1. Geek Report: Web 2.0 Jim Gaston, Associate Director, SOCCCD IT

2. Overview Web 1.0 –How it all started Web 2.0 –How it is used today What’s next? What does it mean to us?

3. Web Sites http://del.icio.us/jgaston/web2.0 http://digitaledu.blogspot.com

4. The Internet Started as the Arpanet in 1969 Services –Email (1972) –FTP (1973) –Usenet (1979) –Listserv (1981) –Archie (1989) –Gopher (1991) –Veronica (1992)

5. Web 1.0 In 1989 he invented –HTTP –HTML In 1990 he changed the world Timothy Berners-Lee

6. What is Web 2.0? It is not a new version of the web, but a new and exciting way the web is being used. Web 2.0 provides a richer user experience using AJAX Web 2.0 sites emphasize collaboration and a community of people produce the content Web 2.0 is much more about the process than the technology

7. Web 1.0 vs 2.0 CharacteristicWeb 1.0Web 2.0 Delivery Mechanism User Experience Information Delivery Content Creation Information Flow Data Organization Page Text Producer Unidirectional Search Engines Microcontent Video/Graphics Participatory Bidirectional Folksonomy StaticDynamic

8. Web 2.0 Examples Social Bookmarking –Del.icio.us –Spurl.com –Furl.com Wikis –Wikipedia.org –Wikinews.org Image/Video Sharing –YouTube.com –Flickr.com Social Networking –Myspace.com –Facebook.com –Orkut.com –Twitter.com –Dodgeball.com –Elgg.net Blogs –Blogger.com –Wordpress.com

9. Web 2.0 Changing our culture Making leadership more accountable Changing the way information is gathered and distributed Changing the way people interact and form communities

10. Web 2.0 Demo Google Earth and Wikipedia

11. What’s Next? Exponential trends are predictable His predictions –Radical changes in biotechnology –Language translation in cell phones –Computers will disappear –Rise of true artificial intelligence Computer will pass the Turing Test by the 2020s –The boundary between physical and virtual reality will disappear Neural implants Nanobots and foglets

12. What Does it Mean to Us? When the world around us is changing, shouldn’t we stop to ask ourselves if we can afford to keep doing our jobs the same way we always have?

13. Administrative MySite 2.0 MAP New SIS Video Tutorials

14. Learning 2.0 How do we leverage the capabilities of Web 2.0 in the classroom? What would Learning 2.0 look like? –Collaboration and Community –Less Centralized Information –Self-discovery (within sound pedagogical guidelines) –Emphasis on critical thinking skills –Immersion and Engagement

15. Learning 2.0 Examples Student Collaboration –Blogs & Wikis –NoteMesh & Stu.dicio.us Shared Curriculum –Curriki.org –MIT OpenCourseWare –Open Courseware Consortium Podcasting –Edupodder.com & Epnweb.org Folksonomy –Penntags – University of Pennsylvania –H20 - Harvard

16. Virtual Simulations University of Indiana –Synthetic World Initiative (SWI) –Arden University of North Carolina, Greensboro –ECON 201 Carnegie Mellon University –Peacemaker Harvard Law, Stanford, SDSU, UC Davis, NMC –Second Life

17. Virtual Simulations Second Life Demonstration