Web 2.0

Web 2.0 Presented by: Joseph Konecki Cardinal O’Hara High School Instructional Technology Center Director www.cohs.com/teachers/jkonecki jkonecki@cohs.com Agenda • History • Read/Write Web • The Social Web • Podcasting • Blogs • Wikis • What’s It All Mean? • RSS Did You Know... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljbI-363A2Q 1.0 version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U 2.0 version Web History Web 1.0 • Tim Berners-Lee, web development 1989 • Vision of a “collaborative medium, a place where we could all meet and read and write”. The construction of a vast web of link information built by the global community • First web browser 1993, change from text based research to a graphical world The Internet Today web Web 2.0 • Development of easy publishing tools • Over 50% of adults have published to the • Technorati.com: 2006, 25 million blogs, Sept 2007, over 106 million blogs • Adding over 70,000 new blogs, millions of posts daily • Explosion of technologies is reshaping society The Internet Today • Significance of changes are still being realized, “those who’ll understand this best are probably just being born”- Dan Gillmor, author • No longer independent consumers of information, but creators and contributors • Huge transformational changes, slow Internet Changes adaptation forever • 2004, Dean changed campaigning • Participatory journalism and amateur researchers • Business use from customer service to internal communications • Ability to publish content will force educators to rethink ways of communicating with constituents, delivery • Read/Write Web in Radical changes in what we assume Education about teaching and learning • How does the curriculum need to change as students are no longer confined to classrooms • Questions to consider: • How must we change our teaching styles as it becomes easier to bring in primary sources • How must we rethink what “literacy” Digital Natives life for today’s vs Digital • Technology is a way of students, Immigrants & have who think differently developed hypertext minds • Difficult dilemma the pits a student body that has grown up immersed in technology against a faculty that is less proficient with the tools of the trade • Today’s students, of almost any age, are far ahead of their teachers in computer literacy • March 2005 survey: 81% of students 712 grade have email, 75% at least on IM Blogging Weblogs- What is it? • A blog (or weblog) is an easily created, easily updateable website that allows authors to instantly publish content to the web. • Blogs provide commentary or news on virtually any subject; some function as online diaries. • A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other sites and media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave • Most basic, post homework , links, class Classroom Blogging news • Begin by having students read blogs, continue on with them commenting on the class blog • Post questions that they can respond to • Have groups create posts and respond • Consider giving each student their own blog • Journaling Blogging Tools • Blogger.com • Edublogs.org • Manilla.userland.com WordPress • Moveable Type • 21publish.com • classblogmeister.cin Wikis Wikis • A wiki is a website which can easily be edited by anyone, and provides an easy method for linking from one page to another • They are collaborative in nature • Ward Cunningham, developer of the first wiki, originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work" Wikis are helping young people develop “writing skills and social skills by learning about group consensus and compromise- all the virtues you need to be a reasonanble and productive member of society.” - Jimmy Whales, founder of Wikipedia • Online encyclopedia that anyone can edit Wikipedia • Anyone can be an Editor in Chief • Encyclopedia or Whackypedia? • Collaborative nature makes it so powerful • No one person or group could produce wikipedia as edits appear once every 2-3 seconds • Daily, people who have no connections are engaging in purposeful work, working to negotiate and create truth • True collaboration and evolution, something every student needs to learn Power of Wikis • 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake/tsunami • 9 hrs, first accounts on wikipedia, 76 words • 24 hrs, 400 edits, 3000 words, images, charts • 48 hrs, 1,200 edits, 6,500 words, video • 6 months, 7000 edits, 7,200 words • Most comprehensive resource on the web Wiki Uses • Success of wikipedia has spawned a wiki revolution • Topic/subject specific wikis such as wikinews, wikispecis, wikirecipes, wikitravel, iphone dev team, etc • Used by project teams to keep track of work, share information, collaborate on projects, and build resources Wiki Characteristics • Content is easy to edit • History feature • Can be password protected • Can play havoc on traditional ideas of copyright and intellectual property • Closely follows the open-source software ideal that the quality of the collectively produced product is more important than owning the idea or code • Wiki Challenges or Opportunities?thinking Need to teach students critical skills and content evaluation written research report. It is not exposition in that the entries are defending a thesis. • Wikipedia is basically a collaboratively • Which skills are more important? Learning how to find and evaluate material that has already been written about or simply knowing how to repeat work that has already been done? • Wiki Challenges or Opportunities? about The need to change our thinking the content that our students create. their work to the collective intelligence of wikipedia or do we just grade it and file it away never to be looked at again? • Do we actively encourage them to share • Adding it creates incredible learning experience: • Watch and see what happens to entries Wiki Classroom Ideas • Use for student projects where group members need to contribute at different times & locations • Use for collaborating on ideas and organizing resources from individuals and groups of students • Use as a presentations tool where those who attend a workshop can contribute to future versions • Document management • As a group research project for a specific • Collaborative handout Wiki Classroom Ideas • Student created wikibooks and journaling • Create and maintain a classroom FAQ • Classroom discussion and debate area • A place to collect web resources • Choosing a topic on wikipedia, break the topic into facts, students verify them using information literacy skills, and make changes accordingly while citing Wiki Caveats • manager of the feature that alerts a wiki Make use • wiki. changes have been made to the that Check • bee n made see what changes have regularly to and • by whom • • • • Determine whether your wiki should be accessible to the public or be limited to a defined group Be aware of copyright and licensing issues when posting other people’s work Wiki Caveats • • • • • • • • • Especiallytake using wikis with when students, steps to prevent users from posting personal information that would reveal their identities Emphasize “digital professionalism” to the community that can add content to, or otherwise revise your wiki to remind users that it is a document many other people will see. Talk about and make clear what is, and is not, acceptable on the wiki RSS • RSS, or Real Simple Syndication, is a Web 2.0 tool that helps one consume the vast amounts of information in a organized, easy to digest manner RSS • Using a website or program called an aggregator or RSS Feed reader/collector, information is delivered to you in one convenient place once you have subscribed to the content • Why use RSS? Because it allows you to read more content, from more sources in RSS Uses • Subscribe to favorite blogs, wikis, news sites, magazines, newspapers, etc • Create your own feed for specific keywords, thus receiving any new content published via google news and yahoo news • Teaches students critical reading skills • Your feed can be added to your website or blog RSS Tools • Web-based Aggregators • http://www.bloglines.com/ • http://www.google.com/reader • http://www.pageflakes.com/ • Software based Aggregators • RSS feed list: http://allrss.com/rssfeeds.html The Social Web Where it all comes together.... The Social Web • All Web 2.0 tools point to a Web where little is done in isolation and all things are collective and social in nature • The Social Web says that we have many friends/teachers out there just waiting to be found and connected to, and those friends have friends to connect us to, etc • This vision is dramatically different from that of the traditional classroom where learning is confined to four walls, and few • Social Bookmarking Services Social Web Tools • Create your own “google” by saving links, tagging them, and sharing them with the world • Allows one to connect with other people who are search for the same information • Create a community or researchers gathering information for you • RSS lets you read, S.B. completes the circle by allowing you to see what others Social Web Tools • http://www.del.icio.us • Sharing links as easily as possible • http://www.furl.net • Centered around achieving content • http://www.jots.com • Combines the best of del.icio.us and Furl • All support RSS Social Web Uses • Creation of community, and organization • Tagging folksonomies • Greater importance of locating information instead of tracking where it came from • Tagging is spreading to digital photography, multimedia, documents, presentations, etc • Professional development • Create accounts to share project resources handouts • Use the export feature to create Social Web Uses • Ning, create your own MySpace like social network • http://stu.dicio.us/ social networking & note taking, to do lists, schedules, document storage/tracking • http://www.blinklist.com/ • http://www.blinklist.com/ see what’s popular today Podcasting Podcasting • A podcast is a digital media file, or series of files, that is distributed over the web using RSS for playback on MP3 players or computers. It can be pure voice (radio), voice with images (digital story), or video (vodcast) • TheWhat’s of the Read/Write Web is classroom It All Mean going to be defined by two unstoppable forces: • With over 10 billion pages already on the web, content will continue to come online • Content is increasingly being created collabratively • Today’s students will be required to use these technologies in higher ed and the workforce What’s It All Mean? • The term literate is changing and becoming more complex • Need to be consumers AND creators of content • The classroom of the Read/Write Web is one of seamless transfer of information, collaboration, individualized learning, and active participation by all members of the class What’s It All Mean? My Teachers Short, incomplete list to get you started of some of the most incredible educators around who have taught me so much • • • • • • • Will Richardson, http://www.weblogg-ed.com/ Jennifer Dorman, http://jdorman.wikispaces.com/ , http://cliotech.blogspot.com/ Steve Dembo, http://www.teach42.com/ MaryAnn Sansonetti, http://techforschool.edublogs.org/ Karl Fisch, http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/ Rita Mortenson, http://www.verona.k12.wi.us/page.cfm?p=798 Tracy Standhart, http://ilearnyoulearnwelearn.wikispaces.com/ • • PA DEN, http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/pennsylvania/ David Warlick, http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/ Thank You Blog On! Resources • Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms by Will Richardson • Grazing for Digital Natives http://jdorman.wikispaces.com/ • Wikipedia • http://www.teachersfirst.com/content/wiki/ • http://ikiw.org/