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2. 2 Web 2.0 a Primer for LMC Faculty Michael Nieckoski Technology Learning Services November 2008

3. 3 Getting Started §This presentation is available online §TLS Web site on the Intranet (portal) §https://intranet.landmark.edu/tls/TechnologyResources.cfmhttps://intranet.landmark.edu/tls/TechnologyResources.cfm

4. 4 What is this “Web 2.0?” §The Term, Web 2.0 is used to describe a new way of thinking about and using the Web -- it is not a piece of software. §Web 1.0 was characterized by static web pages and users were spectators §Web 2.0 is characterized by dynamically created web pages, usually with user- generated materials §Web 2.0 also takes better advantage of the “linking people-to-people” capabilities of the web (social)

5. 5 “The Web is US!” §Users are now active participants in the Web, posting, creating and sharing their content online. Users are encouraged to add value to the website. §Sharing and collaboration opportunities abound with the new tools. contentform §Separation of content from form –A technical advancement

6. 6 Web 2.0 §Let’s watch a video!Let’s watch a video –An excellent presentation from Kansas State University. 4:31 –http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE §Goes by Fast! §Illustrates the Web 2.0 concepts

7. 7 Expectations §That it is FREE –“subscribe” has a new meaning –Rights, intellectual property, copyright §That information is easily available 24/7 –The “1-800 Generation” §That everyone WANTS to be connected –Staying “in touch” §That everyone is “good” –Posting opinions, images

8. 8 Social Networking §Social media describes the online tools and platforms that people use to share opinions, insights, experiences, and perspectives with each other. §Facebook http://www.facebook.com/http://www.facebook.com/ §MySpace http://www.myspace.com/http://www.myspace.com/ §Traineo, Club Penguin, Linkedin, eBay, Last.fm, Digg, Twitter

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10. 10 Sharing photos §Flickr http://www.flickr.com/http://www.flickr.com/ §Photobucket http://photobucket.com/http://photobucket.com/ §Many others: Photosite, Webshots, Kodakgallery, Bebo, Picasa, Catster, Dailypuppy §Geotagging

11. 11 Blogs §Def: An online journal that can be commented on by readers §Very “ME” oriented (ultimate Vanity Press!) §LMC Digital Text Notes BlogDigital Text Notes §Blogger.com/Blogger.com/ §http://memeorandum.comhttp://memeorandum.com

12. 12 Wiki §A wiki is a website that allows the visitors themselves to easily add, remove, and otherwise edit and change available content. §Online collaborative authoring. §Wikis in Plain English video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY –(check out others in this series)

13. 13 Social Video: §http://www.youtube.com/http://www.youtube.com/ §TIME magazine's "Invention of the Year" for 2006. §Acquired by Google November 2006 §Political and social implications –Moved from “conspicuous consumption to conspicuous experience” §Landmark’s ChannelLandmark’s Channel

14. 14 Social Bookmarking §http://del.icio.us/http://del.icio.us/ –all your bookmarks in one place on the web –bookmark things for yourself and friends –check out what other people are bookmarking §The TAG §TLS Delicious SiteTLS Delicious Site

15. 15 RSS [ Really Simple Syndication] An orange square with waves indicates that an RSS feed is present on a web page. Clicking on this icon gives you the url to subscribe to the site. You may “subscribe” to a website (news) or podcast (NPR show). Use a “reader” to manage your “subscriptions”. Common ones are iTunes, Thunderbird, My Yahoo! and Google. Most late-model browsers have readers built-in. All your news and information is in one place. Information is updated automatically. It’s free!

16. 16 Text Messaging/IM (“texting” or Instant Messaging) Meebo GoogleTalk AIM MSIM

17. 17 Other interactive stuff… §Podcasting §Web Conferencing ( WebX, Go2Meeting, Yugma) §Shared Calendars ( Google, Yahoo) §Skype: VOIP voice over IP (& video) §EyeJot: Video email §Web pages linked to databases

18. 18 Now  5 years: We’re Goin’ Mobile! Apple iPhoneHP iPAQ

19. 19 Cloud Computing Access, not baggage Google Aps Microsoft Will be MANY others!

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24. 24 Technology is a Moving Target!

25. 25 Web 2.0 – How It Affects Education §How students think about their academic work and their expectations §The experiential nature of this intensely social environment §Students build their own learning (building on their social experience – constructivism) §Harvard/MIT shares entire curriculum online –http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/index.htmhttp://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/index.htm –http://mycourses.med.harvard.edu/public/http://mycourses.med.harvard.edu/public/ §Open LibraryOpen Library

26. 26 Web 2.0 – How It Affects our Teaching and our Students’ Learning §Our choices of technologies to use §How they will be doing their research –Connectivity: ex. Google ScholarGoogle Scholar §What we expect from our students and what we will accept from them. –Quotes from blogs? –Wikipedia? –YouTube? (or other media sites) §A call for a new form of literacy?

27. 27 Links to useful 2.0 stuff §Web 2.0 Backpack for students http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/web_20_backpack_web_apps_for_students.php http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/web_20_backpack_web_apps_for_students.php §Go 2 Web 2.0 Directory § http://www.go2web20.net/http://www.go2web20.net/ §Article in EduCause Review: §Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning? http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm06/erm0621.asp?bhcp=1 http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm06/erm0621.asp?bhcp=1

28. 28 More YouTube Videos §Introducing new technology –http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX-SjgQvQ&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX-SjgQvQ&feature=related §Another explanation of Web 2.0 –http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsa5ZTRJQ5w&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsa5ZTRJQ5w&feature=related §Yet another-with a lot of the jargon explained. –http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LzQIUANnHchttp:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LzQIUANnHc §Wikis in Plain English (check out others in this series) –http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=- dnL00TdmLYhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=- dnL00TdmLY

29. 29 Michael Nieckoski michaelnieckoski@landmark.edu Ext 6339 EAB101

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