This document provides an overview of various Web 2.0 technologies and applications that can be used for educational purposes, including social bookmarking sites, word clouds, interactive photos and presentations, online movie creators, and collaborative discussion platforms. Specific examples like Delicious, Wordle, Blabberize, Animoto, and VoiceThread are described. The document suggests having partners brainstorm ways these tools could be incorporated into classes like English, math, history, world languages, and science to facilitate student projects, peer review, and collaboration.

1. Bob Abrams
misterabrams@misterabrams.com
Twitter, Plurk & Skype: misterabrams

2. A is for …
B is for …
C is for …

3. Q is for …

5. Letter Name What is it? Letter Name What is it?
A Apple Computer Company N Napster Online Music Site
B Bluetooth Wireless Technology O Office
Microsoft Productivity
Suite
C Core 2 Duo Computer Processor P Playstation Video Game System
D Delicious.com Social Bookmarking Q Quicktime
Video Playback
software
E eBay Online Auction Site R RSS
Really Simple
Syndication
F Facebook Social Network Site S Second Life Alternate Reality
G Google Search Engine T Tags
Key words attached to
files to assist in searches
H Hewlett-
Packard
Computer Manufacturer U USB
Type of connection
between components
I iPod Touch
Handheld Computing
Device V Vista
Recent version of
Windows OS
J Java Programming Language W Wikipedia
Online Encyclopedia
developed through
collaboration
K Kazaa Online Music Site X XP
Recent version of
Windows OS
L Linux
Computer Operating
System Y Youtube Online video site
M MSN
Messenger
Instant Message Program Z Zoho
Open Source
Productivity Suite

7.  By the end of the presentation, you should be able to:
 Identify methods of cataloging, collaborating, and
sharing resources.
 Generate curricular based ideas for the applications of
various Web 2.0 utilities.

8. Introducing Web 2.0

9. Web 1.0
 Slow connectivity
 Privacy concerns for
authors
 Read-only files
 Faster connectivity
 Built on the ideas of
sharing and
participating
Web 2.0
“To take an example from above, Personal web pages were common in Web 1.0,
and these consisted of mainly static pages hosted on free hosting services such
as Geocities. Nowadays, dynamically generated blogs and social networking
profiles, such as Myspace and Facebook, are more popular, allowing for readers
to comment on posts in a way that was not available during Web 1.0.”
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_1.0 Accessed March 31, 2009

10. Social Bookmarking

11.  Like Favorites but
online
 Share with the
entire cyber-world
 Search other
people’s
bookmarks
Benefits?
Possible
Problems?
Examples

12.  Tags
 Find me:
http://www.delicious.com/misterabrams
http://www.diigo.com/user/misterabrams
 Find others who save the same bookmarks as you do!

13. Word Clouds

14. Wordle.net
 Example
 Text is transformed into word clouds
 Words that are repeated are larger
 In order to find wordles, use this:
http://www.wordle.net/gallery?username=misterabrams

15. Wordle.net
With a partner, discuss some ways that
this could be incorporated into an
English class.

16. Make pictures and presentations really speak

17. Blabberize.com
Example
Bring photos to life!
Just draw the interactive mouth
Free to sign up and then all of your
creations are easily locatable.

18. Blabberize.com
With a partner, how can we get
students to use this for a project in a
math class?

19. VoiceThread.com
 Example
 Multiple comments can be added to a
picture
 Video
 Voice
 Text
 Can be shared and saved
 Education accounts can be established

20. VoiceThread.com
 With a partner, how could this
application be used to discuss WWII in a
history class?

21. Movie Creators

22.  Perfect for Elementary but can be used in
higher grades
 Pre-made clips to create the movie
 Add text and dialogue
 Students can comment and evaluate as a
part of peer review.
 Example

23. With a partner, how could this
application be used in a World
Language class?

24.  Will render photos into a movie
 Students can
 Use their own photos or those available online
 Add some written language for transition
 Add a soundtrack
 Comment on other videos for peer evaluation
 Example

25. With a partner, how could this
application be used in a Science class?

27. Word Cloud
 Wordle.net  Zimmertwins.com
 Animoto.com
Getting Things Moving
Adding a Voice
 Blabberize.com
 Voicethread.com
Remembering and
Organizing
 Delicious.com
 Diigo.com

28.  Remember the objective?
 By the end of the presentation, you should be able to:
 Identify methods of cataloging, collaborating, and sharing
resources.
 Generate curricular based ideas for the applications of
various Web 2.0 utilities.
 Did you get some ideas?
 The big idea:
Play, explore, experiment, and ask the question:
Who is doing the work?