Web 2.0 and its impact on teaching and learning

1. Web 2.0 and its impact on teaching and learning Wikis Twitter Facebook Blogs Podcasts ……. Session 13 AC230 CL 201B

2. Outline • What is Web 2.0? • Blogs • Wiki s • Twitter • Virtual Worlds • Some practice • Catch up with project/assignment

3. >> Web 2.0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web20

4. Lets Watch • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g

5. What is Web 2.0 • Can be considered as a set of principles and practices with which the web is utilized now. • Aplatform for collaboration and social networking. • Encourages participation and engagement, • Provides rich user experiences. • Use of the Internet as a two-way medium

6. “…the philosophy of mutually maximizing collective intelligence and added value for each participant by formalized and dynamic information sharing and creation.” Högg, R. Meckel, M., Stanoevska-Slabeva, K., Martignoni, R., 2006. Overview of business models for Web 1.0 communities. Proceedings of GeNeMe, p.23-37. Web 2.0

7. Web 2.0 • Open source content and applications • Sites that get their value from their users • Blogs/Microblogs • Wikis • Social Networking/Bookmarking Sites • RSS Feeds • Podcasting

8. What is Web 2.0 about? • Creativity • Usability • Openness • Collaboration

10. Open Source Content and Applications • Anyone can be a publisher • All open source material is free • Relies on a community that encourages reusing materials • Tools for commentary/free expression-text, audio, video • Supports social networking

11. Web 2.0 (now) Static web pages, not updated  often  Only authorized people can  create content.  Most users consume the content Users use web for information. Computer applications are locally installed and can only be accessed locally. Users go to web pages to see or download content. Table of content, site map are used for content organization. Some proprietary, some open source. Dynamic web pages, updated constantly  Everyone can create content. Users consume and create content. So it is also called read‐write‐web.   Web resources are in multimedia format Computer applications are web‐based and can be accessed from anywhere that has internet connection. Users can subscribe to web content using RSS feed. The updates will be automatically sent to the users’ aggregators. Folksonomy, tagging are used for content organization. More open source. Web 1.0 (10 years ago)

12. E-learning tools for education • http://www.mindomo.com/view?m=48511abbfb7e4145a33dbe6453d0f8af • http://www.go2web20.net/#tag:e-learning • Social Mathematics: http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/math+social+objects

13. What does Web 2.0 have to do with teaching andlearning? • Provides more opportunities for student‐centered instruction  • Enables greater participation of students in the learning process.   • Forces educators to rethink the way they teach  • Challenges the status quo.  

14. Internet by Numbers in 2010 • http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/01/12/internet-2010-in-numbers/

15. Some Terminologies • RSS:  Real Simple Syndication.  It is a technology used to distribute headlines, article titles, podcasting episodes, etc. on the internet.  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU&feature=channel

16. Blogs • a shorthand term that means “Web log” • an online, chronological collection of personal commentary and links. • has evolved from its origins as a medium for the online publication of personal diaries to a respected vehicle for editorials on specific topics.

17. Blogs are one of the most representative tools of Web 2.0. They offer flexibility, adaptability, and integration with other tools. Blogs in Plain English http://commoncraft.com/blogs Use of blogs

18. Why to blog? • Engage people in knowledge sharing, reflection, and debate, they often attract a large and dedicated readership. • Provide authors and readers with an avenue for unedited expression, reaction, and connection, without the censorship of mediated chat rooms or formal media outlets. • An ideal venue for far-reaching discussions among the Internet community on new or timely topics. • Foster the growth of communities, and the dynamics of collaborative filtering and recommending/referring may provide new ways to evaluate, vet, and critique student-created knowledge. http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7006.pdf

19. Blogs support:knowledge building reflectionmonitoringsharingarchiving Possibilities of Web 2.0 tools Blogs in education

20. designing, planning, producing Bloom’s Taxonomy experimenting, monitoring organising, attributing, integrating implementing, executing summarising, inferring, paraphrasing recognising, identifying, retrieving

21. Using blogs in the classroom To share opinions and learning. To see knowledge as interconnected. To facilitates reflection and evaluation. To promote creative writing. To develop a digital portfolio. To teach responsible public writing. http://anne.teachesme.com/2007/01/17/rationale-for-educational-blogging(Davis 2007)

22. … teachers to provide feedback and to monitor students’ performance more effectively. Blogs facilitate… … self-assessment and continued assessment. … personal reflection. … tracking all the process (by students themselves and by teachers).

23. Implications for Teaching and Learning • Can be used for reflection about classes, careers, current events; • Can also capture and disseminate student- and faculty-generated content. • Offer students, faculty, staff, and others a high level of autonomy while creating a new opportunity for interaction with peers. • Provide a forum for discussion that goes beyond coursework to include culture, politics, and other areas of personal exploration. • Offer another mechanism for peer-to-peer knowledge sharing and acquisition.

24. Example Blogs • http://century21teacher.blogspot.com/ • How to find blogs to read? • http://technorati.com/ • http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1999770,00.html • http://bloggerschoiceawards.com/

25. Wikis • http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Main_Page

26. Wikis • www.pbwiki.com • www.wikispaces.com • www.wetpaint.com • www.wikipedia.com

27. Wiki • A free online writing space that is created and edited by multiple authors • Encourages collaboration • Student interaction • Easy-to-use interface for creating Web pages • No software - all you need is Web-based • Public or private, and you can invite participants

28. What can you do with a Wiki? • Build a classroom/school newspaper online • Publish student projects and research • Manage documents • Use as a presentation tool • Debate course topics, assigned readings • Design a student-created “Solutions Manual” • Support service learning projects (build a website about a challenge in your city)

29. Wikishttp://whsbulldogs.wikispaces.com

30. http://mehs-slockuk.wikispaces.com/Friends

31. http://rdsc.wikispaces.com/Economics Http://fpdm.wikispaces.com/FP+cookbook Wikis

32. Social Bookmarking • Web based service where shared lists of user created Internet bookmarks are displayed. Allows user to locate, classify, rank, and share Internet resources by tagging sites. • Diigo.com • Del.icio.us http://handouts.wesfryer.com/ohio

33. Social Bookmarking • Practice of saving bookmarks to a public Web site and “tagging” them with keywords. • Saves links to web pages • Web based so your bookmarks are available anywhere-not just on one computer in the favorites • Share web page links with others • Create “networks” of people with like interests and bookmarks • Organize your web pages with tags • Organizing information and categorizing resources

34. Social Bookmarking • Users create “clouds” of tags to easily locate resources http://www.diigo.com/list/eflclassroom/web-20

35. http://www.slideshare.net/lwright3768/

36. www.slideshare.net

37. Digital Video www.zamzar.com

38. Don’t prepare us for your world, prepare us for our world. • Take advantage of the Internet for education. • The more proficient you are in Web 2.0 technologies, the more innovative you can be in using them. • Use Web 2.0 tools to build digital literacy in your students, to encourage participation, to communicate more effectively, to provide learning whatever, whenever, and wherever. • By providing authentic learning experiences, and opportunities beyond the classroom, you will be preparing your students to be successful in the real world.

39. Twitter • Microblogging • Maximum 140 characters • https://docs.google.com/present/view?pli=1&id=dhn2vcv5_118cfb8msf8

40. Virtual Worlds • Mostly 3D online environments • Users are represented with avatars • Real time interaction • Immersive • Social learning Social Virtual Worlds i.e. Second Life Gaming Virtual Worlds i.e. World of Warcraft