1. The document discusses the student toolkit and how students are using various web 2.0 technologies like blogging, RSS, wikis, and social networking. 2. It provides examples of applications students are using for tasks like keeping track of information, office productivity, and communication including Google Docs, Zoho, Facebook, Twitter, and Skype. 3. The document emphasizes how these online tools are becoming more widely used by students and are platform independent, allowing access from different devices.

1. Presenters Kevin O’Shea Teaching and Learning Technologies Instructional Development Center

2. Who Am I? Kevin O’Shea Educational Technologist Dec. 2007 Grad of Purdue

3. What is the toolkit? What are students using? What are our peers using it for? How can we use it? Overview

4. What is the Student Toolkit? feeds Web Standards Blogging RSS Peer-to-peer Wiki GTD User-generated content social networking Google Open source

5. Using the Web as a Platform Zoho, Google Docs Simplicity Open Source Reuse allowed and encouraged (CC) User Generated Content YouTube, Blogs, Wikis Categorized and Efficient Tagging, Social Bookmarking, Cross-linking Cross-platform/device Compatibility Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone Characteristics of Web 2.0

6. Why Does It Matter? According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project (Lenhardt & Madden 2007) more than 60% of teens have created online media content, and more than 75% of those teens have shared the content they have produced. This in turn has fueled the online revolution of participation and collaboration.

7. Blogging + RSS Powerful communication and publishing tools Wikis Online writing space allowing user to add and modify its pages. Web Applications Office Suites, News Aggregators, etc… Social Networks What are they using?

8. RSS & Information

9. Online Applications Movement away from Desktop application reliance. Platform independent. Mobile device compatibility. Open source. Online collaboration

10. Netvibes http://www.netvibes.com iGoogle http://www.google.com/ig Bloglines http://www.bloglines.com Pageflakes http://www.pageflakes.com MyYahoo http://my.yahoo.com How are they keeping track of it all?

11. Office Applications Zoho Google Docs Office Live Presentation Applications TeacherTube SlideShare Task Management (GTD) Remember the Milk What Applications Are They Using?

13. Technology Mash ups Google Lit Trips Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place. Jott.com Jott converts your voice into emails, text messages, reminders, lists and appointments. Supports Gcal, LJ, Twitter, Tumblr, Blogger, Remember the Milk, & WordPress.

14. Communication Microblogs Twitter – The Classic 140 character MB Brightkite – Location aware MB Jaiku – Mashup of Location, RSS, MB Tumblr – Quick Pictures, Video, Quotes, etc… Pownce – MB plus file linking/sharing

15. Communication Online Chat Meebo – AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, Google Talk Google Talk – Web based through Gmail + VOIP Facebook Chat – Web based chat through FB Skype – VOIP + Chat and File sharing

16. Facebook: The 800lb Gorilla/Guerilla http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/20/facebook-blows-past-myspace-in-global-visitors-for-may/

17. Facebook: The 800lb Gorilla/Guerilla Wikimono Blog It Zoho Online Office Notecentric Share Homework Scribd Twitter http://www.didactalab.de/wp-main/?p=66

18. Questions? [email_address] http://fit.itap.purdue.edu