ctw2007: Examples of Various Social Collaborative Technologies

Ron Danielson provides a nice snapshot of how an individual campus is using a variety of different social collaboration technologies.

Campus Technology Winter 2007
Technology Leadership in Practice

Leading Change in Social Collaboration Environments
Track Leaders:
Bob Price, Director, Academic Services, OIT, Duke University

Case Study #1
Ron Danielson, Vice Provost and CIO, Santa Clara University

Using Blogs in limited way: hiring freshmen/students to blog about experience; Learning Commons Construction blog; a few faculty who blog heavily about ideas; communications and technology courses; trying for a year to get the president to blog;

Making a lot of use of wikis, surprised to learn. Almost none through university resources but using them on commercial wiki sites. New version of Angel will provide wikis and blogs within the LMS.

• California Legacy Project (working in Wikipedia)
• Communication—contribution to Wikipedia contribution on technology-related controversies
• Finance—course credit for contributing to joint class notes
• Law—collaborative writeups of hypothetical case problems from class
• Computer engineering—wikis as software project management tool
• Geometric group theory—unsolved problems and progress on solutions
• Search committees

YouTube & Flickr

• Many faculty using as source for in-class presentations
• Some faculty using as sources for student projects
• Friends of African village libraries
• Robotic systems lab

Podcasting

• A few student course projects
• California Legacy Project (iTunes Music Store, 5 90-second podcasts per week)
• Classroom Capture

Collaboration = Google Docs

• academic research with distributed colleagues
• department collaboration on course descriptions in Bulletin
• department office location in new building

Tagging

• personal research
• faculty direction/advising for capstone projects

Facebook, MySpace

• Advertising events to students
• admitted students
• retail management institute—recruiting students, sponsor events, community-based education, internships, alumni relations
• class dicussions
• Global Social Benefit Incubator—ANGEL to JogSpot to Ning

Second Life
Santa Clara Island—California Legacy Project books in learning commons; faculty art show in deSaisset gallery; student projects on digital storytelling and screenwriting; art student-designed T-shirts

Future Efforts

• Second Life: international law simulations, virtual anatomy lab, conversational Spanish, virtual solar house, virtual bowling alley
• Podcast Producer and podcast studio in new Learning Commons
• TeamSpot in new Learning Commons: bring gaming consoles, LAN parties, etc.
• Local Religious Project mashup
• Commericial/Social online library catalog—Amazonish w/social bookmarking and tag clouds

December 12 2007 | Posted in Campus Technology