Current Courses

LIS901Web 2.0 for Information Professionals
With the advent of Web 2.0, an explosion of new social software tools has emerged enabling users to create, organize, share, and collaborate in an online space. Today's Web users are organizing their favorite bookmarks, collaborating on shared documents, cataloging their personal collections, and sharing their information with others. This hands-on course will explore the features and functionality of Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis, RSS, social bookmarking, media sharing, tagging and folksonomies and more. We will look at how libraries are implementing these various tools as well as their potential uses.

 

For this course, students participate in a custom-developed social networking community created using Drupal technology. Each student has their own detailed user profile and blog, can upload videos, photos, tag items, bookmark items, chat in chat rooms, sign up for events on the course calendar, send private messages, add buddies, and subscribe via RSS feeds. A series of 6 3-minute webcasts teach students how to utilize the website.

 

 



 

Ellyssa Kroski