Ben Jones - S00094684 Rebecca Hunter - S00096694 Web 2.0 Ben Jones - S00094684 Rebecca Hunter - S00096694 Play http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoWKkl5nA08

What Defines Web 2.0? An internet that relies on its users to come together and create their own content (Flickr) A network based on participation (YouTube) A network that encourages open communication (Digg) Data is not controlled by one person, but by many (Wikipedia) An internet that is no longer many isolated web pages of information. Everything is connected. We are in control. Ideas: Teacher plays Youtube Video then asks 1 or 2 people what they think Web 2.0 is? Ideas from video: An internet that relies on its users to come together and create their own content (Flickr) A network based on participation (YouTube) A network that encourages open communication (Digg) Data is not controlled by one person, but by many (Wikipedia) The internet is no longer many isolated web pages of information. Everything is connected. We are in control.

Formal Definition Web applications that facilitate interactive information sharing, user-centered design and collaboration on the World Wide Web

Web 2.0 Key Points Users are contributors to the website's content, instead of passive viewers of information that is provided to them. Examples of Web 2.0 include web-based communities, hosted services, web applications, social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis and blogs.

Ask students to give an example of a Web 2 Ask students to give an example of a Web 2.0 site that they use and they explain why they think it is Web 2.0.

Evolution of the WWW Web 1.0 – Read Only Era. Internet before 1999. Web 2.0 – Read/Write/Publish/Interact Era. Internet from 1999 till now. Web 3.0 - Semantic Web. Future of internet. Web 1.0: The Internet before 1999, experts call it Read-Only era. The average internet user's role was limited only to reading the information presented to him. (E.g. Institute of Teachers Website) Web 2.0: Interaction with the common user. Even a non-technical user can actively interact & contribute to the web. (e.g. Twitter, Youtube) Web 3.0: More intelligent. Includes: Contextual Searching, Tailor made Searching, Personalized Search, Evolution of 3D Web, Deductive Reasoning (e.g. Google Search – GM Crop)

Activity Examples Wikis - A web site that lets any visitor become a participant in editing the site contents. It is a living collaboration of creative ideas by many people. Online Social Networking – A form of communicating over the internet using various forms of multimedia, globally in an real time environment. Wikis Can create or edit the actual site contents without any special technical knowledge or tools. All you need is a computer with an Internet connection. A wiki is continuously “under revision.” It is a living collaboration whose purpose is the sharing of the creative process and product by many Online Social Networking Is a computer mediated form of communication. It is opening up the internet for communication between people of different countries, languages or cultures. Online social networking allows someone from Australia to easily communicate through text, multimedia including audio or voice recording to someone in Europe, or USA, or anywhere else in the world and all you need is the internet. Online social networking has created a doorway for an evolution of communication in the 21st century. No longer is communication of a global capacity not done in a real time environment.

Wikis in Education Study guides made by student groups for themselves and peers. Vocabulary lists and examples of the words in use, contributed by students (ongoing throughout the year). An organizational and intellectual epicenter of your class - Wiki all assignments, projects, collaboration, rubrics, etc. Teach an IST class some of the basic concepts of computer programming by introducing them to the WikiText editor. This section we could commence “after” the activity has been completed. Study guides made by student groups for themselves and peers. Vocabulary lists and examples of the words in use, contributed by students (ongoing throughout the year). An organizational and intellectual epicenter of your class - Wiki all assignments, projects, collaboration, rubrics, etc. Teach an IST class some of the basic concepts of computer programming by introducing them to the WikiText editor

Social Networking in Education Used to communicate ideas and quick messages amongst students or teachers School can use it a form of school wide communication with parents and students. Ask students a quiz question each day. Students submit back answers. Social networking learnt through group projects Time certain projects to enable students to follow a particular real world event. Twitter ideas for most subjects and grade levels: Teachers can also use the twitter device to communicate to students or other teachers, as twitter is a social networking tool and makes it easy to communicate ideas and quick messages or reminders to students or teachers. A way and means for the school to keep in contact with students, or parents. The school could use it as a tool of communication. The school I am currently doing my practical at has a SMS system for communication with parents. Maybe a Twitter system is a move in the right direction so that global or private messages can be sent out to all or one parent or student. Teachers could use twitter to globally ask students a quiz question at random each day. Allowing the students to tweet back answers and rewarding the students who tweet back first with a correct answer. This is an easy way for teachers to test the students understanding of a topic. It is also a fun and modern way of communication between teacher and student. Teachers can enable students to understand social networking and its uses through class activities that use it. Having students work collaboratively and communicate between each other only through twitter will allow them to understand the uses of the technology. When looking at a specific area like politics, marketing or even the tour to France, students can follow different Twitterers and learn about how and what they communicate through twitter. This activity takes the teacher finding a specific group to follow related to their topic, and have the students follow that Twitterer.

Questions? A set of class discussion questions about wikis at the end of the activity workshop:   What is a Wiki? What is online social networking? Why is twitter a social networking tool? Why is a Wiki a Web 2.0 technology? Did you find it easier or harder to communicate with the other groups using only Web 2.0 technologies? Why?