The document discusses exploring various Web 2.0 tools that can be used to develop a collaborative e-learning environment, including blogs, wikis, social bookmarking, document sharing, and screencasting. It also provides examples of how these tools fit within Bloom's taxonomy and can be applied to specific objectives in medical education. A range of medical search engines and open educational resources that utilize Web 2.0 functionality are also presented.

1. EXPLORING WEB 2.0 TOOLS TO
DEVELOP A COLLABORATIVE E-
LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
Michal J. Cidon MD.
Kadriye O. Lewis Ed.D
WGEA 2012

2. A New Culture of learn·ing/ˈ lərniNG/ in 2012
Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant
Change:
Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown
The culture of Sharing, Openness, Connectiv

4. Objectives:
1. Define Web 2.0 tools and describe the ways in which Web 2.0 tools
can be applied to specific medical educational contexts.
2. Discuss the key concepts and methods of Web 2.0 tools that will
enhance collaboration, social interaction, and reflection.
3. Describe at least two Web 2.0 applications that can be used
to address specific curricular objectives and promote learners’ lifelong
learning skills in medical education.

6. I II III IV V VI VII VIII
I social networks V Screencasting Tools
II Blogging VI Mindmapping
III Wiki tools VII Social Bookmarking
IV Document sharing VIII RSS Readers

7. Multi-functionality of Web 2.0
Content management: medical search engines, open source resources, aggregation, R
Collaboration Tools: Blogs, Wikis, Social Networks, Social Bookmarking,
Synchronous Collaborative environments, Vodcasts, Podcasts, Document sharing, virtua
Graphic Tools: Screencasting, visualization tools, concept mapping
Word clouds:
Virtual simulations: Animations, Games
Mashups:

8. How Web 2.0 tools fit into Bloom’s Digital
Taxonomy?
Creating
Analyzing
Evaluating
Applying
Understanding
Remembering

9. How Web 2.0 tools fit into the taxonomy of remembering?
Bullet pointing
Bookmarking
Social Networking Highlighting
Remembering
Searching

10. How Web 2.0 tools fit into the taxonomy of understanding?
Annotating
tagging
Blogging commenting
Understanding
Advanced and
Boolean
searching

11. How Web 2.0 tools fit into the taxonomy of applying?
Annotating
tagging
Blogging commenting
Applying
Advanced and
Boolean
searching

12. How Web 2.0 tools fit into the digital taxonomy of
evaluating?
Annotating
tagging
Blogging commenting
Evaluating
Advanced and
Boolean
searching

13. How Web 2.0 tools fit into the digital taxonomy of
analyzing?
Annotating
tagging
Blogging commenting
Analyzing
Advanced and
Boolean
searching

14. How Web 2.0 tools fit into the digital taxonomy of creating?
Annotating
tagging
Blogging commenting
Creating
Advanced and
Boolean
searching

15. Functionality of Web 2.0
Content management:
Medical search
engines,
Open source
resources,
Aggregation Tools,
RSS feeders

16. 1.HealthFind http://www.healthfind.com
HealthFind is using Google Custom
Medical Search Engines search to look up in selection of medical
and health sites.
2. PogoFrog http://www.pogofrog.com
A medical research engine for
physicians, using Google custom
search.
3. SearchMedica
http://www.searchmedica.com
It is a series of free medical search
engines built by doctors for doctors and
other medical professionals. This search
engine searches in selected
recommended medical sites or the
entire web. The user can refine his
search by category for more specific
information, also he can narrow or
broader the search.
4. Hakia.com http://health.hakia.com
(Semantic Search Technology)
Source: http://www.goomedic.com/12-web2-0-medical-search-engines.html

17. 5. MedWorm : http://www.medworm.com MedStory http://www.medstory.com Smart
Medical Search engine, which filter the medical search engine, aimed to save time
search results by date, relevance, specialty when looking for certain medical topics by
filter. Every search query has RSS feed to giving the users a chance to explore
keep watching the results update, related topics to get focused results.
MedWorm look-up in medical news, 9. GuidedMed
journals, organization, blogs and medical http://www.guidedmed.com/en/ Simple
podcasts. personalized search engine for health
6. Healthbase information ( Diseases, Symptoms,
http://healthbase.netbase.com Surgeries , Problems, Clinical States), the
Netbase.com is a providing their medicine simple search home interface
2.0 search engine with showing up their 10. Healia.com http://Healia.com A
capability of intelligent search in medical medical portal, communities and guides
and health field, their health search engine with extending medical capabilities to
search in diseases complications, medical retrieve results form the site, medical
conditions treatment. journals, clinical trials, and from the web.
7. Modernmedicine.com: 11. GoPubMed.org
http://www.modernmedicine.com A http://www.gopubmed.org/web/gopubmed/
Medical and Health community portal, A Web2.0 search engine that search
which is rich with medical articles and PubMed.com, and return the result based
organized medical topics. on classification of Gene Ontology and
ModernMedicine.com search also look-up Medical Subject Headings.
Source: http://www.goomedic.com/12-web2-0-medical-search-engines.html
recommended medical sites.

18. 12. Healthline.com
http://www.healthline.com/
Honorable mention!
OmniMedical Search
http://www.omnimedicalsearch.com/
Searches medical news, images, and
forums.
Source: http://www.goomedic.com/12-web2-0-medical-search-engines.html

19. Open Sources for Learning
Free Online Modulesand Portals
Resident Learning Center
Pedia Link Learning Center
MedEdPORTAL
Open Source Courses and Programs
Health Sciences Online www.hso.info HSO is the first
website to deliver authoritative, comprehensive, free, and
ad-free health sciences knowledge (with over 50,000
hand-selected resources, and 8,000 hits per day). HSO's
founding collaborators and funders include CDC, NATO,
World Bank, WHO, and the World Medical Association.
Open Textbook Publishing
new collaborative opportunities for authors
instructors can design content for their courses on an as-
needed basis, choosing from an array of books, articles,
videos, audio recordings, and readings

20. RSS Reader
Really Simple
Syndication
Format used to publish
frequently updated works
Full or summarized text
Metadata (publishing
dates and
authorship)
For readers to subscribe
to
timely updates of
websites
Aggregate feeds into one
place

24. Functionality of Web 2.0
Six types
Collaboration Tools:
Blogs, Wikis, 1. Collaborative
Social Networks, projects,
2. Blogs and
Vodcasts, Podcasts,
microblogs,
Social Bookmarking, 3. Content
Synchronous Collaborative communities,
4. Social
environments,
networking
Document sharing, sites,
virtual worlds 5. Virtual game
worlds,
6. Virtual
Internet-based applications that allow communities
the creation and exchange of user-generated content

25. Blog
short for “ web-log”
A personal diary
A collaborative space
A collection of links
Memos to the world

26. http://www.ucan-u.org/blog/pediatric-rheumatology-collaborative-study-group-cincinnati/
http://dukehealthorg.wordpress.com/2010/08/26/duke-pediatric-rheumatology-lupus-day/

27. http://www.lupus.org/webmodules/webarticlesnet/templates/marcy
zitron_news.aspx?articleid=4150&zoneid=400
http://www.lupus.org/webmodules/webarticlesnet/templates/marcyzitron_news.aspx?articleid=4150&zoneid=400

28. Wiki
Hawaiian word for “quick”
Website that allows creation
and editing of any number of
interlinked web pages via a
web browser
Often used to create
collaborative works

30. Social Networking
PlurK: social journal http://www.plurk.com
Ning: http://www.ning.com
Social network info ‐
http://www.commoncraft.com/video‐social‐
networking
MySpace ‐ http://www.myspace.com
Classroom 2.0 ‐
http://www.classroom20.com
Video sharing
Virtual Meeting Rooms
Flip ‐
Elluminate vRoom – http://theflip.com/products_flip_ultra.sh
http://www.elluminate.com/vroom tml
WebEx – www.webex.com Jing ‐ http://www.jingproject.com/
iLinc – www.iLinc.com Camtasia ‐
Adobe Connect ‐ http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.as
http://www.adobe.com/acom/connectnow p
Dimdim – http://www.dimdim.com
Podcast info –
http://www.commoncraft.com/podcasti

35. Vod-casts
 Video On Demand + broadCAST =
VODCAST
 Video files commonly in blogs that can be
played on a computer or a video iPod
 Some example sites:
 Medical podcasts & videocasts
 NOVA Vodcast | PBS
 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Vodcast

36. Create and share online repositories of
URLs, clippings from web pages, images, Social Bookmarking
and more, all accessible via the web
Sites such as http://digg.com use tagging
(user created #hashmarks) technology to
categorize and organize web URLs. Online
notebooks provide a space to store text
and other media which can be accessed
via the Internet.
Potential Instructional Uses: Peer review,
collaborative writing assignments, resource
collections, reading summaries
Honorable Mention: Google Reader,
http://evernote.com,
http://delicious.com, http://diigo.com
Sharing links (del.icio.us)
Sharing lists (LibraryThing, All
Consuming)
Sharing articles (CiteULike, PennTags)

37. Visual Communication and
Collaboration
 Use media to collaborate with students and vice versa
 Potential Instructional Uses: Peer review, collaborative
writing assignments, resource collections, reading
summaries
Honorable Mention:
 Scribblar.com http://www.scribblar.com/
(Multi-user white board, live video, image
collabortion)
 Voicethread.com http://voicethread.com/
 Tokbox.com http://www.tokbox.com/ (Free video

38. Document Sharing
 Tag and share documents with others via the Internet
 http://Slideshare.net and http://Scribd.com are two sites
which allow you to upload documents and share them
via the Internet. The wisdom of the crowd typically
promotes the best presentations/docs to the top of the
search engine results. Remember to share as well as
borrow.
 Potential Instructional Uses: sharing class resources,
providing supplemental materials
 Honorable Mention: http://a.nnotate.com ,
http://docs.google.com

39. Virtual Worlds
Webkinz ‐ http://www.webkinz.com/us_en
JumpStart World ‐
http://www.knowledgeadventure.com/jumpstartworld
DimensionM ‐ http://www.dimensionm.com
SPORE ‐ http://www.spore.com
Edusim ‐ http://edusim3d.com
Teen Second Life ‐ http://teen.secondlife.com
Second Life http://secondlife.co

41. A non-hierarchical keyword or
Tagging term assigned to a piece of
information
Description that allows item
to be found again by
browsing or searching
Tag Cloud
A visual depiction of user generated
tags
Importance of each tag is
shown with font size or color

42. Functionality of Web 2.0
Graphic Tools:
Screencasting,
visualization
tools,
concept mapping

43. Screencasting
 Record your computer screen with voice, mouse movements and
video and share via the Internet
 ScreenToaster http://screentoaster.com is a Java-based tool for
recording screencasts from your web browser. If you've got Java
installed on your computer all you have to do is visit ScreenToaster
and begin recording. A window will pop up asking you to select the
area of your desktop that you want to record and decide whether
you want to capture audio from your microphone.
 Potential Instructional Uses: Demos for repeated activities
(Blackboard), demonstrate grading policies, review quizzes, class
summaries/announcements
 Honorable mention: http://JingProject.com, http://Screenr.com,
http://ScreenCastle.com, http://Screen-o-matic.com

44. Visualization Tools (Prezi)
 Provides alternate means to display information, temporally,
graphically, or spatially.
 The Visual Thesaurus http://www.visualthesaurus.com is an
interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps
that blossom with meanings and branch to related words. Its
innovative display encourages exploration and learning.
 Potential Instructional Uses: vocabulary development,
definitions
 Honorable mention: http://prezi.com, http://ahead.com,
http://dipity.com
 http://prezi.com/gxgypkp67mka/blooms-digital-taxonomy-and-
web-2-tools/

45. Prezi Example about Bloom’s Digital
Taxonomy
Phillipa Cleaves
http://hccweb2.org/pip

46. Concept/Mind Maps
 Shows relationships between entities (words, ideas, tasks)
 Webspiration™ http://mywebspiration.com is the new online
visual thinking tool that helps you capture ideas, organize
information, diagram processes and create clear, concise
written documents whether working individually or
collaboratively.
 IHMC CmapTools http://cmap.ihmc.us
 Potential Instructional Uses: setting objectives, brainstorming
activities, identifying cues, summarize notes, providing
frameworks
 Honorable mention: http://mindmeister.com, http://bubbl.us

47. Mashups
Examples of Mashup Mashup:
HealthMap http://healthmap.org/en
Application development technique
Biowizard http://www.biowizard.com/
Hybrid App
Vimo http://www.vimo.com/
Reuse
PubWindows
Simple examples work well
http://www.neurotransmitter.net/index.php
Programmableweb(portal)
www.programmableweb.com
Map of the Market (finance/visualization)
http://www.smartmoney.com/marketmap/ A website or web application that uses
Trulia (real estate) www.trulia.com content from more than one source to
Resultr (create your search engine) create a completely new service.
www.resultr.com/
The AD Generator (advertising/photos)
http://www.theadgenerator.org/