Shift Happens: Web 2.0 Applications for Higher Education

Shift Happens: Web 2.0 Applications for Higher Education John Thompson, Ph.D. Buffalo State College

Presentation Agenda

Highlight Web 2.0 higher ed apps

Free apps (mostly - at this point in time)

Interactive presentation – during and after session – slideshare.net

What is “Web 2.0?”

Web 1.0

read-only medium

static Web – provide information

Web 2.0

read-write Web

relies on user participation

information is transmitted and consumed with content being created, shared, remixed, repurposed, and passed along ( Downes, 2005 )

Web 2.0 in Higher Education

Increases user creativity and community while concurrently empowering user ownership of content

User-generated content leading to "collective intelligence" that benefits many

Collaborative in nature

Web 2.0 Videos

Tim O'Reilly on What is Web 2.0?

Web 2.0

Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0

Web 2.0

Introducing Web 2.0

Coming of Age: Primary Web 2.0

Web 2.0 Panel Discussion - What is Web 2.0?

Co-Creating with Web 2.0

What is Web 2.0?

The Machine is Us/ing Us

human-computer interaction personal connections--from words, pictures, video, and audio authentic, peer-to-peer channel of communication open, flexible collaboration data and applications opened to creative use by the public harnessing collective intelligence collaboration/participation/collective intelligence second generation of services Web as a platform the wisdom of crowds creative amateur is cherished “ democratizes” media amoral authentic, peer-to-peer channel of communication collective judgments user-generated content safety in numbers participative Web collective power community Web changing from “medium” to “platform” user actions provide value architecture of participation bookmarking >>> social bookmarking transparent selves…transparent Web interactive, community-based Internet applications

Trying to define and categorize what “Web 2.0” means is like trying to change the tire on your car while it’s going down the highway.

Sharing Photos Higher Education Uses Admissions – advertise campus Alumni reunions Portfolio School events Embed in blogs, PowerPoints, program Web sites Other uses? Video – Online Photo Sharing in Plain English Library of Congress’ Flickr site

Sharing Videos

Top 10 Video Sharing Sites from PC World

http://blip.tv/

http://www.stage6.com/

http://www.brightcove.com/

http://www.revver.com/

http://www.veoh.com/

http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-us&tab=soapbox

http://www.youtube.com/

http://www.vimeo.com/

http://www.jumpcut.com/

http://vids.myspace.com/

Jan. 2008 - 48% of online adults have visited video Web sites, according to a Pew Internet & American Life Project report. A year ago, it was 33% -- a 45% year-to-year growth. http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/232/report_display.asp List of video sharing sites - http://www.hybridsem.com/blog/2007/07/01/list-of-video-sharing-sites-and-impact-of-video-marketing /

Sharing PowerPoints And even more sites! “ free Web-based alternative to PowerPoint. Create & edit Flash presentations online. Send presentations via e-mail or publish on your Web site or blog” Synch uploaded video with your PowerPoint

Sharing Documents 24/7 anytime, anywhere access to projects or assignments – extends class time

Social Networks

Get Ready for N-gens Source: http://www.grunwald.com/ (July 2007)

Blogs Audio blogs/conversations blogging engine created specifically for classroom use

Podcasts “ Record your podcast via a toll-free call from any phone. Never even touch a computer!”

Collaboration Web Collaboration Software wiki.com domain name sold for $2.86 million (8/06) Wiki – online software that lets users modify any content, plus everything (formatting included) about the wiki Social bookmarking – store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of Web sites using metadata & tagging

Source: USA Today 2,340,000: number of articles on the English-language Wikipedia 120,000: number of articles on Encyclopedia Britannica Online http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/25/AR2008042500875.html (April 2008)

Education Online

Coursecast – podcast or videocast lecture ( like a Tivo for courses )

Partial list of higher ed schools offering open source courseware and/or coursecasts:

Harvard

Carnegie Mellon

UC Berkeley

Duke

MIT

Notre Dame

Johns Hopkins

Lecture-capture software for educational institutions - capture, edit, index, archive and stream video and audio over the Internet Free Online Education listing

Miscellaneous

Share graphics

Share bookmarks

Social browser

Calendar

Diagrams

Explanatory video

Miscellaneous

Company ratings, reviews & salaries

Office productivity suite

RSS aggregators

Creating ePortfolios with Web 2.0 Tools ePortfolio Mash Up with GoogleApps

Video Long list

Miscellaneous “ online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) - and share them with anyone they wish. A VoiceThread allows group conversations to be collected and shared in one place, from anywhere in the world.” -- group audio blogging to enhance group communication and reflection “ captures and shares images and video…from your computer to anywhere” “ Enables users to express themselves on the web in their own voice using a talking character. Customize your Voki to look like you…Your Voki can speak with your own voice which is added via microphone, upload, or phone.”

Miscellaneous Create surveys and polls for your Web site, blog and social network profiles. Add notes or bullets to Web sites. Share these annotated pages with others. One-to-many live interactive video broadcast platform enabling anyone with a camera and an Internet connection to broadcast to a unlimited global audience.

Beyond just driving directions…

100 Things to do

Directory of Web 2.0 apps & services –

1937 logos as of 1/19/08

2476 logos as of 6/11/08

Miscellaneous

“ Designed for the need of researchers…scientists can interact, exchange knowledge and collaborate with researchers of different fields.

exchange know-how and expertise

initiate collaboration

discuss research & get feedback”

Self-running slide show of over 1,400 Web 2.0 sites - categorized by tags and sorted alphabetically. Limited to 140 characters & spaces per post (or per "tweet"). E.g., remind students about assignments. Students authorize their cellphones from the Web site & subscribe to user's profile page.

Problems

Unaware

Inadequate instructions

Usual suspects

Mindset

Lack of imagination

Insufficient support

Time

Others?

Watchwords for 2008

C onvenience

C ollaboration

C onvergence

Source: T.H.E. Journal , 1/08

C ommunity

C reativity

C loud

Coming Attractions

Starbucks Effect

Blurring of work & personal lives…& apps

9 to 5 >>> 24/7

Growing reliance on Internet – “cloud”

What Next? “ Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.” - James Baldwin Baby steps…one new app at a time

Summary

Loads of Web 2.0 apps for higher ed

Creates rich, engaging & exciting environment

User-centric

become information producers, not simply consumers

promotes user-centered learning

users become more efficient

“ Roadmap must be created for turning the emerging technologies into productive tools for supporting the next-generation e-learning environment” ( Allison, et al., 2008 ).

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