Web 2.0 WorkshopsBlogs and Vlogs

Web 2.0

Social Software

Standardization

Participation

Design

Usability

AggregatorsVideo/Audio

Convergence

Wikis

Videocasting/Podcasting

User Centred

Blogs

Folksonomy

Collaboration

Sharing

What is Web 2.0?

Platform for applications

Example of glocalization

Separation of metadata from interface

Sharing of knowledge and building collaboration

Web 2.0 Workshops

What are they? Three sessions – 1.5 hours Instruction, discussion, hands-on http://yorkelearn.wordpress.com/

Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back

Blogs Website Updated regularly Content displayed in reverse chronological

order Textual, graphic, audio, visual Active Boingboing

Blogging Software

Hosted Wordpress.com Blogger Live JournalInstalled Wordpress.org Moveable Type Nucleus CMS

Blog Search Engines In 2006 there were 50 million blogs Retrieve blogs from the “blogosphere”

- all blogs and their communities Keyword searching Blog Search Engine Google Blog Search Technorati

http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/003674.php

Why Blog?

Vlog “Video blog” Video entries instead of traditional text Example

- Brotherhood 2.0- John and Hank Green- “social experiment”- January 1 to December 31, 2007

Brotherhood 2.0 – January 3, 2007

Vlogs: Is someone watching?

Brotherhood 2.0- 40,000 viewers daily- “Accio Deathly Hallows” viewed nearly 900,000 times- The Foundation to Decrease WorldSuck

zefrank- online performance artist, composer- 2001, online birthday party invitation- 100 gigabytes of daily traffic- Webby Award, featured in Time Magazine

Activity Create your own blog Use whichever hosted software appeals to

you (Wordpress.com) Posts

- Biographical information and outcomes- Opinions/Ideas about web 2.0