Web 2.0:

Imagine the Possibilities

Presented by Gayla S. Keesee

May, 2007

Knowledge is specific content

Learners are empty vessels to be filled

with knowledge

Knowledge is created

Learning is a collaborative social endeavor

A Paradigm Shift

Horizon Report 2007

Key trends affecting higher education—next 5 years

One year or less Social Networking User-Created Content

Two-Three Years Mobile Phones Virtual Worlds

Four-Five Years New Scholarship and Emerging Forms of

Publication Massively Multiplayer Educational Gaming

Tools for

Collaboration Social Networks Facebook, MySpace Flickr YouTube

Blogs Wiki’s Podcasts

Social Software Social Networking

Keeping contacts online through web interfaces

Social Calendaring Shared agendas for events arrangements and

meetings planning

Social Bookmarking storing, describing, and sharing bookmarks (

del.icio.us)

Social Tagging Unintentional, collective effort of categorizing the

Web, with added social significance (Folksonomies)

Social Networks: Connect Users into Communities of

Trust (or interests)

Flickrsocial network for sharing

photos

You-Tube social network for sharing

videos

Blogging: Most Recognized Example

What are Blogs?

Web + Logs = Blogs Web Pages

Automated updating Reverse chronological postings May accommodate responses

Internet-specific phenomenon Incomplete index of blogs

http://blogdex.media.mit.edu/

Blogging in Education

Limited Only by Your Imagination

Instructors Content-related blog as

professional practice Networking and personal

knowledge sharing Instructional tips for

students Course announcements

and readings Annotated links

Students Reflective or writing

journals Assignment submission

and review Dialogue for groupwork E-portfolios Share course-related

resources

Sample Educational Blogs

Online Research Blog eCornell Research Blog

Info-Commons Blog commons-blog

Educational Bloggers Network EBN blog

Science Blog Science Blog

Wiki’s: The ultimate collaboration

tool

Special web site allows visitors to add, remove, edit &

change content Not need access to or knowledge of

web publishing software Collaboration

Group members work on common document in common location

Wikipedia: Collaborative Dictionary Being Edited in Real

Time by Anyone

Wiki’s in Higher Ed

Econ 482: Stephen Greenlaw

Advanced Artificial Intelligence: Sean Luke

Harvard Law School

Eckerd College

Podcasting

Pod (iPod) + broadcast = Podcast Differs from streaming audio

Automatically delivered to player –don't have to click on a link to download

Listen when you want – not when a program is scheduled

How Does Podcasting Work?

Why is podcasting appealing for learning

and teaching?

Appeals to the digital natives

Easy and low cost to create and distribute

Caters to different learning styles

Advantages

Students Review lectures before exams Listen in on classes they've missed Replay at own convenience Non-native speakers replay to increase

comprehension

Instructors Listen to own lectures to improve

presentations

Learning & Teaching Applications

Interviews with experts Oral history projects Quotes from recorded speeches Answers to posted questions Guest speakers / lecture series Student submissions /portfolios /

placement logs

Issues to be aware of…

Not all students have iPods (about 60% do) 20% of podcasts actually downloaded onto

portable media players Will students still come to lectures? Public access to audio files is necessary (no

access control) Cannot search or scan podcast content Podcasts can lend themselves to passive,

prescriptive teaching

Universities Podcasting

iTunes U (http://www.apple.com/education/solutions/itunes_u/) Duke University University of Illinois Stanford UC Berkley

Purdue Universityhttp://www.itap.purdue.edu/tlt/BoilerCast/

University of Washingtonhttp://www.css.washington.edu/

Over 200 Web 2.0 Sites in 41 CategoriesRated, Ranked and Awarded

15 Interviews with Founders of Winning Sites

The creators of the winning sites share their insight and approach, including technology, funding and

methods for attracting traffic.

http://www.seomoz.org/web2.0

Horizon Projecthttp://horizonproject.wikispaces.com/

Collaborative global project between classrooms in diverse geographical locations

Camilla, GA (10th grade)

Vienna, Austria (11th grade)

Dhaka, Bangladesh (11th grade)

Melbourne, Australia (11th grade)

Shanghai, China (Media Literary)