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Using Web 2.0 applications in Higher Education.TRANSCRIPT
Classroom 2.0Using Web 2.0 applications in the
classroom
Web 2.0?
What is Web 2.0 & how does it differ from Web 1.0?
Is this simply jargon or can we define what is meant by Web 2.0?
Before we try to answer these questions let’s take a look at how the web has evolved.
How the Web has changed
The early web used HTML to define the the structure of web pages
• <html>
• <body>
• <h1>My First Heading</h1>
• <p>My first paragraph.</p>
• </body>
• <html>
As HTML evolved, form and content became inseparable.
Enter the extensible markup language
(XML)XML separates form and content
XML tags label the meaning of a piece of data
This allows the data to be easily extracted and used by another application or service
What do we mean by data?
Text/Numeric
Photos
Videos
Music
In a nutshell - user generated content
What can we do with this data?
Store it in an online database
Edit it, Share it, Sell it
Collaborate with others
Build new data as a result of this collaboration
So what is Web 2.0?
No precise definition available
Depends on who you ask
Web 1.0 - read only, static, user consume
Web 2.0 - read/write, users participate
Web 2.0 Applications
or simply WebApps
Why WebApps now?
Open Source Software & cheap hardware make it easy for developers to start new projects
New browsers - Firefox, Furl
New & extended languages - AJAX
Best WebApps include search, content & community
Blogsor simply Web Logs
Blogs in EducationShare Ideas
Reflect, Discuss, Explore
Diaries, Journals
Microblogging:
Twitter - What are you doing now?
Tumblr - Mixed-media posts
Photo Sharingflickr claims to host more than 3 billion
images
Photos in Education
Presentations
Field Trips/Surveying/Geotagging
Online stories about images
Events
Portfolios
Discuss IP, Creative Commons
Videos in Education
Storyboard
Create online videos
Edit online
Mix, re-mix
Share
WikiHawaiian word for "fast"
“Nobody is as smart as everybody”Kevin Kelly, Executive Editor, Wired
“If you aggregate the ideas of a lot of people you can do things no one
individual can do.”
Wikis in EducationHow can we use a Wiki?
Writing space for students
Collaborate writing space for a class
A place for a researchers to record data
Record data from a lab session
Build a knowledge base
50 Ways to Use Wikis for a More
Collaborative and Interactive Classroom
http://tinyurl.com/5upn7x
Social Bookmarking
Folksonomy - a classification systems that uses social tagging
Social Bookmarking
Store and share bookmarks on the web
Get to your bookmarks from anywhere
Share your bookmarks publicly
Find other people on who have interesting bookmarks
Form a group and share bookmarks
RSSaggregate feeds from many sites into one
place
RSSCreate bookmarks of Internet sites and syndicate these URLs
Subscribe to feeds from a researcher or a research community
RSS feed from student blog, lecture subscribes
Create a “Start Page” and use RSS
Social Networksbased on the concept of networks, nodes
and links
Social Networks
Creepy Treehouse Effect vs Walled Garden
Using Ning you can create your own social network for your class or department
Enable members to customise their pages
Personal Learning Network
Photos, RSS, Videos, Blogs, Chat, Groups, Calendar
Office SuitesWorking Online
Google Apps & Zoho
Zoho Vs Google
Gmail - email with less spam
Google Talk - IM and call your friends
Google Calendar - Organize your schedule
Google Docs - Share online documents
Google Sites - Create websites
Other WebApps
Bibliographic Management
Researchers use tools such as Endnote
Today we have a choice of Web 2.0 tools
BibMe funded by Carnegie-Mellon
good for students, easy to learn
Bibliographic ManagementCiteULike - social bookmarking, aimed
to promote and to develop the sharing of scientific references between researchers.
Connotea similar to CiteUlike however is aimed primarily at scientists
Zotero is a free, open source extension for Firefox, enables users to collect, manage, and cite research from all types of sources.
My WebApps
My Classroom 2.0
Netvibes
Diigo
Wordpress
Wetpaint
BibMe
SummaryMany Web 2.0 apps for education
Creating a rich, engaging & exciting learning environment
Users become information producers, not simply consumers
Promotes student-centered learning
Is there a down side?
Institutional Policy - Websense
Resource Management & Support
Learning Curve
Assessment Criteria
Multiple Logins
Generation gap
More?