Web 2.0

WEB 2.0What’s It All Mean?

WHAT IS WEB 2.0?

Web 1.0—Retrieve information

Web 2.0—Collaborate User-Centered Design User Owned and Controlled Information Sharing

“The Participatory Web” “The Read, Write Web

WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?

Traditional software will become obsolete.

It will define how we communicate in the near future.

It has changed the way kids learn!!!

TRADITIONAL SOFTWARE VS. WEB 2.0

Word vs. Google Docs

Also: Google Reader/RSS Feeds Google Alerts

HOW WE COMMUNICATE

Skype www.skype.comTwitter www.twitter.com (video)

Blogger www.blogger.com

Delicious http://delicious.com/ Ning www.ning.com Qik www.qik.com Facebook www.facebook.com

YouTube www.youtube.com Wikipedia www.wikipedia.com (teachers)

ON-LINE EDUCATION

Stanford University Online HShttp://epgy.stanford.edu/ohs/

MIT Open Courseware http://ocw.mit.edu The Cambridge Academy http://www.thecambridgeacademy.org Keystone High School

http://www.keystonehighschool.com/

WHAT DO WE DO NOW?

Kids need to participate, create, collaborate and share.

Clay Shirkey: Where’s the Mouse?

How do we begin to turn their tools into tools for learning?