Web 2.0 - Connecting the World

Wando High School

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It is easier to change the location of a cemetery than to change the school curriculum.

Woodrow Wilson

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This is a Dynamic Presentation

• Static vs. Dynamic

• Online handouts

• Live Discussion

• Wandofaculty.wikispaces.com

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The Machine is Us/ing Us

• Created by an anthropology professor

• Demonstrates several Web 2.0 concepts

• Video

Source: Mike Wesch, Kansas State University - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g

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What is Web 2.0?

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• Read/Write Web– Wikis, blogs, tagging

• Social Networks– MySpace, Facebook, Twitter

• Personal Interaction– IM, Skype

What is Web 2.0?

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What is Web 2.0?

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What is Web 2.0?

• Individuals as Multimedia Producers– Podcasting, YouTube, TeacherTube, Flickr

• Google Earth

• Integration of several web pages into one– RSS feeds, NetVibes, Mash-ups

• Whole new worlds– Second Life

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Are our kids using this?

• About 87% of kids (ages 12-17) use the Internet

• 55% of online teens use Social Networking Sites

• 33% of online teens share their own creative content online

• 22% report keeping their own personal webpage

Source: Pew Internet and American Life Project - http://www.pewinternet.org/index.asp

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Are our kids using this?

• 32% say that they have created or worked on webpages or blogs

• 19% of online teens keep a blog

• 38% of online teens read blogs.

• 19% of Internet-using teens say they remix content they find online into their own artistic creations.

Source: Pew Internet and American Life Project - http://www.pewinternet.org/index.asp

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Who is doing what?

Source: Business Week 6/11/07 - http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_24/b4038405.htm

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Why should we care?

• Communication for Net Gen

• If we don’t teach them, who will?

• Fraudulent Sources

• Creativity is the one edge that we still have

• Our students are the next generation of leaders

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Why should we care?

• Q: What rank are we in the world in Broadband Penetration?

• A: At last count, 25th (even behind Estonia)

Here we are

Here is Estonia

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Net Gen’s Concept of Work

• Speed• Freedom• Openness• Innovation

• Mobility• Authenticity• Playfulness• Fun

How many of us incorporate these ideas into our classrooms and assignments?

Source: Wikinomics – Tapscott and Williams – p. 54

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How do we integrate this?

• Easy to implement

• Examples– English

• The Jungle• Vocab Lesson• 1984 (video 1, video 2)• Canterbury Tales• Visuwords• Kartoo – good for History and Science also

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How do we integrate this?

• Examples (cont.)– US History - Vietnam War (Final Project)– US Government – Summer Reading Wiki– Science – Encyclopedia of Life

• Flat World Project– Example of Student Output

• Thinkquest– Example of Thinkquest project

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Suggested Reading

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Suggested Reading

• Wired Magazine

• The World Is Flat by Thomas Friedman

• The Long Tail by Chris Anderson

• Tough Choices or Tough Times: The Report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce

• Wikinomics by by Tapscott and Williams

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Food for thought

• Video made by a HS tech coordinator in CO

• Intended for his staff of 150

• Posted to YouTube in Aug. 2006

• Over 5,000,000 views in only 9 months

• Did You Know?

AnyQuestions?