Web 2.0 introduction

1. Web 2.0:
Letting “Users” Add Value to Learning
Beth Kiggins
Director, Center for Instructional Technologies

2. Web 2.0

3. Web 2.0
• Web 2.0 is a term describing the trend in the use
of World Wide Web technology and web design that
aims to enhance creativity, information sharing, and,
most notably, collaboration among users.
• These concepts have led to the development and
evolution of web-based communities and hosted
services, such as social-networking sites, wikis,
blogs, and folksonomies.
Source: Wikipedia.com

4. Beloit College Mindset – Class of 2012
EDUCAUSE ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2008

5. FASCINATED WITH NEW
TECHNOLOGIES
CRAVE EXPERENTIAL LEARNINGALWAYS CONNECTED
DIGITALLY LITERATE
Today’s Learners

7. COLLABORATIVE TOOLS

8. ARE YOU USING
ANY OF THE
COLLABORATIVE
TOOLS?
YES NO

13. 2009 Teaching & Learning Challenges

14. RESOURCE UTILIZATION

15. HAVE YOU TRIED
USING STUDENTS
TO IDENTIFY
RESOURCES?
YES NO

16. Academic Earth

17. Search Cloudlet

18. AGGREGATORS

19. Del.icio.us and Diigo

20. NetVibes

21. SOCIAL NETWORKS