Welcome to the Brown Bag Lunch

Series

Web 2.0 & Social Networking

July 22, 2010

Agenda What is all this stuff? Why its important? Trends Resources

What is all this stuff? Ning – place to gather and talk (like a sandbox), costs $ Wiki – interactive bulletin board – all members can create; quick edits; list

of web pages Moodle – Course Management System; open source version of Angel or

Blackboard Twitter – share and discover what is happening right now; instantly

updated; microblogging service Tweet - is a post or status update on Twitter Twitterfeeds - Offers to tweet the last posts published in a blog Plurk – another microblogging site LinkedIn - strengthens and extends your existing network - great tool for

business professionals Delicious - Keep, share, and discover the best of the Web using Delicious,

the world's leading social bookmarking service.

More… Digg - a place for people to discover and share content from

anywhere on the web FaceBook - social utility that connects people with friends

and others Friendster.com - a leading global social network Myspace - is one of the world's largest social networks hi5 – Social Networking with social entertainment – playing

games Second Life - is a free 3D virtual world where users can

socialize, connect and create using free voice and text chat.

Why is it important?

What kids are saying & doing? Email is passee They forward all email to twitter Or they text They are moving away from facebook –

because we are all on it! Digg is big!

Concerns Digital Footprints

What we post? What others post about us?

Privacy Facebook CEO has said publicly that people

don’t care about privacy Companies will sell and / share your information Its like leaving your diary on a park bench for all

to read!

Resources… Web 2.0 Glossary GI Admin wiki

K-12 Education… Edmodo - is a private micro-blogging

platform built for use by teachers and students for use in the classroom.

Caution - many sites have age restrictions, some require student email