Transcript Teacher Education 2.0 - Murray State University

EDU 626 Integrating Educational Technology
Spring 2009
What is Web 2.0?
Something to get lost in, or a new
way of working?
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What is web 2.0?
The definitions abound!
Web 2.0 = the web as platform
Web 2.0 = the underlying
philosophy of relinquishing control
Web 2.0 = glocalization (“making
global information available to local
social contexts and giving people
the flexibility to find, organize,
share and create information in a
locally meaningful fashion that is
globally accessible”)
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More of what is web 2.0
Web 2.0 = an attitude not a
technology
Web 2.0 = when data, interface and
metadata no longer need to go hand
in hand
Web 2.0 = action-at-a-distance
interactions and ad hoc integration
Web 2.0 = power and control via
APIs
Web 2.0 = giving up control and
setting the data free
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It’s all of that, and more!
Web 2.0 is social, it’s open (or at least
it should be), it’s letting go of control
over your data, it’s mixing the global
with the local. Web 2.0 is about new
interfaces - new ways of searching
and accessing Web content. And last
but not least, Web 2.0 is a platform and not just for developers to create
web applications like Gmail and
Flickr. The Web is a platform to
build on for educators, media,
politics, community, for virtually
everyone in fact!
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So, what isWeb 2.0??
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From Presentation “Web 2.0” by Satyajeet Singh available on Slideshare
Maybe this might help!
Comparing Web 1.0 to Web 2.0!
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Back to Satyajeet Singh
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Participatory web?
One pillar of web 2.0
It is the source of Web 2.0. Its
characteristic is to reflect the logic of
the user. It is also called “Consumer
Centric”. The content is shared by the
publisher and the reader (from there
the term “participatory”). A famous
case was that of the BBC website that
allows everyone to become, within
certain rules, a journalist for a day or
even having his permanent blog.
• Web 2.0? Or Web of zero?
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Web 2.0 and constructivism
What is the Connection Between Web
2.0 and Constructivist Theory?
Web 2.0 tools can . . . allow
students/learners to demonstrate their
understanding in a variety of ways. They
can blog, edit, contribute, rank, tag,
upload and enhance their web
experiences through the use of Web 2.0
tools. Additionally through the use of
social networking, learners can also be
exposed to other learners’ perspectives
on a given topic or subject.
• Social Constructivism, a wiki created for class
EDER 679.09 Web 2.0 and Open Learning
Environments
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Elements of Web 2.0
Wikis and blogs and all
What is a blog?
• ‘A weblog is kind of a continual tour,
with a human guide who you get to
know. There are many guides to
choose from, each develops an
audience, and there’s also comraderie
[camaraderie] and politics between the
people who run weblogs, they point to
each other, in all kinds of structures,
graphs, loops, etc.’
– Dave Winer, The History of Weblogs,
cited by Anthony V Parcero in “What is a
Weblog”
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What is a Blog?
A log of websites visited? Or a
personal journal? Or something else?
“Defining this variable form is not easy
in the highly opinionated blogosphere nor is it simple in the increasing number
of newsrooms that are in embracing
blogging. . . . Capturing the blogging
beast is no small matter, not when
everybody from the lonely scribe in
Paducah to me-too mass media in
Manhattan is trying to get arms and
minds around the virtual blob now
encroaching online.”
•Just what is a blog, anyway? By Michael
Conniff Posted: 2005-09-29
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Can we define blogs?
“I don’t care,”
“There is no need to define ‘blog.’
. . . A blog is merely a tool that lets
you do anything from change the
world to share your shopping list.
People will use it however they
wish. And it is way too soon in the
invention of uses for this tool to
limit it with a set definition.”
• Jeff Jarvis, the veteran print journalist and
prominent blogger behind BuzzMachine
Quoted by Conniff in Just what is a blog, anyway?
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OK-so what makes a blog?
Technically, what is a weblog?
A weblog is a hierarchy of text,
images, media objects and data,
arranged chronologically, that
can be viewed in an HTML
browser.
• What makes a weblog a weblog?
Fri, May 23, 2003; by Dave Winer
Weblogs At Harvard Law
(Webpage no longer available!)
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Another technical definition
“. . . here’s a definition of what
a blog is:
A publication of
content and Web
links, sorted in
chronological order, with the most
recent at the top. The content
reflects personal or corporate
interests, and is almost always
written by an individual. . . .”
• What are Blogs, and Why Your
Business Should Use One
History of blogs
Rebecca Blood:
The original weblogs were linkdriven sites. Each was a mixture in
unique proportions of links,
commentary, and personal thoughts
and essays.
These weblogs provide a valuable
filtering function for their readers.
The web has been, in effect, presurfed for them.
• weblogs: a history and perspective 7
september 2000 rebecca's pocket
• “Jesse’s ‘page of only weblogs’ lists the
23 known to be in existence at the
beginning of 1999.” “. . . last updated on
12 Oct 2000” with about 200 or 300.
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Blog History in Timeline Form
Dawn of Internet Time:
[=WWW time, ie about 1989-90]
Tim Berners-Lee at CERN begins
keeping a list of all new sites as they
come online.
June 1993:
NCSA's oldest archived What's New timbl's blog
list of sites.
June 1993:
Netscape begins running its What's
New! list of sites.
Jan 1994:
Justin Hall launches Justin's Home
Original logo for
Page which would become Links
Mosaic, the
from the Underground.
first web browser from
NCSA
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1999 the year it all exploded
•Early 1999:
– Peter Merholz coins the term blog For What It's Worth
after announcing he was going to
I've decided to pronounce the
pronouce web blogs as "wee-blog". This
word "weblog" as wee'- blog.
was then shortened to blog.
Or "blog" for short.
•Early 1999:
– Brigitte Eaton starts the first portal
devoted to blogs with about 50 listings.
57884 weblogs as of
09.28.06
•July 1999:
– Metafilter's earliest archives.
•July 1999:
– Pitas launches the first free build
your own blog web tool.
•August 1999:
– Pyra releases Blogger which becomes the
most popular web based blogging tool to
date, and popularizes blogging with
mainstream internet users.
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Importance of 1999?
Advent of easy-edit web interface
• July 1999 . . . Pitas, the first free buildyour-own-weblog tool launched
• In August, Pyra released
Blogger, and Groksoup
launched
• Late in 1999 software developer Dave
Winer introduced Edit This Page [a
forerunner of Blog This?], and Jeff A.
Campbell launched Velocinews
• All of these services are free, and all of
them are designed to enable individuals
to publish their own weblogs quickly
and easily.
• Rebecca Blood, weblogs: a history and perspective
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Why was Blogger so revolutionary?
Rebecca Blood’s opinion:
Blogger itself places no restrictions on the
form of content being posted. Its web
interface, accessible from any browser,
consists of an empty form box into which
the blogger can type...anything: a passing
thought, an extended essay, or a childhood
recollection. With a click, Blogger will post
the...whatever...on the writer's website,
archive it in the proper place, and present
the writer with another empty box, just
waiting to be filled.
 http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html
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Sample Blogger posting interface
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Editing Blogger: wysiwyg
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Editing Blogger: html view
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• http://murraylibmedia.blogspot.com/
Result
Other blogging software
TypePad’s easy-to-use editor,
feedback management tools, feed
and podcast support, photo
albums and world-class customer
support.
To get started with WordPress,
set it up on a web host for the
most flexibility or get a free blog
on WordPress.com.
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What about wikis?
What is a wiki?
A wiki is a website where every
page can be edited in a web
browser, by whomever happens to
be reading it. It's so terrifically easy
for people to jump in and revise
pages that wikis are becoming
known as the tool of choice for
large, multiple-participant projects.
• What Is a Wiki (and How to Use One
for Your Projects) by Tom Stafford,
Matt Webb 07/07/2006
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Does it have anything to do with Wikipedia?
Wikipedia is a wiki
The name "Wikipedia" is a
portmanteau (a combination of
portions of two words and their
meanings) of the words wiki (a type
of collaborative Web site) and
encyclopedia.
Wikipedia is written
collaboratively by volunteers from
all around the world; anyone can
edit it.
• Wikipedia:About see also
History of Wikipedia
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What does it have to do with a hula dancer?
The word “wiki” is Hawai’ian
Explanation by the inventor of wikis,
Ward Cunningham:
• Wiki wiki is the first Hawai'ian term I
learned on my first visit to the islands. The
airport counter agent directed me to take the
wiki wiki bus between terminals. I said what?
He explained that wiki wiki meant quick.
Did you intend the word to be pronounced
as wee-kee (rhyming with leaky) or as wickey (rhyming with sticky)?
• believe the former is the proper
pronunciation though I've been known to use
the latter.
– Correspondence on the Etymology of Wiki
November, 2003.
Ward
Cunningham
invented wiki
in 1995.
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Wiki wiki sign outside Honolulu International Airport.
(Image courtesy of A. Barataz)
There is an index to wikis online
WikiIndex.org
WikiIndex is the wiki of wikis. It is
an effort to create a complete
directory of wiki websites out there
on the Internet, with a description
of each wiki and various systems of
categorisation. We want to help
people find the kinds of wikis they
are most interested in and to map
out the Internet-wide wiki
landscape.
• http://www.aboutus.org/WikiIndex.org
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Social networking
 Social networking is the grouping of
individuals into specific
groups, like small rural communities or
a neighborhood subdivision, if you
will. Although social networking is
possible in person, especially in schools
or in the workplace, it is most popular
online.
Social networking websites function like
an online community of internet users.
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Social Networking explained
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What exactly is it?
Definition:
We define social network sites as webbased services that allow individuals to
(1) construct a public or semi-public
profile within a bounded system, (2)
articulate a list of other users with
whom they share a connection, and (3)
view and traverse their list of
connections and those made by others
within the system.
* danah boyd *
• boyd, d. m., & Ellison, N. B. (2007). Social
network sites: Definition, history, and
scholarship. Journal of Computer-Mediated
Communication, 13(1), article 11.
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.html
Nicole Ellison
A timeline of social networking
A Brief History of Social Networking
Sites:
1995 = Classmates.com founded
1997 = Six Degrees of Separation
founded [boyd & Ellison consider this
the first social networking site!]
1999 = Circle of Friends founded
2002 = Friendster.com founded
2003 = MySpace.com founded
2004 = Orkut.com founded
2004 = Facebook.com founded
2005 = Yahoo!360 founded
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A special case
Watch Video: Twitter in Plain English
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Another special case
What is the Second Life world?
Second Life is a free 3D digital world imagined and
created by its Residents. To get started, you will need to
download the Second Life viewer. Once installed, you
will be able to walk, "teleport" or even fly to thousands
of exciting 3D locations. You can also use voice and text
chat to communicate with other real people from
around the world.
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Second Life snapshot
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Are there educational uses for these?
Do they have a place in our
schools?
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