This document discusses how web 2.0 technologies can support professional development and engagement. It provides examples of how social media, collaborative tools, and online communities can help connect groups of students and business partners across different universities to work on group projects without compromising IT infrastructure. The document also addresses challenges to adoption, such as inertia to change, and provides strategies for evangelizing web 2.0 tools through pragmatism, incentives, and meeting with stakeholders.
14. Scenario You want groups of students studying at various universities across the world to collaborate on a group project with external business partners. Can this be achieved without compromising IT infrastructure of all partners?
19. “ We are currently preparing students forjobs thatdon’t yet exist using technologies that haven’t been invented in order to solve problems we don’t even know areproblems ” Karl Fisch Shift Happens (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ljbI-363A2Q)
20. Manual labour RTFM isn’t working photo: www.sxc.hu/photo/883122
30. Microblogging “Watching from the outside, Twitter is like the dumbest thing you’ve heard of… …and yet to dismiss Twitter is a mistake because it’s an incredibly powerful tool for your personal learning and connecting with others” Sue Waters, The Edublogger.
31. “One of the fastest growing mass communication tools of the modern era” Guardian, 28/4/06 BLOGS photo: www.flickr.com/photos/22694920@N05/3250506911