This document discusses using Web 2.0 tools in an educational environment. It begins by comparing Web 1.0 and Web 2.0, noting that Web 2.0 encourages sharing, user-generated content, and mobile access over desktop applications. The document then provides many examples of how schools and libraries can use Web 2.0 tools, including blogs, wikis, social networking, photo sharing, and more. It acknowledges challenges but emphasizes that websites should be flexible and encourage collaboration.

1. Using Web 2.0 in a school
environment November 2010
Phil Bradley
http://www.philb.com

2. What is Web 2.0?
• Let’s just not go there shall we?
• Definitions are less important than what you
can do with it
• Oh, if you really insist…

3. What is Web 2.0?
• Web 2.0 is a term often applied to a perceived
ongoing transition of the World Wide Web
from a collection of websites to a full-fledged
computing platform serving web applications
to end users. Ultimately Web 2.0 services are
expected to replace desktop computing
applications for many purposes.
– Wikipedia entry

4. • Web 1.0 was
computer based
• Web 2.0 uses the
web as a platform

5. • Web 1.0 relied on
installed software
• Web 2.0 uses the
browser

6. • Web 1.0 was solitary • Web 2.0 encourages
sharing

7. • Web 1.0 was
individuals working
alone
• Web 2.0 is
community, sharing
wisdom

8. • Web 2.0 is the
portability of data
• Web 1.0 was data in
one place

9. • Web 1.0 was about
consuming (data)
• Web 2.0 is about
creating data
– Weblogs
– Photograph sharing
– Wikis
– Collaborative
resources
– Social networking
– Bookmarking

10. • Web 1.0 was home
pages
• Web 2.0 is weblogs

11. • Web 1.0 was
tracking information
down
• Web 2.0 is having
information come to
you

12. • Web 1.0 was
badging your
content
• Web 2.0 is getting
the answer out there
quickly

13. • Web 1.0 was slow
transfer rates
• Web 2.0 is about
broadband

14. • Web 1.0 was
hardware £s
• Web 2.0 is
broadband £s

15. • Web 1.0 was getting
it perfect
• Web 2.0 is doing it
and moving on

16. • Web 1.0 was
stationary
• Web 2.0 is mobile

17. • Web 1.0 was about
limitations
• Web 2.0 is about a
state of mind

18. Yes… but?
• “It’s vacuous marketing hype”
• “Web 2.0 is totally silly”
• “Meaningless”
• “is made entirely of pretentious self serving
morons.”
• “a lot of thin but very hot air blown at you by
those who are convinced that having nothing
to say is by no means a good reason to shut
up.”

19. So…
• Is it a question of degrees of difference?

20. Or…
• A difference of kind? (Is it or isn’t it a fad?)

22. So…
How can I use it?

23. Websites
• “If you don't have the will or the ability to
change your website at a moment's notice,
then you don't have a website. You have a
billboard.”
– http://twitter.com/defenestrate99

25. Los Angeles Public Library Teen Web

26. Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg

27. The Global Gorillas Wiki

28. Dixie Grammar School

31. A Jigsaw
• A website should be modular in approach
• Composed of various different elements
• Click them in, try them in different places
• Discard, start again
• Living, changing and dynamic

32. Different elements

35. Greater involvement
• Use Twitter
– Integrate your tweets into your website
– Contact and connect with other librarians,
parents, school children
– View Trending information for current affairs
– Follow historical figures

37. More Twitter
• Use hashtags to involve a class
– 140 word book reviews
• Or to involve parents!
– Create closed Twitter accounts
• Use Twitter polls
• Use Twitpic for images

38. Wordle
• Take some text
– Webpage
– Opening page of a book
– Essay
– Book titles
– Characters in a book
– Author names

39. • Go to Wordle.net
– Cut and paste the text
– Display the Wordle
– Save and use in the library, or on the website

41. How you can use this:
• Which book/author/play is this?
• Children’s book reviews wordled
• Create posters, copy onto t-shirts
• Poll a classroom (favourite colour, team etc.)

42. Tagxedo
• Next generation Wordle product
• Simple and easy to use
• Flexible
• You can add your own images to create your
own wordcloud shapes

43. Two of my creations

44. Wikis
• A wiki allows individuals to collaborate
together
• Creative writing
• Book clubs
• Story telling

45. Yarra Road Primary School wiki

46. Classroom 2.0

47. Asalaamualiakum

48. Barnwood Geography Wikispaces

49. Bookleads

50. Classroom Google Earth

51. Follow me maths

52. Midsummer Dreaming

53. What happened to Sylvia?

54. Educational wikis

55. PBworks

56. Facebook
• “Facebook is dangerous, so don’t use it”
• “Facebook is dangerous, so here’s how to use
it safely”

60. Presentations
• Create presentations and use them online
with
– Slideshare
– Authorstream
– Sliderocket
• Embed them on your site, weblog, wiki

61. Slideshare.net

63. Sliderocket

64. Authorstream

65. Kizoa (my example)

66. Animoto

67. My worked example

68. Preezo

69. Screentoaster

70. Screenr

71. BB Flashback Express

72. My worked example

73. Vuvox

74. Home/Start pages
• Netvibes, Pageflakes or iGoogle
• Create content, hosted by a 3rd
party
• Update when necessary, instantly
• Incorporate content back onto the website
• Easy to create and maintain

75. Dixie Grammer School on Netvibes

76. Using Flickr
• Create a free account
• Post photographs of the school, school trips,
the library, library events, local history
• Create trading cards
• Create motivational posters
• Blend back into the website, weblog, wiki

79. Multimedia
• Voice thread
– A secure network to allow students and teachers
to collaborate and share ideas with classrooms
anywhere in the world
• TeacherTube
– an online community for sharing instructional
videos
• SchoolTube
– Educational, moderated

83. Collaborative whiteboards

84. Capzles Timelines

85. Weblogs
• Use weblogs as an aid in the library
– Historical, educational, fictional weblogs
– Link to existing book collections
– Create new weblogs
– Use weblogs for book reviews

86. WW1: Experiences of an English
Soldier

88. Hope CE Primary School Blog

89. Lochaber High School

90. Communication & news gathering
• Weblogs
– Create a library weblog
– Additional or new library resources
– Introduce members of staff
– Use it as a repository of data and information by
using categories and tags
– Don’t regard a weblog as a diary – it’s an
important website in its own right…

93. Weblogs continued…
• Use the weblog RSS feed on the site home
page as a news feed
• Encourage people to add the feed to their
start page or RSS reader
• Create a different weblog for a different
subject area – invite other authors
• Use it in a different way, on a different page

95. Kidblog

96. Bookmarking
• Share and collaborate on bookmarks
– With Staff, students, parents, other librarians
• Blend bookmarks into website, specific pages,
weblog, wikis
• Encourage continual additions
• Delicious, Diigo etc.

98. Fur.ly

99. Trailfire

100. Pearltrees

101. Jogtheweb
http://www.jogtheweb.com/run/FKRZ1SQDhvv7/Multimedia-resources-for-librarians

102. LiveBinders

103. Museumbox

104. Jogtheweb
http://www.jogtheweb.com/run/CIPGOqlOglsi/Library-tools

105. Start pages with Tizmos.com
• Mine is at
http://www.tizmos.com/Philbradley

106. Podcasting and Video

107. Voki – a speaking avatar

108. Hollur

109. Memoov

110. Masher

111. Glogster – create posters

113. Wallwisher

114. Edistorm

115. Online Stickies http://en.linoit.com
• Like Wallwisher, but more flexible

116. Cartoons

117. Create a newspaper

118. Create your own search engines

119. Blend it all together!

121. There are challenges
• Cyberbullying
– Is this CYBERbullying or just BULLYING?
• Copyright issues
• Privacy issues
– Images of children
• Technical issues
• So create spaces, not just posters
• Cultivate volunteers

122. In summary:
• Websites must be flexible and under the
control of the librarian
• Blend information
• Be a cyber nomad
• Incorporate, play, use, discard
• Encourage collaboration
• ‘Let’s try it’ and not ‘Let’s not’

123. Web 2.0 ...
Gives you
control

124. And there’s more...
• Quizzes, jigsaws and crossword puzzles
• Speaking avatars
• Google street view
• Etc...

125. Snappywords

126. LOLCats!

127. Photopeach
• Add images, grab some music, create a video!

128. Formspring.me

129. My.online-eggtimer.com

130. Create a Bayeux tapestry
http://www.adgame-wonderland.de/type/bayeux.php

131. Random name/word picker
http://classtools.net/

132. Braineos flash cards
http://www.braineos.com/home

133. Thank you
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