This is the course website community for the LIS901-06: Web 2.0 class at Long Island University's Palmer School of Library and Information Science taught by Ellyssa Kroski.

Course Description
With the advent of Web 2.0, an explosion of new social software tools has emerged enabling users to create, organize, share, and collaborate in an online space. Today’s Web users are organizing their favorite bookmarks, collaborating on shared documents, cataloging their personal collections, and sharing their information with others. This course will explore the features and functionality of Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis, RSS, social bookmarking, media sharing, tagging, folksonomies and more. We will look at how libraries are implementing these various tools as well as their potential uses.

Course Objectives

• Students will comprehend major Web 2.0 concepts and theories.
• Students will learn how to utilize major Web 2.0 technologies and will participate in their use throughout the course including creating and maintaining a blog, subscribing to RSS feeds, participating in the course social network, sharing bookmarks and social media, utilizing a course tag across multiple social software applications, participating in social networking communities, creating social search tools, communicating via IM, etc.
• Students will gain an understanding about the current and potential uses of these new and emerging Web technologies in libraries.
• Students will learn about Web 2.0 best practices and develop skills which will help them evaluate these technologies in order to make solution decisions appropriate for their library.

Grading & Assignments

• Grading for the course will be based on participation level with the Web 2.0 tools, completion of the weekly activities listed below, as well as the completion of assignments including:
• Participation in weekly exercises – both in-class and online – 40%
• Weekly blogging, commenting, and participation on the class website – 35%
• Group Projects – 20%
• Scheduled group chats via IM – 5%

Class Format

Each week, a technology will be discussed and demonstrated in class.  Students will be assigned an exercise which will utilize that technology.  Students will be expected to complete that exercise by the next week and be prepared to share their work with the class.  They will also be expected to blog weekly about the technology they are learning about and/or about its implementation in libraries.  Each class will begin with students presenting their completed exercise from the previous week and discussing challenges they discovered when working with the technology.

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