Applications andImplications of the Social Web (2.0) Gartner - Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies 2009Rick Reo, rreo@gmu.eduInstructional Designer, GMUAdjunct Instructor, AIT & CEHDPortions adapted from materials by: Glenda Morgan, Ph.D, GMU Duke University Libraries New Media ConsortiumSource: Gartner

Glenda Morgan, Ph.D, GMU

Duke University Libraries

New Media Consortium

What We’re Going To Talk AboutWhat is Web 2.0?Why should you care?How does Web 2.0 change how we do things?Best educational practicesWeb 2.0 tools & technologies

What is Web 2.0?

Why should you care?

Best educational practices

Web 2.0 tools & technologies

Backchannel ResourcesTwitter hashtag: #idd-ipWifitti: http://wiffiti.com/screens/7633--------------------------------Rick’s Delicious tags: http://delicious.com/rreo/socialmediaRick’s ShareTabs: http://www.sharetabs.com/?idd-ipRick’s Slideshare:http://www.slideshare.net/rreo

What does Web 2.0 meanto2006

What does Web 2.0 mean to you?

Community & Collaboration on a scale never seen before… What else did Time magazine mean?

We know it when we see it?http://www.go2web20.net/

How does Web 2.0 differ fromwhat came before?

Web 2.0Social SoftwareCMCWeb 2.0 includes a broad range of web technologies, services, and tools, and refers to a renewed pattern of web technology adoption and innovation.Dabbagh, N., & Reo, R. (in press). Back to the future: Tracing the roots and learning affordances of social software. In M.J.W. Lee and C. McLoughlin (Eds.), Web 2.0-based e-Learning: Applying social informatics for tertiary teaching. Hershey, PA: IGI Global (formerly Idea Group, Inc.).Social software is a subset of Web 2.0 and a continuation of older computer-mediated communication (CMC) tools such as IM, newsgroups, groupware, and virtual communities (Alexander, 2006; Rheingold, 2003, ¶4).

Internet (beta)  Web 1.0  Web 2.0Web 1.0Web 2.01993-2003Broadcast mediumConsumptionContentClient-basedProductIndividual2004 – ?Collaboration mediumUser-generated contentInteractionWeb-based servicesData richnessSocial networking

Educational Social Softwareaka Web 2.0 ToolsESS enable:lower the barriers to participation and self-authoring:web-based & easy-to-usecommunity-based & sense of ownershipincreased capacity for working together(communication, collaboration)collectively change the rules of social interactionpersonalization-- goals, interface, “networked tools that support and encourage individuals to learn together while retaining individual control over their time, space, presence, activity, indentity, and relationship.~ Terry Anderson, Ch.9, p.227Theory and Practice of Online Learning

lower the barriers to participation and self-authoring:

increased capacity for working together(communication, collaboration)

collectively change the rules of social interaction

personalization-- goals, interface,

Web 2.0: What Is It Really? 6 elements that define the change in how we all think about and use the Web:Six Big Ideas Behind Web 2.0Web 2.0 is about data abstraction -- free information from containers. Web 2.0 takes broadband and Moore's Law for granted -- start with the assumption bandwidth is basically free and readily accessible.Web 2.0 is about connections -- Connections between people, between sites, between the Web and mobile worlds, between buyers and sellers. The Web 2.0 revolution puts people first -- The needs of the user (not the programmer, marketing director, or information architect) come first. Web 2.0 is about allowing people to manipulate data, not just retrieve data. Web 2.0 is about doing stuff on the Web that can't be done in any other medium. User-Generated Content – media content, publicly available, produced by end-usersArchitecture of Participation – the way a service is designed facilitates participation and promotes UGC. Wisdom of the Crowds (Crowdsourcing) –leveraging the mass collaboration enabled by Web 2.0 technologies to achieve small goals/task or solve problems.Network Effects & the Long Tail – large user base; value increases for everyone as new users join/participateData on Epic Scale –information collected indirectly from users and aggregated as a side effect of ordinary use of Google, etc. Open-ness -- Web has a strong tradition of working in an open fashionAnderson, Paul (2007). What is Web 2.0? Ideas, technologies and implications for education. Tech Watch Report, JISC, http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/publications/twweb2.aspxBy Sean Carton, The ClickZ Networkhttp://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625146

Why should You care?

Web 2.0 Transforms PracticeTeaching 2.0Learning 2.0Library 2.0Enterprise 2.0Journalism 2.0

Teaching 2.0

Learning 2.0

Library 2.0

Enterprise 2.0

Journalism 2.0

What do these changes mean?Changes in the way we:Communicate & collaborateprovide content, services, or resources

Why should You care?In the end, you don’t really have a choice -- Embrace 2.0 technologies:most people are probably already Social Computing aficionadosthat is what our clients are expectingcost effective given our limited resources and increasing demands.Web 2.0 tools offer several benefits to instructors, including:ease of useinteractions/integrations with other commonly-used toolsfilling needs not currently met with other toolsinspiring creativity and exploration in teachingauthentic learning experiences

How to Get Startedon Web 2.0?

Source: Marta Kaganhttp://www.slideshare.net/mzkagan/what-the-fk-is-social-media-one-year-later

ISD 2.0?Don’t start with the technologyThink about your course goals – what are you trying to do?What are your needs, especially in terms of collaboration, content, and communicationThen you can move to thinking about technology

ISD 2.0?What do you think ISD 2.0 is?

ISD 2.0The students are highly involved in the instructional design of their classCCK09- In a traditional course, instructional design is utilized to provide structure and coherence to a course. In a distributed course, such as you’ll encounter in CCK09, conversations and content are not centralized. To bring these voices together, we rely on aggregation methods and software.When you post on your blog, Twitter, Delicious, or anywhere else if you tag your contribution with CCK09, others in the course will discover it through Google Alerts (or similar aggregation method). Source: George & Stephen http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/connectivism/?p=198

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Social Software Use ContinuumDabbagh & Reo, 2010

How to get Started (cont.)Start with a foundation -- my tostada metaphorYou can add all sorts of fun tools but strong baseOften a blog or a wikiBut start by looking at what others have done

Social Software-based Learning Environment -- Course Examples My ExamplesCourse Blog - http://rickreo.onmason.com/edit772-module-3/week-2/Course Wiki- http://edit575.wikispaces.com/Course Startpage - http://www.pageflakes.com/rreo/7151276Other ExamplesOpenEd Class Connectivism and Connective Knowledge massive online open course (MOOC)Econ Class Blog -- http://econ300.umwblogs.org/

Personal Learning Network

Social Software-based Learning Environment – PLEs / PLNsMy ExamplesMisc examples: http://edit772-f09.wikispaces.com/SSLE+ResourcesEdit7722nd Life, KimPortfolioBlogCourse Startpage - http://www.pageflakes.com/rreo/7151276ZoteroFlock

CommunitiesCollege 2.0Classroom 2.0NMCEducauseBcampusMason

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