riema 2008 conf web 2.0
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Dave Fontaine's Web 2.0 presentation for the RIEMA Conference 2008TRANSCRIPT
What is
Web 2.0?
RIEMA--2008By Dave Fontaine
April 28th, 2008
Agenda•Web 2.0•Blogs•Podcast•Wikis
What is Web 2.0?Aka: •Read/Write Web•Participatory Web
The Read/Only Web The Read/Write Web
What is Web 2.0?
• Powerful resource for educators, but…
• Information moved from publishers to consumers
• Content could not be edited• One-Way Web
• (Web 1.0)
• It is now as easy to create as it is to consume• Anyone can publish, share, and change information online• Two-Way Web
• (Web 2.0)
• This is changing our world!
Web 2.0Web 1.0• Restricted participation
• Needed html programming skills
• Knowledge sharing went one-way
• Interactive/Participatory• As simple as using a word processor• Maximizes the “Collective Intelligence” of a group; benefits increase with the # of users
What is a Blog?-Web site that can be easily updated.
-Watch clip
What can a ‘blog’ be used for?
• A collaborative space• A political soapbox• A breaking-news outlet• A collection of links• Your own private thoughts• Memos to the world
What's the difference between weblogs and "classic" homepages?
• Format, style and content varies greatly.• Currency• Weblogs have a strong component of
dates attached to entries.
What makes a blog useful in education?
• Give and Get feedback.*You can choose whether or not you want to
allow comments (and you can delete anything you don't like).
• Group blogs can be excellent communication tools for small teams, groups, or classes.
• Give your group its own space on the web for sharing news, links, and ideas.
Public or Private• Public weblogs are blogs published
on the internet for all to see.
• Private weblogs are published on the internet but protected.
*Password*Company’s network
The best way tolearn about blogs is toread them.
The International Edublog Award Winners
• Best newcomer:Blog of Proximinal Development
• Best designed edublog: D'Arcy Norman Dot Net
• Best library/librarian blog:Never Ending Search
URL’S FROM PREVIOUS SLIDE:
HTTP://WWW.INCSUB.ORG/BLOG/HTTP://WWW.TEACHANDLEARN.CA/BLOG/2008/01/20/LOOKING-FORWARD-TO-EDUCON-20/#COMMENTSHTTP://WWW.DARCYNORMAN.NET/HTTP://WWW.DARCYNORMAN.NET/HTTP://WWW.SCHOOLLIBRARYJOURNAL.COM/BLOG/1340000334.HTML
Finding blogs from
local teachers.
“I have really enjoyed using my blog. It is so user friendly and much easier to update than a web page. I am proud to say that I have inspired other teachers in my school to create their own, and several have-- including our principal! Parents really like it too-- they feel like it’s a window into their child's day.” --Pam W. (past edc920 participant)
http://www.narragansett.k12.ri.us/NES/neshomepage.html
This all sounds intriguing, but will it workin my school?
Blogging Software• Blogger- part of Google, it is fully hosted
and you post and manage your blog from within your web browser.
• LiveJournal- also fully hosted and has many great community features.
• Edublogs- claims to have the largest collection of educational blogs
And more...• Blogger has a variety of ways to easily update your
blog besides the easy-to-use web interface: • Email Posting. • BlogThis! is a button that you can put on your browser
(or via the Google Toolbar) that lets you quickly post to your blog from anywhere on the web.
• Post photos. • There's even a feature, called AudioBlogger, that lets
you call Blogger from any phone and leave a message that is immediately posted to your site as an MP3 audio file. (It's fun at parties.)
End of part 1 of 3
Questions so far?
PODCASTING
DEFINITIONA podcast is a media file that is distributed over the Internet using syndication
feeds, for playback on portable media players and
personal computers.
In simple terms:
• It is a permanent recording • Posted online; and • Can be downloaded anytime
2 Uses for Podcasting:
• Simplest:– Use recordings to
supplement instruction
• More Advanced:– Create your own,
either alone or with the students
Record lessons for students (and parents!) Give students an alternative to PowerPoint! Introduce yourself and explain the classroom management plan. Create a class or even a whole-school radio station. Enable students to submit work in the form of a podcast.
JUST A FEW OPTIONS
MORE OPTIONS… Create audio resources for use by sight-impaired students.Find and use podcasts as part of research projects.Use foreign language podcasts to improve linguistic skills. Use podcasts to gain insight into another country's culture.Enable students to create dynamic presentations.
Let’s TakeA Look
At SomeExamples
Podcast Directories
• Podcast411• Yahoo! Podcasts• iTunes.com
“Using little more than an iPod and a school computer, Gagliolo and her students have been
making podcasts… Avidly discussing their favorite iPod colors and models, while they made
recordings of their poems and bookreports the other day, the fifth-graders bubbled with ideas for future
subjects.‘We could read parts of books, to show why we like them. We could do interviews. If there's a field trip, we could make a recording of it and post it,’ said
Mohamed El-Sayed, 10.”click for Seattle Times article
LINK
End of part 2 of 3
Questions so far?
What is a WebQuest?
A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web.
Part 3 of 3
Wikisan
Introduction
What you will learn
• What a wiki is--• What wikis are good for, and not so
good for--• BRIEFLY view some wikis--• Tips on developing a successful wiki--
What is a wiki?• Wiki = quick (in Hawaiian) • Allows people to collaboratively edit the
content without any computer programming knowledge
• All community members can ‘add to’ or ‘edit’ the work of others--improving it each time.
Tabula Rasa• Starts as a blank slate• Pages are created and connected by
hyperlinks• No ownership of pages; anyone can
change the work of others
Discussion area for each page
The most powerful part
List of changes made to all pages
Wikis vs. Blogs• No one owns
content• No specific
organization (hyperlinks)
• Anyone can edit other people’s work
• A person owns their post
• Organized in reverse chron. order
• Only author can edit their own work (others can comment)
Why wiki?• Easy to use• Web-based• Anyone can make changes• Easily searched• Many free and open-source wikis• Flexible
Why not wiki?• Too open (trust issues)• Concerns about ownership of
content• Disorganized• Vandalism and spam
Wikis in Practice
Wiki as Courseware
http://wikidave.wikispaces.com/EDC921
How schools can use wikis• Staff Intranet• Collaborative document editing• School Guidebooks• Collaboratively-developed manual• Planning space for professional
development RIBEP Wiki• Knowledgebase for ‘Institutional
Memory’
Collaboratively Developed Manual
LINK
Collective Intelligence
http://www.libsuccess.org/
LINK
Wiki Tips
How to develop and maintain a successful wiki
Screencasting•Record screen movements
•Save in video format
•Upload to someone else’s server
•Link to it from your blog
Screencast Examples
•How to Convert Metric Units (1min)
•DNA and Molecule 3D (2 min)
•Calcus: Volume of a Solid (12min)
Additional ResourcesList of websites with general information about podcasting, what are they and how to set them uphttp://www.shambles.net/pages/learning/ict/podcast/.
List of podcasts related to educationhttp://www.shambles.net/pages/learning/infolit/edupodcast/.
List of podcast directorieshttp://www.shambles.net/pages/learning/infolit/podcastdir/.http://www.epnweb.org