Web 2.0: Imagine the Possibilities Presented by Gayla S. Keesee May, 2007

Knowledge is specific content Learners are empty vessels to be filled with knowledge

Knowledge is created Learning is a collaborative social endeavor

A Paradigm Shift

Horizon Report 2007 Key trends affecting higher education—next 5 years  One year or less Social Networking User-Created Content  Two-Three Years Mobile Phones Virtual Worlds  Four-Five Years New Scholarship and Emerging Forms of Publication Massively Multiplayer Educational Gaming

Tools for Collaboration Social Networks  Facebook, MySpace  Flickr  YouTube Blogs Wiki’s Podcasts

Social Software Social Networking  Keeping contacts online through web interfaces Social Calendaring  Shared agendas for events arrangements and meetings planning Social Bookmarking  storing, describing, and sharing bookmarks (del.icio.us)del.icio.us Social Tagging  Unintentional, collective effort of categorizing the Web, with added social significance (Folksonomies)Folksonomies

Social Networks: Connect Users into Communities of Trust (or interests)

Flickr social network for sharing photos

You-Tube social network for sharing videos

Blogging: Most Recognized Example

What are Blogs? Web + Logs = Blogs Web Pages  Automated updating  Reverse chronological postings  May accommodate responses Internet-specific phenomenon Incomplete index of blogs 

Blogging in Education

Limited Only by Your Imagination Instructors  Content-related blog as professional practice  Networking and personal knowledge sharing  Instructional tips for students  Course announcements and readings  Annotated links Students  Reflective or writing journals  Assignment submission and review  Dialogue for groupwork  E-portfolios  Share course-related resources

Sample Educational Blogs Online Research Blog  eCornell Research Blog eCornell Research Blog Info-Commons Blog  commons-blog commons-blog Educational Bloggers Network  EBN blog EBN blog Science Blog  Science Blog Science Blog

Wiki’s: The ultimate collaboration tool  Special web site  allows visitors to add, remove, edit & change content  Not need access to or knowledge of web publishing software  Collaboration  Group members work on common document in common location

Wikipedia: Collaborative Dictionary Being Edited in Real Time by Anyone

Wiki’s in Higher Ed Econ 482: Stephen Greenlaw Advanced Artificial Intelligence: Sean Luke Advanced Artificial Intelligence: Sean Luke Harvard Law School Eckerd College

Podcasting Pod (iPod) + broadcast = Podcast Differs from streaming audio  Automatically delivered to player – don't have to click on a link to download  Listen when you want – not when a program is scheduled

How Does Podcasting Work?

Why is podcasting appealing for learning and teaching? Appeals to the digital natives Easy and low cost to create and distribute Caters to different learning styles

Advantages Students  Review lectures before exams  Listen in on classes they've missed  Replay at own convenience  Non-native speakers replay to increase comprehension Instructors  Listen to own lectures to improve presentations

Learning & Teaching Applications Interviews with experts Oral history projects Quotes from recorded speeches Answers to posted questions Guest speakers / lecture series Student submissions /portfolios / placement logs

Issues to be aware of… Not all students have iPods (about 60% do)  20% of podcasts actually downloaded onto portable media players Will students still come to lectures? Public access to audio files is necessary (no access control) Cannot search or scan podcast content Podcasts can lend themselves to passive, prescriptive teaching

Universities Podcasting iTunes U (  Duke University  University of Illinois  Stanford  UC Berkley Purdue University University of Washington

Over 200 Web 2.0 Sites in 41 Categories Rated, Ranked and Awarded 15 Interviews with Founders of Winning Sites The creators of the winning sites share their insight and approach, including technology, funding and methods for attracting traffic.

Horizon Project Collaborative global project between classrooms in diverse geographical locations  Camilla, GA (10th grade)  Vienna, Austria (11th grade)  Dhaka, Bangladesh (11th grade)  Melbourne, Australia (11th grade)  Shanghai, China (Media Literary)