The Web and the Ivy: Educational Value and

Web 2.0

Gardner CampbellBaylor University

www.gardnercampbell.net

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Today’s session• Ivy League to Web League• Executive Summary x2: Web 2.0• Startling Example, Reflection• Recap: Web 2.0• Another Startling Example, Reflection• Two stories from my practice• Wikipedia and you?• Closing reflections, Q & A

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The Ivy Walls (we’ll remember always)

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Webs without walls

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Web 2.0

• Read/Write Web: User-generated content

• Perpetual Beta• The Long Tail• Network Effects

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Web 2.0

• Intimacy• Authenticity• Imagination• Emergence

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http://thru-you.com/#/videos/

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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101959636

Web 2.0

• Read/Write Web: User-generated content

• Perpetual Beta• The Long Tail• Network Effects

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Web 2.0

• Intimacy• Authenticity• Imagination• Emergence

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLzSgtG29is

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http://ovenell-carter.com/blog/about/

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Discussion Forum, Web 1.0

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Discussion Forum, Web 1.0

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Discussion Forum, Web 2.0

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Discussion Forum, Web 2.0

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Discussion Forum, Web 2.0

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Discussion Forum, Web 2.0

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Syllabus, Web 1.0

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Syllabus, Web 2.0

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Syllabus, Web 2.0

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Intimacy

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“Man’s working image of himself is anchored in his sense of intimacy—in the events and relations that are the fabric of his immediate experience and make up his way of life. Change in the individual is a function of how much and in what manner an intimate way of life is altered.” Jerome Bruner, “Fate and the Possible,” in On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand (Harvard UP, 1979)

Intimacy

• Softened, personalized by use• Shared individuation: myspace

is also ourspace• Contributes to a greater whole

or greater good• Stimulates narrative

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authenticity

• Trust• Playfulness• Pidgins: contact languages• Slightly askew: a real pug, not a

model pug

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imagination

• Invites oblique strategies (http://www.thraeryn.org/strategies/draw.cgi)

• Invites Linking• Inspires assembly, breakdown,

restructuring, recombining

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emergence

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“Emergence is the process whereby the assembly, breakdown or restructuring of a system results in one or more novel emergent properties.” (ALEX RYAN, 2006)

Emergence

• Web 2.0 not only permits but invites assembly, breakdown or restructuring of systems

• SO DOES LEARNING• HOW TO ENCOURAGE

EMERGENCE AND FEND OFF CHAOS?

• THEME PARKS VS. SANDBOXES

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Del.icio.us

• Softened, personalized by use• Shared individuation: myspace

is also ourspace• Contributes to a greater whole

or greater good• Stimulates narrative

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