The last iteration of my signature presentation, with finally a discourse on media convergence.

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WE ARE THE WEB
Antonio Vantaggiato
Universidad del Sagrado Corazón
netedu.info
blogs.netedu.info
antoniovantaggiato.net

2. We are the Web!
Mass collaboration
Users provide for contents
Collective Inteligence

3. The Internet? Bah!
Clifford Stoll
27 Feb. 1995
1995: The Internet?
One to many

4. A new territory
The limits of my
language are the
limits of my world
-L. Wittgenstein

5. The computer is everywhere
The cellphone is everywhere
The Web is everywhere
Brave New World

6. Source:
www.internetworldstats.com, 2008,
END, 2009
USA 72.5
EU
59.9
Norway
Puerto Rico 87.7
35
Antigua
Chile 85.9
44.9
Costa Rica 35.7
Argentina
39.3
Brazil 26.1
Internet
Access

7. State of the Internet
2010
Business Data & Infographics by FOCUS.COM

8. State of the Internet
2010
Business Data & Infographics by FOCUS.COM

9. State of the Internet
2010
Business Data & Infographics by FOCUS.COM

10. WEB 2.0
users
Upload content

11. What about Authority?
We all contribute ::: Social Construction of Knowledge

12. users
edit content

13. “By removing the central
control points, the Web enabled a self-
organizing, self-stimulating growth
of contents and links on a
scale the world has literally never
before experienced.”
--David Weinberger
No control
>>>Power to the People<<<

14. users
Upload content

15. users
Upload content

16. users
Upload content

17. users
collaborate

18. We, the users
Are the new Web!

19. What about copyright?
It must be thought out anew…

20. Some Rights Reserved

21. JRLN: Web:::educa+10n Journal
http://blogs.netedu.info/?page_id=194
mashup
Among the most important educational technologies: horizon
report 2008 (nmc)

22. bloggin’ in the wind!
(weblogs)

23. DigiZen
El blogfesor Mario Núñez

24. Revolution?
Jim Groom (2008)
bavatuesdays.com

25. Blog (RSS) aggregation
A pleasant reading!

26. Twitter
At a newsstand close to you

27. Twitter...is looking like
plumbing, and plumbing is
eternal
microblogging
Twitter, FriendFeed

28. This is me
in Twitter

29. This is Mike Wesch
Author of “The Machine is Us/ing Us”

30. This is Barack Obama
US President

31. And this is Britney!
…what?

32. Conversations
are key
dialogue

33. Calle 13
<->
Ricky
Martin
diálogos

34. Possibilities & Challenges
WE ARE THE WEB!

35. Google Docs

36. delicious.com

37. delicious.com

38. ustream.tv
Hulu
YouTube TV
photo & film editing, online
Hello, TV??

39. So... did you see the
convergence?
:-)

40. Conversations everywhere
Education anywhere, anytime
Social immersion anywhere, anytime
Entertainment anywhere, anytime
anytime, anywhere, everywhere

41. Will the conversations help
us deepen our
understanding, or will they
just be surface navigation?
Just one question

42. Questions?
Antonio Vantaggiato
avantaggiato@sagrado.edu
www.antoniovantaggiato.net