Using Web 2.0 in a school environment November 2010

Phil Bradleyhttp://www.philb.com

What is Web 2.0?

• Let’s just not go there shall we?• Definitions are less important than what you

can do with it• Oh, if you really insist…

What is Web 2.0?

• Web 2.0 is a term often applied to a perceived ongoing transition of the World Wide Web from a collection of websites to a full-fledged computing platform serving web applications to end users. Ultimately Web 2.0 services are expected to replace desktop computing applications for many purposes. – Wikipedia entry

• Web 1.0 was computer based

• Web 2.0 uses the web as a platform

• Web 1.0 relied on installed software

• Web 2.0 uses the browser

• Web 1.0 was solitary • Web 2.0 encourages sharing

• Web 1.0 was individuals working alone

• Web 2.0 is community, sharing wisdom

• Web 2.0 is the portability of data

• Web 1.0 was data in one place

• Web 1.0 was about consuming (data)

• Web 2.0 is about creating data– Weblogs– Photograph sharing– Wikis– Collaborative

resources– Social networking– Bookmarking

• Web 1.0 was home pages

• Web 2.0 is weblogs

• Web 1.0 was tracking information down

• Web 2.0 is having information come to you

• Web 1.0 was badging your content

• Web 2.0 is getting the answer out there quickly

• Web 1.0 was slow transfer rates

• Web 2.0 is about broadband

• Web 1.0 was hardware £s

• Web 2.0 is broadband £s

• Web 1.0 was getting it perfect

• Web 2.0 is doing it and moving on

• Web 1.0 was stationary

• Web 2.0 is mobile

• Web 1.0 was about limitations

• Web 2.0 is about a state of mind

Yes… but?

• “It’s vacuous marketing hype”• “Web 2.0 is totally silly”• “Meaningless”• “is made entirely of pretentious self serving

morons.”• “a lot of thin but very hot air blown at you by

those who are convinced that having nothing to say is by no means a good reason to shut up.”

So…

• Is it a question of degrees of difference?

Or…

• A difference of kind? (Is it or isn’t it a fad?)

So…

How can I use it?

Websites

• “If you don't have the will or the ability to change your website at a moment's notice, then you don't have a website. You have a billboard.”– http://twitter.com/defenestrate99

Los Angeles Public Library Teen Web

Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County

The Global Gorillas Wiki

Dixie Grammar School

A Jigsaw

• A website should be modular in approach• Composed of various different elements• Click them in, try them in different places• Discard, start again• Living, changing and dynamic

Different elements

Greater involvement

• Use Twitter– Integrate your tweets into your website– Contact and connect with other librarians,

parents, school children– View Trending information for current affairs– Follow historical figures

More Twitter

• Use hashtags to involve a class– 140 word book reviews

• Or to involve parents!– Create closed Twitter accounts

• Use Twitter polls • Use Twitpic for images

Wordle

• Take some text– Webpage– Opening page of a book– Essay– Book titles– Characters in a book– Author names

• Go to Wordle.net– Cut and paste the text– Display the Wordle– Save and use in the library, or on the website

How you can use this:

• Which book/author/play is this?

• Children’s book reviews wordled

• Create posters, copy onto t-shirts

• Poll a classroom (favourite colour, team etc.)

Tagxedo

• Next generation Wordle product

• Simple and easy to use

• Flexible

• You can add your own images to create your own wordcloud shapes

Two of my creations

Wikis

• A wiki allows individuals to collaborate together

• Creative writing• Book clubs• Story telling

Yarra Road Primary School wiki

Classroom 2.0

Asalaamualiakum

Barnwood Geography Wikispaces

Bookleads

Classroom Google Earth

Follow me maths

Midsummer Dreaming

What happened to Sylvia?

Educational wikis

PBworks

Facebook

• “Facebook is dangerous, so don’t use it”• “Facebook is dangerous, so here’s how to use

it safely”

Presentations

• Create presentations and use them online with– Slideshare– Authorstream– Sliderocket

• Embed them on your site, weblog, wiki

Slideshare.net

Sliderocket

Authorstream

Kizoa (my example)

Animoto

My worked example

Preezo

Screentoaster

Screenr

BB Flashback Express

My worked example

Vuvox

Home/Start pages

• Netvibes, Pageflakes or iGoogle• Create content, hosted by a 3rd party• Update when necessary, instantly• Incorporate content back onto the website• Easy to create and maintain

Dixie Grammer School on Netvibes

Using Flickr

• Create a free account• Post photographs of the school, school trips,

the library, library events, local history• Create trading cards• Create motivational posters• Blend back into the website, weblog, wiki

Multimedia

• Voice thread– A secure network to allow students and teachers

to collaborate and share ideas with classrooms anywhere in the world

• TeacherTube– an online community for sharing instructional

videos• SchoolTube

– Educational, moderated

Collaborative whiteboards

Capzles Timelines

Weblogs

• Use weblogs as an aid in the library– Historical, educational, fictional weblogs– Link to existing book collections– Create new weblogs– Use weblogs for book reviews

WW1: Experiences of an English Soldier

Hope CE Primary School Blog

Lochaber High School

Communication & news gathering

• Weblogs– Create a library weblog– Additional or new library resources– Introduce members of staff– Use it as a repository of data and information by

using categories and tags– Don’t regard a weblog as a diary – it’s an

important website in its own right…

Weblogs continued…

• Use the weblog RSS feed on the site home page as a news feed

• Encourage people to add the feed to their start page or RSS reader

• Create a different weblog for a different subject area – invite other authors

• Use it in a different way, on a different page

Kidblog

Bookmarking

• Share and collaborate on bookmarks– With Staff, students, parents, other librarians

• Blend bookmarks into website, specific pages, weblog, wikis

• Encourage continual additions• Delicious, Diigo etc.

Fur.ly

Trailfire

Pearltrees

Jogtheweb

http://www.jogtheweb.com/run/FKRZ1SQDhvv7/Multimedia-resources-for-librarians

LiveBinders

Museumbox

Jogtheweb

http://www.jogtheweb.com/run/CIPGOqlOglsi/Library-tools

Start pages with Tizmos.com

• Mine is at http://www.tizmos.com/Philbradley

Podcasting and Video

Voki – a speaking avatar

Hollur

Memoov

Masher

Glogster – create posters

Wallwisher

Edistorm

Online Stickies http://en.linoit.com

• Like Wallwisher, but more flexible

Cartoons

Create a newspaper

Create your own search engines

Blend it all together!

There are challenges

• Cyberbullying– Is this CYBERbullying or just BULLYING?

• Copyright issues• Privacy issues

– Images of children• Technical issues• So create spaces, not just posters• Cultivate volunteers

In summary:

• Websites must be flexible and under the control of the librarian

• Blend information• Be a cyber nomad• Incorporate, play, use, discard• Encourage collaboration• ‘Let’s try it’ and not ‘Let’s not’

Web 2.0 ...

Gives you control

And there’s more...

• Quizzes, jigsaws and crossword puzzles

• Speaking avatars

• Google street view

• Etc...

Snappywords

LOLCats!

Photopeach

• Add images, grab some music, create a video!

Formspring.me

My.online-eggtimer.com

Create a Bayeux tapestry http://www.adgame-wonderland.de/type/bayeux.php

Random name/word picker http://classtools.net/

Braineos flash cards http://www.braineos.com/home

Thank you

• http://www.philb.com• http://www.philbradley.typepad.com• http://www.twitter.com/Philbradley• http://www.slideshare.net/Philbradley• http://www.flickr.com/photos/philbradley/ • http://delicious.com/Philbradley