Last night I ran the second Social Software workshop here in the library, and as with the first time I ran it, it was mostly attended by faculty and staff. It’s great that faculty and staff are interested in learning more about social software– everyone seems to recognize that this is something they need to get in on and aren’t quite sure how to go about doing it. I love having faculty & staff, too, because they’re so well-behaved and engaged.
But I do wish I had more students attending. Yeah, they know what a blog is and they know that they’re not supposed to use Wikipedia for their research projects, but after my non-scientific focus groups & surveys, I realize that they are in no way maximizing their usage of all these tools. Are they using RSS feeds? Are they saving time by listening to podcasts? Are they doing group work on wikis? No, they’re not.
So for all the students who didn’t come to my workshop because they’re already masters of the interweb, here’s the class wiki, chock full of tasty web 2.0 deliciousness.
[...] on November 6th, 2007. As I’ve been on about for awhile now, I’ve been teaching these workshops on social software lately and introducing [...]