Web 2.0Presented by:

Ray Pastore

Penn State University

What is Web 2.0 Video - O’Reilly Involves interaction, life, and users

Image borrowed from: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html

Web 2.0

Created by Robert Jordan

History of Web 2.0 Term first surfaced at the O'Reilly Media

Web 2.0 conference in 2004 Web 2.0 had been around before this but it

was a new way to describe webpages Similar to podcasts which had been around

long before the term podcasts

Web 2.0 in the classroom Google Docs Podcasts Blogs/wikis Opensource Google Tools Design/Community Collaboration Second Life Twitter

Google Docs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRqUE6IHTEA

"Google Docs is a free, Web-based word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation application offered by Google. It allows users to create and edit documents online while collaborating in real-time with other users. Google Docs combines the features of two services, Writely and Spreadsheets, which were merged into a single product on October 10, 2006. A third product for presentations, including technology designed by Tonic Systems, was released on September 17, 2007." - wikipedia

Google Docs Accessing:

http://docs.google.com

Create new files Share files View all current files See who was the last to edit files

Documents Documents saved on Google Servers Invite Collaborators Save as .doc and .pdf Insert images, tables, and comments View changes Print Has most features of Microsoft Word

Spreadsheets Similar to Microsoft Excel

Save as .xls, .pdf. .html

Perform calculations and functions

Create charts

Create sheets

Presentations Save as .pdf and .ppt (new feature)

Publish to web

Upload .ppt files

Change background

Insert images and video

Advantages/Disadvantages Advantages - Free - Ubiquitous - Clean, easy, user-friendly - When new features are available, they are offered immediately, no more waiting for upgrades - Supports revisions from multiple users - Nothing to download/install - Publishes .doc, .xls, .ppt

Disadvantages - Google has your files - Cannot handle large complex files - Have to be online, with high speed internet, or else data can be lost - will be corrected with

Google gears, an opensource extension

Podcasts Digital Audio File Played on Mp3 player (ipod) Great supplemental material Portable file Can be posted to webpages Easy to create Example Example on the web

Creating a Podcast All you need is a microphone and computer iPod and recording device Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Garage Band

http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/ Podomatic http://www.podomatic.com/

Other web sites…. I Tunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/

Blogs Blog - An online journal. Can be used as a webpage Can display text, images, sounds, videos WordPress http://wordpress.org/

Example: Best Blogs: http://bestblog.wordpress.com/ Typepad http://www.typepad.com/

Example: Featured Blogs: http://featured.typepad.com/

Blogger https://www.blogger.com/start Example: Anartica: http://jasonsolis.blogspot.com/

Wiki Information source that can be modified by

multiple users Example: Wikipedia: wikipedia.org Pbwiki - http://pbwiki.com/education.wiki

Educational Wikis - Free

Twiki - http://twiki.org/ Opensource - You install

Opensource Free Software Generally created by a team Product and Code are released Users of the product can create

modifications which are then shared and used by others

Software is loaded on your server or system

Opensource examples http://www.opensourcemac.org/ http://www.opensourcewindows.org/

Browsers - Firefox - http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ Music Editors/Podcasts - Audacity LMS - Moodle - http://moodle.org/ Blogs - WordPress Forum - PhpBB - http://www.phpbb.com/ Image Editing - GIMP - http://www.gimp.org/ Office - OpenOffice - http://www.openoffice.org/

Google Tools - http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/

Calendar Picasa Youtube Patent Search Scholar Earth

Second Life A virtual world http://secondlife.com/ Example: http://youtube.com/watch?

v=aFuNFRie8wA

http://youtube.com/watch?v=is8YX32GAyQ

Community Collaboration/Design Myspace Facebook Friendster Specific ones? Dolphin - http://www.boonex.com/products/dolphin/

PHPizabi - http://www.phpizabi.net/

Elgg - http://www.elgg.org/

Twitter http://twitter.com/ Service that connects us You answer: What am I doing? Webpages, Blogs, Cell Phones

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