web 2.0
for educators

christopher sessums
educational technology
teacher education
online teacher professional development
@
university of florida
csessums@coe.ufl.edu

what is web 2.0?
who is web 2.0?
why web 2.0?
web 2.0 and you

what is web 2.0?
KEY CHARACTERISTICS
read only to read and write
participation
decentralization
openness
user control
identity
pro-social
connecting
sharing
aggregating
acting
communicating

who is web 2.0?

who is web 2.0?

why web 2.0?

why web 2.0?

web 2.0 and you

web 2.0 and you

apps to support you
• Wikis (PBWiki, WetPaint)
• Social networking apps (ex: Ning, Google
Groups, Eduspaces)
• Blogs and Microblogs (Blogger,
Wordpress, Twitter)
• Voice & Video Sharing (YouTube,
Seesmic, Voicethread, Skype)
• Office Suite (GoogleDocs, Zotero, Zoho)
• Start Page (PageFlakes, NetVibes, iGoogle)
• News Readers (Bloglines, Newsgator)

for more information
•Kathy Schrock
http://
school.discoveryeducation.com/
schrockguide/edtools.html
•Centre for Learning & Performance
Technology
http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/
•Blogs, Wikis, & Podcasts by Will
Richardson http://bit.ly/CUyWG

questions?
•homepage:
http://plaza.ufl.edu/ilji
•academic blog:
http://eduspaces.net/csessums/
weblog
•Twitter:
http://twitter.com/csessums