This document provides an introduction to Web 2.0 tools that can enhance online learning. It discusses technologies like Ajax, wikis, blogs, RSS feeds, and social bookmarking/tagging that allow for more dynamic and interactive content. Specific Web 2.0 tools are also highlighted, such as Google Docs, Flickr, YouTube, and social media/bookmarking sites. The goal is to illustrate how these new technologies can engage students and support collaboration in online learning environments.

1. Web 2.0 in Online Learning Ray, Shari, Emily OTEL

2. Web 2.0 in Online Learning Welcome Our goals in this session – to provide an introduction to new class of tools to enhance online learning Web 2.0 What is 2.0? What is the origin of the term? Tim O’Reilly in 2004 How does this impact Online learning? Micro-content, interaction, engagement, simulation E-learning 2.0

3. Ajax Ajax – at the core of Web 2.0 Asynchronous Javascript and XML Origin of term – Adaptive Path Jesse James Garrett Some examples of Ajax ALN Pre-Conference Blog Collection of Ajax links Ajax longevity?

4. OLU – One Example The power of Ajax Emily will show us how to blog and how to integrate blogging into online learning Example of the power – impact Online Learning Update aggregation / Google placement / links to / citations Now to Emily and more examples of how Web 2.0 can enhance online learning

5. Allow interactive content building Your audience participates Editing through your web browser No need to download or buy expensive software Dynamic content Keeps your course fresh Web Tools

6. Wikis A type of web site Visitors can easily add, remove, or edit the content Uses versioning Some wikis require registration or a password for editing An effective tool for collaborative authoring Wiki Many people may contribute to and edit a single document using only a web browser.

7. Engage your students Use Wetpaint for creating websites for Group projects Support for service learning projects in the community Use PBwiki (or other free services) Collaborative essays and reports Space for free writing or reader-response journaling Share resources – web sites, annotated bibliographies, models for assignments Create a compendium of terms and concepts for the course to use as a study guide Wikis in Online Learning

8. Blogs Short for weblog, blogs are online journals that display the most recent content first Can combine text, images, and links to audio and video files ( podcasting ) Readers may often leave comments and interact with the writer Blogger.com offers free blog space

9. Blogs in Online Learning Group blogs allow engagement For each work or topic that you cover in a course, have small groups publish blogs on how a their assigned theory would analyze or interpret it. Individual blogs Write a blog for students in your courses or department; link to journal articles, news items, conferences, calls for papers Have students create blogs for journaling

10. RSS R eally S imple S yndication Push content Blog Audio files (podcasting) Feedburner.com , UI Web Toolbox Receive content Subscribe to a feed iTunes, Yahoo, Firefox, IE 7 all aggregate RSS feeds Dynamic web sites Include a feed on your course site http://www.uis.edu Cartoon by Dave Walker . Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons .

11. Collaborative Tools Web 2.0

12. Google Google Docs and Spreadsheets http://www.google.com/google-d-s/tour1.html Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com Other Google Stuff

13. Tabbed Browsing Internet Explorer 7.0 Firefox Save a group of Tabs Organize and Search

14. Tagging “folksonomy” Collective Custom User defined metatags

15. Social Bookmarking itList.com (old) Del icio us http:// del.icio.us Lookup tool http://trainque.com/code/delicious_lookup.php View key http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del.icio.us Integrate with IE or firefox

16. Social Media Flickr http://www.flickr.com Yahoo photos PLUS conversation 20 mg per month YouTube http://www.youtube.com Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/

17. Blogging Search Engines Technorati http://technorati.com/ Google Blog Search http:// blogsearch.google.com / Blog search engine http://www.blogsearchengine.com/