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Student Toolkit: Leveraging Web 2.0 Applications

Explore the Student Toolkit to discover how students are using Web 2.0 applications for peer-to-peer collaboration, user-generated content, blogging, social networking, and more. Learn how you can use these tools in your educational journey.

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Student Toolkit: Leveraging Web 2.0 Applications

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

  2. Who Am I? Kevin O’Shea Educational Technologist Dec. 2007 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. 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 • 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 • http://www.netvibes.com • iGoogle • http://www.google.com/ig • MyYahoo • http://my.yahoo.com • Bloglines • http://www.bloglines.com • Pageflakes • http://www.pageflakes.com

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

  12. Technology Mash ups • Google Lit Trips • 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.

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. Facebook: The 800lb Gorilla/Guerilla http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/12/facebook-is-not-only-the-worlds-largest-social-network-it-is-also-the-fastest-growing/

  16. Facebook: The 800lb Gorilla/Guerilla • Wikimono • Blog It • Zoho Online Office • Notecentric • FlashCards • JSTOR Search • Swap Roll • SlideShare • Twitter http://www.didactalab.de/wp-main/?p=66

  17. Questions? koshea@purdue.edu http://fit.itap.purdue.edu

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