Transcript ecawa-workshop-aug-24-2007 - Ken Price

Web 2.0 – from
catchphrase to
practice
Dr Ken Price
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“You can only tell the shape of things by
looking at the edges”
anon
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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the
conditions that surround him... The
unreasonable man adapts surrounding
conditions to himself... All progress
depends on the unreasonable man."
George Bernard Shaw
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Web 2.0 things you can use on
Monday morning…
http://kenjprice.edublogs.org has these links
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There are free Web 2.0 tools to provide
desktop productivity software, email,
online storage, mindmapping,
diagramming, image management, GISgeospatial tools, video, audio inc
podcasting, wiki, blogs, etc etc.
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Pageflakes
www.pageflakes.com/
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A sort of customisable dashboard that can
draw data from a wide range of other
Web2.0 applications – neat way to see
Web 2.0 in action.
Every student can have a pageflake page,
free, zero teacher effort
My pageflakes page
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RSS feed
weather feed
RSS feed
podcast
RSS feed
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Metaphors
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Web 1.0 – web as digital reference library,
largely a source of information for
students.
strive for content to be authoritative.
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Web 2.0 – web as place for students to
build knowledge, interact, share ideas.
accept that content may be unreliable.
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Delicious
http://del.icio.us/
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At its simplest - just a social bookmarks
organiser
Students can maintain/share reference and
personal collections of online material, or
teachers to present these
Portable, device-independent
Based on user-determined tagging
(folksonomy rather than taxonomy)
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Example - http://del.icio.us/practicalclassroomstuff
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Why use del.icio.us?
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Save site found using multiple computers (home and
school) to one place.
Access your bookmarks anywhere you have web
access.
Continue to access your bookmarks even when your
computer crashes or you get a new computer.
Share web sites with your students or peers.
Search your bookmarks by keywords and tags.
Use related tags to narrow or extend your searches.
Display your saved web site links by category.
Learn about new sites from your other del.icio.us
users.
Subscribe to other users’ del.icio.us bookmarks.
Check out recently posted and popular sites.
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Examples
Visit http://del.icio.us/tasite07
and login as
username tasite07
pwd conference1
Other illustrative sites:
 http://del.icio.us/practicalclassroomstuff or
 http://del.icio.us/steverubel/Education
Note: if you are logged in to del.icio.us you can save from other
del.icio.us sites, and identify other people who have tagged the
same things as you
Guide to del.icio.us in education at
http://personal.strath.ac.uk/d.d.muir/Delicious1_2.pdf
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Google Earth
http://earth.google.com/
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As it stands, it’s really Web 1.0
With student-generated and shared data,
it’s an almost Web 2.0 application.
Mashups of Google Earth or Maps with
other data can produce neat educational
products
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Google Literature Trips,
timelines, etc
www.googlelittrips.com/ - track the journey
described in a book or story, and annotate
the places on the way.
 London timeline (kmz file) animation of
London skyline over time
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Sketchup
sketchup.google.com/
Model buildings etc and insert into Google Earth
(or Google Warehouse or blog to share)
Uses:
 Design and model new public buildings
 Build 3D model of your school in Google Earth
 Planning, historic land use, modelling over time.
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Youtube and Teachertube
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www.youtube.com
www.teachertube.com
Example of YouTube in classroom
www.thecorner.org/hist/video/v_ww2.htm
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ThinkFree
www.thinkfree.com/
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Almost a complete office suite (like
Microsoft Office), complete with storage
and the ability to share and collaborate
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Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/
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Simple photo-storing and sharing site
Tagging by users
As always educators find unexpected ways to
use it
16 ways to use Flickr in your library
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Flickr - annotating
images for critical
analysis or instruction
Art
 www.flickr.com/photos/ha112/414146234/
 http://www.flickr.com/photos/learningandteachin
gscotland/241343007
Recipes  www.flickr.com/photos/ldandersen/2573806/
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Flickr recipe
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Mind and
concept
mapping
tools
www.mindomo.com -
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Podcasting in a hurry
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tasitepodcast.podomatic.com
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www.podomatic.com
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NoteMesh
http://notemesh.com/
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Collaborative note taking and building of
student knowledge from class/lecture
model.
(associates your email address to your
school/college/TAFE/university)
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Edublogs – online presence for
every teacher
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www.edublogs.org
Australian initiative, James Farmer ex-Deakin Uni
and The Age
Free, configurable, safe (minimal risk of
inappropriate material)
Every teacher needs an email address and a
presence like this as part of their professional
toolkit.
A little complex to use initially due to its
flexibility, but well-supported
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Gliffy
http://www.gliffy.com/
Online diagramming tool (similar to Visio but
more elementary)
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JumpCut
http://www.jumpcut.com/
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Edit and store videos online
Obvious issues of content, duty of care,
exposure of education system or school
to unwanted publicity
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Uth TV
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http://www.uthtv.com/
Examples
http://www.uthtv.com/wiki/index.php/Teac
her_Resources
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Curriki
www.curriki.org
Free online curriculum, built in a wiki-style
model.
Can be used as a resource, or as a place to
collaboratively build curriculum
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Edu 2.0
www.edu20.org
 Provides shared curriculum/courses, and
allows people to teach them or learn
from them
 Courses can be public or private
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Well, it is. Right now.
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There are risks…
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Web 2.0 risks
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Where is(are) your data?
Who else can get to it?
Does the application
encourage inappropriate use?
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Web 2.0 risks
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Usernames and passwords –
how to manage them all?
Security risk if you use same
username/pwd as on your
own systems? Need for
different levels of password
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Web 2.0 risks
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What happens if the
service provider has
technical problems,
goes out of business
Data volume and
bandwidth
requirements?
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Web 2.0 risks
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Copyright implications
Cost of hosted or used content
under CAL licensing
Some hope provided by
Creative Commons, NEALS
initiatives…
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Creative Commons licensing
Attribution:
Credit must be given to the creator
Non-commercial
No derivative works:
only verbatim copies allowed
Share alike:
Can distribute derivative works only under a licence identical
to the licence of your work.
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The future…
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Let’s hope that early-adopter educators
continue to innovate with new
technologies, and schools and systems
make use of their findings to benefit all
learners.
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What would YOU do?
a
student uses
RateMyTeachers.com and claims
that a teacher is involved in an
inappropriate relationship with
one of her students?
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What would YOU do?
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some students use a photosharing
site to share photos of last weekend’s
drinking party. Some of the photos
involve nudity
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What would YOU do?
a teacher uses a free public blog site to
develop and deliver all their year’s work.
The blog site closes without notice 6
months later as the company collapses.
The teacher has no copy of their materials
because “it’s all stored on that network
thing isn’t it??”
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What would YOU do?
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Your students decide to repeatedly
edit the Wikipedia pages for your city,
to “improve” them. The Wikipedia
administrators block the IP range for
your school system so nobody in your
school/system can edit.
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What would YOU do?
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Some kids hate the different software
versions, settings and applications on
school and home computers.
They decide instead to do all their work
using ThinkFree, a totally online
application and data storage tool.
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Reference for session
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Log in: Username = tasite07 Password = conference1
Social Bookmarking
Del.icio.us http://del.icio.us
Example: http://del.icio.us/mmeijers
Collaborative Web Tools
WebNote http://www.aypwip.org/webnote/
Google Docs and Spreadsheets http://docs.google.com
Example http://www.google.com/educators/globalwarming.html
Photos
Flickr http://www.flickr.com
Example: Ivory, Apes and Peacocks
http://www.flickr.com/photos/learningandteachingscotland/241343007/
Video
YouTube http://Youtube.com
UthTV http://uthtv.com
Teacher Resources http://www.uthtv.com/wiki/index.php/Teacher_Resources
File Storage
Box.Net http://box.net
Social Networking
Ning http://www.ning.com
Example: http://classroom20.ning.com/
MySpace http://www.myspace.com
Example: http://www.myspace.com/matthewdewey
DeviantArt http://www.deviantart.com
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Links for Ken’s session
Pageflakes
www.pageflakes.com/
http://kenprice.pageflakes.com/Default.aspx
Del.icio.us
http://del.icio.us/practicalclassroomstuff
http://del.icio.us/svshslib
http://del.icio.us/tasite07 Library-specific examples:
http://del.icio.us/chelmsfordlibrary
http://del.icio.us/kkerns
Google Earth
www.googlelittrips.com/
London timeline (kmz file –needs to be locally held in Google Earth)
www.youtube.com
www.teachertube.com
Example of YouTube in classroom
www.thecorner.org/hist/video/v_ww2.htm
Flickr
Art
www.flickr.com/photos/ha112/414146234/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/learningandteachingscotland/241343007
Recipes www.flickr.com/photos/ldandersen/2573806/
www.mindomo.com
http://bubbl.us/
http://notemesh.com/
http://www.gliffy.com/
http://www.jumpcut.com/
http://www.uthtv.com/
http://www.uthtv.com/wiki/index.php/Teacher_Resources
www.curriki.org
www.edu20.org
http://au.ratemyteachers.com/
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