This is the second short course that i will be offering on the use of Web2.0 Applications in the workplace, especially in higher education. The first was conducted on 17th to 18 September, 2014 for a small number of lecturers and administrative staff on campus. The aim of the two day training was using Web2.0 applications for teaching, learning, and related work. Topics covered included Blogging and cloud storage services such as My Drive,and Dropbox.
The two-day short course on Web2.0: Teaching and Learning in Higher Education will be offered through the Teaching and Learning Methods Unit from 2nd to 3rd September 2015. This is an in-house program for the Lecturers and Technical staff at the Papua New Guinea University of Technology.
Aim and Objectives
The aim is keeping up with current trends in Web2.0 Applications (Social Media) and higher education and practically adapting these to our local situations. It is not only because these are new applications, but it also to follow the students who are an engaged audience in the social media.
At the end of the two day short course participants should be able to create their own blogs which they will use for teaching and learning actvities.
Blogging skills will add to the Google Classroom skills that currently is being taught to staff here at the university thereby widening the grasp of Web2 Applications for the academic staff. Comparatively Blogger has been around longer than Google Classroom which was released only in August 2014.
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