This document discusses Web 2.0 technologies and their application for learning. It provides an agenda for a workshop on Web 2.0 that will introduce participants to technologies like Delicious for social bookmarking, SlideShare for sharing presentations, and RSS feeds. It also covers subscribing to blogs and using Wikispaces for collaborative writing. The workshop aims to demonstrate how these Web 2.0 tools can engage students and enhance education.

1. Web 2.0 for Learning
e-Learning Workshops for Students
Mike Chui
mikechui@ied.edu.hk
Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology (LTTC)
http://www.ied.edu.hk/lttc

2. Today’s Agenda
 What is Web 2.0?
 How to catch the opportunities of Web 2.0?
 What are the impacts on education?
 Sharing of Web 2.0 technologies (hands-on)
 Q & A + Survey

3. What is Web 2.0?
 Not a new Internet
 Interactive information sharing
 Interoperability
 User-centered design and collaboration on the
World Wide Web
 24/7 ability to produce, communicate, collaborate,
share, store, network and learn

4. Prosumer + Folksonomy
 Prosumer
 Producer + Consumer
 Professional Consumer
 Folksonomy
 Using user-defined labels or tags to organize and
share information
 Folk classification

5. 1. Delicious
 It is a social bookmarking site
 Go to http://delicious.com/

6. 1. Delicious (con’t)
 Suppose you want to know more about e-portfolios,
so how can you make use of Delicious?
 How many bookmarks are related to e-portfolios?
 How can you relate the searched bookmarks to
higher education?
 How many bookmarks did you get?

7. 1. Delicious (con’t)
 How can I save the bookmarks?

8. 1. Delicious (con’t)
 What are the differences between using Delicious
and adding as My Favourite?

9. 2. SlideShare
 It is an online presentation sharing space
 Go to http://www.slideshare.net/
 Click on Signup
 How can I upload a PowerPoint file?
 How can I allow people download my presentation?
 What are the benefits and drawbacks of using
online presentation tool?

10. 3. Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
 It benefits publishers by letting
the subscribers to get the
syndicated content automatically
 Subscribers 無需一天刷新幾十次
自己感興趣的Web site或blog，
因爲它們更新的內容會通過RSS
feeds源源不斷地輸送到你的
feeds閱讀器中。

11. 3.1 How to subscribe a RSS feed (with iGoogle)
 Go to http://www.google.com.hk/ig
 You may select a theme
 Click on See your page button

12. 3.1 How to subscribe a RSS feed (with iGoogle)
 You may delete some unwanted gadgets

13. 3.1 How to subscribe a RSS feed (with iGoogle)
 Click on Add Stuff (新增小工具)

14. 3.1 How to subscribe a RSS feed (with iGoogle)
 Click on 新增資訊提供或小工具
 Open a new Internet browser page
 Go to http://www.mingpao.com/
 Click on RSS button
 Select your favourite category and copy the .xml
link

15. 3.1 How to subscribe a RSS feed (with iGoogle)
 Go back the 新增資訊提供或小工具 box
 Paste the copied URL:
http://inews.mingpao.com/rss/INews/gb.xml
 Click on 新增 button

16. 4. Subscribe a blog (Using iGoogle)
 Click on Add Stuff (新增小工具)
 Click on 新增資訊提供或小工具
 Enter http://educator.viviti.com
 Click on 新增 button

17. 5. Wikispaces
 It facilitates collaborative writing and tracking
history of editions
 Go to http://www.wikispaces.com/

18. 5. Wikispaces (con’t)
 Click on Get Started button

19. 5. Wikispaces (con’t)
 Fill in the required fields

20. 5. Wikispaces (con’t)
 http://ictlearner.wikispaces.com/

21. 5. Wikispaces (con’t)
 Click on Edit button to start editing the home
page

22. 5. Wikispaces (con’t)
 Click on Manage Wiki > Invite People to engage
your friends in editing the page

23. More Webapps to try
 http://creately.com/ (an online diagramming
application)
 http://photofunia.com/ (an online photo editing
tool)
 http://bubbl.us/ (for brainstorming)
 http://text-to-speech.imtranslator.net/speech.asp
(for learning pronunciation of different languages)

24. References
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0
 http://www.vanderwal.net/folksonomy.html
 http://www.eryi.org/SearchEngines/rss-feeds-power.html
 http://rss.softwaregarden.com/aboutrss.html