Using web-based tools (Web 2.0) for academic work


	Using web-based tools (Web 2.0) for academic work

RayWatkins

4-21-2008 5:25 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2f7261c1-c560-4e95-a23f-34b48c737e9b/9C1B5062-5731-4DCC-AD91-5653775E8986/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://cit.duke.edu/help/consult/web20.html" href="http://cit.duke.edu/help/consult/web20.html" style="font-size: 11px;">cit.duke.edu</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cit.duke.edu/help/consult/web20.html"><P>Instructors and students at Duke and other universities are making use of a new generation of web-based applications such as <A target="_blank" href="http://docs.google.com">Google Docs</A>, <A target="_blank" href="http://www.flickr.com">Flickr</A>, <A target="_blank" href="http://del.icio.us">del.icio.us</A> and <A target="_blank" href="http://secondlife.com">Second Life</A> to support their course work. These new tools – often referred to as <A href="http://cit.duke.edu/tools/web20/">Web 2.0</A> – provide for dynamic user participation, social interaction and collaboration. Web 2.0 tools offer several benefits to instructors, including:</p> <UL>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Ease of use</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Interactions/integrations with other commonly-used tools</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Filling needs not currently met with other tools</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Inspiring creativity and exploration in teaching</LI>
</UL>
<P>Web 2.0 tools are used directly on the web; most are outside of Duke’s software environment. The use of websites and software tools not supported by Duke University raises some new issues for faculty and students to consider. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9C1B5062-5731-4DCC-AD91-5653775E8986/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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