web 2.0 and open resouces for online teaching
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What is Web 2.0
“From isolation, separation and solitude to engagement, relationship
and conversation”
They came up with the name here
And tried to define it here
Companies using 2.0 type technologies
Attributes of web 2.0
What Web 2.0 “really means”
In the beginning…..
• The term "Web 2.0" was coined at that conference and refers to a second generation of web development and design, that aims to facilitate communication, secure information sharing, interoperability, and collaboration on the World Wide Web.
• Web 2.0 concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities, and applications; such as social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs, and Folksonomies.
From Wikipedia
What’s a Folksonomy?
• Folksonomy (also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging) is the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content.
• In contrast to a taxonomy, which can be roughly translated as “classification management”, a Folksonomy is a classification scheme that uses a crowd rather than experts to parse content. The idea of a Folksonomy is closely related to tagging, which has enjoyed great vogue in online circles since 2005 at least.
• The word Folksonomy is a combination of folks, meaning "people", and -onomy, meaning "management". Literally, this can be taken to mean “management by people” and has nothing to do with classification
• A visual representation of a Folksonomy is the tagcloud
Tags
Why are tags so important?
• The early days of the web, content classification = Keyword Meta • Due to widespread misuse of this function, this HTML variable was
gradually dismissed until all major search engines stopped reading its contents (about 2000-2001).
• As a result, a new breed of search engine optimization (SEO) has been born: tags. Tags are essentially keywords for each page/article you create. They are purposefully sought out and indexed by search engines and other Web 2.0 sites, such as Technorati.com, who gather these terms and often sort them by date rather than popularity, though Google concentrates on relevance and popularity.
• Articles, news stories, podcasts, audio recordings, photos, presentations, video clips can all be tagged easily no matter what type of blog or content management system you use. The benefit is a wider distribution of your content and more opportunities for those seeking it to find it.
Tag Cloud
For example…
Harnessing Collective Intelligence
Social Networking Sites
Video Sharing Sites
Teachertube.com
Assignment #1
• Go to a video sharing site and find a video related to your discipline
• Extra points if you find a captioned one!
• Here are some sites to try:
– http://www.teachertube.com/
– http://www.archive.org/details/movies
– http://www.learner.org/resources/browse.html
Wikis
Wikimedia.org
Blogs
Edublog.org
Make a cloud…
Get Dropbox!
Blogging Tools
Delicious
Take your bookmarks with you..
A million and one functions..
Learn to Learn
Adapt to Change
Scan the Horizon
Web 2.0: How can you use Web 2.0 tools to enhance your teaching?
Google Apps http://www.google.com/apps/
Wikis
Wikis are being used in many different ways in education:
As a collaborative tool
As a study tool
A place to post projects and assignments
This is a Wiki Study Hall
Wiki 1 2 3• Derived from the Hawaiian for “quick,” wikis are used across
the Web as collaborative tools. Invented by Ward Cunningham, they’ve been around since 1995.
• As finished products wikis are not flashy presentations. Users focus on creating, adding to, and editing text content using web browsers.
• Because they are browser-based editing tools, the technology barrier is low. Wikis can be created and edited with little or no knowledge of HTML.
• Team-based by nature, they are logistically suited for group projects. Wikis are increasingly used by businesses and organizations as knowledge management solutions. They have also become staples of university courses to encourage academic collaboration and discourse.
Places to get a Wiki
http://wikisineducation.wetpaint.com/?t=anon
One Page Wiki
• Writeboard
• Zoho Writer
• TiddlyWiki
• Full Web Site
• MediaWiki
• Trac Project tracking wiki
• Wikispaces aimed at social groups
• SeedWiki
• Instiki
• Wetpaint
Classtools.net check out the games tool
http://classtools.net/samples/full_list/quiz/quiz/
http://classtools.net/about.php
Diigo: Highlight the Web
Tools for Organization
• mySchoolog - http://www.myschoolog.com/This online application tracks and organizes school lives.
http://mynoteit.com/ Take, edit and share notes online
• Take and store your notes online.• Edit and revise notes with peers.• Look-up and define words with your Workspace
Utilities.
SloodleSLOODLE is an Open Source project which integrates the multi-user virtual
environment of Second Life® with the Moodle® learning-management system.
http://www.sloodle.org/moodle/
General Resources
Sourceforge.net
Online Education VideosAnnenberg Media
http://www.learner.org/resources/browse.html
Google/UC Educational Videohttp://video.google.com/ucberkeley.html
AVGeekshttp://www.avgeeks.com/category/films-from-the-archive/
Winkhttp://www.debugmode.com/wink/
Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials onhow to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users
CaptureFoxhttp://www.advancity.net/eng/products/capturefox.html
That’s all for now, folks…