Presenters Kevin O’Shea Teaching and Learning Technologies Instructional Development Center

Who Am I? Kevin O’Shea Educational Technologist Dec. 2007 Grad of Purdue

What is the toolkit? What are students using? What are our peers using it for? How can we use it? Overview

What is the toolkit?

What are students using?

What are our peers using it for?

How can we use it?

What is the Student Toolkit? feeds Web Standards Blogging RSS Peer-to-peer Wiki GTD User-generated content social networking Google Open source

Using the Web as a Platform Zoho, Google Docs Simplicity Open Source Reuse allowed and encouraged (CC) User Generated Content YouTube, Blogs, Wikis Categorized and Efficient Tagging, Social Bookmarking, Cross-linking Cross-platform/device Compatibility Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone Characteristics of Web 2.0

Using the Web as a Platform

Zoho, Google Docs

Simplicity

Open Source

Reuse allowed and encouraged (CC)

User Generated Content

YouTube, Blogs, Wikis

Categorized and Efficient

Tagging, Social Bookmarking, Cross-linking

Cross-platform/device Compatibility

Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone

Why Does It Matter? According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project (Lenhardt & Madden 2007) more than 60% of teens have created online media content, and more than 75% of those teens have shared the content they have produced. This in turn has fueled the online revolution of participation and collaboration.

Blogging + RSS Powerful communication and publishing tools Wikis Online writing space allowing user to add and modify its pages. Web Applications Office Suites, News Aggregators, etc… Social Networks What are they using?

Blogging + RSS

Powerful communication and publishing tools

Wikis

Online writing space allowing user to add and modify its pages.

Web Applications

Office Suites, News Aggregators, etc…

Social Networks

RSS & Information

Online Applications Movement away from Desktop application reliance. Platform independent. Mobile device compatibility. Open source. Online collaboration

Movement away from Desktop application reliance.

Platform independent.

Mobile device compatibility.

Open source.

Online collaboration

Netvibes http://www.netvibes.com iGoogle http://www.google.com/ig MyYahoo http://my.yahoo.com Bloglines http://www.bloglines.com Pageflakes http://www.pageflakes.com How are they keeping track of it all?

Netvibes

http://www.netvibes.com

iGoogle

http://www.google.com/ig

MyYahoo

http://my.yahoo.com

Bloglines

http://www.bloglines.com

Pageflakes

http://www.pageflakes.com

Office Applications Zoho Google Docs Office Live Presentation Applications TeacherTube SlideShare Qik Task Management (GTD) Remember the Milk What Applications Are They Using?

Office Applications

Zoho

Google Docs

Office Live

Presentation Applications

TeacherTube

SlideShare

Qik

Task Management (GTD)

Remember the Milk

Technology Mash ups Google Lit Trips Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place. Campus Explorer Uses Wikipedia, Google Maps, Yahoo! Answers, and Flickr to give advice & information of over 6,000 schools. You can filter your searches by 4-year, 2-year programs, or Career colleges. iPhone/iPod Touch Location based/aware software.

Google Lit Trips

Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place.

Campus Explorer

Uses Wikipedia, Google Maps, Yahoo! Answers, and Flickr to give advice & information of over 6,000 schools. You can filter your searches by 4-year, 2-year programs, or Career colleges.

iPhone/iPod Touch

Location based/aware software.

Communication Microblogs Twitter – The Classic 140 character MB Brightkite – Location aware MB Jaiku – Mashup of Location, RSS, MB Tumblr – Quick Pictures, Video, Quotes, etc… Pownce – MB plus file linking/sharing

Microblogs

Twitter – The Classic 140 character MB

Brightkite – Location aware MB

Jaiku – Mashup of Location, RSS, MB

Tumblr – Quick Pictures, Video, Quotes, etc…

Pownce – MB plus file linking/sharing

Communication Online Chat Meebo – AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, Google Talk Google Talk – Web based through Gmail + VOIP Facebook Chat – Web based chat through FB TokBox – Web based Video Chat Skype – VOIP + Chat and File sharing

Online Chat

Meebo – AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, Google Talk

Google Talk – Web based through Gmail + VOIP

Facebook Chat – Web based chat through FB

TokBox – Web based Video Chat

Skype – VOIP + Chat and File sharing

Facebook: The 800lb Gorilla/Guerilla http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/12/facebook-is-not-only-the-worlds-largest-social-network-it-is-also-the-fastest-growing/

Facebook: The 800lb Gorilla/Guerilla Wikimono Blog It Zoho Online Office Notecentric FlashCards JSTOR Search Swap Roll SlideShare Twitter http://www.didactalab.de/wp-main/?p=66

Wikimono

Blog It

Zoho Online Office

Notecentric

FlashCards

JSTOR Search

Swap Roll

SlideShare

Twitter

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Questions?

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