This document discusses a workshop on the affordances of web 2.0 tools. It introduces blogging, Twitter, and virtual worlds like Second Life as three categories of tools to be explored. For each tool, the document provides examples and discusses concepts like synchronous vs asynchronous communication, hierarchical vs non-hierarchical structures, and senses of presence and identity. Participants are instructed to try out different activities using the tools and collaboration applications like Google Docs. The goal is to help attendees evaluate new tools and decide what affordances they provide.

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The affordance of web2.0 tools
Jonathan Crellin
School of Computing
University of Portsmouth
jonathan.crellin@port.ac.uk

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...its a workshop folks!
Talking to you

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...its a workshop folks!
Talking to you
Talking with you..

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...its a workshop folks!
Talking to you Talking with you..
Doing things..

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...its a workshop folks!
Talking to you Talking with you..
Doing things..
Play...!

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web2.0?
More user generated material...
Less of a power relationship?
More scope for student student interaction...
A learning community?
Text+ interaction...
More social?

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affordances?
An affordance is a quality of an object, or an
environment, that allows an individual to
perform an action. The term is used in a variety
of fields: perceptual psychology, cognitive
psychology, environmental psychology,
industrial design, human–computer interaction
(HCI), interaction design and artificial
intelligence.

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Experience does help you decide what the
affordances of tools are
Tools life is short (and getting shorter), so you
need to be able evaluate new tools you are
exposed to

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Questions for you
Who has a blog (or more than one)?
Who uses twitter? (and how?)
Who has a laptop with them?
Who has another data device with them?
Who has an active Internet account here?

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Some useful concepts?
Synchronous v Asynchronous
Hierarchical v nonHierarchical
(powerpoint from a pulpit!)
Sense of Presence (and how?)
Sense of identity? (and who?)
Classroom, simulation, 'social' or game?
Technical complexity v 'Easy'
Distance v Face to Face v (mixed)

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3 categories of tools...
Blogging
Paper based exercise, do not expect to sit in your
seats!
Twittering
Paper based too...
Virtual Worlds
Yep, its into the hall folks with your laptop and my usb
stick
Collaboration tools

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Now do activity 1

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Blogging v Twittering
Flickr: a photo 'blog'?
Comments and tagging
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joncrel/971989675/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joncrel/972845824/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joncrel/974602627/

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Virtual Worlds
Second Life
Works without being installed on most Oss
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joncrel/2085944619
More robust than a VLE??!
Requires ports to be opened in the institution
firewall
Chat/VOIP/Collaboration/Simulation/using other
netizens/sex, violence and gambling

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How to run SL
Stick the USB stick in
Open it and run the batch file
Login using the avatar name we provide
Search the map for UoP, and teleport to our
island...
Now do activity 2!

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examples
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joncrel/1810250290/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joncrel/1809687063/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joncrel/1810245976/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joncrel/1809397823/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joncrel/3127240781/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joncrel/2088753034/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joncrel/2087968839/in/

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Affordances of virtual worlds?

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Collaboration tools
Google Docs/ word/ spreadsheet/ presentations/
forms (survey tools)
Try them out...
(other non Google equivalents)
Slideshare
Survey Monkey

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examples

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temp
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dd3gc9xw_1f8wgqh