Web 2.0 and Project Citizen: What’s Possible? Ben Bohmfalk Colorado 3 rd District Coordinator Roaring Fork High School Teacher Carbondale, CO

What is “Web 2.0”? Wikipedia definition: web development and web design that facilitates – interactive information sharing, – user-centered design, and – collaboration on the World Wide Web. “ Editable web, not just by the writer but also the reader. A Web 2.0 site allows its users to interact with other users or to change website content.

Wikimedia Commons

When the student creates new content for the Web, he is using Web 2.0 Web 1.0 approachWeb 2.0 approach YouTubeWatchCreate and comment BlogsReadMicro-Blog and comment WikisResearchAdd content and create DocumentsAttachCollaborate in cloud

Why use Web 2.0 with Project Citizen? Real politics – Obama campaign – Iran, Egypt, India, Myanmar Writing with purpose – WIRED articlearticle Student engagement Prospect of real change Collaboration "I think we're in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven't seen since Greek civilization," Andrea Lunsford, Stanford University.

Communicate with members of a pre-existing group Expand network, gain supporters Publicize a cause Organize and publicize an event

‘It took our campaign six months to get 139,000 people on an list. It took one Facebook group a month to get 200,000. That's astronomical.”’ – Washington Post Washington Post Perhaps today’s politics largely exists as many small issues…which can’t really be dealt with in a monolithical manner by marching the streets with banners. Jill Walker Rettberg, an associate professor at the University of Bergen, Norway

FeaturesLimitationsPossibilities Search by content Phone friendly Open 140 characters Difficult to archive Difficult to gain large following All real-time Follow experts Tweet updates on action plan

Wikis Wiki=fast in Hawaiian Web design that is Simple Collaborative Web-based Examples: Google sites Student Teacher Class Wikispaces.com PC Institute

Alerts Docs video Create and share your online document Get updates on the topics of your choice Groups Create mailing lists and discussion groups Sites Create websites and secure group wikis

Started in Sept Built for use in the classroom Built with the privacy of students in mind Free Assignments Calendar Potential for Project Citizen: Discuss Public Policy articles Deliberate which Problem to address Share links to Alternative Policies Discuss Proposed Policy Share links and docs AboutFeatures

Video responses:responses Open conversation about issues Potential with Project Citizen: Post video of a problem, respond with alternative solutions Post solutions, viewers vote for best policy Post proposed policy, gain support, direct viewers to website

Moodle is a course management system designed to help educators who want to create quality online courses.

Where does it all fit in? 1.Problem Blogs, Twitter, YouTube, Edmodo 2.Alternative Policies Blogs, Edmodo 3.Our Policy Edmodo (polls) 4.Action PlanAction Plan YouTube, Wiki, Blogs, Facebook 5.Overall organization and collaboration:organization Wikis, Google Docs, Edmodo, Ning, Moodle

Web 2.0 and Project Citizen: What’s Possible? Ben Bohmfalk Colorado 3 rd District Coordinator Roaring Fork High School Teacher Carbondale, CO