1. Web 2.0 for Learning
e-Learning Workshops for Students
Mike Chui
mikechui@ied.edu.hk
Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology (LTTC)
http://www.ied.edu.hk/lttc

2. Today’s Agenda
 What is Web 2.0?
 How to catch the opportunities of Web 2.0?
 What are the impacts on education?
 Sharing of Web 2.0 technologies (hands-on)
 Q & A + Survey

3. What is Web 2.0?
 Not a new Internet
 Interactive information sharing
 Interoperability
 User-centered design and collaboration on the
World Wide Web
 24/7 ability to produce, communicate, collaborate,
share, store, network and learn

4. Prosumer + Folksonomy
 Prosumer
 Producer + Consumer
 Professional Consumer
 Folksonomy
 Using user-defined labels or tags to organize and
share information
 Folk classification

5. 1. Delicious
 It is a social bookmarking site
 Go to http://delicious.com/

6. 1. Delicious (con’t)
 Suppose you want to know more about e-portfolios,
so how can you make use of Delicious?
 How many bookmarks are related to e-portfolios?
 How can you relate the searched bookmarks to
higher education?
 How many bookmarks did you get?

7. 1. Delicious (con’t)
 How can I save the bookmarks?

8. 1. Delicious (con’t)
 What are the differences between using Delicious
and adding as My Favourite?

9. 2. SlideShare
 It is an online presentation sharing space
 Go to http://www.slideshare.net/
 Click on Signup
 How can I upload a PowerPoint file?
 How can I allow people download my presentation?
 What are the benefits and drawbacks of using
online presentation tool?

10. 3. Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
 It benefits publishers by letting
the subscribers to get the
syndicated content automatically
 Subscribers 無需一天刷新幾十次
自己感興趣的Web site或blog，
因爲它們更新的內容會通過RSS
feeds源源不斷地輸送到你的
feeds閱讀器中。

11. 3.1 How to subscribe a RSS feed (with iGoogle)
 Go to http://www.google.com.hk/ig
 You may select a theme
 Click on See your page button

12. 3.1 How to subscribe a RSS feed (with iGoogle)
 You may delete some unwanted gadgets

13. 3.1 How to subscribe a RSS feed (with iGoogle)
 Click on Add Stuff (新增小工具)

14. 3.1 How to subscribe a RSS feed (with iGoogle)
 Click on 新增資訊提供或小工具
 Open a new Internet browser page
 Go to http://www.mingpao.com/
 Click on RSS button
 Select your favourite category and copy the .xml
link

15. 3.1 How to subscribe a RSS feed (with iGoogle)
 Go back the 新增資訊提供或小工具 box
 Paste the copied URL:
http://inews.mingpao.com/rss/INews/gb.xml
 Click on 新增 button

16. 4. Subscribe a blog (Using iGoogle)
 Click on Add Stuff (新增小工具)
 Click on 新增資訊提供或小工具
 Enter http://educator.viviti.com
 Click on 新增 button

17. 5. Wikispaces
 It facilitates collaborative writing and tracking
history of editions
 Go to http://www.wikispaces.com/

18. 5. Wikispaces (con’t)
 Click on Get Started button

19. 5. Wikispaces (con’t)
 Fill in the required fields

20. 5. Wikispaces (con’t)
 http://ictlearner.wikispaces.com/

21. 5. Wikispaces (con’t)
 Click on Edit button to start editing the home
page

22. 5. Wikispaces (con’t)
 Click on Manage Wiki > Invite People to engage
your friends in editing the page

23. More Webapps to try
 http://creately.com/ (an online diagramming
application)
 http://photofunia.com/ (an online photo editing
tool)
 http://bubbl.us/ (for brainstorming)
 http://text-to-speech.imtranslator.net/speech.asp
(for learning pronunciation of different languages)

24. References
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0
 http://www.vanderwal.net/folksonomy.html
 http://www.eryi.org/SearchEngines/rss-feeds-power.html
 http://rss.softwaregarden.com/aboutrss.html