Web 2.0 Resources for Teaching

What is Web 2.0

“From isolation, separation and solitude to engagement, relationship

and conversation”

They came up with the name here

And tried to define it here

Companies using 2.0 type technologies

Attributes of web 2.0

What Web 2.0 “really means”

In the beginning…..

• The term "Web 2.0" was coined at that conference and refers to a second generation of web development and design, that aims to facilitate communication, secure information sharing, interoperability, and collaboration on the World Wide Web.

• Web 2.0 concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities, and applications; such as social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs, and Folksonomies.

From Wikipedia

What is Social Media?

What’s a Folksonomy?

• Folksonomy (also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging) is the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content.

• In contrast to a taxonomy, which can be roughly translated as “classification management”, a Folksonomy is a classification scheme that uses a crowd rather than experts to parse content. The idea of a Folksonomy is closely related to tagging, which has enjoyed great vogue in online circles since 2005 at least.

• The word Folksonomy is a combination of folks, meaning "people", and -onomy, meaning "management". Literally, this can be taken to mean “management by people” and has nothing to do with classification

• A visual representation of a Folksonomy is the tagcloud

Tags

Why are tags so important?

• The early days of the web, content classification = Keyword Meta • Due to widespread misuse of this function, this HTML variable was

gradually dismissed until all major search engines stopped reading its contents (about 2000-2001).

• As a result, a new breed of search engine optimization (SEO) has been born: tags. Tags are essentially keywords for each page/article you create. They are purposefully sought out and indexed by search engines and other Web 2.0 sites, such as Technorati.com, who gather these terms and often sort them by date rather than popularity, though Google concentrates on relevance and popularity.

• Articles, news stories, podcasts, audio recordings, photos, presentations, video clips can all be tagged easily no matter what type of blog or content management system you use. The benefit is a wider distribution of your content and more opportunities for those seeking it to find it.

http://technorati.com/

Take your bookmarks with you..

Activity #1: Sign up

http://delicious.com/

Tag Cloud

For example…

Harnessing Collective Intelligence

Social Networking Sites

Video Sharing Sites

Teachertube.com

Wikis

Wikimedia.org

Blogs

Edublog.org

Activity #2: Sign in to Tiny Chat

http://tinychat.com/web20chat

http://www.go2web20.net/

Blogging Tools

Google

A million and one functions..

Learn to Learn

Adapt to Change

Scan the Horizon

Web 2.0: How can you use Web 2.0 tools to enhance your teaching?

Google Apps http://www.google.com/apps/

Google Sets

http://labs.google.com/sets

Get Dropbox!

• http://www.getdropbox.com/

http://www.getdropbox.com/

Activity #3

• Sign up for Dropbox!

• http://www.getdropbox.com/

• Let’s watch this screencast first

• http://www.getdropbox.com/screencast

Wikis

Wikis are being used in many different ways in education:

As a collaborative tool

As a study tool

A place to post projects and assignments

This is a Wiki Study Hall

Wiki 1 2 3• Derived from the Hawaiian for “quick,” wikis are used across

the Web as collaborative tools. Invented by Ward Cunningham, they’ve been around since 1995.

• As finished products wikis are not flashy presentations. Users focus on creating, adding to, and editing text content using web browsers.

• Because they are browser-based editing tools, the technology barrier is low. Wikis can be created and edited with little or no knowledge of HTML.

• Team-based by nature, they are logistically suited for group projects. Wikis are increasingly used by businesses and organizations as knowledge management solutions. They have also become staples of university courses to encourage academic collaboration and discourse.

Places to get a Wiki

http://wikisineducation.wetpaint.com/?t=anon

One Page Wiki

• Writeboard

• Zoho Writer

• TiddlyWiki

• Full Web Site

• MediaWiki

• Trac Project tracking wiki

• Wikispaces aimed at social groups

• SeedWiki

• Instiki

• Wetpaint

Classtools.net check out the games tool

http://classtools.net/samples/full_list/quiz/quiz/

http://classtools.net/about.php

Diigo: Highlight the Web

Tools for Organization

• mySchoolog - http://www.myschoolog.com/This online application tracks and organizes school lives.

http://mynoteit.com/ Take, edit and share notes online

• Take and store your notes online.• Edit and revise notes with peers.• Look-up and define words with your Workspace

Utilities.

Moodlehttp://moodle.org/

LAMShttp://www.lamsinternational.com/

ELGGhttp://www.elgg.org/about.php

DSPACEhttp://www.dspace.org/

Lecture Sharehttp://www.lectureshare.com/

General Resources

Slidesharehttp://www.slideshare.net/

Sourceforge.net

Online Education VideosAnnenberg Media

http://www.learner.org/resources/browse.html

Nova http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/

Google/UC Educational Videohttp://video.google.com/ucberkeley.html

AVGeekshttp://www.avgeeks.com/category/films-from-the-archive/

Jinghttp://www.jingproject.com/

CamStudiohttp://camstudio.org/

Webinariahttp://www.webinaria.com/

Winkhttp://www.debugmode.com/wink/

Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials onhow to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users

CaptureFoxhttp://www.advancity.net/eng/products/capturefox.html

uTipU See What I'm Saying http://www.utipu.com/app/

Let’s take a Magical Mystery Tour

http://tinyurl.com/mmnjrp