Workshops/Arts and the Social Web

From Elearning

Social networking and collaboration technologies are rapidly becoming the backbone of the web, and already play a central role in the online experience of our students. They are also increasingly being integrated into our students’ educational experience.

First run by the META Centre in October 2007, Arts and the Social Web is a program for staff wishing to become familiar with these technologies - espeically blogs, social bookmarking, web documents and podcasting - and to learn how to effectively incorporate them into teaching, research and administration. The program helps participants explore the way these technologies can be combined to create a collaborative learning space. Participants get experience in using these technologies over a number of weeks in a safe environment. They also learn how to go beyond the limitations of WebCT and use the tools themselves to develop some online communication and collaboration strategies specifically for their discipline.

The site has an associated USYD Blog at http://blogs.usyd.edu.au/artssocialweb, with pdf handouts from the course.

The workshop is run by Marie-Thérèse Barbaux and Justin Tauber.

2007 Participants

Irene An - Chinese

Thomas M. Besch - Philosophy

Anne Boyd - Conservatorium of Music

Kathryn Crameri - Spanish & Latin American Studies

Ina Kehrberg-Ostrasz - Archeology

Caroline Lipovsky - French

Justine McGill - Philosophy

Emiko Okayama - Japanese and Korean Studies

Paul Redding - Philosophy

Margaret Sankey - French

Richard Smith - Art History and Film