What is Web 2.0?
- Term Coined by Tim O'Reilly in 2004
- Wikipedia Discussion of Web 2.0
- What is RSS? - at the core of many Web 2.0 applications is RSS dissemination
Web 2.0 in Education
- Engaging and interacting with the learner, among learners, and with the larger online community
- Interaction and Community - Research - Karen Swan
- Marc Prensky sets the stage in 2001 seminal article - Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants
- John Thompson writes Is Education 1.0 Ready for Web 2.0 Students?
- Hundreds of applications that are emerging, evolving, and expanding
- The big three: Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts
Blogs
- weB + LOG = Blog
- New blog created every second
- Many students arrive on campus having already blogged themselves - certainly have read blogs
- I began to use blogs to deliver readings (for critiques) to my students... and now I reach a much, much larger audience - a model that you can adapt to your discipline and situation
- http://blogger.com is the most popular editor (owned by Google), simple to maintain, hosted, with comment management and multiple author blogging
Online Learning Update Blog
- Began in 2001 - now nearly 7,000 postings later.....
- Search in Google for the term online learning (#2)
- Where are the people who visit the blog - in the last day (mashup - another Web 2,0 example)
- But even more people visit via RSS (another definition of RSS)
- FeedBurner - free service that provides formatted RSS 2.0 and other services
- Last 25 hits on the RSS feed for OLU (this link will only work for the owner of the feed)
- Last 30 days of the RSS feed - hits and most popular items (link only for the owner of the feed)
- Email subscriptions to the RSS feed - to receive email notification (link only for the owner of the feed)
- Other colleges and universities that re-publish the syndicated blog (and widget example)
Educational Technology Blog
Techno-News Blog
- How blogs are integrated into course management system (link only for the owner of the feed)
Blogs in Education
- Blog of Blogs in Higher Ed
- Journal blogs, filter blogs, critique blogs, creative writing blogs, and many more
Wikis
- Definition of Wiki from the biggest of them all! Wikipedia
- Once again - RSS is key to disseminating upates
- By the way... Citzendium is a vetted / edited version of Wikipedia with credentialed editors
- Wikis in Higher Education
- PbWiki is an example of a free wiki editor/host
- WikiSpaces is another free wiki editor/host
- Find just the right wiki for you - wikimatrix !
- Though not officially a wiki, Google Documents and Spreadsheets provides a most useful Web 2.0 higher ed collaborative workspace
Podcastsing
- Podcasting - while derived from iPods - does NOT require an iPod at all!
- Began as audio (and video) blogging - with associated RSS feed
- iTunes U - hundreds of colleges and universities participate - students across the country have demanded that lectures are podcast - premise that it is better way to convey information
- Enhanced podcasts include graphics, video, and chapters - ToolFactory and ProfCast provide easy editing and production
- Vodcasts and Vlogging are video podcasts and blogs
A Hundred More Web 2.0 Applications for Higher Education
- Wiki with scores of Web 2.0 Applications
- Judy Brown's Web 2.0 for Education Site
- Worth a mention of its own Ellumiante Vroom demos
- Ajax = Asynchronous JavaScript and XML - coined first in 2005
- 100 top Ajax applications
- Just for fun (and perhaps more serious applications) - talking avatar from SitePal
Where to Next? Views of the Future
- Tim Berners-Lee (father of the Web - creator of HTML) discusses Web 3.0 the "semantic" web
- Virtual Worlds Review - reviews of some three dozen online virtual worlds
- Second Life - a virtual 3-D learning environment
- Educational Institutions with Open Locations on Second Life
- Top 20 Educational Locations in Second Life - wiki
- Ohio University Island - youtube video
- New Media Consortium SL - youtube video
(note: this page created with Google Page Creator - another Web 2.0 application)