The document discusses the implications of Web 2.0 for education, highlighting user control of information, social software, and collaborative tools like blogs and wikis. It emphasizes the need for educators to adapt to students' expectations of technology aligned with Web 2.0 in order to effectively integrate these tools in learning environments. The document also points out the importance of new forms of assessment and content design in a Web 2.0 literate world.

1. Web 2.0 Implications for Education

2. Web2.0 as a paradigm W2 signifies Internet advances stimulated by (1) rising expectations of users, (2) creative efforts of industry and talented individuals, and (3) development of software and hardware

3. What is new in Web2.0? User control of information, subscribing and relationships, new forms of expression Web as a point of presence, internet-mediated social environments, collective activities and community plumbing Web as a platform (e.g., Microsoft and Google) Science of user engagement and rich user experiences Some speak of media revolution – “we the media” (Dan Gillmor), “voice of crowds”, increased democratization and new citizenship

4. In this Presentation… Blogs Digital Storytelling Sharing, Diggs, Recommendations, and Folksonomy Wikis and Social Software RSS Feeds Podcasting API for Mashups Implications for Education

5. Blog, blogging, blogger, blogsphere Blog is web-based publication No technical skills to create your own blog Blog can contain text, media, links There are blogs, moblogs, vlogs, audilog Blogsphere is a community of bloggers

6. Blogs – Some Statistics 27% of online Americans have read a blog 8 million Americans have created a blog 12% of online Americans have posted comments on blogs (Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4145191.stm ) China to have 60 million bloggers by 2007 (Reuters http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060506/wr_nm/china_blogs_dc_1 )

7. Total Sites Across all Domains Source: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html Bloggers: an army of irregulars (BBC) -- “The web has grown more in 2005 than it did at the height of the dotcom boom”

8. Examples of Blogs and Tools Daniel Class Blog A blog of a group of students

9. Web 2.0: We are the media ( Dan Gillmor ) Blogging Should not be only about text -- new forms of expression, new possibilities for learning and assessment… Blogging, Digital Storytelling, Interactive Visualization

10. Wiki Wiki is social software that allows collaborative development on an article of common interest to its authors

11. Wikipedia 13,000 active contributors 5,300,000 articles in more than 100 languages 1,914,827 articles in English Hundreds of thousands of visitors daily, tens of thousands of edits and new articles Source: http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About ) Wikipedia has become the 37th most visited website, according to Alexa Wikipedia comes close to Britannica – Expert led investigation by Nature identifies that in average science entry in Wikipedia contained around four inaccuracies; Britannica, about three (Source: http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/full/438900a.html )

12. How Teachers Use Wiki Provide a space for collaborative writing Debate course topics and share resources Maintain a journal of work on projects Discuss curricular and instructional innovations Students to revise Wikipedia pages or take on new wikipedia assignments Support service learning projects (i.e. use wikis to build a website about a challenge in their city) From: http://writingwiki.org/default.aspx/WritingWiki/For%20Teachers%20New%20to%20Wikis.html @HKU Flat Classroom Project

13. Sharing, Diggs, Recommending, Folksonomy The Wisdom of Crowds : Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations by James Surowiecki

14. Social Bookmarking http://scuttle.cite.hku.hk/

15. Internet-mediated Social Activities

16. MySpace MySpace.com, it is the fastest growing site on the Internet right now Over 80 million registered subscribers, and are registering 260,000 new users each day More page views than all of the MSN and Google sites combined MySpace.com is now processing 1.5 Billion page views per day 78% of site members are over 18 and under 40 From more statistics check: http://www.trendcatching.com/2006/05/myspace_usage_s.html or http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/03/25/Handling-1.5-Billion-Page-Views-Per-Day-Using-ASP.NET-2.0.aspx

17. RSS Feeds and Aggregators Really Simple Syndication is a form of syndication in which a section of a website is made available for other sites to use RSS Feeds -- provide an updated list of content from a site This originated with news and blog sites but is increasingly used to syndicate any information. Aggregator can subscribe to a feed, check for new content at user-determined intervals, and retrieve the content

18. RSS and Aggregators

19. Managing workload Regular monitoring, commenting and weekly summaries

20. Podcasting Method of distributing audio programs or video over the Internet for playback on mobile devices and personal computers Podcasts are distributed using either the RSS or Atom syndication formats.

21. API for Mashups Source: http://www.programmableweb.com/apis Most Popular Meshups: http://www.programmableweb.com/popular

22. Open Source Open source Syndications, design for hackability and remixability Systems that gets better when more people are using it (and improving it)

23. Mobile Web 2.0

25. Implications for Education A large number of our students will be coming to our classes with expectations of technology aligned with Web 2.0 Unless we give attention to Web 2.0 development, we will encounter students who have expectations that are incompatible with our own thinking and the ways we integrate technology It is also a danger that unless we accommodate Web 2.0 developments in our teaching, we might find ourselves producing students unable to function in the Web 2.0-literate world outside.

26. Implications for Education Re-conceptualizing technology integration New forms of Assessment Internet-mediated social environments and what does it mean to collaborate Resources Sharing and Community Plumbing of teachers/trainers and student New generations of LMS, no LMS or Modules – blog, wiki, P2P, content management, personal space for RSS Emerging content design models based on data remixing, interactive visualization,…

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