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What is Web 2.0?Something to get lost in, or a new

way of working?

EDU 626 Integrating Educational TechnologySpring 2009

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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??

From Presentation “Web 2.0” by Satyajeet Singh available on Slideshare

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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

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History of blogs

•Rebecca Blood: The original weblogs were link-driven 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, pre-surfed 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.

16Blog 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 list of sites. •June 1993:

Netscape begins running its What's New! list of sites. •Jan 1994:

Justin Hall launches Justin's Home Page which would become Links from the Underground.

timbl's blog

Original logo for Mosaic, the

first web browser from NCSA

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1999 the year it all exploded•Early 1999: – Peter Merholz coins the term blog

after announcing he was going to pronouce web blogs as "wee-blog". This was then shortened to blog.

•Early 1999: – Brigitte Eaton starts the first portal

devoted to blogs with about 50 listings.•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.

For What It's Worth

I've decided to pronounce the word "weblog" as wee'- blog. Or "blog" for short.

 57884 weblogs as of 09.28.06

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Importance of 1999?

•Advent of easy-edit web interface• July 1999 . . . Pitas, the first free build-your-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

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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 wick-ey (rhyming with sticky)? • believe the former is the proper

pronunciation though I've been known to use the latter.

– Correspondence on the Etymology of WikiNovember, 2003.

Ward Cunningham invented wiki

in 1995.

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Wiki wiki sign outside Honolulu International Airport. (Image courtesy of A. Barataz)

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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 web-based 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.• 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

* danah boyd *

Nicole Ellison

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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?