Web 2.o Promises and Potentials

Web 2.0 Promises and Potential Quentin D’Souza and Rob De Lorenzo

Web 2.0 Buzzword Read/Write Web Participatory Web Openness Services and Tools

Two Tim’s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE

Our Children Have A Different Relationship With Information

under 5,000 hours reading 10,000 hours playing video games 200,000 e-mails 20,000 hours watching TV 10,000 hours on cell phones Net Generation by 21 Years Old From Teaching and Learning with the Net Generation by Kassandra Barnes, Raymond C. Marateo, and S. Pixy Ferris

What is Changing?

1. User Created Content

2. New Forms of Publishing

and Research

3. Webware vs. Software

4. Mobile Learning

5. Openness

References:

New Media Consortium and Educause, The Horizon Report, 2007.

P. Anderson, What is Web 2.0? Ideas, Technologies and Implications for Education, 2007.

M. Owen, L. Grant, S. Sayers and K.Facer , Social software and learning: An Opening Education report from Futurelab, 2006.

Educational Shifts with Web 2.0

User Created Content Paradigm Shift: From mass media to personal publishing From Code to Content From consuming to contributing

User Created Content Personal Publishing Book Author Radio Show Hosts Film Producer Writer Photographer Guide

User Created Content Motivation Big Corporations Money The Head The Long Tail Mainstream Media People Hits Reputation C. Anderson, The Long Tail, 2006 Publisher Has Final Say

User Created Content

New Forms of Publishing and Research Paradigm Shift: From: static content To: dynamic content From: writing to a limited audience To: writing to a broad audience From: isolation To: collaboration

New Forms of Publishing and Researching

Why Blog?

Teachers:

Easily publish to the World Wide Web

PD and Professional dialogue

Students:

eJournaling

Online discussions; i.e. Literature Circles

Sharing work with global audience

Administrators:

Staff community space

Strengthening the home - school connection

Grade 2 Blog on Community Secondary School Students’ Hamlet Blogs Administrators’ Blogs Ed Blogs

Using Podcasts/Video Podcasts in Schools

Teachers:

Enhance Instruction.

Incorporate suppplementary course information

Students:

Culminating activities

Broadcast student community & cultural events

Example of an instructional podcast: LearnOutLoud Great Speeches in History

Example of a student-created podcast: Bishop Strachan School

Student Created Content Enhance Instructional Content

Other Forms of Publishing

Publishing images for assignments/presentations Use Creative Commons-licensed images for presentations Publishing documents for global sharing Publishing documents for presentations Sharing/collaborating on assignments

Sharing Teacher Created Content Publishing School Content

Webware vs. Software Paradigm Shift: From: limited mobility To: unlimited mobility From: limited accessibility To: unlimited accessibility From: desktop applications To: web applications

Software vs. Webware

Why Use Web 2.0 Webware?

Web-based versions are affordable

Webware offers collaborative tools

Web-based suites are available remotely and from any computer

Mobile Learning Paradigm Shift: From: learning in a classroom To: learning anywhere

Mobile Learning

Using Mobile Devices for Learning - iPod

Free Audiobooks - LibriVox

Using Mobile Phone in the Classroom

Create Content for iPod - Mogopop

Public domain texts for PDA, iPod, mobile phone

image from http://www.socksoff.co.uk

Mobile Learning

Openness Paradigm Shift: Opening up of Classrooms Mass Collaboration Open Educational Resources

Openness Konrad Glogowski Teacher http:// twitter.com/teachandlearn

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