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Shift Happens: Web 2.0 Applications for Higher Education

Shift Happens: Web 2.0 Applications for Higher Education. John Thompson, Ph.D. Buffalo State College. Presentation Agenda. Highlight Web 2.0 higher ed apps Free apps (mostly - at this point in time) Interactive presentation – during and after session – slideshare.net. What is “Web 2.0?”.

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Shift Happens: Web 2.0 Applications for Higher Education

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  1. Shift Happens: Web 2.0 Applications for Higher Education John Thompson, Ph.D. Buffalo State College

  2. Presentation Agenda • Highlight Web 2.0 higher ed apps • Free apps (mostly - at this point in time) • Interactive presentation – during and after session – slideshare.net Dr. John Thompson - SUNY 2008

  3. What is “Web 2.0?” • Web 1.0 • read-only medium • static Web – provide information • Web 2.0 • read-write Web • relies on user participation • information is transmitted and consumed with content being created, shared, remixed, repurposed, and passed along (Downes, 2005) Dr. John Thompson - SUNY 2008

  4. Web 2.0 in Higher Education • Increases user creativity and community while concurrently empowering user ownership of content • User-generated content leading to "collective intelligence" that benefits many • Collaborative in nature Dr. John Thompson - SUNY 2008

  5. Web 2.0 Videos • Tim O'Reilly on What is Web 2.0? • Web 2.0 • Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0 • Web 2.0 • Introducing Web 2.0 • Coming of Age: Primary Web 2.0 • Web 2.0 Panel Discussion - What is Web 2.0? • Co-Creating with Web 2.0 • What is Web 2.0? • The Machine is Us/ing Us Dr. John Thompson - SUNY 2008

  6. collaboration/participation/collective intelligence safety in numbers personal connections--from words, pictures, video, and audio transparent selves…transparent Web harnessing collective intelligence second generation of services “democratizes” media authentic, peer-to-peer channel of communication open, flexible collaboration collective power community participative Web Web as a platform Web changing from “medium” to “platform” collective judgments user actions provide value architecture of participation human-computer interaction interactive, community-based Internet applications the wisdom of crowds bookmarking >>> social bookmarking authentic, peer-to-peer channel of communication user-generated content amoral data and applications opened to creative use by the public creative amateur is cherished Dr. John Thompson - SUNY 2008

  7. Trying to define and categorize what “Web 2.0” means is like trying to change the tire on your car while it’s going down the highway. Dr. John Thompson - SUNY 2008

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  9. Sharing Photos Higher Education Uses Admissions – advertise campus Alumni reunions Portfolio School events Embed in blogs, PowerPoints, program Web sites Other uses? Library of Congress’ Flickr site Video – Online Photo Sharing in Plain English Dr. John Thompson - SUNY 2008

  10. Sharing Videos • Top 10 Video Sharing Sites from PC World • http://blip.tv/ • http://www.stage6.com/ • http://www.brightcove.com/ • http://www.revver.com/ • http://www.veoh.com/ • http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-us&tab=soapbox • http://www.youtube.com/ • http://www.vimeo.com/ • http://www.jumpcut.com/ • http://vids.myspace.com/ Jan. 2008 - 48% of online adults have visited video Web sites, according to a Pew Internet & American Life Project report. A year ago, it was 33% -- a 45% year-to-year growth. http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/232/report_display.asp List of video sharing sites - http://www.hybridsem.com/blog/2007/07/01/list-of-video-sharing-sites-and-impact-of-video-marketing/ Dr. John Thompson - SUNY 2008

  11. Sharing PowerPoints Synch uploaded video with your PowerPoint “free Web-based alternative to PowerPoint. Create & edit Flash presentations online. Send presentations via e-mail or publish on your Web site or blog” And even more sites! Dr. John Thompson - SUNY 2008

  12. Sharing Documents 24/7 anytime, anywhere access to projects or assignments – extends class time Dr. John Thompson - SUNY 2008

  13. Social Networks Dr. John Thompson - SUNY 2008

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  15. Get Ready for N-gens Source: http://www.grunwald.com/ (July 2007) Dr. John Thompson - SUNY 2008

  16. Blogs Audio blogs/conversations blogging engine created specifically for classroom use Dr. John Thompson - SUNY 2008

  17. Podcasts “Record your podcast via a toll-free call from any phone. Never even touch a computer!” Dr. John Thompson - SUNY 2008

  18. Collaboration Wiki – online software that lets users modify any content, plus everything (formatting included) about the wiki Social bookmarking – store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of Web sites using metadata & tagging wiki.com domain name sold for $2.86 million (8/06) Web Collaboration Software Dr. John Thompson - SUNY 2008

  19. Source: USA Today 2,340,000: number of articles on the English-language Wikipedia 120,000: number of articles on Encyclopedia Britannica Online http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/25/AR2008042500875.html (April 2008) Dr. John Thompson - SUNY 2008

  20. Education Online • Coursecast – podcast or videocast lecture (like a Tivo for courses) • Partial list of higher ed schools offering open source courseware and/or coursecasts: • Harvard • Carnegie Mellon • UC Berkeley • Duke • MIT • Notre Dame • Johns Hopkins Lecture-capture software for educational institutions - capture, edit, index, archive and stream video and audio over the Internet Free Online Education listing Dr. John Thompson - SUNY 2008

  21. Miscellaneous • Share graphics • Share bookmarks • Social browser • Calendar • Diagrams Explanatory video Dr. John Thompson - SUNY 2008

  22. Miscellaneous Video • Company ratings, reviews & salaries • Office productivity suite • RSS aggregators • Creating ePortfolios with Web 2.0 Tools ePortfolio Mash Up with GoogleApps Long list Dr. John Thompson - SUNY 2008

  23. Miscellaneous “online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) - and share them with anyone they wish. A VoiceThread allows group conversations to be collected and shared in one place, from anywhere in the world.” -- group audio blogging to enhance group communication and reflection “captures and shares images and video…from your computer to anywhere” “Enables users to express themselves on the web in their own voice using a talking character. Customize your Voki to look like you…Your Voki can speak with your own voice which is added via microphone, upload, or phone.” Dr. John Thompson - SUNY 2008

  24. Miscellaneous One-to-many live interactive video broadcast platform enabling anyone with a camera and an Internet connection to broadcast to a unlimited global audience. • Beyond just driving directions… • 100 Things to do Create surveys and polls for your Web site, blog and social network profiles. • Directory of Web 2.0 apps & services – • 1937 logos as of 1/19/08 • 2476 logos as of 6/11/08 Add notes or bullets to Web sites. Share these annotated pages with others. Dr. John Thompson - SUNY 2008

  25. Miscellaneous • “Designed for the need of researchers…scientists can interact, exchange knowledge and collaborate with researchers of different fields. • exchange know-how and expertise • initiate collaboration • discuss research & get feedback” Self-running slide show of over 1,400 Web 2.0 sites - categorized by tags and sorted alphabetically. Limited to 140 characters & spaces per post (or per "tweet"). E.g., remind students about assignments. Students authorize their cellphones from the Web site & subscribe to user's profile page. Dr. John Thompson - SUNY 2008

  26. Problems • Unaware • Inadequate instructions • Usual suspects • Mindset • Lack of imagination • Insufficient support • Time • Others? Dr. John Thompson - SUNY 2008

  27. Watchwords for 2008 • Convenience • Collaboration • Convergence • Source: T.H.E. Journal, 1/08 • Community • Creativity • Cloud Dr. John Thompson - SUNY 2008

  28. Coming Attractions • Starbucks Effect • Blurring of work & personal lives…& apps • 9 to 5 >>> 24/7 • Growing reliance on Internet – “cloud” Dr. John Thompson - SUNY 2008

  29. What Next? Baby steps…one new app at a time “Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”          - James Baldwin   Dr. John Thompson - SUNY 2008

  30. Summary • Loads of Web 2.0 apps for higher ed • Creates rich, engaging & exciting environment • User-centric • become information producers, not simply consumers • promotes user-centered learning • users become more efficient • “Roadmap must be created for turning the emerging technologies into productive tools for supporting the next-generation e-learning environment” (Allison, et al., 2008). Dr. John Thompson - SUNY 2008

  31. Presenter John Thompson, PhD Associate Professor Computer Information Systems Department Chase 208 Buffalo State College 1300 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, NY 14222 716.878.3531 thompsjt@buffalostate.edu NOTE: This PowerPoint presentation is found at http://www.slideshare.net Search “STC 2008” Dr. John Thompson - SUNY 2008

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