This document discusses the use of Web 2.0 technologies to support student engagement. It defines Web 2.0 as technologies that allow users to easily add and change content and collaborate online. Some examples of Web 2.0 technologies mentioned are podcasting, Skype, Voki, Wikis, Google Documents, GoAnimate, and PowToon. For each technology, a brief description is provided along with examples of how it has been used to support learning. One specific example discussed is a podcasting project where students in groups created podcasts to share what they learned from class readings.

1. New Mexico Society for Technology in
Education Conference, 2014
Las Cruces, New Mexico
April 11-12, 2004

2. Using Web 2.0 Technologies to
Support Student Engagement
MariamAbdelmalak, Ph.D.

3. What Is Web 2.0 Technology?
• The term Web 2.0 began to be used for the first time in
2004 and referred to a second generation of the Internet
(Schrum& Levin, 2009).
• Web 2.0 technologies allow users to add and change
content easily, to collaborate and communicate
instantaneously in order to share, develop, and distribute
information, new applications, and new ideas (Schrum&
Levin, 2009)

4. Podcasting Skype
Voki
Wikis
Web 2.0
Technologies
Google
Documents
GoAnimate
PowToon

6. (www.voki.com)
• Voki allows users to make talking avatars.
• Voki has a large selection of customizable
avatars to choose from. Users can also select
from a variety of backgrounds or upload their
own.
• Voki is commonly used to give verbal reports.
• My Voki:
http://www.voki.com/pickup.php?scid=84353
09&height=267&width=200

7. (www.goanimate.com)
• Go Animate is a free animated movie maker.
• Users can create animated movies by selected
from a wide selection of customizable pre-made
elements. Users can also upload their own
elements like pictures to use in their movies.
• The movies create can be shared in a variety of
ways including email and embedding.
• Example:
http://goanimate.com/videos/0JkytcB_VKqg

8. PowToon.com
• PowToon is an online presentation software to
create free animated videos.
• PowToon provides drawings of people and
objects that uses can arrange on blank canvas.
• Users can publish their videos.
• PowToon's free version limits your videos to 45
seconds.
• My PowToon:
http://www.powtoon.com/p/bmiUHISJ4rV/

9. http://www.skype.com
• Skype is an internet-based phone service that also allows
for conference calling, document sharing, and text
messaging (Palloff& Pratt, 2009).
• Skype to be a good tool for building rapport and social
presence among students and between students and faculty
(Parker, Boase-Jelinek, &Herrington, 2011).

12. • A podcast is an audio or video file distributed to an
appropriate media player over the Internet.
• Hargis and Wilson (2005) discuss the promise that
podcasting holds for educators as a tool for promoting
conceptual learning”:
A podcast allows learners to either listen to others share
their ideas – real, raw and spontaneous – which
captures their attention and can sustain this attention
sufficiently to enable transfer of these concepts into
their long term memory. Secondarily, learners can
create their own audio podcast, which enables them to
reflect on their own learning verbally.

13. The Podcasting Project
As a group, students were tasked with creating a podcast based on
one of the class topics to post and share with their classmates. Each
week one group was required to read the required articles and
create a six-to-ten minute podcast sharing something that they
learned during the week's readings.
This project contains three steps/stages:
Stage #1: Create Your Group & Group Contract
Stage #2: Download an Audio Editing Tool
Stage # 3: Sign Up for the Podcasting Topic
Stage #4: Make Your Podcast
For more details about this project
(https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x0oKSxvH9umft_kr6EKYX
Q7qMGBOG3g3oCPhLLcncf8/edit#)

18. (https://drive.google.com)
• Google Docs are free Web-based applications that allow
users to create word processing.
• Google Docs enable collaboration by editing a document
written by other students, and by suggesting modifications
through comment writing, without editing the document
itself (Conner, 2008).
• Google Docs can be excellent resources to overcome
students’ isolation (Reyna, 2010).

19. (http://www.pbworks.com)
•A Wiki is a collection of Web pages designed to enable
anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content
(Dunlap &Lowenthal, 2009).
•A Wikis allows people to directly edit, update, modify or
delete. Wiki also allows multiple users from different
locations to collaborate in real-time.
•A Wiki environment is an effective technology for building
community (Lambert & Fisher, 2009; Scott & Liu, 2011).

20. Fall 2013_Wiki Project

23. Spring 2014_Wiki Project

27. References
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28. Q & A
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