ConstantContact: Get Started with Faculty and Staff

http://www.constantcontact.com/index.jsp

ConstantContact: Why?

Faculty and staff make it happen.
To serve students and make an impact, start with faculty and staff.

ConstantContact is fast, cheap, and easy to use.
Try it and use it or drop it.
Create excitement and engage the larger community.

What's New: From Wordle

High Tech/High Touch

HighTech/HighTouch:
Making Learning Real

• Build Infrastructure
• Make Access Ubiquitous
• Emphasize Connectivity with People, Content, with the Global Information Environment
• Invite Curiousity and Experimentation
• Maintain Patient Passion
• Welcome Mistakes
• Celebrate Learning, Knowledge, and Wisdom
• Help Information Work
  

NFAIS: Seing into the Future with the Digital Natives

NFAIS: Seeing into the Future with the Digital Natives

http://www.nfais.org

The Creative Commons

The Creative Commons

http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/


What is Flickr? http://www.google.com

What is the Creative Commons?

The InfoEthicist:: A Teaching Blog

The InfoEthicist: A Blog Used to Teach Information Ethics I-School at Drexel

http://infoethicist.blogspot.com

Nibipedia

Nibipedia

http://www.nibipedia.com

RACC-- Vision

• Reading Area Community College reaffirms its commitment to provide access to quality educational experiences and training opportunities for all citizens of Berks County.
  
• Reading Area Community College envisions a society which continues to experience rapid technological change, increase demographic diversity and universal acceptance of the global nature of our economy.
  
• This information-based society requires higher levels of educational attainment and job skills training in order for individuals to remain productive members in society and in the workplace.

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• The College (operating under an open admissions policy) fulfills its mission by providing high quality instruction and services to meet the educational and training needs necessary for a healthy Berks County community and a strong economy.
  
• The College's supportive environment provides personal attention to individual student needs. Our staff is willing and able to spend the necessary time to ensure both access to and success in lifelong learning opportunities to people from diverse backgrounds.
• The College develops its human, physical and financial resources to ensure its primary role as a provider of educational, technical and cultural experiences for our community.
  
• The College takes a leadership role in establishing partnerships with business and industry, local governments, community organizations and other educational institutions to advance the economic development and cultural enrichment of the city, the county and the region.

RACC Mission Statement

Reading Area Community College builds communities of learning committed to educational growth and to the economic vitality in our region.

At RACC…

• We strive for excellence in all our actions.
• We promote student learning and personal growth through teaching and mentoring.
• We create welcoming and safe environments where intellectual curiosity and learning can flourish.
• We value the diversity in our community and the richness it brings.
• We connect students to resources within the College and the community at large that best meet their educational needs.
• We are committed to lifelong learning both for students and ourselves.

At RACC we are a community-focused institution.

Share Don't Steal

Let's look at an example......

Add Image

Let Students Shine

Let Students Shine

Music, Pictures, and News, Oh My

With apologies to Dorothy and her lions, tigers, and bears, oh my........

• CNN
  
• Google News
  
• iTunes
• PBS
• NPR
  

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Keys to Content Creation and Delivery

Keys to Content Creation and Delivery

• Use what's there
• Create templates and models whenever possible
• Show and show again
• Use the buddy system
• Collaborate with students
  
• Share, share, share
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Learning and Life Needs of Adult Students

Learning and Life Needs of Adult Students

The Big Five: Access, Ownership, Privacy, Security, and Community

The Big Five

• Access
• Ownership
• Privacy
• Security
• Community
  

When and Why Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Wikipedia in English

?What is the role of collective content making?

Discuss: Knowledge needs to be free.

Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants

Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants

Digital Immigrants........>.......>.......>.........>........>..........>.......>........Digital Natives How do we learn from each other?

Higher Technology Means Higher Touch

Higher Technology Means Higher Touch:

Digital Content and Social Networking

Favorite Links

Internet Public Library

Library of Congress

National Library of Medicine

Google Book Search

Google Scholar

Connect to Content

How to Connect

http://books.google.com

Google Book Search

Reading Eagle

The Reading Eagle

http://readingeagle.com/