Web 2.0 and the Gateway to 21st Century Skills

What is Web 2.0?

• Some technology experts, notably Tim Berners-Lee, have questioned whether one can use the term in a meaningful way, since many of the technology components of "Web 2.0" have existed since the early days of the Web.

For Gateway purposes

• Web 2.0 is a term describing the trend in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to enhance creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users.

– From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

World Wide Web technology

• With a Web browser, a user views Web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigates between them using hyperlinks.

– From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

Web Design

• The intent of web design is to create a web site (a collection of electronic files residing on one or more web servers) that presents content (including interactive features or interfaces) to the end user in the form of web pages.

Gateway content is metadata

• Metadata ( information about or describing other information)– For the Gateway this metadata is about

educational resources– Almost 49,000 resources cataloged

– NASA– PBS– National Science Foundation– Smithsonian– Over 700 contributors

Gateway content is metadata

• Using GEM controlled vocabularies to describe learning resources – Terms useful to educators– Terms useful in learning management

systems

Gateway content is metadata

• Using “Web 2.0 friendly” RDF/XML file format

• Allows Web 2.0 activity by applications and humans

– Faceted searches– Data exchange between applications– Interactive features– Annotations

Gateway Web 2.0 collaboration features

• Sharing discoveries– Email a link to a resource record to yourself or

to others– Print from within a resource record

• To file• Hard copy

– Use metadata to populate useful applications• Calendars• Learning management systems• Web 2.0 sites like Digg

Gateway Web 2.0 collaboration features

• Annotations– Make comments about learning resources

that you find – For yourself and to share with others

– Make ratings– Add an assessment of the quality of a resource as part of

a resource record

Using Gateway Web 2.0 Features

Print hard copy for your records

Print to file for local storage

PDF of lesson metadata

Creating Annotations

Creating Annotations

– Comments• How have you used a resource• How does it correlate to your academic standards• How have you modified it to suit your needs or

your student’s

– Assessments • as a rating for resources

– One to five stars based on defined characteristics of the assessment rubric

Adding an Assessment Annotation

Populate Useful Web 2.0 Applications

• Creating a lesson calendar and personal portfolio– Using Gateway metadata– Google Calendar (as an example)

Using the Gateway with Other Web 2.0 Applications

Clicking to Digg

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