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Learn how to enhance your course websites with web services like RSS and tagging. Understand the history, variations, and future of web services, and explore their potential in classroom dynamics and information delivery.
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Remodeling CourseWorks: Web Services Explained Presenters: Dan Beeby and Jonah Bossewitch See how Really Simple Syndication (RSS), tagging, and other Web services can easily add a new dimension to course Web sites.
“Web services” = a ton of jargon • web servis[web ‘servis] - noun: open-standard-based Web applications that exchange and process data. The results can be formatted for user-friendly presentation in different modes. • NYT XML/RSS HTML/JS • HUH??
RSS Revealed email, mobile, Palm, iPod, desktop, etc …
“Web Services”: some variations • RSS (syndication, subscription) • Tagging • Photo sharing • Social bookmarking • By whom, for whom, and why (folksonomies - describing something in my own terms) • The whole is suddenly more than the sum of parts
Where does my course site fit in? • hot rodn.Slang. An automobile that has been rebuilt or modified to increase its speed and acceleration.
RSS Revealed email, mobile, Palm, iPod, desktop, etc …
Balance • "Striking the balance between push and pull” • Choice: How do students want to get info? How do you want to deliver it?
Classroom Dynamics • how will students engage with information and each other? • how structured will participation be?
Purposeful Choices: • we haven't fully considered the range of uses... you'll help us do that with your needs.