Learning 2.0 @ SCSU: Rubric for Weekly Activities

The assignment for each week will involve a post to your blog about the topic for that week. The assignment for each week will be posted on Monday and due the following Monday. These blog postings will be graded according to the following rubric:

A (Outstanding):

The blog posting clearly answers the questions with clear evidence of having read or viewed the background material.

B (Good):

The blog posting answers the questions with some evidence of having read or viewed the background material.

C (Satisfactory to Limited):

The blog posting mostly answers the questions with some evidence of having read or viewed the background material.

D to F (Poor to Failing):

Missing or late entry which says very little and fails to answer the questions. Little or no evidence of having read or viewed the background material.

Learning 2.0 @ SCSU: Weekly Activities

This is a list of the assignments you will be doing during the next 10 weeks. Complete information on each assignment will be posted on this blog on the Monday of each week (and linked in this post). The assignment will be due the following Monday. Each assignment will include background material for you to read or view and then reflect upon in a blog post. Blog postings will be graded using a rubric.

September 15, 2008, week 1: Blogs

• Set up a blog in Blogger and write your first post.
• Share the URL for your blog in D2L.
• Assignment due September 22.
  

September 22, week 2: What is Web 2.0?

• Learn about Web 2.0.
• Assignment due September 29.
  

September 29, week 3: RSS

• Learn about RSS feeds and set up an account with Bloglines or Google Reader.
• Add some feeds.
• Assignment due October 6.
  

October 6, week 4: Social Bookmarking

• Set up a del.icio.us account. Add a few websites and create your own tags.
• Install the del.icio.us browser button on your browser's toolbar.
• Assignment due October 13.
  

October 13, week 5: Flickr

• Find and upload to your blog one of the pictures the class took at the beginning of the semester.
• Evaluate the tags assigned to the class photos.
• Assignment due October 20.
  

October 20, week 6: Digg, Newsvine, & Reddit

• Explore Digg, Newsvine, & Reddit.
• Find an article to recommend.
• Assignment due October 27.
  

October 27, week 7: Podcasting

• Find and evaluate a podcast.
• Assignment due November 3
  

November 3, week 8: Online Collaboration Tools

• Explore Google Docs and Zoho.
• Assignment due November 10.
  

November 10, week 9: Wikis

• Learn about wikis like Wikipedia and Scholarpedia.
• Assignment due November 17.

November 17, week 10: YouTube

• Read about YouTube and embed a video into a blog post.
• Assignment due November 24
  

About Learning 2.0 @ SCSU

What is Learning 2.0 @ SCSU and why are we doing it?

Learning 2.0 @ SCSU is a hands-on assignment that provides an opportunity for students to explore Web 2.0 tools. Why are we doing this? In your future careers, you may be asked to create content using a Web 2.0 tool. In a recent survey of information professionals, "63% reported that their organizations used at least one of nine social software tools: wikis, blogs, really simple syndication (RSS), social network analysis, online social network, online virtual world, social tagging, social bookmarking and podcasts. Data suggested that of the nine tools, RSS, blogs, and wikis were used the most."* As you do research throughout your college career, you will also encounter information from Web 2.0 tools. Learning 2.0 @SCSU focuses on finding and evaluating information and sharing those findings using Web 2.0 tools.

For ten weeks starting on September 15, students will explore Web 2.0 tools and complete a number of assignments. Each assignment focuses on a particular type of tool and will give students the opportunity to explore the tool. Each assignment will be posted on Monday and due the following Monday.

Learning 2.0 @ SCSU has the following learning outcomes:

• Students will be able to identify Web 2.0 tools.
• Students will be able to evaluate information found in Web 2.0 tools.
• Students will demonstrate their knowledge of Web 2.0 tools in their blogs.
  

Learning 2.0 @ SCSU addresses the following course objectives:

Utilize the research process in the analysis and development of information

• Access information in a variety of formats and with a variety of viewpoints
  

Evaluate information critically and thoughtfully

• Identify both judgmental and nonjudgmental language in print and non-print sources
• Challenge content and question referential base in both written and non-print materials
  

Organize information

Communicate the results of research

Learning 2.0 @ SCSU is an adaptation of Learning 2.0 @ Mac (http://macetg.wordpress.com/about-learning-20-mac/), 23 Things on a Stick (http://23thingsonastick.blogspot.com/), and Learning 2.0 – 23 Things (http://plcmcl2-things.blogspot.com/).

*Reid, M., Gray, C., & Honick, C. (2008). Online social networks, virtual communities, enterpreses, and information professionals. Searcher 16 (6): 28-40. Retrieved June 23, 2008, from Academic Search Premier database.