Web 2.0 toolkit pt 3

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 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

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?

RSS & Information

Online Applications

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

Bloglines

http://www.bloglines.com

Pageflakes

http://www.pageflakes.com

MyYahoo

http://my.yahoo.com

How are they keeping track of it all?

Office Applications

Zoho

Google Docs

Office Live

Presentation Applications

TeacherTube

SlideShare

Task Management (GTD)

Remember the Milk

What Applications Are They Using?

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.

Jott.com

Jott converts your voice into emails, text messages, reminders, lists and appointments. Supports Gcal, LJ, Twitter, Tumblr, Blogger, Remember the Milk, & WordPress.

Communication