Web 2.0: Imagine the Possibilities Presented by Gayla S. Keesee May, 2007

Knowledge is specific content Learners are empty vessels to be filled with knowledge

Knowledge is created Learning is a collaborative social endeavor

A Paradigm Shift Tools for Supporting Individuals Tools for Supporting Relationships

Horizon Report 2007 Key trends affecting higher education—next 5 years One year or less Social Networking User-Created Content Two-Three Years Mobile Phones Virtual Worlds Four-Five Years New Scholarship and Emerging Forms of Publication Massively Multiplayer Educational Gaming

Key trends affecting higher education—next 5 years

One year or less

Social Networking

User-Created Content

Two-Three Years

Mobile Phones

Virtual Worlds

Four-Five Years

New Scholarship and Emerging Forms of Publication

Massively Multiplayer Educational Gaming

Tools for Collaboration Social Networks Facebook, MySpace Flickr YouTube Blogs Wiki’s Podcasts

Social Networks

Facebook, MySpace

Flickr

YouTube

Blogs

Wiki’s

Podcasts

Social Software Social Networking Keeping contacts online through web interfaces Social Calendaring Shared agendas for events arrangements and meetings planning Social Bookmarking storing, describing, and sharing bookmarks ( del.icio.us ) Social Tagging Unintentional, collective effort of categorizing the Web, with added social significance ( Folksonomies )

Social Networking

Keeping contacts online through web interfaces

Social Calendaring

Shared agendas for events arrangements and meetings planning

Social Bookmarking

storing, describing, and sharing bookmarks ( del.icio.us )

Social Tagging

Unintentional, collective effort of categorizing the Web, with added social significance ( Folksonomies )

Social Networks: Connect Users into Communities of Trust (or interests)

Flickr social network for sharing photos

You-Tube social network for sharing videos

Blogging: Most Recognized Example

What are Blogs? Web + Logs = Blogs Web Pages Automated updating Reverse chronological postings May accommodate responses Internet-specific phenomenon Incomplete index of blogs http:// blogdex.media.mit.edu /

Web + Logs = Blogs

Web Pages

Automated updating

Reverse chronological postings

May accommodate responses

Internet-specific phenomenon

Incomplete index of blogs

http:// blogdex.media.mit.edu /

Blogging in Education

Limited Only by Your Imagination Instructors Content-related blog as professional practice Networking and personal knowledge sharing Instructional tips for students Course announcements and readings Annotated links Students Reflective or writing journals Assignment submission and review Dialogue for groupwork E-portfolios Share course-related resources

Instructors

Content-related blog as professional practice

Networking and personal knowledge sharing

Instructional tips for students

Course announcements and readings

Annotated links

Students

Reflective or writing journals

Assignment submission and review

Dialogue for groupwork

E-portfolios

Share course-related resources

Sample Educational Blogs Online Research Blog eCornell Research Blog Info-Commons Blog commons-blog Educational Bloggers Network EBN blog Science Blog Science Blog

Online Research Blog

eCornell Research Blog

Info-Commons Blog

commons-blog

Educational Bloggers Network

EBN blog

Science Blog

Science Blog

Wiki’s: The ultimate collaboration tool Special web site allows visitors to add, remove, edit & change content Not need access to or knowledge of web publishing software Collaboration Group members work on common document in common location

Special web site

allows visitors to add, remove, edit & change content

Not need access to or knowledge of web publishing software

Collaboration

Group members work on common document in common location

Wikipedia: Collaborative Dictionary Being Edited in Real Time by Anyone

Wiki’s in Higher Ed Econ 482: Stephen Greenlaw Advanced Artificial Intelligence: Sean Luke Harvard Law School Eckerd College

Econ 482: Stephen Greenlaw

Advanced Artificial Intelligence: Sean Luke

Harvard Law School

Eckerd College

Podcasting Pod (iPod) + broadcast = Podcast Differs from streaming audio Automatically delivered to player –don't have to click on a link to download Listen when you want – not when a program is scheduled

Pod (iPod) + broadcast = Podcast

Differs from streaming audio

Automatically delivered to player –don't have to click on a link to download

Listen when you want – not when a program is scheduled

How Does Podcasting Work?

iPod not needed

Why is podcasting appealing for learning and teaching? Appeals to the digital natives Easy and low cost to create and distribute Caters to different learning styles

Appeals to the digital natives

Easy and low cost to create and distribute

Caters to different learning styles

Advantages Students Review lectures before exams Listen in on classes they've missed Replay at own convenience Non-native speakers replay to increase comprehension Instructors Listen to own lectures to improve presentations

Students

Review lectures before exams

Listen in on classes they've missed

Replay at own convenience

Non-native speakers replay to increase comprehension

Instructors

Listen to own lectures to improve presentations

Learning & Teaching Applications Interviews with experts Oral history projects Quotes from recorded speeches Answers to posted questions Guest speakers / lecture series Student submissions /portfolios / placement logs

Interviews with experts

Oral history projects

Quotes from recorded speeches

Answers to posted questions

Guest speakers / lecture series

Student submissions /portfolios / placement logs

Issues to be aware of… Not all students have iPods (about 60% do) 20% of podcasts actually downloaded onto portable media players Will students still come to lectures? Public access to audio files is necessary (no access control) Cannot search or scan podcast content Podcasts can lend themselves to passive, prescriptive teaching

Not all students have iPods (about 60% do)

20% of podcasts actually downloaded onto portable media players

Will students still come to lectures?

Public access to audio files is necessary (no access control)

Cannot search or scan podcast content

Podcasts can lend themselves to passive, prescriptive teaching

Universities Podcasting iTunes U ( http://www.apple.com/education/solutions/itunes_u/ ) Duke University University of Illinois Stanford UC Berkley Purdue University http://www.itap.purdue.edu/tlt/BoilerCast/ University of Washington http://www.css.washington.edu/

iTunes U ( http://www.apple.com/education/solutions/itunes_u/ )

Duke University

University of Illinois

Stanford

UC Berkley

Purdue University

http://www.itap.purdue.edu/tlt/BoilerCast/

University of Washington

http://www.css.washington.edu/

Over 200 Web 2.0 Sites in 41 Categories Rated, Ranked and Awarded 15 Interviews with Founders of Winning Sites The creators of the winning sites share their insight and approach, including technology, funding and methods for attracting traffic. http://www.seomoz.org/web2.0

Over 200 Web 2.0 Sites in 41 Categories

Rated, Ranked and Awarded

15 Interviews with Founders of Winning Sites

The creators of the winning sites share their insight and approach, including technology, funding and methods for attracting traffic.

http://www.seomoz.org/web2.0

Horizon Project http://horizonproject.wikispaces.com/ Collaborative global project between classrooms in diverse geographical locations Camilla, GA (10th grade) Vienna, Austria (11th grade) Dhaka, Bangladesh (11th grade) Melbourne, Australia (11th grade) Shanghai, China (Media Literary)

http://horizonproject.wikispaces.com/

Collaborative global project between classrooms in diverse geographical locations

Camilla, GA (10th grade)

Vienna, Austria (11th grade)

Dhaka, Bangladesh (11th grade)

Melbourne, Australia (11th grade)

Shanghai, China (Media Literary)