Categorising Web 2.0 Apps for Education

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Make sense of the Web 2.0 landscape by looking at supported technologies offer for content capture and communication

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A Taxonomy of Web 2.0 Technologies

(and the role of Twitter in Higher Education)

ALT-C 2010

Guy Saward, University of Hertfordshire

What’s the point of Twitter?

Why a wiki?

Why not a blog?

How do I podcast my lectures?

Who Cares?

Participation

Engagement Enhancement

WikisBlogs

Audio Video

RSS

Social Software

Microblog

TumblelogIM

Bookmarks

SMS

Forums

Email

Digital Literacy ≠ ICT skills

“Staff capability with ICT is a further dimension of the digital divide … and effective use of technology to enhance learning is as much of an issue as getting it to work” [JISC 2009]

Knowledge: explicitand tacit

ContentCommunication

Information:

transmission/decodeencoding/

Contentweb (1.0)

Which is “King”?

email

Communication

Contentbooks

What do we need?

people

Communication

Content

What have we got?

Communication

Contentreferenc

e

Communication

narrative

message

presence

Content

Communicationreference

narrative

message

presence

Online Reference materialWiki(pedia) as definitive web 2.0 reference

– large item size (lots of content on a page)– large collection size (lots of pages)

Delicious provide references – links other online content– smaller item size (1024 char in notes)

RSS provide references to updates– small items in themselves– non-persistant => no structure / search

wiki

social book marks

newsfeed

References – How much content?Can construct an order based on how much content each technology can / typically support

Debatable what is web 2.0, e.g. RSS (yes?), ebooks (no?), annotations (yes?) => work to do

wikisocial book marks

RSSmore structure/ persistence

bigger itemsmore items

blog tumblelog

microblog

mixed mediabigger itemsmore structure

Narrative

forum email SMSbigger item

mixed mediamore structure

/ context

Messaging

e-confer-ence

virtual world

online chat

mixed mediaeasier access

Presence

Reference material – Comms OrderCan order technology by how much communication each can / typically supports

Note: focus on primary purpose of each tech, e.g.wiki’s can have forums to support comms… but not defining character

wikisocial book marks

RSShigher freq.

& pushhigher push in change indicators

Classification of Web 2.0 Technologiescommunication

content

freq+sync

size+struct

wiki

blog forum

email

SMStwitter

online chat

tumblelog

social book marks

RSS

2Life

eConfer-ence

Who Cares?

What’s the point of Twitter?

Why a wiki?

Why not a blog?

How do I podcast my lectures?

How do I podcast my lectures?

Content: audio vs video vs slideshow

Comms: nothingnotification enclosure vs url stream vs

download auto vs

manual(New Oxford American Dictionary no help)

tumblelog

microblog

mixed mediabigger itemsmore structure

tumblelog

microblogblog

wiki

blog

forum email SMSbigger item

mixed mediamore structure

/ context

e-confer-ence

virtual world

online chat

mixed mediaeasier access

wikisocial book marks

RSSmore structure/ persistence

bigger itemsmore items

bigger itemsmore items

bigger itemsmixed media more structure

/ persistence

more structure/ persistence

bigger itemsbetter structure?

bigger itemsmixed media

more structure/ persistence

more structure/ persistence

more items / structure

more structure/ persistence

more structure/ persistence

more persistence

blog tumblelog

microblog

higher freq. / intensity

higher freq.

forum email SMS

e-confer-ence

virtual world

online chat

wikisocial book marks

RSS

comms classification

Does it help?

blog tumblelog

microblog

forum email SMS

e-confer-ence

virtual world

online chat

wikisocial book marks

RSS

content

rankingby

CPD learners

blog tumblelog

microblog

forum email SMS

e-confer-ence

virtual world

online chat

wikisocial book marks

RSS

comms

rankingby

CPD learners

Conclusions for CPD

Taxonomy answers basic questions provides structure for reflection identifies areas for development => content=ref, comms=msgs => student plans content focussedCreating content/comms

work in progress

Conclusions for Practice

Invest more time in fewer things

Design learning, select technologies

Convergence will blur the picture

Does it work for you?

Links with theory >

Application to Learning Theories

Objectivism• objective knowledge => content (creation of true

models of reality/knowledge by authorities)• transmission => comms (teacher-learner interact)

Constructivism• constructed knowledge => content (creation of

personal/shared knowledge by learner)• collaborative => comms ("effective", high content)• active => content (engage with/apply to)

Application to Learning Theories

Community of Inquiry• social presence => comms (low content)• teaching presence => content (structure)• cognitive presence => high content needed to

"construct meaning through sustained comms"

Community of Practice• domain of practice => content• community to share/discuss/challenge => comms

communication

content

freq+sync

size+struct

wikiblog

2Life

forum

email

SMStwitter

eConference

online chat

tumblelog

social bookmark

RSS

features•multimedia blog•tumblr/facebook

content•video, images•low text content

comms•comments/forum•track back

Technology Classification tumblelog

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