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All of us are smarter than any one of us. Web 2.0. It’s not the technology; It’s the IMPACT.
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Adapt or Die! becomes the mantra of the day for consultants, analysts, and reporters. Their words become the start gun, signaling the time has come for millions of dollars to be spent ripping up legacy systems and replacing them with the next new thing.
The Internet and Web 2.0 challenge our concepts of how students learn and how we should teach .Web 2.0 technologies are changing media and challenging schools.
Web 2.0 refers to a supposed second generation of Internet based services that emphasize online collaboration and sharing among users.Wisdom of Crowds--what are the most valuable resources
"Web 2.0 is a widely used phrase devoid of meaningful content.”Businesses vs. home and school
The social web is a term that can be used to describe a subset of Web 2.0 technologies that are highly interactive, conversational and participatory.
Features of social web applications Expressing and developing identity (especially for youth). Relationships Trust User-driven and generated sites and content --rather than passive consumers, surfers can become active creators.
Social Media • the democratization of content • shifts from a broadcast mechanism to a many-to-many model • “wisdom of crowds” to connect information in a collaborative manner
Imagine a web site where a teacher, counselor, administrator or student could create his own web site that includes 50 Mb of file storage and sharing space, on-line slide shows, web site bookmarking, blogging, threaded discussions, and real-time polling. Now imagine the same site that is free to use and free of advertising. Lastly, imagine that all is needed to use this site is a computer connected to the Internet.
A weblog( web log), more commonly known as blog, is a shared online journal of chronological events that are kept in reverse order. A blog is essentially an online journal or diary.(myspace) What are Blogs
Who’s blogging? • October 2006 56 million active blogs • January 2007 63.2 million active blogs • Sept. 2007 106 million active blogs • 175,000 blogs begun daily • 200 million inactive or abandoned blogs
Types of Educational Blogs • Information and Updates • Teacher or student generated to keep readers informed • Collaborative Project Blogs • Multiple classrooms or schools posting to a site or to each other • Written Expression Blogs • Individual or classroom blogs created to post student work
Informational Blogs • Journal of events • Classroom highlights • Remediation or review • Student recognition • Homework or external assignments
Blogger—a free site that produces: http://cognobics.blogspot.com
Neat applications that encourage personal exploration or creative response How about me?
iShowU • Screen capture application • Useful to save streaming video http://www.shinywhitebox.com/home/home.html
Furl • Web page saving tool
TV capture • eyeTV • WinTV • Coupled with TitanTV
P2P sharing If you want it, it’s available. Kazaa, Morpheus, Limewire
A peer-to-peer ("P2P") computer network exploits diverse connectivity between participants in a network and the cumulative bandwidth of network rather than the typical centralized resources where a relatively low number of servers provide the core service or application.Wikipedia
“Digg is democratizing digital media.” Digg is a technology news website that combines social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control. With digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allow an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do. Digghttp://www.digg.com
del.icio.ushttp://www.del.icio.us del.icio.us is a collection of favorites - yours and everyone else's. Use del.icio.us to keep links, share favorites with friends, family, and colleagues, discover new things.
Flickrhttp://www.flickr.com Flickr - almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world - has two main goals: • We want to help people make their photos available to the people who matter to them. • We want to enable new ways of organizing photos.
Picture sharing and editing Picnik
Flock Flock is an amazing new web browser that makes it easier to share media and connect to other people online. Share photos, automatically stay up-to-date with new content from your favorite sites, and search the Web with the most advanced Search Toolbar available today.