Chrissie's Muses

I’ve just spent some time having a look at the Case Studies that have been produced as part of the JISC Shared Infrastructure Services (SIS) Landscape Study and found some very interesting links and ideas.

My main gripe with the studies is that they are all text based and do take some working through. To hopefully make finding the information you require easier, I’ve tried to summarise some of the studies below and have extracted the links. Hope you find it useful.

Anne Welsh, LIS Lecturer – University College London

• Using WordPress (Blog) to distribute monthly acquisitions lists via RSS-express
• Using Twitter and Twitpic for posting brief news items and project progress
• Using koha Open Source Library System for a volunteer-run library in conjunction with LibraryThing
• A brief assessment criteria for adoption of Web 2.0 technologies
• Using Facebook to stay in touch with friends and students
• Using Pageflakes as a personal transferable homepage
• Using Wikis for documenting and updating procedures
• Building up “trust” on forums and discussion boards

Manish Malik, Senior Lecturer in Mobile and Wireless Computing – University of Portsmouth

Using Twitter in a number of ways:

• as a micro blogging tool with students for personal reflection
• combined with a Wiki to create a community of interest for learners with recognition of the privacy and data protection issues with using such mediums
• for pastoral care
• for personal CPD
• managing projects

In addition Manish uses Wikis:

• as a repository for open and shared working combined with Google Talk
• as a collaborative examination revision site

Professor Martin Weller, Professor of Educational Technology at the Open University

• Blogging using Typepad
• Enhancing blogs using Gliffy, Flickr and YouTube
• Using Tumblr to keep track of references and resources
• Using Twitter for communications
• VLEs as a ‘walled garden’
• Posting presentations to Slideshare
• Experimenting with Xtranormal

Jamie Wood, Learning Development and Research Associate – University of Sheffield

• Using Diigo, Del.icio.us and WordPress for Inquiry Based Learning

Sheila Webber, Senior Lecturer – University of Sheffield

• Blogging about Information Literacy http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/
• Blogging about Second Life http://adventuresofyoshikawa.blogspot.com/
• Created an Information Literacy Pageflakes page http://www.pageflakes.com/informationliteracy/
• Using Del.icio.us to store links related to the use of Second Life in Libraries http://delicious.com/lilacsl/
• Using Ning as a social network
• Using blogs with learners for dissemination and for interaction around things of current interest
• Using Netvibes for aggregating interesting material
• Using Wikis for collaborating on content creation
• Using Second Life as a place for learning, teaching and communication

Paula Roush, Artographer – London South Bank University and University of Westminster

• Using Flickr to disseminate the outcomes of art projects
• Publishing art works through Lulu.com
• Using a combination of lifelogging platforms from wordpress to twitter, and live videostreaming including skype, webcamnow, oovoo, and TokBox
• Using Zotero in Firefox to collect, manage and cite research resources
• Created a full marking grid for an art placement project which incorporates the use of social media
• Using Twitter and Tweetdeck for communication
• Publishing using Issuu
• Working in Second Life

The University of Sheffield Library

• Undertaking a project “Evaluating Web 2.0 Technologies”
• Using WordPress (blog) to raise student awareness
• Using Twitter to post library news
• Using a Netvibes to help customers keep up to date with the latest news feeds and scholarly information sources
• Using Instant Messaging to support reference queries
• Developing an Information Skills showcase http://www.librarydevelopment.group.shef.ac.uk/showcase.html

Gareth Johnson, Information Library – University of Leicester

• Using a wordpress blog an informal place for all University of Leicester Library staff to share, debate, reflect and comment on matters relevant to their working activities
• Using Slideshare to post presentations online
• Using Google Docs to share and edit versions of documents with people scattered across the campus/country
• Using Twitter as a social and professional network
• Experimenting with Yahoo Pipes
• Evaluated Second Life