Web 2.0 Applications for Educators John Thompson, Ph.D. Buffalo State College Presentation Agenda Highlight many Web 2.0 educational apps Free apps (mostly - at this point in time) Interactive presentation – during and after session – slideshare.net 2 Dr. John Thompson - FETC 2008 What is “Web 2.0?” Web 1.0 • read-only medium • static Web – provide information Web 2.0 • read-write Web • relies on user participation • information is transmitted and consumed with content being created, shared, remixed, repurposed, and passed along (Downes, 2005) 3 Dr. John Thompson - FETC 2008 Web 2.0 in Education Increases user creativity and community while concurrently empowering user ownership of content User-generated content leading to "collective intelligence" that benefits many Collaborative in nature and features user-generated content 4 Dr. John Thompson - FETC 2008 Web 2.0 Videos Tim O'Reilly on What is Web 2.0? Web 2.0 Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Introducing Web 2.0 Coming of Age: Primary Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Panel Discussion - What is Web 2.0? Co-Creating with Web 2.0 Web 2.0 and Education Web 2.0 in Education What is Web 2.0? The Machine is Us/ing Us Dr. John Thompson - FETC 2008 5 collaboration/participation/collective intelligence safety in numbers personal connections--from words, pictures, video, and audio transparent selves…transparent Web harnessing collective intelligence second generation of services “democratizes” media authentic, peer-to-peer channel of communication open, flexible collaboration collective power community participative Web Web as a platform Web changing from “medium” to “platform” collective judgments user actions provide value architecture of participation human-computer interaction interactive, community-based Internet applications the wisdom of crowds bookmarking >>> social bookmarking authentic, peer-to-peer channel of communication user-generated content amoral data and applications opened creative amateur is cherished 6 to creative use by the public Dr. John Thompson - FETC 2008 Trying to define and categorize what “Web 2.0” means is like trying to change the tire on your car while it’s going down the highway. 7 Dr. John Thompson - FETC 2008 8 Dr. John Thompson - FETC 2008 Sharing Photos Educational Uses Scrapbooking Class reunions Portfolio School events Fundraising Embed in blogs, PowerPoints, class Web sites… Other uses? Video – Online Photo Sharing in Plain English Library of Congress’ Flickr site 9 Dr. John Thompson - FETC 2008 Sharing Videos 48% of online adults have visited video Web sites, according to a Pew Internet & American Life Project report. A year ago, it was 33% -- a 45% year-to-year growth. http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/232/rep ort_display.asp Top 10 Video Sharing Sites from PC World 1. http://blip.tv/ 2. http://www.stage6.com/ 3. http://www.brightcove.com/ 4. http://www.revver.com/ 5. http://www.veoh.com/ 6. http://video.msn.com/video. aspx?mkt=enus&tab=soapbox 7. http://www.youtube.com/ List of video sharing sites - 8. http://www.vimeo.com/ http://www.hybridsem.com/blog/2007/07/01/lis t-of-video-sharing-sites-and-impact-of-videomarketing/ 9. http://www.jumpcut.com/ Dr. John Thompson - FETC 2008 10. http://vids.myspace.com/ 10 Sharing PowerPoints Synch uploaded video with your PowerPoint “free Web-based alternative to PowerPoint. Create & edit Flash presentations online. Send presentations via e-mail or publish on your Web site or blog” Dr. John Thompson - FETC 2008 And even more sites! 11 Sharing Documents 24/7 anytime, anywhere access to projects or assignments – extends school day 12 Dr. John Thompson - FETC 2008 Social Networks 13 Dr. John Thompson - FETC 2008 14 Dr. John Thompson - FETC 2008 Source: http://www.grunwald.com/ 15 Dr. John Thompson - FETC 2008 Online poll 1/20/08 http://www.economist.com/debate/index.cfm?action=hall&debate_id=3 16 Dr. John Thompson - FETC 2008 Blogs Audio blogs/conversations blogging engine created specifically for classroom use 17 Dr. John Thompson - FETC 2008 Education Blogs Best Education Blogs 2007 Top 100 Education Blogs 2006 Find a Teacher Blog 18 Dr. John Thompson - FETC 2008 Podcasts “Record your podcast via a toll-free call from any phone. Never even touch a computer!” 19 Dr. John Thompson - FETC 2008 Collaboration Wiki – online software that lets users modify any content, plus everything (formatting included) about the wiki Social bookmarking – store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of Web sites using metadata & tagging wiki.com domain name sold for $2.86 million (8/06) Web Collaboration Software 20 Dr. John Thompson - FETC 2008 Source: USA Today 21 Dr. John Thompson - FETC 2008 Education Online Lecture-capture software for educational institutions capture, edit, index, archive and stream video and audio over the Internet Coursecast – podcast or videocast lecture (like a Tivo for courses) Partial list of higher ed schools offering open source courseware and/or coursecasts: • Harvard • Carnegie Mellon • UC Berkeley • Duke • MIT • Notre Dame Free Online Education listing Dr. John Thompson - FETC 2008 • Johns Hopkins 22 Miscellaneous Share graphics Share bookmarks Social browser Calendar Diagrams Explanatory video 23 Dr. John Thompson - FETC 2008 Miscellaneous Office productivity suite Video RSS aggregators Long list Creating ePortfolios with Web 2.0 Tools ePortfolio Mash Up with GoogleApps 24 Dr. John Thompson - FETC 2008 Miscellaneous “captures and shares images and video…from your computer to anywhere” “Enables users to express themselves on the web in their own voice using a talking character. Customize your Voki to look like you…Your Voki can speak with your own voice which is added via microphone, upload, or phone.” Dr. John Thompson - FETC 2008 “online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) - and share them with anyone they wish. A VoiceThread allows group conversations to be collected and shared in one place, from anywhere in the world.” -- group audio blogging to enhance group 25 communication and reflection Miscellaneous one-to-many live interactive video broadcast platform enabling anyone with a camera and an Internet connection to broadcast to a unlimited global audience create surveys and polls for your Web site, blog and social network profiles • Beyond just driving directions… • 100 Things to do Fleck.com allows you to add notes or bullets to Web sites. Share these annotated pages with others. Dr. John Thompson - FETC 2008 Directory of web 2.0 apps & services - 1937 logos as of 1/19/08 26 Web 2.0 Apps in Education Web 2.0 in Education Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0 Best Web 2.0 Applications for Elementary School Best Web 2.0 Applications For Education — 2007 Web 2.0 for the Classroom Teacher Kathy Schrock suggested links 27 Dr. John Thompson - FETC 2008 “Top” Lists The Most Useful Web Tools Web 2.0 list Free Tools for Teachers Best Web 2.0 Apps For Education - 2007 Directory of Learning Tools ISTE’s Top 10 Blogs & Podcasts for Jan. 2008 self-running slide show of over 1,400 of the best Web2.0 sites - categorized by tags and sorted alphabetically 28 Dr. John Thompson - FETC 2008 Problems Unaware Inadequate instructions Usual suspects • Filtering policies • Insufficient support • Time Others? 29 Dr. John Thompson - FETC 2008 Watchwords for 2008 Convenience Collaboration Convergence • Source: T.H.E. Journal, 1/08 Community Creativity Cloud 30 Dr. John Thompson - FETC 2008 Coming Attractions Starbucks Effect Blurring of work & personal lives…& apps 9 to 5 >>> 24/7 Growing reliance on Internet – “cloud” 31 Dr. John Thompson - FETC 2008 What Next? Baby steps…one new app at a time “Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.” - James Baldwin 32 Dr. John Thompson - FETC 2008 Summary Loads of Web 2.0 apps for education Creates rich, engaging & exciting learning environment Users become information producers, not simply consumers Promotes student-centered learning Educators become more efficient 33 Dr. John Thompson - FETC 2008 Presenter John Thompson, PhD Associate Professor Coordinator, Educational Computing Program Computer Information Systems Department Chase 208 Buffalo State College 1300 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, NY 14222 716.878.3531 [email protected] NOTE: This PowerPoint presentation is found at http://www.slideshare.net/professor01/web-20-applicationsfor-educators 34 Dr. John Thompson - FETC 2008
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