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David Grogan
Manager, Curricular Technology Group
UIT Academic Technology • Tufts University
Spark Web 2.0 Tools for Communication, Collaboration, Publishing
•What is Spark?
•How do you use Spark?
•What tools are available?
•What’s next?
•Questions
Spark: Web 2.0 Tools for Communication and Collaboration
What is Spark?
• Spark is a suite of self-service, web-based
communication, collaboration, and publishing tools
freely available to entire Tufts community.
Spark: Web 2.0 Tools for Communication and Collaboration
How do you use Spark?
1. Login to http://spark.uit.tufts.edu (same login
credentials as TUSK).
2. Pick a tool.
3. Create something.
4. Add other Tufts users to it.
Spark: Web 2.0 Tools for Communication and Collaboration
What tools are available?
• Most popular:
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Wikis
Blogs
Podcasts
MediaMarkup
• Other tools:
– Web conferencing
– Mapping
Spark: Web 2.0 Tools for Communication and Collaboration
What tools are available?
• Wikis
– What is it?
• A website that allows the easy creation and editing of any number of
interlinked web pages.
– What is it used for?
• Collaborative creation of content (e.g. grant proposals, research
papers, group assignments)
• Quick and easy web publishing.
• Document repository
Spark: Web 2.0 Tools for Communication and Collaboration
What tools are available?
• Blogs (WordPress)
– What is it?
• A type of website, usually maintained with regular entries of
commentary, descriptions of events, or other materials such as
graphics or video.
– What is it used for?
• Developing and publishing publicly accessible websites. (e.g.
department web sites, project blogs etc.)
• Providing students with a platform for writing and sharing writing
assignments.
Spark: Web 2.0 Tools for Communication and Collaboration
What tools are available?
• Podcasts
– What is it?
• A series of digital media files that are released episodically and often
downloaded through web syndication via software such as iTunes.
– What is it used for?
• Publishing lecture recordings.
• Publishing audio tours.
• Video log of departmental activities.
Spark: Web 2.0 Tools for Communication and Collaboration
What tools are available?
• MediaMarkup
– What is it?
• A web-based tool allowing users to provide commentary, feedback,
and reflections, at specific time locations within digital audio and video
files.
– What is it used for?
• Providing feedback regarding student performances (e.g
presentations, patient exams, interview techniques etc.)
• Providing chapter headings or highlighting core content within a
recording.
Spark: Web 2.0 Tools for Communication and Collaboration
What tools are available?
• Web Conferencing (Adobe Connect)
– What is it?
• Web conferencing is used to conduct live meetings, training, or
presentations via the Internet. In a web conference, each participant
sits at his or her own computer and is connected to other participants
via the internet.
– What is it used for?
• Connecting students and staff across campuses.
• Providing or receiving in-class presentations to/from distant
colleagues.
Spark: Web 2.0 Tools for Communication and Collaboration
What tools are available?
• Mapping
– What is it?
• A tool using GoogleMaps technology to allow you to create, define,
and manage collections of geographically located data sets.
– What is it used for?
• Collaborative geo-locating points of interest. (e.g. research locations).
Spark: Web 2.0 Tools for Communication and Collaboration
What do we hope Spark will be?
A Tufts-based localized network of people and ideas.
Spark: Web 2.0 Tools for Communication and Collaboration
How is Spark being used?
Interesting Recent Use Cases
• Wikis: Workflow and social networking for student
teachers.
• Blogs: Anthropology of Media
• MediaMarkup: Feedback on student presentations.
• SparkMaps: Mapping student network.
• Podcasts: Podcasting biology lectures.
Spark: Web 2.0 Tools for Communication and Collaboration
What’s Coming this Summer?
• More support materials for WordPress.
• Full self-service for MediaMarkup.
• Wikis upgrade (improve performance and
functionality).
• What would you like to see?
Spark: Web 2.0 Tools for Communication and Collaboration
Any Questions?
• Contact: David Grogan ([email protected])