<$BlogRSDUrl$> Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant
Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant
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Friday, February 11, 2005  

Beyond Email: Wikis, Blogs and Other Strange Beasts
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue42/beyond-email-rpt/

Robert Bristow reports on a one-day workshop Beyond Email: Strategies for Collaborative Working and Learning in the 21st Century held at Weetwood Hall, University of Leeds on 22 November 2004. Many working in Higher Education are now thoroughly familiar with the particular problems and opportunities presented by the use of the Web and email, the applications that up to now have been the 'killer' applications which made the Internet such a vital part of the communications armoury of universities. However, new applications and ways of communicating are now starting to appear which push the accepted paradigms and demand both new perceptions and levels of technical awareness. This one-day workshop was promoted with the aim of helping IT Services and the UK Higher Education Web community work out how to respond to use of new devices. A particular problem that has been identified is that many of these devices are personally owned by students or staff, and are not under the control of IT services in the usual way. An innovative feature of this workshop was the accent on collaborative working within the workshop. A wireless LAN (Local Area Network) was provided with a gateway to the Internet. A Wiki was established for participants to add their own comments as the workshop sessions developed, and a number of participants were able to download, install and run applications mentioned in the sessions. The participants were a mixture of senior IT and IS managers from universities, IT and ISA staff and Web professionals. This has been added to my presentation Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators

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