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Professional Learning Experience Topics – WEB 2.0 OVERVIEW The term “Web 2.0” was coined by Tim O‟Reilly in 2004 and refers to online applications and services that emphasize collaboration and sharing among users. The most widely known tools are wikis, blogs, social networking, picture sharing, and video sharing. Web 2.0 applications can be categorized as level 0 to level 3, ranging from those that can work just as well off-line to those that only exist on the Web. Source: Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2 GUIDING QUESTION(S)  Which Web 2.0 tools can I use in my teaching and to enhance my student‟s literacy with ICT?  Which tool(s) would best suit my students‟ learning needs? CONTINUUM / CURRICULUM CONNECTION: Continuum for Literacy with ICT All descriptors may be observed in students, based on the tool used and the intended purpose. English Language Arts All writing outcomes may be targeted Social Studies Citizenship outcomes may be targeted (especially related to the LwICT concept of „digital citizenship‟) SUGGESTED LEARNING RESOURCES Black Line Masters Web 1.0 vs Web 2.0 Comparison Chart Web 2.0 Definitions Blogs Information Links: Note: - Each of the links below will list many other subject-related links. - Each tool generally provides its own users‟ guide and general information. Freedman, Terry, ed. Coming of Age: An Introduction to the New World Wide Web. 14 contributors from around the world write about Web 2.0 issues. The book is available online at the following address. Select “OK I‟m convinced” on the left, and follow the instructions to have the book emailed to you free of charge. http://www.terry-freedman.org.uk/db/web2/ Howe, Danae. What is Web 2.0? YouTube. This 10 minute video contains a lot of information, but it is delivered in user-friendly language, with practical analogies to explain each tool. See if you can recognize and make a list of the Web 2.0 tools she talks about. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swQOnM3g0v0&mode=related&search= Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth. Literacy with ICT Blog. 2007. Scroll down the right navigation bar to link to Web 2.0 tools. http://www.literacywithict.ca/ Pearce, John. It’s Elementary: The Promises and Problems of Working with Blogs, Wikis, and Podcasts in a Primary (Elementary) School. This 30 minute presentation is autorun, but the list of slide topics on the left lets you click on any slide to jump ahead or back. http://k12online.wm.edu/its_elementary/player.html Schlib: A Listserv about Resources and Opportunities. Winnipeg: Pembina Trails S.D. Once you register to become a member, you can choose to get emails as they are sent or once a day as a digest. You can also search the archives. http://merlin.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo.cgi/schlib Wesh, Michael. The Machine Is Us/ing Us. YouTube, 2007. This 4 and a half minute video is a whimsical exploration of Web 2.0. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE&mode=related&search= Wikipedia. Web 2.0. Any web 2.0-related topic can be searched in Wikipedia. Enter the desired term in the search box in the left navigation bar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2 See also: related LwICT professional learning experiences in WebCT  Principles – DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP  Topics – COLLABORATION SUGGESTIONS FOR LEARNING Activating My Prior Knowledge about Web 2.0:  Find a colleague who may also be interested in learning more about Web 2.0. You can support each other in the learning process.  Review BLM – Web 1.0 vs Web 2.0 Comparison Chart to see what might be different between the web you are familiar with, 1.0 and the new tools available in Web 2.0.  Brainstorm and write down everything you know, think you know, and have heard about Web 2.0 tools.  Categorize your brainstorming ideas. Is there an idea or a particular tool that stands out? You may want to begin your learning with that one.  Watch a YouTube video such as Howe‟s What is Web 2.0? Add information to your brainstorm.  Subscribe to “Schlib”, a Manitoba-based listserv for teacher-librarians and teachers. New Web 2.0 tools are often introduced here and described in an educational context.  Read BLM – Web 2.0 Definitions to find out more information about the most commonly used Web 2.0 tools. This may help in identifying one tool to learn about that interests you. Acquiring Information about a Selected Web 2.0 Tool:  Finding out the basic information o Your students most likely already use one or more Web 2.0 tools such as blogs, wikis, podcasts, social networking sites, etc. Discuss with them why they use particular Web 2.0 tools, what the benefits are, which ones they prefer, etc. o Students may explain in essence that when they use Web 2.0 tools, the world is their audience, and that someone is actively listening and responding to them beyond the walls of the classroom. Consider planning a learning experience built around using a Web 2.0 tool to communicate with a class from a distant location. o Search Wikipedia to read an overview of the tool you have chosen to investigate.  Learning more about your chosen Web 2.0 tool o Look up the LwICT blog. In the right navigation bar, look up your chosen tool and follow the appropriate link. (Or look in BLM – Web 2.0 Definitions for more choices) o Set up a free account with one of the sites hosting your chosen tool. Use it with your own children, with colleagues, or with friends to practice. o Do not worry about doing it perfectly the first time. Make it a practice run, and use it for a while before trying with your students. You will know if this is a suitable tool for your educational purposes. o Remember that you are the “architect” of the tool. You decide what goes on, who gets to use it, or how the interface (“what the page looks like and how it works”) is set up. Applying in My Classroom: Note: Before you decide to use a specific Web 2.0 tool in your classroom, verify with the ICT support person that it can be used on the school network.  What does using my chosen Web 2.0 tool look like in my classroom? o Because Web 2.0 tools are collaborative by nature, your students should be able to work in collaborative groups. Establishing collaboration protocols should be the first step. (See Topics – COLLABORATION) o Browse the URL in the Links below, entitled Critical Methods Collective, which concerns Blogs and Wikis in collaborative learning. Even if your chosen tool is not a blog or wiki, suggestions can still apply to your classroom.  How do I get my students involved in using my chosen Web 2.0 tool? Note: Users of web 2.0 often use only nicknames, aliases or other monikers that make it difficult to identify them. When talking with students about credibility and validity of information (G-2.2), this will be an issue to address. o Follow the suggestions on BLM – Blogs and adapt them to the Web 2.0 you selected. o Review ethics in the use of online tools. (See Principles – DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP) o Frame the use of the tool in the context of a learning experience. Emphasize the educational components as well as the contents.  What resources can I use to facilitate using my chosen Web 2.0 tool? o Any of the resources listed in the Links below will support the use of Web 2.0 tools. o Educational blogs often discuss the use of Web 2.0 tools. Find an appropriate one (Look on the Literacy with ICT Blog for suggestions) and read the entries regularly by subscribing to the RSS feed if available. Participate in the discussion. Implementation Links and Resources Note: - Web 2.0 is a very fast growing entity. A document like this one could not attempt to keep up to date on the latest content and applications. The following URLs are sites set up by people with a specific interest in Web 2.0 and who keep active lists of Web 2.0 tools. - Each tool provides its own users‟ guide and general information. The Critical Methods Collective. “Blogs in Collaborative Learning”. Collaborative Learning Environments Sourcebook. concise overview of blogs and how they can be used in the collaborative classroom. Many links to other sites of interest. http://www.criticalmethods.org/collab/v.mv?d=1_30 The Critical Methods Collective. “Wikis in Collaborative Learning”. Collaborative Learning Environments Sourcebook. concise overview of wikis and how they can be used in the collaborative classroom. Many links to other sites of interest. http://www.criticalmethods.org/collab/v.mv?d=1_34 Hub Pages. Education Web 2.0 by alew. Now that you know about Web 2.0 resources, search this site for applications to explore, which might be helpful in your teaching. http://hubpages.com/hub/Education20 Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth. Literacy with ICT Blog. 2007. Scroll down the right navigation bar to look up Web 2.0 tools. http://www.literacywithict.ca/ Warlick, David. Blog Rules. EdTech: Focus on K-12. “As blogging becomes more pervasive, schools have begun establishing ground rules for teachers who blog.” http://www.edtechmag.com/k12/issues/november-december-2006/blog-rules.html SUGGESTIONS FOR ASSESSMENT  Personal Journaling: o What have I learned that I was not previously aware of? o What has been clarified? o What do I want to pursue to find out more? o Is there any issue I feel I should share with my colleagues? How to I plan to do that?   Providing Feedback: o Please share with the Literacy with ICT project team, any issue that was not clear, any questions you have, or suggestions for a future update of this professional learning experience or of the LwICT blog. Observing Students: o Are students practicing responsible and ethical behaviour as described in the Affective Domain of the Continuum? o Assess students in a way that reflects the intended purpose of the learning experience. BLM – Web 1.0 vs Web 2.0 Comparison Chart Web 1.0 information control by networking protocol tools access by descriptions infrastructure ownership lead companies cost who? Information flow is about… reading companies client-server home pages portals taxonomy wires owning Netscape hardware costs them from the creator to the user Web 2.0 is about… writing communities peer to peer blogs and wikis RSS tags wireless sharing Google bandwidth costs us between all users, who are also all creators BLM – Web 2.0 Definitions   Note: The suggested educational application for each tool is intended as a prompt to consider the wide variety of uses of each application. Look up Literacy with ICT blog http://www.literacywithict.ca/. There are several Web 2.0 tools listed in the right hand column to be explored. Blogs - a blog is a conversational tool / online journal (Web log). A blogger posts an article or journal entry to the Internet and invites others to comment and expand the discussion. Your students can create blogs to discuss what they are learning and invite others to share their viewpoints and to contribute new ideas. Blogs can be public, protected, or private. Check out: Literacy with ICT blog at www.literacywithict.ca Free Blogging: classblogmeister.com, edublogs.org, gaggle.net Suggested Educational Application: Students journal about a novel they are reading, exchange opinions and give each other feedback… Online Applications – Students who have a different word processor, spreadsheet, or concept mapping at home than they do at school may be unable to finish homework at night. As a bonus, teachers can also collaborate with their students and suggest revisions while the students work on their document. Once the document is finished, others may also be invited to view the final product online. Files may be exported in Word, Excel, PDF, CSV, HTML or ODS formats. Free Online Applications: Google docs and spreadsheets, mindmeister.com Suggested Educational Application: Students in different locations survey peers about a favourite item. They represent the information in an online-based interactive graph and together interpret the data… Online Phone – With the use of an online phone application, users can communicate with live voice, at a distance. Free Online Phone: Skype,com Suggested Educational Application: Students in different locations talk in real time and interview each other… Online Video Editing – Those sites allow students to upload photos and/or video they have created and to produce movies complete with effects and music. The videos can then be shared with others publicly or privately. Free online sites allow you to use an application that is not platform-specific. Free Online Video Editing: jumpcut.com, primaryaccess.org Suggested Educational Application: Students video their school and classroom community and share with students in a different location. Together they edit each other‟s videos and write a commentary about “learning in different lands”… Podcasting – Like a spoken blog, podcasts are live-voice files that be downloaded into your iPod or other mp3 playing devices for later listening. Students and teachers may easily create and share podcasts. Free Online podcasting: audacity.com Suggested Educational Application: Many radio programs are not advertised as having a podcast for download from their website. Some conferences may now be held online, with podcasting services available for download… RSS – RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. What does that mean? Using a free RSS aggregator (or “pulling together”), users can “subscribe” to different sites such as web pages, blogs, or wikis by listing the ones that interest them. Each time new content is posted on the sites subscribed to, the RSS aggregator delivers it to you on a single page. Free RSS aggregator: bloglines.com Suggested Educational Application: Students keep tabs on an issue of national interest by aggregating major Canadian newspapers. They may also subscribe to blogs that their teacher wants them to read… Social Bookmarking – imagine having your own bookmarks or favourites available from any computer in the world. Social bookmarking sites allow you to save links and a description to an online site that you can access using any computer anywhere. Because these sites are public, not only do you have access to your own bookmarks but that you can also search other people‟s bookmarks as well. Free Social Bookmarking: del.icio.us (that‟s the whole URL) Suggested Educational Application: Searching for content-related sites to use with your class? As you find good sites, add them to your del.icio.us class account. Now your students can visit your del.icio.us site and access the sites you have chosen… Video Sharing – Video sharing sites allow users to upload videos and post them, usually in a public hosting site, and sharing them. Free Online Applications: TeacherTube.com, YouTube.com Suggested Educational Application: In TeacherTube, you will find videos on literature circles, how to teach fractions, video tutorials on different pieces of software and a variety of other topics of interest to the education community. Students may post their own video creation to share with other students around the world… Wikis – wiki is a Hawaiian term that means quick. Wiki software therefore quickly allows you to collaborate with others to create a website. Think of a wiki as a web page with an edit button. Wikipedia, the best-known example of a wiki, allows anyone to edit the entries in its online encyclopedia, and many volunteer experts review these edits for accuracy, currency, and validity. Wikis also allow you to see a history of each new saved edit so you know who contributed (and can check their credibility) and you can quickly revert to a previous version if someone “messes” up your page. Wikis can be public, protected, or private. Free wikis: Wikispaces.com, Pbwiki.com. Suggested Educational Application: Students, within a classroom or working at distance with other students, collaborate to write the biography of a famous person… BLM – Blogs Note: The steps below describe how to introduce Blogs to students. The same steps, with some adaptation, can be used to introduce other Web 2.0 tools. Blogs - a blog is a conversational tool / online journal (Web log). A blogger posts an article or journal entry to the Internet and invites others to comment and expand the discussion. Your students can create blogs to discuss what they are learning and invite others to share their viewpoints and to contribute new ideas. Blogs allow students the opportunity to receive feedback from their peers and prompt reflection. Blogs can be public, protected, or private. Blogs consist primarily of text but may also include images. Suggested Steps to Implement the Use of Blogs: 1. Model sample blog articles by inviting students to read a blog article and leave a comment. (See Literacy with ICT Blog for appropriate classroom-based blogs) 2. Setup a classroom blog using freely available blogging sites (see resources). 3. Pose questions based on class discussions on a topic in the class blog, and invite students to provide their answers by leaving comments in the blog. 4. Students publish rough drafts to the class blog and invite readers to provide constructive feedback. 5. Students pose questions to others through the class blog to create virtual discussions and collaboration. 6. Gradually, allow students to explore different ways to use blogs to suit their needs. Implementation Links and Resources Free Blogging: classblogmeister.com, edublogs.org, gaggle.net The Critical Methods Collective. “Blogs in Collaborative Learning”. Collaborative Learning Environments Sourcebook. concise overview of blogs and how they can be used in the collaborative classroom. Many links to other sites of interest. http://www.criticalmethods.org/collab/v.mv?d=1_30 Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth. Literacy with ICT Blog. 2007. Scroll down the right navigation bar to look up Web 2.0 tools. http://www.literacywithict.ca/ Warlick, David. Blog Rules. EdTech: Focus on K-12. “As blogging becomes more pervasive, schools have begun establishing ground rules for teachers who blog.” http://www.edtechmag.com/k12/issues/november-december-2006/blog-rules.html