Web 2.0 Imagine

Slide 1: Web 2.0: Imagine the Possibilities Presented by Gayla S. Keesee May, 2007

Slide 3: Knowledge is specific content Learners are empty vessels to be filled with knowledge

Slide 4: Knowledge is created Learning is a collaborative social endeavor

Slide 5: A Paradigm Shift

Slide 7: 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

Slide 8: Tools for Collaboration Social Networks   Facebook, MySpace  Flickr  YouTube Blogs   Wiki’s  Podcasts

Slide 9: 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)

Slide 10: Social Networks: Connect Users into Communities of Trust (or interests)

Slide 11: Flickr social network for sharing photos

Slide 12: You-Tube social network for sharing videos

Slide 13: Blogging: Most Recognized Example

Slide 14: 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/

Slide 15: Blogging in Education

Slide 16: Limited Only by Your Imagination Instructors Students    Content-related blog as  Reflective or writing professional practice journals  Networking and personal  Assignment submission knowledge sharing and review  Instructional tips for  Dialogue for groupwork students  E-portfolios  Course announcements  Share course-related and readings resources  Annotated links

Slide 17: Sample Educational Blogs Online Research Blog   eCornell Research Blog Info-Commons Blog   commons-blog Educational Bloggers Network   EBN blog Science Blog   Science Blog

Slide 18: 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

Slide 19: Wikipedia: Collaborative Dictionary Being Edited in Real Time by Anyone

Slide 20: Wiki’s in Higher Ed Econ 482: Stephen Greenlaw  Advanced Artificial Intelligence: Se  Harvard Law School  Eckerd College 

Slide 21: 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

Slide 22: How Does Podcasting Work?

Slide 24: 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

Slide 25: 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

Slide 26: 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

Slide 27: 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

Slide 28: 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/

Slide 29: 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

Slide 30: 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)