Transcript Web 2.0 - PBworks

Web 2.0
What is it and why should I care?
Anne Gruettner
Leyden High Schools
Summer Curriculum Project 2009
What is Web 2.0?
• Collaborative
• Social
• Participatory
Web 2.0 is the sum of collective
intelligence whose audience may also be
its authors.
Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0
Web 1.0
Web 2.0
Information searching
Information sharing
Unidirectional
Multidirectional
Interactive with information
Interactive with ideas and people
Static
Dynamic
Web 2.0’s place in education
Web 2.0 – This is the studio, not the gallery.
-Doug Worsham (2008)
Web 2.0 content is student/user-constructed
information, content that they care about. It is
not a teacher-centered gallery that invites you to
look, but rather a place where students/users
participate and create.
Educational benefits of Web 2.0
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Content
– Information in the target language can be relevant and authentic
– Activities can be generated across many disciplines, but all within the target language
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Communication
– Students put more effort into accuracy for real audience
– Interactivity of Web 2.0 encourages revisions in target language
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Community
– Community within the classroom is fostered when students are each other’s audience
– Outside community may provide additional support and expert feedback
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Connecting
– Students are encouraged to connect old and new knowledge
– Student work is more personally meaningful when shared with a broader audience
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Creativity
– Students have some flexibility as to the content of their digital information
– Students can more fully express their knowledge and beliefs with many forms of media
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Engagement
– More students are participating in the learning process
– Collaboration is nurtured between teacher and students and between students
Web 2.0 & how we learn
Educational Origami: http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom%27s+Digital+Taxonomy
Word Cloud
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Clumps terms by frequency of use
Represents frequency of use by size of text
Select “create” word cloud
Copy and paste desired text or URL (=website
address) of desired text
• Press “go” or “submit”
• wordle.net is a free word cloud website
Social bookmarking
• Replaces “adding favorites” on personal
computer
• Create account
• Place a tag button on your computer
• Bookmark site
• Add key words for easy organization
• Result is “favorites” list accessible by you and
others from any computer
• Delicious.com, diigo.com and stumbleupon.com
are free social bookmarking websites
Social networking
• Create your own social network
• Students set up personal profiles to become
members of your network
• Facebook.com, myspace.com and ning.com
are free social networking websites
RSS
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Real Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary
Subscribable web content
Create an account
Copy and paste URL or “Add a feed” from
desired website to RSS account
• Netvibes.com, googlereader.com and
bloglines.com are free reading websites
Blogging & Microblogging
• Blogging:
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Online journaling or reflecting
Centered on a specific topic
RSS allows readers to be updated with new posts
Edublogs.org is a free blog management site for
teachers
• Microblogging:
– Instant messaging in 140 characters or less
– Communicating with a network of friends
– Twitter.com and utterli.com are free microblogging
websites
Wiki
• Next generation of webpage creation
• Post a variety of multimedia information for a
broad audience
• More simple to create and more interactive to
use than Web 1.0 webpages
• Pbworks.com is a free wiki creation website
Wikis vs. Blogs
Wiki
Blog
Ordered by pages
Ordered by date
Built by the community
Built by individuals
Many viewpoints
Usually one viewpoint
Existing articles continually changed and
updated
New content added, old content remains
static
Commenting typically at end of page or
on separate discussion page
Commenting (if available) following each
post
Digital Photos & Audio
• Digital Photos
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Upload Internet or personal photos
Create instant slideshows to share
Ability to add and edit special effects
Bubbleshare.com and picnik.com are free photo websites
• Digital Audio
– Upload Internet or personal audio / voice recordings
– Recording can be embedded (as in a slideshow) or
downloaded (as in a .wav file)
– Voicethread.com and vocaroo.com are free audio websites
Podcasts & Vodcasts
• Podcasts
– Series of digital media files (audio and text)
distributed to subscribers over the Internet
• Vodcasts
– Series of digital media files (video and sound)
distributed to subscribers over the Internet
• Gabcast.com is a free podcast creation website
• Podanza.com is a free podcast and vodcast
acquisition website
Learncasts
• Extended digital journeys
• Student-created content is collected,
transformed, evolved and remixed
• Digital content can be subscribed to
• Has a larger audience than the teacher
• Mediawiki.org is a free learncast hosting
website
Digital Storytelling
• Creating a story based on digital imagery
• Animoto.com (more audio-based) and Xtimeline.com (more
text-based) are free digital storytelling websites
– Upload Internet or personal photos
– Add audio and/or text to accompany photos
• Toondoo.com is a free cartoon-based digital storytelling
website
– Add audio and/or text to accompany comic strip
• Alice Leaves Wonderland is a free 3D images digital
storytelling website
– Created by Professor Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture)
– Great intro to computer programming
Cell phones
• Cellphonesinlearning.com
– Blog by Lisa Kolb (doctoral student from U of MI)
– Teacher forum for incorporating electronic
gadgets into the classroom
• Polleverywhere.com
– Create polling question(s) for free
– Up to 32 students can text in their responses
– Results are graphed automatically in real time
Poll Everywhere
The polls you downloaded are embedded on the next slide. You may
view them by running the slideshow. Feel free to copy the poll slides to
another presentation or build up your presentation starting from this one.
- The Poll Everywhere Team
Other cool resources
• 4teachers.org
– Teach with technology website
• Rubistar.4teachers.org
– Free quality rubric generator
• Bighugelabs.com
– Create trading cards, motivational posters, billboards, stamps, etc.
with uploaded Internet or personal photos
• Mapvivo.net
– Create a virtual (or real!) itinerary and travel journal with uploaded
photos and descriptions of a trip
• Googleearth.com
– Search historic landmarks, museums, streets, etc., and receive very
detailed digital images
• Drop.io
– Create a digital drop box for teachers and students to share files via
the Internet, email, or phone.
Using the works of others
• Cross referencing, source bibliography, author
credentials, information accuracy / relevancy /
currency, website objectivity
• Creativecommons.org is a free registration of
digital property website
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– Permission to use digital property but author must
be cited
Thanks to…
• Lauren Rosen
– Making Best Use of Web 2.0 Cutting-Edge Technology
Tools in the Foreign Language Classroom
• Institute for Educational Development Workshop, 2009
• wltools.pbworks.com
• Anna Love-Wilde
– Technology Everyone Can Use
• Central States Conference, 2009
• centralstateschicago.pbworks.com
• Deb Read
– Alice Leaves Wonderland
• Central States Conference, 2009
So, what’s next?
Your mission: To incorporate one Web 2.0 or other technology-based
activity into a language level you teach per semester
What are you interested in trying out?
MY PERSONAL GOAL:
Personal progress
DATE
TIME
SITE VISITED
TASK (S) ACCOMPLISHED