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Web 2.0 Applications & Legal education

Web 2.0 Applications & Legal education. Barbara Ginzburg & Jewel Makda. What exactly is Web 2.0 ?. "Web 2.0" - born in 2004 at a brainstorming conference session between O'Reilly and MediaLive International. Web 2.0 is: The Web as a platform

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Web 2.0 Applications & Legal education

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  1. Web 2.0 Applications & Legal education Barbara Ginzburg & Jewel Makda

  2. What exactly is Web 2.0 ? • "Web 2.0" - born in 2004 at a brainstorming conference session between O'Reilly and MediaLive International. • Web 2.0 is: • The Web as a platform • Web-based services emphasizing collaboration & sharing (collective intelligence) • Read/write service - anyone can publish & users control content  • Software that gets better the more people use it.  • No download required by most, the Web is your access.

  3. Thinking about Web 2.0

  4. Time Magazine’s Dec 2006 Issue “Who is the Person of the Year? Yes, you. You control the Information Age. Welcome to your world." “We the media – we decide what’s important”

  5. AJAX Asynchronous JavaScript & XML. Many Web 2.o sites use AJAX. A technique for creating interactive web applications. Uses XHTML and client-side scripting allowing a page to update asynchronously without requiring a page refresh. Increases interactivity, speed, and usability. We’re not talking about the abrasive cleaning product.

  6. Categories of Web 2.0 Applications

  7. Yes No Are you currently using Web 2.0 applications to create?

  8. Do you use Web 2.0 as a consumer? Yes No

  9. Which would you use? Wiki Google Apps or other Desktop application Blog Virtual World Combination Other You are teaching an advanced legal research class online. You have assigned pairs of students to create annotated bibliographies. You have also asked them to keep a log of where they looked for materials and how they found the items.

  10. Wiki:a website that lets visitors add, remove, and edit content

  11. Wikis in Law/Legal Education • Washburn Business Law Research course • Civil Law Dictionary (Louisiana State University) • Wex,  Cornell Legal Information Institute • Wikilaw-Meta Proposed by WikiMedia law students, law faculty and practicing attorneys create a page of legal documents, legal research, and explanations of basic legal concepts. • JurispediaEncyclopædic project of academic initiative devoted to worldwide law, legal and political sciences. • Wikiocracy : What if everyone could write the laws?

  12. Wikis

  13. The Wiki vs. The Blog Wikis Blogs • Focus on “creation” • Captures process of writing • Open to collaboration • Content changes not by time but by way of development • Text: dynamic, revised • Focus typically on monologue with commentary • Personal & Opinionated • Archival repository • Less collaborative • Text: static • Dominantly chronological

  14. Blogs & Blawgs • Kansas Defenders maintained by Washburn Law faculty member Randall Hodgkinson. • Law Prof Blogs Indexes a variety of blogs from law professors around the country. Includes discussions on family law, law and religion, and other topics • Law professor blogs

  15. Blogs / Blawgs

  16. Folksonomies TAGS Object Tageru ME

  17. Social Networking sites Educational Use: Promote school activities Post information and bulletins Market your school and recruit new students

  18. Desktop Applications

  19. Desktop-like Applications

  20. Desktop-like Applications

  21. Second Life: A 3-D virtual world entirely created by its residents Educational Uses: • Collaboration • Distance Education • Simulations • Marketing & Recruiting • Networking • Delivering Content & Materials

  22. Second Life: A 3-D virtual world entirely created by its residents • Second Life is being used as a new distance education tool for eLearning. • Second Life became available to the public in 2003. Since 2003, online classes and conferences have been held in SL.

  23. Second Life Grows… • Alliance Library System and OPAL - teaming up to extend the programs currently offered online to librarians and library users in SL. • Librarians from all over the world are taking second lives and jobs in the SL.

  24. Second Life Grows • May 2006 – a 65,000-square-mile island was donated and later became “InfoIsland” which is home to many libraries. • Many other islands exists. Cybrary City Islands are home to many public and academic RL libraries.

  25. Second Life & Legal Education • Nova Southeastern Law Library on CybraryCity. • Seattle University School of Law taught a property law course. Students explored virtual property issues in SL as an avatar named Fizzy. Screen casts were produced on their findings. www.fizzysecondlife.blogspot.com/ • Harvard School of Law – CyberOne & Evidence classes in SL.

  26. NOVA SOUTHEASTERN LAW LIBRARY IN SECOND LIFE

  27. Harvard Law’s CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opinion • Harvard Law School & Harvard Extension School jointly offer a class in SL. (Fall 2006) • Charles Nessen and daughter Rebecca were the professors. Rebecca held office hours in SL. While Charles held them in RL. The course used virtual world, blog, wiki, and podcasts.

  28. Second Life: Democracy Island New York Law School created a replica of the Supreme Court on Democracy Island. A picture representing each of the nine Supreme Court Justices links to their bio on Wikipedia. Democracy Island was a capstone project.

  29. SecondLife & Legal Professionals Judge Richard Posner Attorney Stevanlieberman • Posner had a Q&A session in SL and autographed virtual copies of his new book. • Has seven avatarsand provides legal services in SL and earning real money. • “I’ve never met Judge Posner and in the real world don’t think I’d have a chance to meet him. But in SL I’m able to walk up, shake his hand and say hello.”

  30. Our Second Life Avatars JEWEL MAKDA is: AmaniInnis Barbara Ginzburg is: Natasha Sellers

  31. Do you feel Second Life can be used as a great tool for online education? Yes No Not Sure

  32. Quick “Web 2.0, Trivia” • PBWiki was born when? • Who owns del.icio.us? • Who owns Blogger? • Estimated number of residents in Second Life as of June 2007? • How many libraries and librarians are in Second Life? • June 2005 • Yahoo acquired it in 2005 • Google acquired it in 2003 • Over 7 million • Over 100 libraries & over 400 librarians and library science students in the Second Life Librarians group.

  33. Contact Information Our Wiki with additional information: http://caliweb20.pbwiki.com/ Contact Us @ jewel.brueggeman-makda@washburn.edu barbara.ginzburg@washburn.edu Washburn University School of Law Library

  34. Are you blogging this?

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