This document provides an overview of key concepts related to Web 2.0 technologies including blogs, wikis, and social networking. It begins with a discussion of how today's students are inherently familiar with Web 2.0 technologies even if they don't know the term. Various definitions of Web 2.0 are presented focusing on its social and participatory aspects. The history and evolution of blogs is explored, including the impact of early tools like Blogger. Wikis are defined as websites that can be edited by readers. Social networking is described as online communities that allow users to connect with others and view connections.

1. EDU 626 Integrating Educational
Technology
Summer 2012
What is Web 2.0?
A waste of time, or a revolutionary way of working?

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Meet Abby, the digital native!

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Where does Web 2.0 fit?
Uploaded by loots1964 on Oct 21, 2009
Originally, I planned on having kids tell me about how they used Web 2.0 technologies in
school, but when I saw their reaction to my question, that they clearly had no idea what a
Web 2.0 was - by name, at least, I realized I had stumbled onto a fascinating little bit of
information. Web 2.0 is so innate to digital natives, that they can‟t even identify it by name!

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What is web 2.0, then?
The definitions abound!
Web 2.0 = the web as platform
Web 2.0 = the underlying
philosophy of relinquishing control
Web 2.0 = glocalization (“making
global information available to local
social contexts and giving people the
flexibility to find, organize, share
and create information in a locally
meaningful fashion that is globally
accessible”)

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More of what is web 2.0
Web 2.0 = an attitude not a
technology
Web 2.0 = when data, interface and
metadata no longer need to go hand
in hand
Web 2.0 = action-at-a-distance
interactions and ad hoc integration
Web 2.0 = power and control via
APIs
Web 2.0 = giving up control and
setting the data free

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It’s all of that, and more!
Web 2.0 is social, it‟s open (or at least
it should be), it‟s letting go of control
over your data, it‟s mixing the global
with the local. Web 2.0 is about new
interfaces - new ways of searching and
accessing Web content. And last but
not least, Web 2.0 is a platform - and
not just for developers to create web
applications like Gmail and Flickr. The
Web is a platform to build on for
educators, media, politics, community,
for virtually everyone in fact!

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So, what is Web 2.0??
From Presentation “Web 2.0” by Satyajeet Singh available on Slideshare

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Maybe this might help!

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Back to Satyajeet Singh

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Participatory web?
Dr. Mark Grabe
http://learningaloud.com/participatoryweb/

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Web 2.0 and constructivism
What is the Connection Between Web 2.0 and
Constructivist Theory?
Web 2.0 tools can . . . allow students/learners to
demonstrate their understanding in a variety of ways.
They can blog, edit, contribute, rank, tag, upload and
enhance their web experiences through the use of Web 2.0
tools. Additionally through the use of social networking,
learners can also be exposed to other learners‟
perspectives
on a given topic or subject.
• Social Constructivism, a wiki created for class EDER 679.09 Web 2.0 and
Open Learning Environments

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Elements of Web 2.0
Wikis and blogs and all
What is a blog?
• „A weblog is kind of a continual tour,
with a human guide who you get to
know. There are many guides to choose
from, each develops an audience, and
there‟s also comraderie [camaraderie?]
and politics between the people who run
weblogs, they point to each other, in all
kinds of structures, graphs, loops, etc.‟
• Dave Winer, The History of Weblogs
Last update: Friday, May 17, 2002 at 12:37:09 PM
Dave Winer is one of the
pioneers of blogging.
This blog began in 1997.
Davenet is from 1994,

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What is a Blog?
A log of websites visited? Or a personal journal? Or
something else?
“Defining this variable form is not easy in the highly
opinionated blogosphere - nor is it simple in the
increasing number of newsrooms that are in embracing
blogging. . . . Capturing the blogging beast is no small
matter, not when everybody from the lonely scribe in
Paducah to me-too mass media in Manhattan is trying to
get arms and minds around the virtual blob now
encroaching online.”
• Just
what is a blog, anyway?
By Michael Conniff Posted: 2005-09-29

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Can we define blogs?
“I don’t care,”
“There is no need to define „blog.‟
. . . A blog is merely a tool that lets you do
anything from change the world to share
your shopping list. People will use it however
they wish. And it is way too soon in the
invention of uses for this tool to limit it with
a set definition.”
• Jeff Jarvis, the veteran print journalist and prominent blogger
behind BuzzMachine
Quoted by Conniff in Just what is a blog, anyway?

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OK-so what makes a blog?
Technically, what is a weblog?
A weblog is a hierarchy of text, images,
media objects and data, arranged
chronologically, that can be viewed in an
HTML browser.
• What makes a weblog a weblog?
Fri, May 23, 2003; by Dave Winer
Weblogs At Harvard Law

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Another technical definition
“. . . here’s a definition of what a blog
is:
A publication of
content and Web
links, sorted in
chronological order, with the most recent
at the top. The content reflects personal
or corporate interests, and is almost
always written by an individual. . . .”
• What are Blogs, and Why Your Business Should Use One,
Guest columnist Richard Zwicky, founder and the CEO of Metamend
Software, a Victoria, B.C. based firm whose cutting edge Search Engine
Optimization software has been recognized around the world as a leader
in its field.

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History of blogs
Rebecca Blood:
 The original weblogs were link-driven sites.
Each was a mixture in unique proportions of
links, commentary, and personal thoughts
and essays.
 These weblogs provide a valuable filtering
function for their readers. The web has been,
in effect, pre-surfed for them.
• weblogs:
a history and perspective
7 september 2000 rebecca's pocket
• “Jesse‟s„page of only weblogs‟ lists the 23 known to
be in existence at the beginning of 1999.” “. . . last
updated on 12 Oct 2000” with about 200 or 300.

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Who coined the term “weblog”?
Jorn Barger

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Blog History in Timeline Form
Dawn of Internet Time:
[=WWW time, ie about 1989-90]
Tim Berners-Lee at CERN begins
keeping a list of all new sites as they
come online.
June 1993: timbl's blog
NCSA‟s oldest archived What‟s New
list of sites.
June 1993:
Netscape begins running its What's
New! list of sites.
Jan 1994:
Justin Hall launches Justin‟s Home Original logo for
Page which would become Links from the Mosaic, the first web
Underground. (Now Justin‟s Links) browser from NCSA

20. 1999: the year it all exploded
• Early 1999:
• Peter Merholz coins the term blog For What It's Worth
after announcing he was going to
pronounce web blogs as “wee-blog”. I've decided to pronounce the
word "weblog" as wee'- blog.
This was then shortened to blog. Or "blog" for short.
• Early 1999:
• Brigitte Eaton starts the first portal devoted
to blogs with about 50 listings.
• July 1999:
• Metafilter‟s earliest archives.
• July 1999:
• Pitas launches the first free build
your own blog web tool.
• August 1999:
• Pyra releases Blogger which becomes the
most popular web based blogging tool to
date, and popularizes blogging with
mainstream internet users.

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Importance of 1999?
Advent of easy-edit web interface
• July 1999 . . . Pitas, the first free build-your-
own-weblog tool launched
• In August, Pyra released
Blogger, and Groksoup
launched
• Late in 1999 software developer Dave Winer
introduced Edit This Page [a forerunner of “Dave Winer, the
Blog This?], and Jeff A. Campbell launched protoblogger and
Velocinews technology maven”
Dan Mitchell, New
• All of these services are free, and all of them York Times,
are designed to enable individuals to publish December 2, 2006
their own weblogs quickly and easily. Dave Winer‟s blog,
• Rebecca Blood, weblogs: a history and perspective Scripting News, has
been going since
1997

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Why was Blogger so revolutionary?
Rebecca Blood’s opinion:
Blogger itself places no restrictions on the
form of content being posted. Its web
interface, accessible from any browser,
consists of an empty form box into which Rebecca Blood is a
contributing writer
the blogger can type...anything: a passing to
thought, an extended essay, or a childhood
recollection. With a click, Blogger will post and a pioneering
blog writer—her
the...whatever...on the writer's website, blog goes back to
archive it in the proper place, and present April 1999
the writer with another empty box, just
waiting to be filled.
 http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html

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Sample Blogger posting interface

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Editing Blogger: wysiwyg

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Editing Blogger: html view

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Result (unfortunately, not updated!)
• http://murraylibmedia.blogspot.com/

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Other blogging software
TypePad‟s easy-to-use editor, lets you easily create
feedback management tools, feed & manage student
& teacher blogs,
and podcast support, photo albums quickly customize
and world-class customer support. designs
and include videos,
photos & podcasts.
Free, Pro or
Campus
subscriptions.
To get started with WordPress, set Powered by
it up on a web host for the most
flexibility or get a free blog on
WordPress.com.

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Can blogging be “safe”?
Safe blogs becoming a part of school Some safer blogging
sites:
The fear of encouraging social networking and
leaving the door open for unsavory individuals to
see what students are doing online has caused most
districts to avoid the tool, said David Warlick, a
North Carolina public speaker and author who's
working on the second edition of “Classroom
Blogging: A Teacher's Guide to the Blogosphere.”
But new educational software, such as Virtual
Office or Moodle, which the Muskego-Norway
School District has implemented this year, protects
students by letting them "publish" their writing
within a secure server where teachers can monitor
the comments.
• By Erin Richards of the Journal Sentinel Posted:
March 25, 2007

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What about wikis?
What is a wiki?
A wiki is a website where every
page can be edited in a web browser,
by whomever happens to be reading
it. It's so terrifically easy for people
to jump in and revise pages that
wikis are becoming known as the
tool of choice for large, multiple-
participant projects.
• WhatIs a Wiki (and How to Use One
for Your Projects) by Tom Stafford,
Matt Webb 07/07/2006

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Does it have anything to do with Wikipedia?
Wikipedia is a wiki
The name “Wikipedia” is a portmanteau
(a combination of portions of two words
and their meanings) of the words wiki (a
type of collaborative Web site) and
encyclopedia.
Wikipedia is written collaboratively by
volunteers from all around the world;
anyone can edit it.
• Wikipedia:About see also
History of Wikipedia

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What does it have to do with a hula dancer?
The word “wiki” is Hawai’ian
Explanation
by the inventor of wikis,
Ward Cunningham:
• Wikiwiki is the first Hawai'ian term I
learned on my first visit to the islands. The Ward
airport counter agent directed me to take the Cunningham
wiki wiki bus between terminals. I said what? invented wiki in
He explained that wiki wiki meant quick. 1995.
Did you intend the word to be pronounced
as wee-kee (rhyming with leaky) or as
wick-ey (rhyming with sticky)?
• believethe former is the proper
pronunciation though I’ve been known to
use the latter.
• Correspondence on the Etymology of Wiki
November, 2003.

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Wiki wiki sign outside Honolulu International Airport.
(Image courtesy of A. Barataz)

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There is an index to wikis online
WikiIndex.org
WikiIndex is the wiki of wikis. It is
an effort to create a complete
directory of wiki websites out there
on the Internet, with a description of
each wiki and various systems of
categorisation. We want to help
people find the kinds of wikis they
are most interested in and to map
out the Internet-wide wiki
landscape.
• http://www.aboutus.org/WikiIndex.org

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What about social networking?
 Social networking is the grouping of
individuals into specific groups, like small
rural communities or a neighborhood
subdivision, if you will. Although social
networking is possible in person, especially
in schools or in the workplace, it is most
popular online.
Social networking websites function like an
online community of internet users.

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Social Networking explained

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What exactly is it?
Definition:
We define social network sites as web-
based services that allow individuals to (1)
construct a public or semi-public profile
within a bounded system, (2) articulate a
list of other users with whom they share a * danah boyd *
connection, and (3) view and traverse
their list of connections and those made by
others within the system.
• boyd, d. m., & Ellison, N. B. (2007). Social network
sites: Definition, history, and scholarship. Journal
of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1),
article 11.
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.html
Nicole Ellison

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A timeline of social networking
A Brief History of Social Networking Sites:
1995 = Classmates.com founded, now:
1997 = Six Degrees of Separation founded
(Closed 2001) [boyd & Ellison consider this the
first social networking site!]
1999 = Circle of Friends founded
2002 = Friendster.com founded
2003 = MySpace.com founded
2004 = Orkut.com founded
2004 = Facebook.com founded
2005 = Yahoo!360 founded [now closed]
• From a blog no longer available, dated June 26,
2007

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Networking Site
ePals Corporation (TSXV: SLN) is an education
technology company and the leading provider of safe
social learning networks (SLN). Focused on the K-12
market, ePals offers elementary and secondary school
administrators, teachers, students and parents
worldwide a safe and secure platform for building
educational communities, providing quality digital
content and
facilitating
collaboration for
effective
21st century
learning.
http://www.epals.com/

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A special case: microblogging

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Microblogging sites
Watch Video: Twitter in Plain English
12seconds.tv is now closed

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Another special case
Second Life is a three-
dimensional virtual community created entirely by its
membership. Members assume an identity and take
up residence in Second Life, creating a customized
avatar or personage to represent themselves. The
avatar moves about in the virtual world using mouse
control and intuitive keyboard buttons.
• What is Second Life?

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Second Life snapshot

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Social bookmarking Social
Bookmarking Sites
The Top Ten Social
Social Bookmarking 101 Bookmarking Sites
on the Web
What is social bookmarking? It is By Wendy Boswell,
About.com Guide
tagging a website and saving it for
later. Instead of saving them to your
web browser, you are saving them to
the web. And, because your
bookmarks are online, you can
Acquired in
easily share them with friends. March 2009 by
• Whatis Social Bookmarking and How Can It
Help Me? By Daniel Nations, About.com Guide
Now shut down and
superseded by
now
Closed 10/1-2010

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Another very special social tool


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A review of Glogster EDU
Glogster EDU - Glogster
The EDU community offered by Glogster is
designed to alleviate the problems of inappropriate
content and contact with "outsiders" not welcome
in your class electronic community. The EDU area
provides classes advertising-free glogs and easy
teacher monitoring of student work. Students can
comment and interact within a "gated community"
with education-friendly options for collaboration
and learning.
Here is an example glog created by the
TeachersFirst Edge team.

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A Sample Glog for Web 2.0 sites

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Another poster site
http://pinterest.com/about/help/

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Creating stories out of social media
How To Curate Conversations With Storify
• Storify is the best way to gather tweets,
comments, snippets and images from all
around the Web and put them into one post.
It's a new way of blogging that lets all your
Internet friends participate.
• Storify uses drag-and-drop to move messages
from the service tabs - Twitter, Facebook,
YouTube, SoundCloud, Flickr, Instagram,
Google, RSS, and more coming soon! - into
your story. Favorites are a great way to pull
out the posts you want, so that they're all
right there in Storify and easy to find and
drag.
• By Jon Mitchell / October 28, 2011

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Recent statistics for Web 2.0 Use
http://www.pewinternet.org/topics/Teens.aspx?typeFilter=5
Related Research
Teens
Teens, kindness and cruelty on
social network sites
Amanda Lenhart
Jun 5, 2012
Youth Online Safety Working Group
Teens love texting and social
networks but ignore e-mail
Jul 11, 2012 CNET

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Web 2.0 and safety issues
Help Kids Socialize Safely Online
 Help your kids understand what information should
be private
 Use privacy settings to restrict who can access and
post on your child's website.
 Explain that kids should post only information that
you — and they — are comfortable with others seeing
 Remind your kids that once they post information
online, they can't take it back
 Know how your kids are getting online
 Talk to your kids about bullying
 Talk to your kids about avoiding sex talk online
 Tell your kids to trust their gut if they have suspicions
 Read sites‟ privacy policies

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Find a good balance, though!
You can be too restrictive!
Content filters and firewalls are great for keeping
kids away from pornography, as required by the
Children‟s Internet Protection Act (download the
PDF), or preventing them from updating their Bending the Rules:
Facebook status during class. But the same filters A student at the
Pleasantview Academy,
can stop teachers from accessing cutting-edge
in Hutchinson, Kansas,
widgets and digital materials that have enormous uses ArtSnacks, a site
potential for expanding learning. typically blocked by the
school district, after an
New Hampshire kindergarten teacher Maria Knee,
exception is made for a
a pioneer in using Web 2.0 tools with young class project.
learners, points out that keeping powerful tools out Credit: Courtesy of
of students‟ reach during the school day doesn't Kevin Honeycutt
prepare them for life. "Our kids are going to be
using these tools and sites anyway," she argues.
• Playing It Too Safe Online Will Make You Sorry

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Other cybersafety websites

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Another useful resource
Trying to prepare students for their future
and teach them about Internet safety
without Web 2.0 in schools is like trying to
teach a child to swim without a swimming
pool!
The Center for Safe and Responsible
Nancy Willard, M.S.,
Internet Use has developed a new J.D.
framework for addressing these issues under director of the Center
for Safe and Responsible
the overall concept of Cyber Savvy Schools. Internet Use. This
More information on Cyber Savvy Schools is Center provides for
educators and other
here. professionals on youth
risk online issues.