The workshop, titled 'Learning and teaching with blogs and wikis', will be a three hour session held from 1pm on the last day of the conference (Friday 22nd June 2007).
A rough overview of the workshop is as follows:
Short Description
Wikis and blogs, which are sometimes collectively called 'Social Software', are spreading rapidly throughout today's organisations in many ways. Education is one area that is particularly suited to using such collaborative software, notable in the trend of many software development companies targeting the area. However, getting started can be difficult, because when you first setup Social Software, it is a blank canvas. This workshop will work through some of the issues that arise in setting up Social Software tools and help you use them achieve ultimate benefit for your organisation.
Bullet points
The workshop will address the following topics
Using social software to aid learning and teaching
Realising the cultural changes required for working with social software, and outlining the rules and guidelines that can help
Understanding the cultural and behavioral change that emerge from collaborative work methods
