Transcript Web 2.0 presentationx - NMSTE

Web 2.0 &
Pedagogy
The Digital Native
“Those who grow up immersed in digital technologies, for whom a life
fully integrated with digital devices is the norm.” John Palfrey and Urs Gasser
What is Web 2.0?
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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
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Web 1.0 was computer
based
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Web 2.0 uses the web
as a platform
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Web 1.0 was solitary
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Web 2.0 encourages
sharing
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Web 1.0 was data in
one place
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Web 2.0 is the
portability of data
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Web 1.0 was about
consuming (data)
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Web 2.0 is about
creating data
 Weblogs
 Photograph
sharing
 Wikis
 Collaborative
resources
 Social networking
 Bookmarking
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Web 1.0 was home
pages
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Web 2.0 is weblogs
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Web 1.0 was getting it
perfect
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Web 2.0 is doing it
and moving on
Yes… but?
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“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.”
OK… so how can I use it?
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Weblogs
 Google
Docs
 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…
Collaborate Globally
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"Collaborative projects really make for an excellent
education experience not only because students
bounce ideas off each other and improve each
other's writing skills, but also because the process
itself teaches them how to work well with others - a
valuable skill for everyone." - Richard Ellwood, Technology Coordinator and
Digital Arts Teacher, Columbia Secondary School
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Google Docs, the word processing application,
doesn't just give access to the same document, it
actually allows students to work on the same
document at the same time from anywhere in the
world.
Collaborate
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On documents – Google docs
On spreadsheets - NumSum
With calendars - Jotlet
With training - WizIQ
With projects – MyWebDesktop
With To Do lists – TaDaList
Google – Total World Domination
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Gmail: 7.3 GBs ( and counting) of email storage and search tools that help your
school find information fast and instant messaging from right inside your inbox.
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Google Calendar: Educators and students can organize their schedules and share
events and calendars with others.
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Google Talk: Educators and students can call or send instant messages to their
contacts for free anytime, anywhere in the world.
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Google Docs: Share documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Collaborate in
real-time with your team or with your whole school. You can publish final
documents to the entire world, too.
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Google Sites: Work together to keep related documents, web content and other
information in one place, on one site.
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Google Video for education: A video hosting and sharing solution that enables
schools and other organizations to use video as an effective medium for internal
communication and collaboration. 10 GB included free for every school domain.
PRACTICAL USES FOR WEB 2.0
IN EDUCATION
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/lesson_plans.html
an overview
Hope CE Primary School
Athelstaneford Primary School
Chase Terrace Primary School
Weblogs continued…
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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
What do they include?
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Daily pictures of the school
Visitor locations
Event calendars
Flickr widget
Links to other school
websites
Archives
Scanned drawings
Poems
Delicious links
Other software
Edublogs
Class Blogmeister
Podcasts
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Provide access to audio
content
Guides/tours around a
library
School radio stations
Book readings
Library news
Recording interesting
people
Podcasting
Resources
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GCast
Gabcast
Podomatic
Podcasts 2
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Content that can’t easily be
made available in other
formats
Content that is accessible on
the move
Not time or place dependent.
Schools using Podcasts
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Lancashire Grid for Learning
Guildford College
Tovashal Elementary Primary
School
Radio Willow Web
Podcasts for schools and
educators
Redbridge Podcast network
Social
Bookmarking
Bookmarking
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Limited to a specific
machine
Not informative
Difficult to find what you
want
Inflexible
Cannot easily share
bookmarks
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Del.icio.us
Diigo
digg
Share your bookmarks
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Create bookmark sets
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Between computers
Between colleagues
Between users
To supplement projects
To assist users
Annotate (or tag)
bookmarks
Great for searching!
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http://del.icio.us/tag/ <search_term>
Get an RSS feed automatically
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http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/[insert your tag here]
Who is using it?
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Dept. Children, Schools, Families
Creating communities
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Zimbio
Flickr
Grou.ps
Plum
Squidoo
Pageflakes
Facebook
Flickr
School examples
Squidoo
Facebook
Question:
One of my principals is toying with the idea of using social networking
tools to improve student attendance. What are you thoughts on this?
More specifically, how would you use social networking tools to improve
student attendance?
Answers from my Tweeps...
cyndyw2 cyndy woods-wilson - draw 3-5 names daily to post on the page,
must be present to win. Keep FB page as read only, but kids must join to
read
cyndyw2 cyndy woods-wilson - A school homepage where the kids follow,
get extra credit for reading @ home +
answering question from it next day in class.
bigjakelittle Jake Little - I like idea of FB as an extension of class, but how
will that incrs. attendc? Need more engaging classes, support @ home.
BrightTeacher Amy Bright
Maybe use a team of students (social media team) in charge of FB page.
Rotate kids into the team.
MZimmer557 Michael Zimmer
maybe create a page dedicated to school attendance and share contest
information or other programs?
jsquared2110 Jason Johnson
scavenger hunt at school before first period...send clues via fb...clues could
lead to very minimal but positive
ICTmagic Martin Burrett
Run a breakfast FB club? 'Food and Facebook' & 'Toast and Twitter'?
web20guru Cheryl Capozzoli
Have students submit ideas for schooling and attendance issues via fb get
the disc started include them in the solutions
Wikis
Wikis
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LIS wiki
Library success wiki
Wikipedia
Peanut butter wiki
Wikispaces for teachers
WizIQ
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WizIQ
Edmodo – education
microblogging
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Edmodo
Combine everything!
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With RSS and other Web 2.0 resources anything
can work with anything else
Content can be changed and manipulated into
different formats that you control
Users can get involved
Geography doesn’t matter
Speed is easy
It’s not technical!
So why not…
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Create search engines for subject groups
Get users involved with a Zimbio group on an
aspect of <whatever>?
Create a Squidoo lens for a subject?
Start a library weblog?
Create a flickr group
Or…
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A podcast or a radio station, both involving
music students
A Pageflakes page that you can share with
colleagues
Create del.icio.us or FURL accounts and share
them
Start a wiki for all the librarians in the area
Or even
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Use instant messaging to provide information in
a different way
Create a book reading club using LibraryThing,
Amazon and a weblog
Have a library tour on YouTube
Or even
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Create trading cards from Flickr photographs
Create fun/interesting new posters
Set up a Facebook, Bebo, MySpace account for
the library
Share presentations with Slideshare.net
Because Web 2 is changing:
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The way we use the web
The way we use information
The way we find information
The way we do our jobs
The way we interact with people
The way that we look at everything
FOREVER