Web 2.0 Applications for Educators

Web 2.0 Applications for Educators John Thompson, Ph.D. Buffalo State College

Presentation Agenda

Highlight many Web 2.0 educational 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 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 and features user-generated content

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

Web 2.0 and Education

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 Educational Uses Scrapbooking Class reunions Portfolio School events Fundraising Embed in blogs, PowerPoints, class 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/

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 school day

Social Networks

Source: http://www.grunwald.com/

Online poll 1/20/08 http://www.economist.com/debate/index.cfm?action=hall&debate_id=3

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

Education Blogs Best Education Blogs 2007 Top 100 Education Blogs 2006 Find a Teacher Blog

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

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

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 Fleck.com allows you to 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

Web 2.0 Apps in Education

Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0

Best Web 2.0 Applications for Elementary School

Best Web 2.0 Applications For Education — 2007

Web 2.0 for the Classroom Teacher

Kathy Schrock suggested links

“ Top” Lists

The Most Useful Web Tools

Web 2.0 list

Free Tools for Teachers

Best Web 2.0 Apps For Education - 2007

Directory of Learning Tools

ISTE’s Top 10 Blogs & Podcasts for Jan. 2008

self-running slide show of over 1,400 of the best Web2.0 sites - categorized by tags and sorted alphabetically

Problems

Unaware

Inadequate instructions

Usual suspects

Filtering policies

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