Web 2.0 for Education
What is it? And, Should I care?
by
Todd McKee, MEd
Arkansas Geriatric Education Center

What is it?
Good luck!
O’Reilly’s “What is Web 2.0?” (Link)
Web as a platform
Collective intelligence
Data wants to be free
Perpetual “Beta”

Web 1.0 Web 2.0
Ofoto Flickr
Akamai BitTorrent
mp3.com Napster
Britannica Online Wikipedia
personal websites blogging
publishing participation
cms wikis
directories (taxonomy) tagging (\"folksonomy\")
stickiness syndication
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html

What is it?
Good luck!
O’Reilly’s “What is Web 2.0?” (Link)
“The Read/Write Web”
“The Web as Platform”
Social Software or Social Networking

Technology
RSS/Syndication
AJAX - Asynchronous Javascript and XML
Mash-ups / APIs (Flickr Maps)

Web 2.0 RoadMap - http://www.nri.co.jp/english/news/2006/061110.html

Social Technology
Social Networking
Facebook / MySpace
Classroom 2.0
Tagging / folksonomy
Flickr
Del.icio.us

Examples
Blogs
Wikis
Podcasts
Web as a platform

Blogs
Short for Web log
Web page that serves as a publicly accessible
personal journal
Usually in reverse chronological order

Blog Resources
WordPress: <http://wordpress.org>
Blogger: <http://www.blogger.com>
LiveJournal: <http://www.livejournal.com>
Typepad: <http://www.typepad.com>
Moveable Type: <http://www.sixapart.com/
movabletype>
Edublogs.org: <http://www.edublogs.org>

Wikis
A Web page that can be viewed and modified by
anybody with a Web browser and access to the
Internet
Possible to Restrict Access
Wiki Demo

Wiki Resources
WikiSpaces: <http://www.wikispaces.org>
MediaWiki: <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/
Main_Page>
PHPWiki: <http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net>
UseModWiki: <http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/
wiki.pl>
Twiki: <http://twiki.org>

Podcasts
Does NOT require an iPod - Listen on anything*
Distribution of audio files (MP3) through RSS
Allows end-user to subscribe
Automatic downloads of new content
Time-shifted content

Podcast Resources
iTunes <http://www.itunes.com>
Odeo <http://www.odeo.com>
Podcasting101 <http://podcasting101.pbwiki.com>
Podcast.net <http://www.podcast.net>
Podcast Alley <http://www.podcastalley.com>

Web as a Platform
Networked devices
Distributed data storage
Relies on the browser
Standards
Anytime, anywhere

Web Platform Resources
Flickr <http://www.flickr.com>
Del.icio.us <http://del.icio.us>
Gmail <http://www.gmail.com>
YouTube <http://www.youtube.com>
SlideShare <www.slideshare.net>

Web Platform Resources
Office replacements
Google Docs <docs.google.com>
ThinkFree Office <online.thinkfree.com>
Basecamp <www.basecamphq.com>
Zoho <www.zoho.com>

What is it?

Change in the User’s
“Digital Natives” vs. “Digital Immigrants”
“Native speakers” of the digital language
Computers, video games and the Internet
“Digital immigrant” still have an “accent”
Printing an email
Marc Prensky
http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/default.asp

Let’s Play!

Resources
del.icio.us/Teach_w_Tech/

Thank you
Todd McKee, MEd
todd@uams.edu