business studies web 2.0

Developments in ICT

• Digital Natives and digital immigrants

• From web 1.0 to web 2.0

• What social networking tools could I use in my teaching?

According to BBC News, According to BBC News, a new blog is created a new blog is created every secondevery second..

1,400,000 UK pupils have 1,400,000 UK pupils have their their own web page.own web page.

(Britons sent more than 50bn texts in 2007, for example - as many each week as they did in the whole of 1999)

Web 1.0(1993-2003)

Pretty much HTML pages viewed through a browser

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”

“Read” Mode “Write” & Contribute

“Page” Primary Unit of content

“Post / record”

“static” State “dynamic”

Web browser Viewed through…

Browsers, RSS Readers, anything

Web Coders Content Created by…

Everyone

BLOGS WIKIS

PODCASTS RSS

SOCIAL BOOKMARKING

Web 2.0 The read /write web

Pupils are using Web 2.0 now

• Blogs,e.g. Blogspot, Blogger, • Social network software, e.g. Myspace,

Facebook,• Tagged photo stores, e.g. Flickr• Del.icio.us • Wikis,e.g. Wikipedia• Communication networks, AIM Messenger• News and audio services, e.g. podcasts and

hosted video - Youtube

The World Wide Web has become a two-way web, where anyone can publish, share, and change information as easily as viewing or downloading it.

This change offers powerful new opportunities for learning.

Blogging in Education

An online journal or diary

A Conversation

A communication tool

What is a blog?

Marybank Primary Bloggers

Del.icio.us is an Example of a Site that Uses a “Tags” to Organize Bookmarks

Tags: Descriptive words applied by users

to links. Tags are searchable

My Tags: Words I’ve used to describe links in a way that makes

sense to me

Special web site allows visitors to add, remove, edit & change content Not need access to or knowledge of web publishing software

Collaboration Group members work on common document in common location

Wikis

Perth High School Class wiki

http://edublogs.org

http://wordpress.com

http://www.wikispaces.com

http://del.icio.us/

http://www.commoncraft.com/

• Common Craft produce short succinct cartoon videos and tutorials on how blogs, wikis and del.icio.us work. Well worth looking at.

http://www.slideshare.net/

http.hvlc.wordpress.com

http://jimhenderson.wordpress.com

You can watch this presentation again or

download it from

http://www.slideshare.net/jimhenderson