“Web 2.0 in ten Minutes” and “Wikis for a Business unit”

Gave two talks yesterday.

The new ITAG (IT advisory group) meets once a month for lunch and an informal catch up on various matters at 0ur institution.  They invited me in to speak about web 2.0 and benefits (And a guy from the web team to talk for 10 minutes about the other side)

On the TALO list from Kylie:

It looks like a bit too much to cover in ten mins (8 topics, 1minute and a bit for each??).

One of the issues with presenting stuff about flexible/online learning, is newbies get overwhelmed, and their heads spin. that can turn some folks off.  <snip>

Also, provide a list of links covered in your talk. Almost every time I present these intro style sessions for staff, they want all your links.
Better still, just link them to a delicious page with all your links – leading by best practice.

Kylie was right of course.  There was a question “Could I provide links”.  I will of course.  I thought I had headed off this query with a brief description of Delicious.
It was a good session, (9.45 min), and yes, Kylie was right about ‘too much’ – but that’s life.  I know what I’d like to do with Blogs (WP MU or roll your own) plus nice simple aggregators.  But I still don’t know what to do about wikis.

I feel like the geeks have let me down a bit.  Here’s a story:

In 1998 I was conducting some research on lectures.  Videoing lectures, principally in Physics (but also maths) doing their thing explaining stuff.  Often they would miss out on a vital step – or gloss over it so quickly we would miss it.

Previous research has demonstrated that physics experts categorize physics problems by the principles used to solve them; whereas, many physics novices tend to categorize physics problems by surface-feature similarity. This current study sought to find differences between physics experts and novices on a memory test of physics pictures. This entry was posted in Physics Education Research (PER), Teaching and Learning. Bookmark the permalink.