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The Z. Smith Reynolds Library offers several new technologies to enhance your class. If you would like a blog (including a podcast blog) or wiki, the library can support you, from instruction in its use to providing a web site for your course. For help getting started, please contact the Instructional Design Librarian.
The ZSR Library also offers the Toolkit to help teach your students. The Toolkit contains short tutorials designed to teach specific research skills. Students can search the Toolkit for useful tutorials. Faculty can combine tools to create a customized online research instruction session and can embed tools into Blackboard courses. Faculty can also request new tools. For more information, please contact a librarian.
This summer ZSR will offer a series of workshops on Web 2.0 tools and their potential for classroom use. We will host six afternoon workshops from June 9 through June 11. Topics include:
- Introduction to Web 2.0: An introduction to Web 2.0 tools and their potential for use in the classroom and beyond.
- Social Networking Applications: An introduction to social networking applications ranging from Facebook to Twitter and how to use them both in the classroom and beyond.
- Google for Collaboration: Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Sites and the collaborative nature of each application.
- Blogs, Wikis, and Podcasting at ZSR: How blogs, wikis, and podcasts are currently used in the classroom and how to use them in your own teaching. Also learn about hosting opportunities on the library web site.
- Using Web 2.0 Content: Web 2.0 makes it easy to get information to come to you. Learn how to use RSS to easily gather content and create multimedia web sites.
- Web 2.0 and Instructional Design: Come to this session to discuss using web 2.0 tools in the classroom. We will discuss the pro and cons of various strategies.
Feel free to attend a few specific sessions, or come for the entire event. Register for the workshops online.