Post on 31-Aug-2014
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Presenters Presenters Kevin O’SheaKevin O’Shea
Teaching and Learning TechnologiesInstructional Development Center
Who Am I?
Kevin O’SheaEducational TechnologistDec. 2007 Grad of Purdue
• What is the toolkit?
• What are students using?
• What are our peers using it for?
• How can we use it?
Overview
What is the Student Toolkit?
feeds
Web Standards
Blogging RSS
Peer-to-peer
Wiki
GTD
User-generated content
social networkingGoogle
Open source
•Using the Web as a Platform–Zoho, Google Docs
•Simplicity•Open Source
–Reuse allowed and encouraged (CC)•User Generated Content
–YouTube, Blogs, Wikis•Categorized and Efficient
–Tagging, Social Bookmarking, Cross-linking
•Cross-platform/device Compatibility–Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone
Characteristics of Web 2.0
Why Does It Matter?
According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project (Lenhardt & Madden 2007) more than
60% of teens have created online media content, and more than 75% of those teens
have shared the content they have produced. This in turn has fueled the online revolution of
participation and collaboration.
• Blogging + RSS• Powerful communication and publishing tools
• Wikis• Online writing space allowing user to add and
modify its pages.
• Web Applications• Office Suites, News Aggregators, etc…
• Social Networks
What are they using?
RSS & Information
• Netvibes– http://www.netvibes.com
• iGoogle– http://www.google.com/ig
• Bloglines– http://www.bloglines.com
• Pageflakes– http://www.pageflakes.com
• MyYahoo– http://my.yahoo.com
How are they keeping track of it all?
•Movement away from Desktop
application reliance.
•Platform independent.
•Mobile device compatibility.
•Open source.
•Online collaboration
Online Applications
• Office Applications– Zoho– Google Docs– Office Live
• Presentation Applications– TeacherTube– SlideShare
• Task Management (GTD)– Remember the Milk
What Applications Are They Using?
Technology Mash ups
• Google Lit Trips– Using Google Earth, students discover where in the
world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place.
• Jott.com– Jott converts your voice into emails, text messages,
reminders, lists and appointments. Supports Gcal, LJ, Twitter, Tumblr, Blogger, Remember the Milk, & WordPress.
Facebook: The 800lb Gorilla/Guerilla
•Wikimono
•Blog It
•Zoho Online Office
•Notecentric
•Share Homework
•Scribd
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Questions?koshea@purdue.edu
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