1. 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

2. 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

3. Web Sites My Blog: http://digitaledu.blogspot.com
List of Example Sites:

4. Latest Trends - Web 2.0

5. 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

6. Web 2.0 Examples Wikipedia Craigslist Google Maps Writely Gmail Digg
Technorati

7. 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

8. Latest Trends - Social Networking Sites
Any site that allows and encourages collaboration and communication within the community of users
Examples:
Flickr
MySpace
Youtube
Wikipedia

9. What does it mean to us?
How can we use this technology in an educational environment?

10. What’s Happening at SOCCCD?
MySite 2.0
MAP (My Academic Plan)
New Student System