Web 2.0

All of us are smarter than any one of us.

It’s not the technology;

It’s the IMPACT.

Adapt or Die! becomes the mantra of the day for consultants, analysts, and reporters. Their words become the start gun,

signaling the time has come for millions of dollars to be spent ripping up legacy systems and replacing them with the next new thing.

Not necessarily in education…

The Internet and Web 2.0 challenge our concepts of how students learn

and how we should teach .

Web 2.0 technologies are changing media and challenging schools.

Web 2.0 refers to a supposed second generation of Internet based services that emphasize online collaboration and sharing among users.

Wisdom of Crowds--what are the most valuable resources

"Web 2.0 is a widely used phrase devoid of meaningful content.”

Businesses vs. home and school

The social web is a term that can be used to describe a subset of Web 2.0 technologies

that are highly interactive,

conversational and participatory.

Features of social web applications

Expressing and developing identity (especially for youth).

RelationshipsTrustUser-driven and generated sites and content

--rather than passive consumers, surfers can become active creators.

Social Media

• the democratization of content• shifts from a broadcast mechanism to a many-to-many model

• “wisdom of crowds” to connect information in a collaborative manner

Imagine a web site where a teacher, counselor, administrator or student could create his own web site that includes 50 Mb of file storage and sharing space, on-line slide shows, web site bookmarking, blogging,

threaded discussions, and real-time polling.

Now imagine the same site that is free to use and free of

advertising. Lastly, imagine that all is needed to use this site is a computer connected to the Internet.

Real World Learning Objects

www.rwlo.org

What are Blogs

A weblog( web log), more commonly known as blog, is a shared online journal of chronological events that are kept in reverse order. A blog is essentially an online journal or diary.(myspace)

Who’s blogging?

• October 2006 56 million active blogs

• January 2007 63.2 million active blogs• Sept. 2007 106 million active blogs

• 175,000 blogs begun daily

• 200 million inactive or abandoned blogs

Types of Educational Blogs

• Information and Updates• Teacher or student generated to keep readers informed

• Collaborative Project Blogs• Multiple classrooms or schools posting to a site or to each other

• Written Expression Blogs• Individual or classroom blogs created to post student work

Informational Blogs

• Journal of events• Classroom highlights• Remediation or review• Student recognition• Homework or external assignments

Blogger—

a free site that produces:

http://cognobics.blogspo

t.com

“106 million blogs--some of them have to be good”

How about me?

Neat applications that encourage personal

exploration or creative response

iShowU

• Screen capture application• Useful to save streaming video

http://www.shinywhitebox.com/home/home.html

Furl

• Web page saving tool

TV capture

• eyeTV

• WinTV

• Coupled with TitanTV

P2P sharing

If you want it, it’s available.

Kazaa, Morpheus, Limewire

Peer-to-Peer Network

A peer-to-peer ("P2P") computer network exploits

diverse connectivity between participants in a network and the cumulative bandwidth of

network rather than the typical centralized resources where a

relatively low number of servers provide the core service or application.

Wikipedia

Digghttp://www.digg.com

“Digg is democratizing digital media.”

Digg is a technology news website that combines social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control. With digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allow an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do.

del.icio.ushttp://www.del.icio.us

del.icio.us is a collection of favorites - yours and everyone else's. Use del.icio.us to keep links, share favorites with friends, family, and colleagues, discover new things.

Flickrhttp://www.flickr.com

Flickr - almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world - has two main goals:

• We want to help people make their photos available to the people who matter to them.

• We want to enable new ways of organizing photos.

Picnik

Picture sharing and editing

FlockFlock is an amazing new web browser that makes it easier to share media and connect to other people online. Share photos, automatically stay up-to-date with new content from your favorite sites, and search the Web with the most advanced Search Toolbar available today.

Gmail

Gmail is an experiment in a new kind of webmail, built on the idea that you should never have to delete mail and you should always be able to find the message you want.

Google Maps

Maps are great for getting around, but online maps could be a lot better. So Google decided to make dynamic, interactive maps that are draggable — no clicking and waiting for graphics to reload each time you want to view the adjacent parts of a map.

Remember The Milk

Remember The Milk is the easiest and best way to manage your to-do lists online. Sharing, publishing, notes... It’s got it all. Receive reminders via email, instant messenger, and SMS.

It's free.

Social Networking

Be whoever you want to be and share whatever you want to share with whomever you choose.

www.43things.com

Skype

Skype Free voice communications from your computer to any computer in the world as well as low cost calls to land lines…VOIP

wikisA wiki is a website that allows the visitors themselves to easily add, remove, and otherwise edit and change available content, typically without the need for registration. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for mass collaborative authoring.

Wiki means fast in Hawaiian.

Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a multilingual, Web-based, free content encyclopedia project. Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers; its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the Web site.

WiktionaryWiktionary (from wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. Unlike standard dictionaries, it is written collaboratively by volunteers using wiki software, allowing articles to be changed by almost anyone with access to the Web site.

PBwiki

Peanut Butter Wikis

Xdrive

Xdrive5GB to unlimited gigabytes of online storage. Accessible from any web browser. Easy, efficient file sharing. Protect critical data from crashes and viruses. The best solution for storing and sharing online.

ZohoZohoOnline tool to create a document, edit in your way, and share with anyone. Access Anywhere, Share, don't attach, Generate PDF/DOC/HTML, Create and edit document in your way, Load your existing documents, Multi lingual Support, No more duplicates, Post to your Blog.

Elluminate

For more about “Web 2.0 Applications”

“Complete List of Web 2.0 Applications”

http://digg.com/tech_news/Complete_List_of_Web_2.0_Applications

http://web2.econsultant.com

Sharing Online Video

YouTube, Metacafe, Blip.tv, Revver, Yahoo Video

Millions of video clips, music videos, albums, movie trailers,commercials…can be watched or downloaded to hard drive for later viewing.

http://www.districtadministration.com/

• Great variety of resources in tabs