The document discusses the transformative impact of technology on education and collaboration, highlighting the role of cloud computing and Web 2.0 in facilitating student engagement and global learning. It emphasizes the need for effective information search strategies, differentiating between traditional keyword searches and the emerging semantic web that understands data relationships. The future of information discovery and user interaction is framed within the context of the semantic web, aiming at improved usability and personalized experiences for learners.

1. Content Used to be King
Judy O’Connell
St Joseph’s College
ISTE2010
Denver, Colorado
June 27-30
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3. Shrinking the World http://heyjude.wordpress.com

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21st century
Horizon Project developments

5. Technology continues to profoundly affect the way
we work, collaborate, communicate, and succeed.
Horizon Report 2010 K-12 Edition
Collaborative environments give students tremendous
opportunities to interact with peers and mentors, experience other world views, and
model the kinds of work patterns that take place in an increasing number of
professions.
Cloud computing has transformed the way we think about
computing and communication, data storage and access, and collaborative work.
Cloud-based applications and services help students engage in real research and
participate in global learning communities.
21st century
Horizon Project developments

6. Immersed
in a
“Web 2.0”
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7. Increasing
interaction
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8. Increasing
interaction
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9. http://flickrvision.com/
Sharing
Collaborating
Tags and RSS

10. This is the Read / Write Web
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11. Rich content
•Amazon experience!
•Blogs and web
•Social bookmarking
•Wikis
•Image and Videos
•Places & events
•Music, books, and
more.....
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12. Our problem?
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13. searching for
Information overload information
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14. Picking a tool http://toolsforsearch.wikispaces.com/

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revolutionising
Information labyrinth knowledge discovery

16. Seek Follow
Gather Explore
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revolutionising
Information labyrinth knowledge discovery

17. http://delicious.com/hrheingold/crap_detection
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Information labyrinth ‘crap’ detection

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revolutionising
Picking the right tool knowledge discovery

19. Google Wonder-Wheel http://www.google.com

20. Search-cube http://www.search-cube.com/

21. Quintura Kids http://quinturakids.com/

22. Cuil http://www.cuil.com

23. Blinkx http://www.blinkx.com

24. one search :: a wealth of information
Trove http://trove.nla.gov.au/

25. one search :: a wealth of information
Databases revolutionising
knowledge discovery

26. 10 X 10 http://tenbyten.org/

27. Fast Flip http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/

28. iPad Pulse reader

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Pandia All-in-One List of Search Engines
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30. One day the
web will
answer all
your
questions
Finding answers would be easy if
computers could understand and
collate all the information out there.
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31. The Intelligent Web
Web 4.0
Productivity of Search 2020 - 2030 Reasoning
The Semantic Web
Web 3.0 Semantic Search
2010 - 2020
The Social Web
Natural language search
The World Wide Web
Web2010
2000 -
2.0
Tagging
Web2000
1990 -
1.0
Keyword search
The Desktop
Directories
PC Era
1980 - 1990
Files & Folders
Databases
By Radar Networks http://www.slideshare.net/adityatuli/explaining-the-semantic-web
Amount of data
Beyond the Limits of Keyword Search

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Semantic Web revolutionising
knowledge discovery

33. The web is the
database
Ask questions rather
than perform
searches.
The intelligence is in
the connections.
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34. Meaning
Linked
Jaguar Data
Jaguar
Interoperability
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35. revolutionising
Semantic Web knowledge discovery
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36. :machine readable data:
i.e. the stuff a
computer can
get at when it goes
to a site.
Folksonomy by itself is not Web 3.0!
revolutionising
Semantic Web knowledge discovery

37. Embedding semantical annotations
into the data.
To recognize people,
places, events,
companies,
products, movies,
etc.
revolutionising
Semantic Web knowledge discovery

38. Resource Description Framework
Understand the
relationships
between things
revolutionising
Semantic Web knowledge discovery

39. stop thinking websites and start thinking data
revolutionising
Semantic Web knowledge discovery
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40. BBC Building on linked data by
creating pan-BBC
aggregations of content.
Each Search+ page shows
the best content on its
particular topic from around
bbc.co.uk, and sometimes
s e l e c t e d c o n t e n t f ro m
outside the BBC.
Semantic Web revolutionising
knowledge discovery

41. BBC
Making resources
part of the Web and
therefore linkable
and discoverable.
Semantic Web revolutionising
knowledge discovery

42. BBC
Usability—Making a site
around the things people
care and think about.
User Experience—Having
resources that can be
visualised in new ways.
Semantic Web revolutionising
knowledge discovery

43. BBC
User Journeys—Allowing
users to make their own
journeys across the content.
On the BBC /nature, users
can start making their own
documentaries.
Semantic Web revolutionising
knowledge discovery

44. Linked Open Data data.gov

45. Mix & Match
•search strategies
•evaluation strategies
•critical thinking
•ethical behaviour

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“humanity connected through technology”
Web 3.0 in Education
Semantic Web revolutionising
knowledge discovery

48. Network IS King
Content IS King revolutionising
knowledge discovery
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49. Spread the word Thank you!
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