The 2007 UIT Summer Institute for Teaching and Learning with Technology, will focus on such Web 2.0 tools as wikis, blogs, and podcasting. In researching resources to provide faculty on how their peers are using these tools, I read about Michael L. Wesch, an assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University, who was featured in a Chronicle of Higher Education article "An Anthropologist Explores the Culture of Video Blogging."
While researching and writing a paper on Web 2.0, Wesch decided to create a short video with examples of Web 2.0 features and uploaded it to YouTube: Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us
Two million viewings later, Wesch knew he had discovered an area for research and learning on how ideas can be rapidly exchanged and broadcast globally.
This semester Wesch is leading an undergraduate class "deeper into the world of YouTube" to conduct an ethnography of the online community. Their focus is on video bloggers and now all the students are now vlogging .
Want to know more about Web 2.0 - what better way than watching a video response to Wesch's video on YouTube?
Another interesting article on this subject is in the April/May online journal Innovate, "Is Education 1.0 Ready for Web 2.0 Students? Innovate is a bimonthly, peer-reviewed online periodical that "focuses on the creative use of information technology (IT) to enhance educational processes in academic, commercial, and government settings."
And if you think wikis, blogs and podcasts are being used only in undergraduate liberal arts teaching, you should read this article in BMC Medical Education - "Wikis, blogs and podcasts: a new generation of Web-based tools for virtual collaborative clinical practice and education."
