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Intro to ISTC 605/705. Department of Educational Technology & Literacy. Course Objectives. Identify the broader societal and cultural issues, ideas, and trends surrounding Web 2.0 technologies Understand the current impact of Web 2.0 technologies within the field of educational technology
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Intro to ISTC 605/705 Department of Educational Technology & Literacy
Course Objectives • Identify the broader societal and cultural issues, ideas, and trends surrounding Web 2.0 technologies • Understand the current impact of Web 2.0 technologies within the field of educational technology • Select appropriate Web 2.0 technologies for use in instructionally appropriate settings • Describe the technological underpinnings of a variety of Web 2.0 technologies • Manipulate/configure/customize Web 2.0 technologies using scripting and markup languages such as HTML, CSS, XML, • Create an online learning environment using a variety of customized Web 2.0 technologies
Course Strategies • Readings and discussion • Web 2.0 Exploratorium presentations • Hands-on lab sessions (HTML, CSS, XML) • Final project: create a customized Web 2.0 learning environment
Course Texts (approx. 410 pages read)
Topics • What’s 2.0 about Web 2.0? • Instructional Design • Models for tech integration • Social learning • Learning management • Informal learning + social identity • Policy and ethical considerations • Getting under the hood: HTML, RSS, XML
“A new paradigm” (Lankshear & Knobel, 2007) • One-way (transmission) vs. two-way (interaction) • Top-down design vs. user design • Formal vs. informal • Individual vs. collaborative • “learning about” vs. “learning to be” • “applications” vs. “ethos” Participatory culture (Jenkins, 2006)
Technologies • Blogs • Wordpress • Blogger • Social bookmarking • Diigo • Social networking • Twitter • Edmodo • Learning management • Blackboard • Coding languages • HTML • CSS • XML • Wikis • Wikispaces • Virtual environments • Google Earth • Second Life • Visual representation • Prezi • Wordle • Bubbl.us • Multimedia • Voicethread • GoAnimate • Animoto
What is Web 2.0? • Collaboratively create a concept web around the center node: Web 2.0 • Include anything you can think of that you currently relate to the concept Web 2.0
What is Web 2.0, take 2 • Using bubbl.us, create your own, individual concept web around the central node (idea), Web 2.0 http://bubbl.us/ • Include anything and everything you can think of that relates to Web 2.0
Post on WordPress: • How has your understanding of Web 2.0 changed over the semester? • Name and discuss at least one idea, topic, video, reading, discussion, etc. that played a role in changing your thinking. • What concept or idea from the semester has stuck with you the most?