1. Digital Interaction: Unraveling Student Voices through Collaborative Technologies by Casey McArdle Ball State University

3. #purpose ? #MSUWIDE Report on the different genres students were composing in Facebook and other social spaces.

5. #interaction #collaboration Negotiable Space : students openly join these spaces for their own purposes, many yet undecided; not required. (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.) Non-Negotiable Space : students are forced to sign up for this space and are required to interact with it. (Blackboard)

6. #participants Basic Writers “ At Risk” Students Ball State ENG 101/102 – two semesters Ball State ENG 103 – one semester part of Ball State ENG 104 – one semester the core

7. 2009-2010 Academic Year : 17 sections of ENG 101/102 (hoping for 12 total participants) 2010-2011 Academic Year : 4 sections of ENG 101/102 (hoping for 12 total participants)

8. #participants Teachers: 3 total 2 PhD Graduate Students in Rhet/Comp 1 Contract Faculty with an MA in English All 3 use Blackboard in the class None have used Web 2.0 sites for class assignments or purposes

9. #methodology Begin with “At Risk” Students My own experience teaching Web 2.0 in ENG 103 Examine what is going on in these spaces = difficulty navigating Blackboard while Web 2.0 sites are viewed as less cumbersome key: interactive spaces

11. #survey #results 34 responses

13. #observations #results front desk 3 1 2 facebook space = classroom space

15. #results One teacher’s Blackboard page

16. #nextstep

18. #conclusion (so far) Difference in navigation skills – ENG 101 to ENG 104 Negotiable vs. Non-negotiable Spaces Have students interact with one another as opposed to just interacting with the software. Create a Facebook/Web 2.0 based CMS?

19. The Chronicle of Higher Education Google and Pearson stole my idea!