14th Annual UTAAA Conference Emerging Technology for Emerging Leaders Presentation Handout By: Julie Larsen & Laura Pasquini

1. Emerging Technology for Emerging Leaders:
Online Tools for Professional Development
UTAAA Conference
February 15, 2011
Presented by: Julie Larsen & Laura Pasquini
Presentation on SlideShare:
Definitions
Web 2.0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0
Social Media: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media
SOCIAL NETWORKS
Social networking is a great way to connect people to other people, events, groups, etc. It
functions as a community with a common purpose. Check out:
http://www.whatissocialnetworking.com/
Social Networking Engines:
http://www.twitter.com
http://www.facebook.com/
http://linkedin.com
Articles & Information:
Social Networking in Plain English http://www.commoncraft.com/video-social-networking
Social Networking by Tech News World http://www.technewsworld.com/perl/section/social-
networking/
Your Guide to Social Networking Online
http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2007/08/digging_deeperyour_guide_to_so_1.html
Social Network http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network
http://learningforsustainability.net/social_learning/networks.php
Other Helpful Twitter Tools:
Twitter Search http://search.twitter.com/
CoTweet: http://cotweet.com/
Twitter aggregator for a daily paper: http://paper.li/
Twitter Visualizations http://mashable.com/2010/08/04/twitter-followers-visualizations/

2. Twitter Clients for organization
● Hootsuite http://hootsuite.com/
● Tweetdeck http://www.tweetdeck.com/
● Seesmic http://seesmic.com/
URL Shorteners
● Bitly http://bit.ly/
● Google URL Shortner http://goo.gl/
● Tiny URL http://tinyurl.com/
Chat Rooms & Chat Aggregators
● TweetChat http://tweetchat.com
● TweetGrid http://tweetgrid.com/
● What The Hashtag: http://wthashtag.com/Main_Page
● Tweet Chats (World Wide) http://bit.ly/aX5yrk
Twitter Search http://search.twitter.com/
Hash Tags:
#AcAdv
#NACADA
#NACADATech
#NACADAR8
#NACADA11
Weekly #AcAdv Chat: http://acadvchat.posterous.com/
Teaching Twitter to Higher Education Colleagues http://edcabellon.com/tech/teachingtwitter/
Break Drink Twitter Guide http://breakdrink.com/twitter-guide/
Laura’s List of Advisors who Tweet:
https://twitter.com/#!/laurapasquini/nacada-acadv/members

3. SOCIAL STORAGE SPACES
Social Bookmarking
Social Bookmarking in Plain English http://www.commoncraft.com/bookmarking-plain-english
Social Bookmarking Defined http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking
7 Things You Should Know About Social Bookmarking
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7001.pdf
Social Bookmarking: Mark It, Manage It, Share It http://bit.ly/96Jx2e
Top 20 Most Popular Social Bookmarking Websites | May 2010
http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/social-bookmarking-websites
Social Bookmarking Websites:
Social Marker http://www.socialmarker.com/
digg http://digg.com/
AddThis http://www.addthis.com/
delicious http://delicious.com/
Diigo http://www.diigo.com/
A.notate http://a.nnotate.com/
reddit http://www.reddit.com/
ShareThis http://sharethis.com/
StumbleUpon http://www.stumbleupon.com/
Scholar http://www.scholar.com/
Why it is important:
● fostering student-centred learning
● facilitating social networking
● enable lifelong learning

4. ● providing structure to explore/direct
● pushing resources out to students
● setting activities to engage with resources e.g.
● getting resources from others in your discipline
● making students co-builders, active learners
● ease of updating & sharing with students and staff
Practical Examples & Ideas:
● personal productivity
● course content-course tags, library lists
● teamwork and projects
● professional development
● discovery, tracking and networking
● academic social networking, cross department sharing, etc
Examples in Academic Advising:
http://academicsupport.umich.edu/view.cfm?cat=30
http://trinity.duke.edu/academic-requirements?p=declaring-a-major-minor
http://delicious.com/academicadvisor
Collaborative Spaces
Why collaborate? Because advising and work environments are social. By encouraging
collaboration, staff are able to share information and learn from one another. As the economic
challenges and changes in higher education impact our advising units, it is important to to
emphasize the need to collaborate and support each other in our professional field on campus
and around the globe. Whether there are immediate projects, open-ended assignments,
reference materials, group research or training goals in mind, digital workspaces allow for
advisors, faculty and supervisors to connect and work together.

5. Online Collaborative Software Resources:
Google Docs https://docs.google.com
PbWorks http://pbworks.com/
Wikispaces http://www.wikispaces.com/
Wetpaint Central http://www.wetpaintcentral.com
Zoho http://www.zoho.com/
Dropbox http://dropbox.com What it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFb0NaeRmdg
Slideshare http://slideshare.net
Reasons to use collaborative digital workspaces:
● Group writing: research, drafts, editing & publishing
● Professional development: networking
● Exchange shared resources
● Project management
● Meeting minutes
● Grant proposals
● Archival of training materials & job aids
● Commission/Interest Group/Regional planning tools
Collaborative Digital Workspaces: Academic Advisors Working Online
http://www.slideshare.net/LauraPasquini/collaborative-digital-workspaces-academic-advisors-
working-online
OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA RESOURCES FOR P.D.
Blogs

6. A blog details information, stories and anecdotes. There can be a regular theme or topic
connected to a blog. This online journal/web log is written for different purposes, i.e give advice,
provide support, answer questions or provide general information.
Current Examples Advising Blogs:
Academic Advising Blog Examples: http://techknowtools.pbworks.com/Academic-Advising-
Blogs
NACADA Region 8: http://nacada8.wordpress.com/
The Student Affairs Collaborative http://thesabloggers.org/
Blog Engines:
https://www.blogger.com/
http://wordpress.com/
http://posterous.com/
Photo Sharing
Online photo sharing has changed the ways we look pictures and how we learn. Instead of
keeping our photographs and videos on a shelf, it is now possible to share these visual
representations with a variety of individuals and groups online. Photo sharing websites not only
serve as storage spaces for pictures, they also provide us with an arena to organize, tag, share,
comment, create, and enhance the learning experience. Advisors are able to engage students
with collaborative photo sharing by displaying visual information, linking academic resources,
connecting to various learning styles, and engaging in group-based advising.
Say Cheese!
How can you use photo sharing in advising?
Photo Sharing: Say Cheese for Academic Advising Presentation, NACADA Technology
Seminar 2009 http://www.slideshare.net/LauraPasquini/photo-sharing-in-advising

7. Photo Sharing Articles & Websites
● 7 Things You Should know about Flickr: http://connect.educause.edu/Library/ELI/
7ThingsYouShouldKnowAbout/46186
● Institution vs. Collboration TED Talk:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/clay_shirky_on_institutions_versus_collaboration.html
● The Web Photo Site Faceoff
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/web_photo_sharing_faceoff.php
● Metadata Goes Mainstream http://www.allegrotechindexing.com/metadata.pdf
Photo Sharing Websites:
http://www.flickr.com/
http://photobucket.com/
http://www.smugmug.com/
http://picasa.google.com/
http://www.shutterfly.com
http://www.snapfish.com/
Helpful Web 2.0 references, articles & websites:
The Social Media Maze: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/10/09/socialmedia
Horizon Report 2011 http://www.educause.edu/Resources/2011HorizonReport/223122
Horizon Report 2010 http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2010/
Horizon Report 2009 http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2009/
The Wired Campus Blog - The Chronicle of Higher Education:
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/
Educause: http://www.educause.edu/
Academic Advising & Social Media http://ericstoller.com/blog/2010/05/13/academic-advising-
social-media/
Educause Engaging Students with Engaging Tools (Article)
http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/EDUCAUSEQuarterlyMagazineVolum/Engagi
ngStudentswithEngagingTo/192954
Growth of Social Media In Stats [VIDEO] http://mashable.com/2010/05/07/social-media-stats-
video/ (may be a link to send out; edit & use key points etc - e.g. 80% online students out
performed better than those in class)
Socialnomics http://socialnomics.net/