1. ELP2 Project & Web 2.0 Leeds Met. 24 April 07

2. 2 Introduction ‘Web 2.0’ – what’s out there and what’s it for? Mark Power, CETIS  eLearning Programme Support  University of Bolton  mpower6@gmail.com mpower6@gmail.com  Skype: markleepower

3. 3 What is Web 2.0? Emphasis on user generated content and collaboration Using social software to create new ways to interact with web-based applications Using the web as a platform to generate, share, re- purpose and consume content Enables groups of users to form communities for socialising, collaborating and working with each other

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5. 5 Characteristics Consumer Connected Simple Personal & global Open Decentralized REST Communities ‘Perpetual Beta’ Participation

6. 6 Feeds & Podcasts: The basic APIs Feeds: Syndicated (HTML) content Podcasts: Syndicated audio

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8. 8 Creating & Sharing Blogs Wikis: Collaboration Content sharing / Social bookmarking Flickr: Photo sharing YouTube: Video sharing Feeds and podcasts Create for re-use

9. 9 Blogging Allow users to write and publish time-ordered articles (posts) Readers can comment on posts, generating discussion Can be syndicated (RSS/Atom), enabling viewers to track discussion and new posts Blogger Wordpress

10. 10 Social Bookmarking Allows users to share bookmarked websites Tagged and described Collections of commonly recorded pages build up, enabling users to find webpages of interest to them using the likely tags (alternative search engine) Enables networking / community building Can also be syndicated Del.icio.us Digg Stumbled Upon

11. 11 Content sharing Allow users to upload, store and share contributed media (photographs, video, presentations, documents) Media is, again, simply described using tags Users can create and join groups, or communities of interest Peer review and self-directed learning Flickr YouTube GoogleVideo SlideShare GoogleDocs Scribd

12. 12 Social Networking Allow people to network together for various purposes Online identity, friends, communities of interest Elgg Facebook MySpace Yahoo 360

13. 13 Personal homepages Allow users to create a personalised space, syndicating News feeds, Blog feeds, Email alerts, Calendar entries… Give users easy access web apps – notepads, bookmarks, to-do lists, Flickr galleries, search engines, currency converters, weather, eBay listings…. Users can share these spaces, enabling others to use their feeds Netvibes Pageflakes YourMinis

14. 14 Learning & Teaching in a Web 2.0 world Discovering opportunities to learn and forming networks and communities Creating and sharing work Collect and remixing Collaborating Innovating and developing technique

15. 15 Discovering opportunity: Going Global with Learning Networks Combining formal and informal learning episodes Using shared goals to forge a social identity (eg. 43 things) Developing a professional identity Writing (and photographing, drawing, filming, recording…) Developing competence, confidence, and independence Going global for an audience - and feedback

16. 16 Coordinated group activity What?  Planning, scheduling and managing action  Collaborative writing (drawing, recording, filming)  Journaling  Conversation How?  BaseCamp, TaDaList, Google Calendar, 30Boxes, iCalendar …  Writely, Google Docs, wikis …  Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, Wordpress …  Skype, AIM, MSN, GTalk…

17. 17 Self-organisation Learners need to be able to organize themselves  And not just by popping off to MySpace? Define their own groups  VLEs are too often asymmetric - what the student can do vs. what the teacher can do  VLEs are too closed - groups can only be within the organisation  VLE structures too often mirror administrative rather than educational divisions

18. 18 Innovation Trial and error with the perpetual beta Learning from mistakes - but being willing to make them! Owning the technology and developing technique

19. 19 The challenges Some students and teachers are already using web 2.0  Myspace, bebo, wikipedia… Web 2.0 emphasizes personal technology connected globally  Stepping outside the institution Managing risks  Privacy, image, reliability, legal & copyright

20. 20 The opportunities Provide a richer learning experience with more connections Empower teachers & students Enable agile, innovative use of technology Engage prospective students by reaching outside the walls - become part of the community before registration!

21. 21 The opportunities