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Enhancing Education with Web 2.0: Strategies for Effective Online Learning

This comprehensive presentation explores the transformation of online learning through Web 2.0 technologies. It discusses the importance of interactive websites, effective content design, and the need for continuous updates to enhance student learning experiences. Attendees will learn about the Invisible Web, institutional repositories, and the role of user-generated content in educational settings. The presentation includes examples of successful educational websites, insights into creating quality online courses, and strategies to engage digital natives with innovative teaching methods.

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Enhancing Education with Web 2.0: Strategies for Effective Online Learning

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  1. Website by Committee Rob Darrow NYSAIS Conference November 2006

  2. On the Web. • Search the Web Webquest • Search the Web Webquest • Handout.

  3. Group developments Amazon : plan to sell on book chapters Institutional repositories : easy access to research Invisible Web – scholarly databases Individual efforts =Web 2.0 Wikis Blogs Podcasts Etc. No longer just Google

  4. What makes a good website? • Effective websites – let’s look at some and apply a standard. • Handout: Big6 format.  • Look at some examples.

  5. Planning a Website  • The Structure • Will it be – static or dynamic? • The Design • The Content “A website is like a baby, it needs to be changed often”

  6. Websites I’ve set up by committee  • California School Library Association – www.csla.net • Cal Online Virtual High School – www.cusd.com/calonline • Teaching American History Grant – www.cusd.com/calonline/tah

  7. What I’ve Learned • It’s all about design! • Once design, structure is set – then add the content. • Many people can contribute content. • Hire “editors” – content review. • Final Editor – One or two people with the overall vision of the website – final content review. • Some re-editing may be needed. • Anyone can transfer the content to the Web.

  8. Online or Web Enhanced Classrooms • Support learning of students • Meet student learning in the digital age • Will increase over time • Courses need to be somewhat linear – designed like an overall website

  9. Web Based(80% instruction taught on web) Web Enhanced (Use of web for some instruction) What makes a quality online course? Multidimensional Instruction and Learning One Dimensional Instruction and Learning

  10. Online Course Examples • World History Online • www.cusd.com/calonline

  11. Fresno County Teaching American History Grant • Online content based on 5th, 8th and 11th grade American history content standards • www.cusd.com/calonline/tah

  12. Do you know about theInvisible (or deep) Web? • Mostly university databases. • Can only access by “direct query” not via Google. • 300-500 times larger than the commercial Web • The Deep Web contains nearly 550 billion individual documents compared to the one billion of the surface Web. • More than 200,000 Deep Web sites presently exist. Michael Bergman, Bright Planet, July 2001

  13. Explore Time - Invisible Web • On the Wiki

  14. Web 2.0 and the future • It is now “web by committee” and “individuals” • “An attitude not a technology” (I.Davis) • About user participation, user generated content, participation, remixing and tagging • This can be the age of the amateurs!

  15. Web 2.0 and libraries • Growth in open access and open content material • Increased virtual usage and via Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) • Reference services are becoming more virtual as users want instant answers • Time-shifting, to suit the users and their learning styles

  16. The “new” Web 2.0 and Information Literacy • Engage the Digital Natives - meeting them where they are • Web 2.0 is interactive - sites need to be interactive and materials more visual and active, e.g. games • New opportunities to use deep and active learning methods and peer-based learning • Need to teach how easily information can be created • More emphasis needed on teaching evaluation and ethics

  17. Explore Time Web 2.0 • On the Wiki. • http://go2web20.net/

  18. With Wikis and Blogs • Everyone now has their own website. • Design and structure is set in blogs and wikis • Wikipedia • Library Instruction Wiki • http://instructionwiki.org/Main_Page • Teacher-librarian wiki • http://teacherlibrarianwiki.pbwiki.com/ • Information Literacy Blog • http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/ • Blogs, Vogs and Wiki Website • http://www.suelebeau.com/blogs.htm • Association of College and Research Librarians Blog • http://www.acrlblog.org/

  19. Explore Some Wiki ideas • Bernie Dodge’s Design Patterns for EduWikis • Dan McDowell’s History Examples • Holocaust Wiki Project • AP World History Exam Review • Class study tool, vocabulary building • Wikibooks (evolution of the textbook with greater relevance?)

  20. Podcasts • No. of hits on Google for “podcasts” Sept. 28 2004 - 24 May 25 2005 - 4,460,000 Sept.18 2005 - 60,000,000 June 20 2006 - 362,000,000

  21. Podcasts – Opportunities • Education Podcast Network (David Warlick) - the ultimate. • Room 208 Bob Sprankle • Book reviews—Nancy Keane’s Booktalks

  22. Comments and Questions

  23. The Future Web and You • How does Web 2.0 fit with your school?

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