Steve Terry on Web 2.0 Tools for Teaching and Learning - MSU Libraries Emerging Technologies Summit

As the proliferation of "cloud" tools grows, it is increasingly easier to integrate these new media tools into academe and to adapt them for our teaching and learning environments. In addition to the usefulness and relatively low-cost of these tools, equal consideration must be given to the effort required to support these tools within our campus environments. The University of Memphis has attempted to build sets of criteria around recommended teaching and learning tools, which include many new and emerging "cloud" or "Web 2.0″ tools.

What emerged was the need that faculty simply wanted a categorized list of teaching and learning tools that could be easily referenced and that could be share with their colleagues. The challenge for our local support environment at Memphis was to create this list of tool sets that was not only meaningful for our campus, but also to recommend tools that were either already standards, or to recommend new tools that required very little software and/or user support.

This is a presentation from the 2011 MSU Libraries Emerging Technologies Summit. For more information about the Summit, please visit http://library.msstate.edu/emergingtech.

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