All the Tech News That’s Fit to Print Geek Report All the Tech News That’s Fit to Print Jim Gaston, Associate Director, SOCCCD IT
Overview Latest Trends What does it mean? Local Initiatives Web 2.0 Mashups Social Networking Sites What does it mean? Local Initiatives MySite 2.0 MAP New Student System
Web Sites My Blog: http://digitaledu.blogspot.com List of Example Sites: http://del.icio.us/jgaston/web2.0
Latest Trends - Web 2.0
Latest Trends – Web 2.0 Refers to a second generation of Internet based services Distinguishing Characteristics: Community and Collaboration – the “Participatory Web” Rich User Experience in Browser – AJAX
Web 2.0 Examples Wikipedia Craigslist Google Maps Writely Gmail Digg Technorati
Latest Trends - Mashups Allows people to combine the services of one or more web sites Most often used with Google Maps See ProgrammableWeb.com for a list Examples: WeatherBonk Wikimapia Zillow
Latest Trends - Social Networking Sites Any site that allows and encourages collaboration and communication within the community of users Examples: Flickr MySpace Youtube Wikipedia
What does it mean to us? How can we use this technology in an educational environment?
What’s Happening at SOCCCD? MySite 2.0 MAP (My Academic Plan) New Student System