<![CDATA[Developing an "Expert Plan"]]>
I'm working with students to develop a class wiki as a collaborative information source, with students contributing class notes, screencasts and other updates and expansions on course content.
I'm working with students to use the class blog as a publication platform for ideas/questions relevant to the greater community in their discipline (e.g. develop [my class] blog into a discussion of [media and design] and related ideas in the outside world).
I'm working with faculty (and students) to use social bookmarking tools (specifically Diigo) to create dynamic and annotated resources for each other (and for and by students).
I'm working with faculty and students to develop personal learning networks that tie together all of these Web 2.0 tools to create an online identity and a group of "fellow travelers" studying and exploring the same area. In students' case, we're working on this as a class (blogging), but for faculty tools like Twitter (and personal blogs) may also be useful. Also looking at other sharing sites (e.g. Flickr) for use as collaborative tools.
In the interests of sharing, when I was at my last school, I sat down and created an iusethis.com profile of the handy applications that I use day-to-day. I've added this to my profile [on the school wiki], along with a (slowly growing) list of tools that I've built for special purposes around school.
Updated November 22, 2009: I should mention that I have Bowdler-ized some of these posts to protect (at least a little), the identities of my students. When posted to our school wiki, there are a number of links to examples. If you pop me an email or a comment and identify yourself, I'm happy to share these examples. Just trying to do some due diligence with regard to my students' privacy.]]>