This document discusses the rise of Generation Y, also known as Echo Boomers, who number up to 80 million. Generation Y is technologically savvy, having grown up with computers, mobile phones, and economic prosperity. They are entrepreneurial and not afraid to challenge authority. The document also discusses how the world has become "flat" due to technologies like the Internet, fiber optics, and outsourcing allowing more global collaboration. It recommends educators embrace new media like blogs, wikis, and multimedia sharing to engage this new generation and prepare new learning materials. Web 2.0 encourages user-generated content and collective learning through technologies like RSS feeds, social bookmarking, and social networking.

1. Dr Hiran Amarasekera
Department of Forestry and Environmental Science
University of Sri Jayewardenepura

7. Students = Echo boomers
Generation Y

9. Y)
 Up to 80 Million “Echo Boomers” (Generation Y)
 These are the children of the “Baby Boomers”
 entrepreneurial, global
 best educated; both men and women
 computers are a primary language
 Mobile phones, sms are common
 They grow up with economic prosperity
 They are not afraid of challenging managers

10.  Do not blame
technology or young
generation
 Prepare materials
for this new media
and new generation

11. World is flat
A book by Thomas Friedman
 1989 PC – Windows – individual contenet
creation
 1995 Internet – email – browser – fiber
optics
 Work Flow collaboration – individual
content uploading
 Web applications
 Open-sourcing (free knowledge)
 Out-sourcing

12. World is flat
A book by Thomas Friedman
 Web applications – gmail, fickr, google
docs
 Open-sourcing (free knowledge)
 Out-sourcing
http://academicearth.org/lectures/the-world-is-flat

13. World is flat
A book by Thomas Friedman
 Eg Encyclopedia
Britannica to Wikipedea

14. Three rules in the flat world
 Whatever can be done will be done
eg. By Sabaragamuwa and USJ
 Individual imagination matters
 Learn to collaborate

15. WIIFM: What’s in it for me?
1. Traditional web and web 2.0
2. Key web 2.0 applications/ services
3. Popular sites for learning
4. Starting collaborative web sites

16. Have you used?
 Google
 Blogging – blogger, wordpress
 Wiki – wikipedia, wikispaces
 Mutimedia sharing – flickr, youtube
 Podcasting – itunes
 VLE s – moodle, blackboard. webCT
 Social Bookmarking – delicious, digg
 Social Networking – hi5, facebook,
linkedin

17. WIIFM: What’s in it for me?

18. Three target groups
Group 1 Group 2 Group 3
Just listen
and learn the
new
technologies
available
Try some of
these things
to enhance
your internet
browsing
experience
Start web 2.0
based
eLearning

19. Traditional E-learning
(web 1.0)
 Computer-based training – (1980s)
use of single or few computers for learning
 Static content web sites –
 Dynamic content web sites –
Database-backed websites providing
information tailored to the viewers
particular requirements.

21. Course Management
System (CMS)
 The traditional approach to e-learning
 Web application runs on a server
 Students can access the system from
anywhere with an internet connection
 Easy way to upload course materials, hold
online discussions, chats, give quizzes

22. Moodle –
Free and Open Source CMS
Download free at www.moodle.org
or www.sourceforge.net

24. Moodle eLearining site at www.cometolanka.com/learn

25. Moodle eLearining site at www.cometolanka.com/learn

27. Web 2.0
 Traditional web - merely browsing the
internet after searching search engines
 Web 2.0 - User generated content
 Users can contribute and shape the
content of the web by means of blog
posts, podcasts, wikis, sharing photos and
videos

28. Big ideas behind web 2.0
1. User generated content
2. Harnessing collective intelligence
3. Open data
4. Data on an epic scale

29. E-learning 2.0 – New
approach to eLearning
 coined by Stephen Downes
 Use of tools and web services - such as
blogs, wikis, and other social software - to
support the creation of learning
communities.

30. E-learning 2.0
 Learning is centered around the interests
of the learner
 This learning is immersive – learning by
doing
 The computer connects the student to the
rest of the world

31. Technologies to enhance teaching
Wikis Tagging, Social
bookmarking
Key services
and
applications
Web 2.0
RSS
Blogs
Multimedia
shareing
Podcasting
Social
Networking
Newer
Applications

32. Blogging - web log publishing
 Blog is an abbreviated version of "weblog“
 website that contains diary- type written
material, links or photos being posted all the
time, usually by one individual, on a personal
basis
 Blogging is increasingly used in education
(both in school and university), because it is
easy to publish.
 Facilitate feedback, by letting readers add
comments

33. Example blog sites
 http://environmentlanka.blogspot.com
 http://forestrystudents.blogspot.com
 http://forestrysymposium2005.blogspot.com
 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog
ger_id=99657

35. Ranked 8
on
google.com

38. Blog software
-obtain a free blog
www.blogger.com
www.wordpress.com
www.edublogs.org
www.classblogmeister.com

39. www.blogger.com

40. Wikis
www.classblogmeister.com

41. Wikis
 Web sites that can be collaboratively
updated using only a web browser.
 Enable group development of ideas and
information sources.
 Eg Wikipedia (http://wikipedia.org).
 Start your own wiki for your class for free
at www.wikispaces.com

42. Wikipedia.org

43. wikipedia.org
online encyclopedia
 read articles on “any” subject, and also
can edit them.
 Wikipedia is not a source so reliable you
can cite it in real academic papers.
 However, it has wealth of information -
more than a million user-written articles
 good starting point for research on new
topics.

46. Multimedia Sharing

48. History of the wiki edits

50. Tagging and Social
Bookmarking
Tag is a key
word that is
added to a
digital object

51. Social Bookmarking – Find
new web sites
 Search engines like Google can find
material using keywords
 Social Bookmarking allow users to
highlight their best sites
 Sharing bookmarks
 Provide you the collective intelligence of
other users
 Help you find things that you never knew
existing, but wished you did.

52. Social Bookmarking sites
 http://del.icio.us
http://www.digg.com
http://stumbleupon.com

53. www.delicious.com

55. www.digg.com

56. Multimedia sharing

57. Photo sharing - Flickr.com
 Publish digital photography to a wider
audience.
 Valuable resource for images for use in
presentations, learning materials
 Commenting function allows for feedback.
 http://www.flickr.com/photos/environme
ntlanka/

58. •Register to flickr,
•upload your photos.
•Join a group named
“University of Sri Jayewardenepura”.
•Post your photo to this group within the
flickr.
www.flickr.com

59.  Webcasts and videocasts
 streaming video on the internet.
youtube.com video.google.com
Video Sharing

60. You Tube
www.youtube.com

61. teachertube.com

62. www.slideshare.net

63. Screencasting
 Record your presentation and upload to
slideshare.net

64. RSS feedsRSS feeds

65. RSS Feeds
 Rich Site Summary or Really Simple
Syndication
 allows users to subscribe to websites that
provide RSS feeds such as blogs and
news sites
 When new content is added, a software
program called an aggregator
automatically pulls in the feeds.
 Common news aggregator is Bloglines at
www.bloglines.com.

66. www.google.com/reader
Bloglines
www.bloglines.com

67. Google Reade
www.google.com/reader

71. Educational applications of
RSS Feeds
 Professional Development
keep-up-to-date on a wide variety of subjects from leading experts in the field. You
get closer to the leading edge of what is going on the particular field.
 Time Saving
You can track more information in a shorter period of time. Now you do not have to
spend a large amount of time surfing the internet for topic specific content.
 Information coming from contrasting sources
You could subscribe to feeds from different parts of the news world about a current
event in the news to compare and contrast the information and/or to check to see if
there were any biases.
 Sharing what you are doing with other educators
Any teacher can share information with thousands of other teachers using a blog or
webpage with RSS technology.
RSS feeds will have a major impact on the
way we receive our information in the
future.

72. Start Pages
 Start pages provide a desktop that can
host all of a user's most common Web
information such as news, weather, e-mail,
RSS feeds, and more, all in a single user-
controlled Web page.

74. Podcasts

75. Podcasting
 Distribution of audio files on the web
 This has become a popular technology in
education, because it provides a way of
distributing educational content to
learners.

76. Tools for podcasting
 You need iPod software
 Download at www.apple.com/itunes
 Goto iTunes Music Store from within
iTunes
 Click on Podcasts

80. Social Networking –
www.hi5.com

82. Professional social network

83. Other web 2.0 applications
 3d Virtual reality site
http://www.secondlife.com
 Post things you do
http://www.twitter.com
 Post or find events
http://www.upcoming.org

84. Secondlife.com

88. Top sites for enhance
teaching and learning
 Lots of internet resources that can give
you a quality education every day, free
knowledge is available all around us.

89. free audio and video lessons
 University of California, Berkeley in USA is ranked as
one of the best colleges in USA and in the world.
 Podcasts - lectures in mp3 format
 can download these Podocasts in as mp3 files and listen
to them using ipod player or winamp in windows.
 Webcasts - courses with video.
 You can be in the classroom with the students watching
or hearing some amazing teachers and accomplished
professionals.
 http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses

91. MIT Open Courseware –
free online courses
 MIT web site gives away course materials,
including syllabi, lectures, assignments
and reading materials free.
 free and open educational resource (OER)
for educators, students, and self-learners
around the world.
 http://ocw.mit.edu

93. google.com
 most accurate, and widely accepted search engine
today.
 Other online software
 Google images (search images)
 Google video (search and download videos for free)
 email (with Gmail),
 cartography (Google Maps),
 literature (Google Book Search)
 Google Earth, an incredibly detailed virtual globe.
 Picasa (photo browsing and editing)
 google desktop search (good search engine to search
your personal computer)

94. Amazon.com
 Online retailer of mainly books, CDs,
VCDs
 Considered as the earth's biggest
bookstore, you can order books if you
have a credit card.
 You can browse through the world's most
popular books in any subject and become
reader of the very recent books published.

96. Sourceforge.net
 Freeware Applications
 Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)
is becoming very popular, most often as
Microsoft alternatives.
 Mozilla Firefox browser is accepted as
better product than MS Internet explorer.
 contains lots of free software.

97. 100+ Free Websites to find out about
Anything and Everything by Jane Hart

98. Things you can try
 Create a blog at blogger.com
 Create a wiki at wikispaces.com
 Get your RSS feeds using
www.bloglines.com
 Or google reader www.google.com/reader

99. Things you can try
 Share your photos at www.flickr.com
 Create your profile at www.linkedin.com
 Find new web sites using http://del.icio.us
or www.digg.com
 Download podcasts and webcasts for
lectures
 Setup start page to www.netvibes.com

100. Knowledge Revolution
Victory will go to the Smartest
Individuals, Companies and Nations