Student Toolkit:Leveraging Web 2.0

Applications

Presenters Presenters

Kevin O’SheaKevin O’SheaTeaching and Learning TechnologiesInstructional Development Center

• What is the toolkit?

• What are students using?

• What are our peers using it for?

• How can we use it?

Overview

What is the Student Toolkit?

feeds

Web Standards

BloggingLife-hacking

Peer-to-peer

Wiki

GTD

User-generated content

social networkingGoogle

Open source

•Using the Web as a Platform–Zoho, Google Docs

•Simplicity•Open Source

–Reuse allowed and encouraged•User Generated Content

–YouTube, Blogs, Wikis•Categorized and Efficient

–Tagging, Social Bookmarking, Cross-linking

•Cross-platform/device Compatibility–Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone

Characteristics of Web 2.0

Why Does It Matter?

According to the Pew Internet & American Life

Project (Lenhardt & Madden 2007) more than

60% of teens have created online media

content, and more than 75% of those teens

have shared the content they have produced.

This in turn has fueled the online revolution of

participation and collaboration.

• Blogging + RSS

• Powerful communication and publishing tools

• Wikis

• Online writing space allowing user to add and

modify its pages.

• Web Applications

• Office Suites, News Aggregators, etc…

• Social Networks

What are they using?

RSS & Information

• Netvibes– http://www.netvibes.com

• iGoogle– http://www.google.com/ig

• Bloglines– http://www.bloglines.com

• Pageflakes– http://www.pageflakes.com

• iTunes (pod/vodcasts)– http://www.apple.com/itunes

How are they keeping track of it all?

•Movement away from Desktop

application reliance.

•Platform independent.

•Mobile device compatibility.

•Open source.

•Online collaboration

Online Applications

• Office Applications

– Zoho

– Google Docs

– Zimbra

– Thinkfree

• Presentation Applications

– YouTube

– TeacherTube

– SlideShare

What Applications Are They Using?

Technology Mash ups

• Google Lit Trips

– Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place.

• Scratch

– Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web.

Facebook: The 800lb Gorilla/Guerilla

•Wikimono

•Study Groups

•Zoho Online Office

•Notes

•Share Homework

•Scribd

•Twitter

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