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Once Upon a Furl in a Podcast Long Ago…

Explore the use of the social web as a tool, content, and model for teaching and researching in women's studies. Focus on connections, active instruction, and meeting students where they are.

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Once Upon a Furl in a Podcast Long Ago…

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  1. Once Upon a Furl in a Podcast Long Ago… Heather Tompkins Carleton College June 25, 2007

  2. Social Web: Three Approaches • Tool for preparing and designing instruction • Communicating and connecting with faculty and students • Model for teaching concepts about academic research

  3. Social Web Interactive Informal Easy Flexible Focuses on connections Instruction Active Meeting students where they are Empower students Considers learning styles and preferences Social Web: Why?

  4. Interdisciplinary Studies Cutting edge CV not yet developed Fall outside traditional resources Social Web: Why? • Women's Studies • Breaks down expert/novice barrier • Emphasizes connections and process • Considers materials informally published

  5. Teaching and Instructional Design • Preparing for instruction • Designing instructional materials • In the classroom

  6. Social Bookmarks Furl

  7. CSE--Google

  8. Communication & Outreach • Advertising services • Collaborating with faculty • Communicating with students, faculty, and staff

  9. Web Word ProcessingGoogle Docs

  10. Social Bookmarksdel.icio.us

  11. http://page2rss.com/page/rss?url=www.africabib.org/women.htmlhttp://page2rss.com/page/rss?url=www.africabib.org/women.html

  12. Content • Controlled vocab= tagging • Scholarly communication ("friends") • Economics of information (informally published)

  13. Beginning of time 1920s 1950s 1960s 1990s Manuscript, Archival Sources, including Ephemera Newspapers Radio Television Scholarly Pubs Internet

  14. Content • Models of info seeking ("going where the experts are") • Social web applications as a tool for organizing research

  15. Some Thoughts • Using the social web for teaching and research in women’s studies makes sense • Social web can be thought of as tools, content, and model

  16. Questions? htompkin@carleton.edu AIM: gouldhumanities GTalk: Heather.Tompkins

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