Web 2.0 and the Gateway to 21 st Century Skills

What is Web 2.0? Some technology experts, notably Tim Berners-Lee, have questioned whether one can use the term in a meaningful way, since many of the technology components of "Web 2.0" have existed since the early days of the Web.Tim Berners-Lee

For Gateway purposes Web 2.0 is a term describing the trend in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to enhance creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users.World Wide Webweb design creativity –From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia –

World Wide WebWorld Wide Web technology With a Web browser, a user views Web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigates between them using hyperlinks.Web browserWeb pagestextimages videosmultimediahyperlinks –From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia –

Web Designb Design The intent of web design is to create a web site (a collection of electronic files residing on one or more web servers) that presents content (including interactive features or interfaces) to the end user in the form of web pages. web siteweb serverscontentend userweb pages

Gateway content is metadatacontent Metadata ( information about or describing other information) –For the Gateway this metadata is about educational resources –Almost 49,000 resources cataloged –NASA –PBS –National Science Foundation –Smithsonian –Over 700 contributors

Gateway content is metadatacontent Using GEM controlled vocabularies to describe learning resources –Terms useful to educators –Terms useful in learning management systems

Gateway content is metadatacontent Using “Web 2.0 friendly” RDF/XML file format Allows Web 2.0 activity by applications and humans –Faceted searches –Data exchange between applications –Interactive features –Annotations

Gateway Web 2.0 collaboration features Sharing discoveries – a link to a resource record to yourself or to others –Print from within a resource record To file Hard copy –Use metadata to populate useful applications Calendars Learning management systems Web 2.0 sites like Digg

Gateway Web 2.0 collaboration features Annotations –Make comments about learning resources that you find –For yourself and to share with others –Make ratings –Add an assessment of the quality of a resource as part of a resource record

Using Gateway Web 2.0 Features

Print hard copy for your records

Print to file for local storage

PDF of lesson metadata

Creating Annotations

–Comments How have you used a resource How does it correlate to your academic standards How have you modified it to suit your needs or your student’s –Assessments as a rating for resources –One to five stars based on defined characteristics of the assessment rubric

Adding an Assessment Annotation

Populate Useful Web 2.0 Applications

Creating a lesson calendar and personal portfolio –Using Gateway metadata –Google Calendar (as an example)

Using the Gateway with Other Web 2.0 Applications

Clicking to Digg

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