“Wikis and twitters and blogs, oh my!” Is Web 2.0 technology a road schools should be going

down?

Mark ChildsE-learning Development Fellow

Coventry University

Web what?

• Web 1.0 - linking together information over the Internet for people to access – webpages, movies, etc

• Web 2.0 – bringing together user-generated content, wikis, blogs, social networking sites, 3D platforms

• Web 3.0 – the semantic web, information organised, synthesised and presented

A range of services we take part in

• http://www.flickr.com/ for photos• http://www.youtube.com/ for videos• http://www.youtube.com/user/arcp59/ • http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#• http://www.linkedin.com/• http://www.slideshare.net/ for ppts• http://www.slideshare.net/markchilds

Collaboration

• http://theatron.wikispaces.com/

• http://cuba.coventry.ac.uk/markchilds/• http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/markchilds/• http://www.pageflakes.com/default.aspx

• http://twitter.com/

Some examples from HE

• Wikis, ESOL teacher training, Kirklees College• Wikis, workplacements, BLU (Herts.)• Ning, Collaboration, Huddersfield University– http://teamhudd.ning.com/

• Blogs, Theatre, Warwick– http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/hesterbond/entry/the

_eumenides/

– http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/lmatthews/entry/sst1_stuffargh_work/

For: new forms of learning

• Collaboration, Publication, Literacies, Inquiry• Socialising the expressive: media design,

sharing, and publication• Socialising the reflective: blogs, social

networks, and wikis• Socialising the exploratory: syndication,

recommenders, folksonomies

For: new forms of learners

• No Future Left Behind• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kra_z9vM

nHo

Against

• Distraction q• Dissent • Security of systems• Privacy of users• Policy

http://www.techlearning.com/article/20896

Resources

• Education 2.0 http://www.tlrp.org/pub/documents/TELcomm.pdf