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What is Web 2.0?(What was Web 1.0?)

Marla Davenport

TIES

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Agenda• Web 2.0

– Utube video

• Blogs• RSS/Feeds• Podcasting• Wiki• Tagging & social networking• Internet safety

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Compare Web 1.0 and 2.0Web 1.0• DoubleClick• Ofoto • mp3.com • Britannica Online• personal websites • domain name speculation • page views • publishing • content management systems

• directories (taxonomy)• stickiness

Web 2.0• Google AdSense• Flickr• Napster• Wikipedia• blogging• search engine

optimization• cost per click• Participation• Wikis • tagging ("folksonomy")• syndication

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So, what is Web 2.0?• Rich Internet Architecture

– AJAX (Googlemaps), Flash (You Tube)

• Service Oriented Applications– RSS, Feeds, Mashups

• Social Web Interaction– Blogging, Wiki, Podcast

Example: You Tube (video sharing) - What is Web 2.0?

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What is a Blog?

• Blog is short for weblog. A weblog is a journal (or newsletter) that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption. Blogs generally represent the personality of the author or the Web site. May or may not be interactive.

• Blogging (action), Blogger (person)

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Blog examples• Political blogs

– Hillary Clinton’s Blog

• Education blogs– Notes from a principal

• http://principalblogs.typepad.com/

– School blog• Westwood School in Georgia

•http://westwood.wikispaces.com/– Professional development blog

• George Lucas Foundation • http://www.edutopia.org/

– The Savvy Technologist (from MN)• http://technosavvy.org/

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• Find a blog– Google BlogSearch - http://www.google.com/ + more– Technorati - http://technorati.com/– Web log ed - http://www.weblogg-ed.com/

• Set up a blog– blogger.com, – blogspot.com

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RSS/Feeds

• Real simple syndication

• Subscription service

• Use with podcasts, news, recurring data

• A lightweight XML format for distributing news headlines and other content on the Web.

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How does it work?• Click on RSS logo, copy URL of page,

paste on your page.

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RSS Feed Examples

• Latest news - InforMNs web site

• Weather reports -

• Podcasts -

• MN Association of School Administrators

• WCCO

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Podcast/Vodcast

• Audio broadcast or video broadcast

• Podcasting, a combination of Apple's "iPod" and "broadcasting", is a method of publishing files to the Internet, allowing users to subscribe to a feed and receive new files automatically by subscription, usually at no cost. Vodcast includes digital video.

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Podcast Examples• George Lucas Fundation- prof. dev.

– http://www.edutopia.org/listenup/daily.php

• The Savvy Technologist - from MN– http://technosavvy.org/

• iTunes Library and Store• Broward County Public Schools

– http://www.browardschools.com/

• Podcast Alley– http://www.podcastalley.com/index.php– Subscribe to ‘How to’ Podcast– On TIES Workshop Website

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Mashups

• Customizing an application with other information

• Example - Google Maps

• Specialized maps

• Example - TechLearning

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Wiki

• Wiki - website that allows the visitors themselves to easily add, remove, and otherwise edit and change available content, and typically without the need for registration. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for mass collaborative authoring.

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Wiki examples

• Wikipedia - “the free encyclopedia”

• Tool - MediaWiki - mediawiki.org

• Katrina Help site

• Online Journalism Wikis (University of Southern California

• Collaboration Wiki - MEMO organization

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Tagging & social bookmarking

• Tagging - assigning keywords to blogs, wikis, sites

• Social bookmarking - find ‘stuff’ again– URLs - Del.icio.us– Photos - Flickr– Ideas or projects - 43Things

• Search for sites or subjects using tags – Technorati - create your own watch list

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Web 2.0 Tools at Work

• Westwood School in Georgia

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A word about Internet safety

• Internet safety resources for students and parents

• http://www.pen.k12.va.us/

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To learn more…

• Google searches - Google.com• TechSoup for non-profits

– http://www.techsoup.org/toolkits/web2/index.cfm

• Wikipedia - – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2

• What is Web 2.0 - Tim O’Reilly– ttp://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/

2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html

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Questions???

• Marla Davenport– Director of Learning and Technology– TIES– Marla.Davenport@ties.k12.mn.us

• TIES Workshops– www.ties.k12.mn.us