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+title: 'Web 2.0 in the Classroom'
+date: '2008-01-11T16:04:04-05:00'
+permalink: /web-20-in-the-classroom/
+tags:
+    - conferences
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+Three excellent presentations in this session, below the fold.
+
+Alex Juhasz, Learning from YouTube
+
+— in large part about the failures of YouTube as a learning environment  
+— negatives in going public: mainstream media’s reflections of course  
+— difficulty of controlling their own images both in mainstream media’s retelling and in YouTube’s corporate ownership  
+— vocabulary of YouTube is all about popularity (hits) — sense that of course you want lots of people to see your work; students quickly came to understand that attention itself wasn’t the desired outcome  
+— really interesting outcomes among students: thinking through differences between learning and entertainment, academic standards, workings of digital communication
+
+Geoffrey Proehl, “Wiki for a Production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
+
+— web resources for dramaturgy; virtual workspace for collaborations amongst theater artists  
+— initial need: ability to co-edit texts in preparation for productions  
+— how a wiki got used
+
+Jason Brown, “Outsourcing the Provision of Blogs and Wikis”
+
+— revised title: Outsourcing Disruptive Alien Threat?  
+— excellent presentation by jason about the decision to outsource hosting for faculty LAMP uses  
+— in fact, outsourcing is already happening (email, spam services); need to think rationally about the choices we’re making, but it’s already underway
+