 applications is amazing

Staffs’ competence is impressive!

Everything

Excellent overview of many different social networking software,

Very knowledgeable speakers who actually use the technology

Helpful for classroom use tips

Hearing features of these software that can be applied to classroom activities

That it introduced so many applications that were new

Very well organized and timed

Everything

3. What suggestions would you make to improve the workshop?

Unfortunately, my vocabulary is extremely limited regarding the Web

I would enjoy a more elementary workshop

More in depth on individual topics, such as Facebook

Most of the packages need to be presented individually & with a more detailed focus on academic course application to be truly useful to us

More time and some hands-on for participants

That the workshop should be 2 hours and explain the “jargon” more.
When I signed up for this, I thought it was basically going to be for “dummies” –

I know I can find out more myself but coming to a workshop is so much better.

More specific examples of applications

Make it longer – link to other longer workshops on campus or in library to actually help with use of technology

Survey potential participants level of literacy on the workshop’s topics before the workshop, so that its content can be adapted to different degrees of familiarity with it.

The YouTube section would have benefited from a more straightforward introduction. The wiki session was a little jumbled

Keep working to defer questions until the end or a Q&A portion

Have more of them

4. What other topics would you suggest for future Library workshops?

More on research engines, newly emerging ones

Implementation session – although offer to help was great

Single, longer, hands-on sessions on each of the software covered today

Hour-long presentations on individual applications like Flickr or Delicious,as a follow-up later

You Tube Converted: Converting movies to your Video iPod

roxann1 — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 18:36:56 +0000

Maybe you are wondering if it is possible to convert a You Tube movie to play in your Video iPod?
The answer is yes. Perhaps this is easier than you would believe it to be!
Try out the links below for the MAC and PC too!

For the MAC users

TubeSock
TubeSock is a neat little shareware app that automatically downloads your favorite YouTube videos, and converts them for your iPod, PSP, or Mac.
For the trial you can only download 30 second videos from YouTube.

Faculty Reference Link

From Richard Regan

PodTube v1.0
Encode any YouTube video for your iPod.
And? Simply and quickly download, encode
for iPod and add to your iTunes library any
YouTube video you browse with,
Safari, in a single click!

Let’s Remember Video iPods are for the PC World too!

Free iPod Video Converter provides an easy and completed way to convert all popular video formats to iPod video. You can enjoy DVD/VCD and AVI, MPEG, WMV, RM, RMVB, DivX, ASF, VOB video files in your iPod with few clicks. The program is a freeware and does not contain any form of malware, including but not limited to: spyware, viruses, trojans and backdoors.

Quivic allows you to download video from YouTube. Quivic then converts the video so you can play it on your PC, iPod or PSP.

You Tube Movie: Cited Reference Searching
Georgia Tech Mechanical Engineering Videos:
The Georgia Institute of Technology

In brief: The author, Brian,(librarian as well as computer science and distance learning), of the following You Tube movie actually makes a forthright comparison of citing references and using My Space and social spaces.

You might find yourself thinking about citing references in a different way!
Students may also become engaged in this You Tube movie as well.

YouTube presents new possibilities!

leporter — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:32:43 +0000

Users can now record video on their webcams directly to YouTube. This came to my attention via the Distant Librarian blog. http://distlib.blogs.com/distlib/2006/12/idea_for_screen.html

Collaborative Spaces: “What’s a Wiki?”

roxann1 — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 21:00:12 +0000

Welcome to Investigating Collaborative Spaces:
“What’s a Wiki?”

One of the more enhanced tools for social networking is called a Wiki.

Main Entry: wiki
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: a collaborative Web site set up to allow user editing and adding of content
Etymology: 1995;
Usage: sometimes cap.

Faculty Reference Link:
Professor Stewart Mader recently released wiki-based book, Using Wiki in Education, which is a compilation of case studies showing how teachers are using the wiki in a variety of environments. 10/26/2006

Professor Stewart Mader, senior instructional technologist in life sciences at Brown University, gave a good general talk about wikis followed by a few examples in education.

Faculty join social networks to connect with students

Susan — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:26:56 +0000

From the Kept-up Academic Librarian blog.

Library commercial on YouTube

Susan — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 23:33:51 +0000

Testing how to embed a YouTube video into a blog. Click to watch, it’s only 39 seconds.

Flickr

Susan — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 20:42:23 +0000

Flickr’s an awesome image software that I’ve been using for almost a couple of years now personally. And I just created this work-related Library Flickr site today. It only took a few minutes to get started.

Anyone can register for a free Flickr account. Or you can upgrade to a Pro account for $24.95 a year. More about these later.

Also, check out the Flickr photos on the right-hand side of this web site. They’re what’s called a Flickr badge. Flickr lets you design badges to show and link to your pictures on your own blog or web site. WordPress has it built in to show Flickr badges automatically if you want to, but you can also place a Flickr badge on any Web site if you know how (requires logging into your Flickr account to view).