Web 2.0The “WH”s

Micki Zaritsky

ETAI, 2009

Today we will talk about…. What is Web 1.0 What is Web 2.0 Examples of Web 2.0 An example of how can we

use Web 2.0 in school How to create a wiki project

What is Web 1.0? Online content

Encyclopedias / Dictionaries www.dictionary.com

Personal websites (webmaster) Lesson plans and materials

Making Waves Worksheets / printables

abcteach In short, content created by others

What is Web 2.0? The “Web As a Platform” aiming to:

allow collaboration allow sharing

In short, content created by US Let’s ask…. Who?

What?Where?When?Why?

Issues….

Where to start ?? (there’s so much)

Blogs Media Sharing Wikis Wiki Project Google Earth Facebook Out of time

WH - Blogs a shared on-line journal where people can post

diary entries about their personal experiences and hobbies. WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.

December 2007: more than 112 million blogs

Who?What?Where?When?Why?

Issue: Privacy…

Make your own BLOGGlobal: Blogger – www.blogger.com Yahoo 360º - http://360.yahoo.com/

Local Israblog –http://israblog.nana10.co.il/ Tapuz - http://www.tapuz.co.il/blog/

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WH – Media Sharing a video sharing website where users can

upload, view and share video clips. YouTube was created in February 2005. As of February 2008, a YouTube search for "*"

returned about 70,000,000 videos

Who?What?Where?When?Why?

Issue: Copyright…

SHARE your own MEDIA

Global: youtube (video) – www.youtube.com Flickr (photos) - http://www.flickr.com/ AND……facebook

Local: Tapuz – http://www.flix.co.il/tapuz/

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WH - WIKIs A collaborative website which can be directly

edited by anyone with access to it. Wikipedia was launched in January 2001 As of December 2007, Wikipedia had approx.

9.25 million articles in 253 languages

Who?What?Where?When?Why?

Issue: Reliability…

Make your own WIKI

Global: Wikispaces – www.wikispaces.com Peanut Butter Wiki – www.pbwiki.com Wetpaint – www.wetpaint.com AND….(soon)…. facebook

Local: Wiki co il – www.wiki.co.il

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WIKIs in school

Tel Mond – 11th grade – advanced English Objectives:

challenging an advanced classSocial Interaction (wiki – collaboration)Access to Information (searching)Presentation (writing, summing up)Appreciation of Lit.,Culture, and Language

The project – The Fire

The Fire – a WIKI project(Billy Joel – “We Didn’t Start the Fire”) Video clip (YouTube) Wiki student entries

(add information about people / events mentioned in the song)

Wiki student editing Final project (not) Micki Wiki presentation

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WH – Google Earth? Google Earth is a virtual globe program. It maps the earth by the superimposition of

images obtained from satellite imagery, aerial photography and GIS* 3D globe.

*GIS - geographic information system

Who?What?Where?When?Why?

Issue: bandwidth…

WH – Facebook A social utility that helps people communicate

efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers. Harvard version February, 2004 More than: (from Facebook Statistics, April 2009)

200 million active users worldwide (150 in 1/2009) 30 million access through their mobile device 1 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog

posts, notes, photos, etc.) shared each month 850 million photos uploaded each month 8 million videos uploaded each month 2.5 million events created each month 25 million active user groups

Issue: too much?

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WHO? Everyone Is our source trustworthy?

WHAT? Everything Is the content appropriate?

WHERE? Anywhereschools? home?

WHEN? 24/7classwork? homework?

WHY?personal and authentic

Web 2.0 - WH ?? and more ??

Thank you!