intro to web 2.0

Intro to Web 2.0

Dr. Richard VoltzAssociate Director

Illinois Association of School Administrators

Video produced by Consortium for School Networking (CoSN)

How many of these terms do you know?

1. Wiki2. Blog3. Ning4. Jing5. delicious6. ProfCast7. Podcast8. Gcast9. Chacha10. Wikipedia11. Forum12. Tinyurl13. Flickr

14. Second Life15. Myspace16. Web 2.017. Gotomeeting18. Ustream19. Wiimote20. Chatzy21. Gabcast22. Link:23. RSS24. Twitter25. Ask a ninja?

Don’t get stuck on the technology escalator…

How do you use technology?

How do young people use technology?

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Y 2 K

Can you read this?

•Chinese students start mandated English as second language training in grade 3.

•There will be more English speaking high school graduates in China this year than high school graduates in all of North America.

Learning from each other…

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As promised, President-elect Barack Obama and his transition team have put his weekly radio address on

YouTube so that all can see him deliver it. The plan is to continue doing this once he becomes president.

Web 2.0 Thank You

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Industrial Model of Leadership and Organization

Distributive Model of Leadership and Organization

Dr. Phil SchlechtyOn October 2008 Audio Ed-Online

Instead of IT (Instructional Technology)

Call it LT (Learning Technology)

Who makes the decision in your school district about

access to Internet and technology?

Who should be making that decision?

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$1,200 laptop

$500 Cloud Computer

$229 iTouch

How many of you believe your children or grandchildren know more

about technology than you do?

Why is this?

Students are different today

Net GenerationGeneration Y

• 97% own a computer• 97% have downloaded music• 94% own a cell phone• 76% use instant messaging• 75% of college students have a Facebook

profile• 60% own iPods• 34% use websites as their primary source of

news• 28% author a blog and 44% read blogs

Source: Wikipedia 2008

• Students are more engaged outside of school than in school

• Students are content developers through their own social networking sites

• Students use email, IM, Twitter and other Web 2.0 tools that are all banned in schools

Authentic Learning

• When students do work in Web 2.0 it is never done.

• In a school once a teacher grades the paper the student is finished. In a Web 2.0 world, the student can post his/her paper on the net and people who are interested in similar topics may blog with the student.

21st Century Ideas

• Cell phones are the technology of the future• Movies have great impact on learning• Use Google to set up your own search engine• MySpace users would outnumber all countries in the

world but two• Social networking encourages divergent thinking,

school is all about convergence• Use videos of good teachers teaching• Students no longer live in a paper and pencil world

Be careful not to make a $1,200 piece of equipment a glorified

pencil.

Wikinomics

• Principles– Open doors to the world– Co-innovates with everyone– Share resources that used to be guarded– Harness power of mass-collaboration

TodayFlickr beats Webshots

Wikipedia beats Encyclopedia Britannica

Blogger beats CNN

Epinions beats Consumer Reports

Google Maps beats Map Quest

MySpace beats friendster

Craiglist beats monistor

Why?

• Peering– When masses of people and firms collaborate openly to

drive innovation and growth in their industries (MySpace, YouTube, linux, Wikipedia)

• Blogosphere– Self-organized network of personal commentary sites that

are updated every day

• Wiki– Software that allows the users to edit the content of web

pages - Wikipedia is bigger than Encyclopedia Britannica

• Web 2.0 is about the communities, participation and peering.

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What is Web 2.0?

• Instead of always downloading information off the web, you interact with information on the web.

• Superintendents join the IASA Ning to learn from each other.

• Principals can set up their own blogs to communicate with their staff and the community.

• Information flows both ways.