Web 2.o Promises and Potentials

Slide 1: Web 2.0 Promises and Potential Quentin D’Souza and Rob De Lorenzo

Slide 2: Buzzword Participatory Web Web 2.0 Openness Read/Write Web Services and Tools

Slide 3: Two Tim’s

Slide 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE

Slide 5: Our Children Have A Different Relationship With Information

Slide 6: 10,000 hours on cell phones 20,000 hours watching TV Net under 5,000 hours 200,000 e-mails Generation reading by 21 Years Old 10,000 hours playing video games From Teaching and Learning with the Net Generation by Kassandra Barnes, Raymond C. Marateo, and S. Pixy Ferris

Slide 7: What is Changing? 1. User Created Content Ed uc 2. New Forms of Publishing ati on and Research al Sh ifts 3. Webware vs. Software wi th We 4. Mobile Learning b2 .0 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.

Slide 8: Paradigm Shift: From consuming From mass media to personal publishing to contributing User Created Content From Code to Content

Slide 9: User Created Content Radio Show Book Hosts Author Guide Personal Publishing Writer Photographer Film Producer

Slide 10: User Created Content Money Reputation Big Corporations Hits Publisher Has Final Say People Motivation Mainstream Media The Long Tail The Head C. Anderson, The Long Tail, 2006

Slide 11: User Created Content

Slide 12: Paradigm Shift: From: static content From: isolation To: dynamic content To: collaboration New Forms of Publishing and Research From: writing to a limited audience To: writing to a broad audience

Slide 13: 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

Slide 14: Grade 2 Blog on Community Secondary School Students’ Hamlet Blogs Ed Blogs Administrators’ Blogs

Slide 15: New Forms of Publishing and Researching 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

Slide 16: Student Created Content Enhance Instructional Content

Slide 17: New Forms of Publishing and Researching Other Forms of Publishing Publishing images for Use Creative Commons-licensed assignments/presentations images for presentations Sharing/collaborating Publishing documents on assignments for presentations Publishing documents for global sharing

Slide 18: Sharing Teacher Created Content Publishing School Content

Slide 19: Paradigm Shift: From: desktop applications From: limited mobility To: web applications To: unlimited mobility Webware vs. Software From: limited accessibility To: unlimited accessibility

Slide 20: 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

Slide 21: Paradigm Shift: From: learning in a classroom To: learning anywhere Mobile Learning

Slide 22: 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

Slide 23: Mobile Learning

Slide 24: Paradigm Shift: Open Educational Opening up of Resources Classrooms Openness Mass Collaboration

Slide 25: Openness Open Source Konrad Glogowski MySQL Lauer Tim Software Teacher Principal http://twitter.com/teachandlearn http://twitter.com/timlauer •Heading home soon.. pizza night •Gray morning here in Toronto ... getting tonight... 05:47 PM April 27, 2007 ready forOpen Editing grade eight a busy day in from web 08:09 AM April 26, 2007 from web. •Covering chess club APIs Open •Just finished talking to one class of grade 03:30 PM April 27, 2007 from txt eights about their research - the progress •Working in the tech lab with 4th and chart seems to be working well 5th grade students 11:22 AM April 26, 2007 from web. 10:56 AM April 27, 2007 from txt •Just finished reading some new student Firefox •Designing a new egress map... entries - good progress generally speaking Apache 07:43 AM April 27, 2007 from web 09:45 AM April 26, 2007 from web. •Updating lewis web page... file •Looking over the progress reports that upload seems to be busted... the eights filled out today 05:48 PM April 26, 2007 from web 06:50 PM April 26, 2007 from web.

Slide 27: Openness Open Source MySQL Software Open Editing Open APIs Firefox Apache

Slide 28: Openness Open Source MySQL Software Open Editing Open APIs Mulivo: the multilingual vocabulary resource Firefox Apache Flat Planet Project

Slide 29: Participate