1. Student Toolkit: Leveraging Web 2.0 Applications
Presenters
Kevin O’Shea
Teaching and Learning Technologies
Instructional Development Center

2. Educational Technologist
Who Am I?
Kevin O’Shea
Educational Technologist
Dec Grad of Purdue

3. Overview What is the toolkit? What are students using?
What are our peers using it for?
How can we use it?

4. Open source Google RSS Peer-to-peer GTD Wiki
What is the Student Toolkit?
User-generated content
feeds
Peer-to-peer
Web Standards
Open source
GTD
RSS
Blogging
Google
social networking
Wiki

5. Characteristics of Web 2.0
Using the Web as a Platform
Zoho, Google Docs
Simplicity
Open Source
Reuse allowed and encouraged (CC)
User Generated Content
YouTube, Blogs, Wikis
Categorized and Efficient
Tagging, Social Bookmarking, Cross-linking
Cross-platform/device Compatibility
Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone

6. Why Does It Matter?
According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project (Lenhardt & Madden 2007) more than 60% of teens have created online media content, and more than 75% of those teens have shared the content they have produced. This in turn has fueled the online revolution of participation and collaboration.

7. What are they using? Blogging + RSS Wikis Web Applications
Powerful communication and publishing tools
Wikis
Online writing space allowing user to add and modify its pages.
Web Applications
Office Suites, News Aggregators, etc…
Social Networks

8. RSS & Information

9. Online Applications
Movement away from Desktop application reliance.
Platform independent.
Mobile device compatibility.
Open source.
Online collaboration

10. How are they keeping track of it all?
Netvibes
iGoogle
MyYahoo
Bloglines
Pageflakes

11. What Applications Are They Using?
Office Applications
Zoho
Google Docs
Office Live
Presentation Applications
TeacherTube
SlideShare
Qik
Task Management (GTD)
Remember the Milk

13. Technology Mash ups Google Lit Trips Campus Explorer iPhone/iPod Touch
Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place.
Campus Explorer
Uses Wikipedia, Google Maps, Yahoo! Answers, and Flickr to give advice & information of over 6,000 schools. You can filter your searches by 4-year, 2-year programs, or Career colleges.
iPhone/iPod Touch
Location based/aware software.

14. Communication Microblogs Twitter – The Classic 140 character MB
Brightkite – Location aware MB
Jaiku – Mashup of Location, RSS, MB
Tumblr – Quick Pictures, Video, Quotes, etc…
Pownce – MB plus file linking/sharing

15. Communication Online Chat Meebo – AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, Google Talk
Google Talk – Web based through Gmail + VOIP
Facebook Chat – Web based chat through FB
TokBox – Web based Video Chat
Skype – VOIP + Chat and File sharing

16. Facebook: The 800lb Gorilla/Guerilla

17. Facebook: The 800lb Gorilla/Guerilla
Wikimono
Blog It
Zoho Online Office
Notecentric
FlashCards
JSTOR Search
Swap Roll
SlideShare
Twitter

18. Questions?