This document discusses the differences between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0. Web 1.0 was largely a source of static information, while Web 2.0 allows for collaboration, sharing, and user-generated content through tools like blogs, wikis, social networking sites, and photo sharing sites. It argues that Web 2.0 reflects how students currently live and learn, and that schools should embrace these tools to increase student engagement, motivation, and the development of 21st century skills. Examples of schools currently using Web 2.0 tools like podcasts and wikis are also provided.

1. Demystifying Web 2.0 tools
Lena Arena
ICT Consultant K-12
Sydney Region
9582 2810
Carmelina.arena@det.nsw.edu.au

2. Web 1.0?
• Web a digital library, largely a
source of information for
students.
• A large collection and collation
of information with varying
degrees of reliability and
authenticity.
• Internet was once mostly about
surfing from one static Web site
to another while collecting or
viewing data along the way

4. What is Web 2.0?
• Web is the platform
• wwww – whatever, wherever,
whenever, whoever
• Users share information,
collaborate on content, and
converse worldwide via social-
software tools.
• The read-write web (as distinct
from the read-only web)
• Data comes from many users
and sources
• Data stored on host servers

5. Web 2.0 tools
• Blogs
• Wikis
• Social network software
• Tagged photo stores
• Social bookmarking
• Communication networks
• Podcasts and vodcasts
• 3-D virtual worlds
• RSS
• mashups

6. Web 2.0 tools…

7. Web 2.o tools…

8. Blogs
• Blogs (short for web logs) are
online diaries.
• Blogs are Web sites that allow
instant communication and
publication and allow for
feedback from readers.
http://judyoconnell.wordpress.com/blogging

9. Wikis
• A wiki is a communal, subject-
specific Web site where users
can add and/or edit content.
• Wikis enable groups of
students, teachers, or both to
gather content and share
written work.
– http://judyoconnell.wordpress.com/wikis/

10. RSS
• Real Simple Syndication
are called “feeds”:
programs that take
content from various Web
sources—news sites, blogs,
online journals—and
deliver it in summarised
form to the user (you!)
– http://judyoconnell.wordpress.com/rss-2/

11. RSS Reader
• In order to subscribe to RSS
feeds, you need to download
RSS reader software or use a
Web-based RSS reader. This
allows you to access all your
feeds in one convenient
location.

12. Social Bookmarks
• This allows students and
teachers to build a list of
favourite websites they can
share via the web and pass on
to future classes.
– http://delicious.com/c.arena
– http://delicious.com/sharonmcg/

13. Podcasts
• Podcasting enables Web sites
to provide visitors with audio
and/or video recordings that
can be downloaded to a
local computer and watched
at any time and/or listened to
on-line.
– http://aussiekids.podbean.com/

14. Social Networking
• “social content-sharing sites
where members create profiles,
network, and share opinions,
photos, and audio-visual content”.
– Facebook (150 million users worldwide
from 170 countries and in 35 different
languages )
– MySpace
– Bebo
– Ning – lets you create your own social
network

15. Social messaging
• Social messaging sites
allow users to
communicate with other
users in real time
• Messages are usually short
• Most popular site is Twitter

16. Photo storage and sharing
• Web sites that allow on-line
storage and sharing of
photos and videos
• Allows organisation and
editing of photos

17. Why Web 2.0?
• Many students have easy access
to the internet and email. (58%
NSW homes have internet
connection – ABS June 27, 2007)
• They use Web 2.0 tools such as
wikis, blogs, YouTube, Facebook
and MySpace
• Some have a Second Life!
• It is an integral part of their world
outside school
• Students are now tele-visual with
well developed multi-tasking skills.
• Over 83% of youth have a mobile
device

18. Why Web 2.0?
• Web 2.0 reflects an “Architecture
of Participation” …
• The web is challenging traditional
approaches to how we learn
• The web is challenging our
assumptions about classrooms
and teaching
• The web is challenging our
assumptions about knowledge,
information and literacy

19. Why Web 2.0?
• Economic future is highly
uncertain
• Education systems need to
educate children with high skills
AND optimistic outlook
• To compete in new economies
people will need to:
– Be creative and think laterally
– Work collaboratively
– Understand and leverage their
core strengths

20. Web 2.0 tools..
• Facilitate critical analysis and
participation in publishing
• Allow the creation of
educational communities to
store and share knowledge
• Enables student reflection on
learning
• Allows celebration of student
success
• Increased motivation of
students with a wider audience

21. Today’s digital kids think of information and
communications technology (ICT) as something
akin to oxygen: They expect it, it’s what they
breathe, and it’s how they live; They use ICT to
meet, play, date, and learn; It’s an integral part
of their social life; It’s how they acknowledge
each other and form their personal identities
John Seely-Brown, 2004
Learning in the Digital Age; http://www.johnseelybrown.com/speeches.html
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22. Reflection…
• What are the implications
for the classroom?

23. Did you know?
TeacherTube.com

25. Considerations…
• DET guidelines re blogs and
wikis
• Existing policies re
acceptable usage
• Learning Tools Project –
provision of blogs and wikis
for students

26. Sydney Region examples
• Podcasts
– http://canterblog.podbean.com/
– https://www.det.nsw.edu.au/blog/5109-cleverkids/
– http://m456m.podbean.com/
• Wikis
– http://gymeabay.wikispaces.com/
– http://3p-space.wikispaces.com/
– http://6dspace.wikispaces.com/
– http://rockdalestage3.wikispaces.com/

27. TeacherTube videos
• Wikis
– http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_
• Blogs
– http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_
• Web 2.0

28. TeacherTube videos
• Did you know? Shift
Happens
– http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_

34. Did you know?
• In 2007, the average Australian
family household had:
– 3 mobile phones
– 3 TVs
– 2 computers
– 2 DVD players
– 2 portable MP3/MP4 players
– 1 VCR
– 2 games consoles
(Source: ACMA study cited in Lee, M
& Gaffney,M (eds.), Leading the
Digital School. 2008)

35. Cool websites to visit
• School Libraries and
Information Literacy
– http://www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov
– Blogs and wikis
• Shift Happens
– http://shifthappens.wikispaces.com
• Wordle
– http://www.wordle.net/

36. Cool websites to visit
• Go2Web2.0
– http://www.go2web20.net/
• Judy’s Web 2.0
– http://judyoconnell.wordpress.com/
• EDUCAUSE Learning
– http://www.educause.edu/eli/16086
• TeacherTube
– http://www.teachertube.com/index.php