Designing Online
Learning Activities

What Is Web 2.0?
What The Hell
Happened To Web 1.0?
and...

Why Should I Give A
Monkeys?

What Is Web 2.0?
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compare
and
contrast

Web 1.0 Web 2.0
Top-Down Bottom-Up
Reading Read / Write
Home Pages Blogs
Companies Communities
Owning Sharing
Lectures Conversation

What Changes?

Nothing!

http://flickr.com/photos/cambodia4kidsorg/2436443245/

What Changes?

Everything!

The first iteration of the web
was born to
a world that knew only top-down
centralized publishing
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Books
Magazines
News
Radio
Television
Film
Music

Consumer
Consumer
Consumer
Consumer
Publisher Consumer
Consumer
Consumer
Consumer

Consumer
Publisher
Consumer
Publisher Consumer
Publisher
Consumer
Publisher Publisher Consumer
Publisher
Consumer
Publisher Consumer
Publisher
Consumer
Publisher

As the centre dissolves...

It’s All About
The Edge
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Is There Value?

May 12th 2008
2.28pm - Chinese Local Time
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Following 21,103
Followers 27,103

http://www.bbc.co.uk

What’s Going On?

Once the technology gets
boring, the social effects
get interesting
Here Comes Everybody
Clay Shirky

A Cat Is A Dog & Vice Versa

All Media Is Social
All Social Is Media

So, Why Should I Give
A Monkeys?

One of the best ways of
entrenching one's
knowledge is to explain it
to others
\"The Role of Graduate Studies in a
Comprehensive University\"
Evan Simpson

Hutchings (2002) credits
Shulman with the notion of
publicly sharing one's work for
critical review that became
accepted as an integral element
of the scholarship of teaching &
learning

Read / Write Web
• Everything Is Published
• Everything Is Shared
• Students As Equals

Blogs
RSS
Photo Sharing
Video Sharing
Wikis
Social Bookamrking
Podcasting

Collaborative Democratic
Collective Intelligence Non-Hierarchical
WHY???
Recognition Permanence
Open To Public Searchable Resource
Ownership
Potential For Passion

Blogs are powerful communication
tools. Blogs are powerful publishing
tools. But blogging (the verb) is still
much more than that to me.
Blogging, as in reading and thinking and
reflecting and then writing, is
connecting and learning
Will Richardson
http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/12/

All Media Is Social
All Social Is Media
which we can use as
All Media Is Education
All Social Is Education

No Questions!