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.

1. Supporting Professional Development for Engagement Innovative practice with web2.0 Steve Boneham JISC Netskills

2. What’s web2.0 got to do with education? Photo: iStockphoto

3. Remember when… Photo: TV by jpop via flickr

4. The web has shrunk the world photo: www.sxc.hu/photo/1065698

5. Web is a platform not just a destination photo: www.flickr.com/photos/69567805@N00/2466700821

6. Engaging interfaces photo: istockphoto

7. Things that think… Everyday devices that connect to the internet photo: istockphoto

8. architecture of participation photo: www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/2249064379

9. Not just for <geeks> photo: www.flickr.com/photos/fstorr/168966590

10. Social media We’re all in the media now photo: www.flickr.com/photos/92331968@N00/1509548968

11. Join the conversation photo: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/455316

12. Be a part of your community

13. Find neutral territory www.flickr.com/photos/79105258@N00/94326793

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?

15. OPEN-i http://open-i.ning.com/

16. I don’t mean to bring you down, but... www.flickr.com/photos/57001982@N00/569307310

17. Inertia: resistant to change* * Innovation requires change photo:www.sxc.hu/photo/452559

18. Where to start? photo: (c) iA used with permission

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

21. Evangelism & pragmatism photo: www.flickr.com/photos/coba/1825369

22. Carrots with everything... photo: www.sxc.hu/photo/731122

23. Meet the person responsible for your practice photo: www.flickr.com/photos/camil_t/82015664

24. online organisation Photo: iStockPhoto

25. Identity management website, blog, facebook, twitter, podcast,tumblr, youtube, vimeo, email, buzz, wave, skype, msn PTO… photo: www.sxc.hu/photo/627728

26. Top-down approach... A big stick photo: www.flickr.com/photos/9397412@N06/3673549806

27. InstitutionalResponses IRET 5Rs model http://jisciret.jiscinvolve.org/

28. Instructional design 101 Taxonomy, autonomy & experiential learning...

29. Quick pitch… photo: www.flickr.com/photos/74073406@N00/2779096394

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

32. Podcasting photo: www.sxc.hu/photo/780414

33. photo: www.flickr.com/photos/55279617@N00/124659356

34. Events (you can’t afford to miss/go to) Photo: istockphoto

35. Collaborative writing

36. Social Bookmarking Store Organise Share Discover

37. Know your RSSfrom your elbow photo: istockphoto