Web 2.0 Tools and their Educationsl Applications

1. Web 2.0 Tools and their Educational Applications Dr. Alaa Sadik Department of Instructional & Learning Technologies College of Education, Sultan Qaboos University www.alaasadik.net [email_address]

4. Email Knowledge of HTML Static Web sites Web-authoring Software Proprietary Knowledge Expertise The Old Web One Many

5. Web 2.0 One Many

6. Web 2.0 Many Many

7. Web 2.0: Evolution Towards a Read/Write Platform

8. Web 2.0: Evolution Towards a Read/Write Platform Browsers, RSS Readers, anything Web browser “ dynamic” “ static” “ Post / record” “ Page” “ Web Services” “ Client Server” “ Write” & Contribute “ Read” Web 2.0 (2003- beyond) Web pages, plus a lot of other “content” shared over the web, with more interactivity; more like an application than a “page” Web 1.0 (1993-2003) Pretty much HTML pages viewed through a browser

10. Web 2.0 Applications

11. Web 2.0 Applications

15. Flickr A social network for sharing photos Flickr combines a social network with user generated content. Users can work together to collaborate on photo projects and use each others’ tags to find new photos. Flickr also has an API for web services to integrate photo collections with blogs and other apps.

17. So, we can search on tags Anyone know what will come up if we search for “PFK”?

18. Results Poulet Frit Kentucky

20. Del.icio.us A floksonomy site that organize bookmarks A “folksonomy” is a spontaneous, collaborative work to categorize links by a community of users. Users take control of organize the content together.

27. Wikis A Wiki is a server program (called CMS) that allows users to collaborate in forming the content of a Web site. With a wiki, any user can edit the site content, including other users' contributions, using a regular Web browser. Basically, a wiki Web site operates on a principle of collaborative trust.

28. Wikipedia A collaborative encyclopedia edited in realtime by anyone

29. Web 2.0 for User Assistance Examples

30. Blogging An editing and publishing Web application

31. Social Networks Connect users into communities of interests

32. Facebook

35. RSS A new way of receiving content RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is an emerging technology which enables users to get “feeds” of data from content publishers via a browser or special newsreader tool. Items come to user free of spam, on-demand, and in an easy to digest format

36. RSS Reader Example

45. Educational Applications of Web 2.0 Tools