This document discusses the rise of Web 2.0 technologies and their potential uses in education. It outlines several key trends driving changes in higher education over the next 5 years, including increased use of social networking, user-created content, mobile phones, and virtual worlds. Specific Web 2.0 tools that enable collaboration like social networks, blogs, wikis, and podcasts are described. Examples are given of how these tools can be used to enhance learning and teaching, for example by allowing students to share work or have discussions. However, some issues with passive learning and digital access are noted. Overall, the document advocates for harnessing new technologies to support collaborative and social learning models.

1. Web 2.0:
Imagine the
Possibilities
Presented by Gayla S. Keesee
May, 2007

3. Knowledge is specific content
Learners are empty
vessels to be filled
with knowledge

4. Knowledge is created
Learning is a collaborative social endeavor

5. A Paradigm Shift

7. Horizon Report 2007
Key trends affecting higher education—next
5 years
 One year or less
 Social Networking
 User-Created Content
 Two-Three Years
 Mobile Phones
 Virtual Worlds
 Four-Five Years
 New Scholarship and Emerging Forms of

8. Tools for Collaboration
 Social Networks
 Facebook, MySpace
 Flickr
 YouTube
 Blogs
 Wiki’s
 Podcasts

9. Social Software
 Social Networking
 Keeping contacts online through web interfaces
 Social Calendaring
 Shared agendas for events arrangements and
meetings planning
 Social Bookmarking
 storing, describing, and sharing bookmarks (
del.icio.us)
 Social Tagging
 Unintentional, collective effort of categorizing the
Web, with added social significance (Folksonomies)

10. Social Networks: Connect Users into
Communities of Trust (or interests)

11. Flickr
social network for sharing photos

12. You-Tube
social network for sharing videos

13. Blogging: Most Recognized Example

14. What are Blogs?
 Web + Logs = Blogs
 Web Pages
 Automated updating
 Reverse chronological postings
 May accommodate responses
 Internet-specific phenomenon
 Incomplete index of blogs
 http://blogdex.media.mit.edu/

15. Blogging in Education

16. Limited Only by Your Imagination
 Instructors
 Content-related blog as
professional practice
 Networking and personal
knowledge sharing
 Instructional tips for
students
 Course announcements
and readings
 Annotated links
 Students
 Reflective or writing
journals
 Assignment submission
and review
 Dialogue for groupwork
 E-portfolios
 Share course-related
resources

17. Sample Educational Blogs
 Online Research Blog
 eCornell Research Blog
 Info-Commons Blog
 commons-blog
 Educational Bloggers Network
 EBN blog
 Science Blog
 Science Blog

18. Wiki’s:
The ultimate collaboration tool
 Special web site
 allows visitors to add, remove, edit &
change content
 Not need access to or knowledge of
web publishing software
 Collaboration
 Group members work on common
document in common location

19. Wikipedia: Collaborative Dictionary
Being Edited in Real Time by Anyone

20. Wiki’s in Higher Ed
 Econ 482: Stephen Greenlaw
 Advanced Artificial
Intelligence: Sean Luke
 Harvard Law School
 Eckerd College

21. Podcasting
 Pod (iPod) + broadcast = Podcast
 Differs from streaming audio
 Automatically delivered to player –
don't have to click on a link to
download
 Listen when you want – not when a
program is scheduled

22. How Does Podcasting Work?

24. Why is podcasting appealing
for learning and teaching?
 Appeals to the
digital natives
 Easy and low cost
to create and
distribute
 Caters to different
learning styles

25. Advantages
 Students
 Review lectures before exams
 Listen in on classes they've missed
 Replay at own convenience
 Non-native speakers replay to increase
comprehension
 Instructors
 Listen to own lectures to improve
presentations

26. Learning & Teaching Applications
 Interviews with experts
 Oral history projects
 Quotes from recorded speeches
 Answers to posted questions
 Guest speakers / lecture series
 Student submissions /portfolios /
placement logs

27. Issues to be aware of…
 Not all students have iPods (about 60% do)
 20% of podcasts actually downloaded onto
portable media players
 Will students still come to lectures?
 Public access to audio files is necessary (no
access control)
 Cannot search or scan podcast content
 Podcasts can lend themselves to passive,
prescriptive teaching

28. Universities Podcasting
 iTunes U
(http://www.apple.com/education/solutions/itunes_u/)
 Duke University
 University of Illinois
 Stanford
 UC Berkley
 Purdue University
http://www.itap.purdue.edu/tlt/BoilerCast/
 University of Washington
http://www.css.washington.edu/

29. Over 200 Web 2.0 Sites in 41 Categories
Rated, Ranked and Awarded
15 Interviews with Founders of Winning Sites
The creators of the winning sites share their
insight and approach, including technology,
funding and methods for attracting traffic.
http://www.seomoz.org/web2.0

30. Horizon Project
http://horizonproject.wikispaces.com/
Collaborative global project between
classrooms in diverse geographical locations
 Camilla, GA (10th grade)
 Vienna, Austria (11th grade)
 Dhaka, Bangladesh (11th grade)
 Melbourne, Australia (11th grade)
 Shanghai, China (Media Literary)