1. Web 2.0 for Education
by
Todd McKee, MEd
Arkansas Geriatric Education Center
todd@uams.edu

2. What is it?
Good luck!
O’Reilly’s “What is Web 2.0?” (Link)
Web as a platform
Collective intelligence
Data wants to be free
Perpetual “Beta”

3. Web 1.0 Web 2.0
Ofoto Flickr
Akamai BitTorrent
mp3.com Napster
Britannica Online Wikipedia
personal websites blogging
publishing participation
cms wikis
directories (taxonomy) tagging (quot;folksonomyquot;)
stickiness syndication
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html

4. What is it?
Good luck!
O’Reilly’s “What is Web 2.0?” (Link)
“The Read/Write Web”
“The Web as Platform”
Social Software or Social Networking

6. Technology
RSS/Syndication
AJAX - Asynchronous Javascript and XML
Mash-ups / APIs (Flickr Maps)

8. Technology
RSS/Syndication
AJAX - Asynchronous Javascript and XML
Mash-ups / APIs (Flickr Maps)
Microformats

9. Web 2.0 RoadMap - http://www.nri.co.jp/english/news/2006/061110.html

10. Social Technology
Social Networking
Facebook/MySpace
Tagging
Flickr
Del.icio.us

11. Examples
Blogs
Wikis
Podcasts
Web as a platform

12. Blogs
Short for Web log
Web page that serves as a publicly accessible
personal journal
Usually in reverse chronological order

13. Components of a Blog
Title of the post
Body area for the main content
Comment area
Category (Tags) to help with grouping posts
Permanent link a.k.a. permalink
Post or publishing date

14. Blog Resources
WordPress: <http://wordpress.org>
Blogger: <http://www.blogger.com>
LiveJournal: <http://www.livejournal.com>
Typepad: <http://www.typepad.com>
Moveable Type: <http://www.sixapart.com/
movabletype>
Edublogs.org: <http://www.edublogs.org>

15. Wikis
A Web page that can be viewed and modified by
anybody with a Web browser and access to the
Internet
Possible to Restrict Access
Wiki Demo

16. Wiki Resources
WikiSpaces: <http://www.wikispaces.org>
MediaWiki: <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/
Main_Page>
PHPWiki: <http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net>
UseModWiki: <http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/
wiki.pl>
Twiki: <http://twiki.org>

17. Podcasts
Does NOT require an iPod - Listen on anything*
Distribution of audio files (MP3) through RSS
Allows end-user to subscribe
Automatic downloads of new content
Time-shifted content

18. Podcast Resources
iTunes <http://www.itunes.com>
Odeo <http://www.odeo.com>
Podcasting101 <http://podcasting101.pbwiki.com>
Podcast.net <http://www.podcast.net>
Podcast Alley <http://www.podcastalley.com>

19. Web as a Platform
Networked devices
Distributed data storage
Relies on the browser
Standards
Anytime, anywhere

20. Web Platform Resources
Flickr <http://www.flickr.com>
Del.icio.us <http://del.icio.us>
Gmail <http://www.gmail.com>
Linkedin <http://www.linkedin.com>
30boxes <http://www.30boxes.com>
YouTube <http://www.youtube.com>

21. Web Platform Resources
Office replacements
Writely <http://www.writely.com>
ThinkFree Office <http://online.thinkfree.com>
Basecamp <http://www.basecamphq.com>
Zoho <http://www.zoho.com>

22. What is it?

23. Change in the User’s
“Digital Natives” vs. “Digital Immigrants”
“Native speakers” of the digital language
Computers, video games and the Internet
“Digital immigrant” still have an “accent”
Printing an email
Marc Prensky
http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/default.asp

24. Why should I care?
Teacher Resources
Professional Development
Share documents
Share ideas
Share resources

25. Professional Development

26. Sharing Documents

27. Sharing Ideas

28. Sharing Resources

29. Why should I care?
Student Tools
Storytelling
Student-created content
Podcasts
Blogs
e-Portfolios
Collective wisdom / Group Discussion

30. Digital Storytelling

31. Creating Content

32. Group Projects

33. References
del.icio.us/Teach_w_Tech/
tmckee.edublogs.org/

35. Thank you
Todd McKee, MEd
todd@uams.edu