Web 2.0 Technologies: Enhancing Instruction, Promoting Collaboration, Changing Institutional Practice

1. Web 2.0 Technologies: Enhancing Instruction, Promoting Collaboration,Changing Institutional Practice Maureen Yoder Lesley UniversityRay Schroeder and Shari McCurdy University of Illinois at Springfield

2. Heraclitus – Prescient Philosopher Heraclitus by Flemish Painter Johannes Moreelse "The only thing constant is change itself." Heraclitus 500 B.C.

3. Objectives • Examine emergence of Web 2.0 • Contemplate the challenge of when to move to the next generation • Consider some key 2.0 technologies • And their application in the classroom • Gaze into the future • Continuing discussion/collaboration

4. technology what's coming?…..web 2.0

5. Web 2.0 What is the next BIG (or little) thing? Web 2.0 certainly is the context of what is coming! • It is NOT static – not the web page of the ’90s • It is a platform that is: • Dynamic • Interactive • Engaging • Syndicated • Origin of Web 2.0?

6. Web 2.0 in Education • Web 2.0 – So, what are some examples in education? • If you want to find out what 2.0 means to Education, you have to turn to a 2.0 tech – Wiki! • http://cpitwebtwoinfo.pbwiki.com/ • In common: Dynamic, Interactive, Engaging, Syndicated and constantly changing!

7. Choosing the Right Tools and Techniques at the Right Time! • Plethora of choices • How does one make a commitment? How long is that commitment ? • Licensing • Retraining • Bifurcation of delivery modes • Supporting multiple analogous systems • Need to conduct on-going review and aim for annual replacement/renewal cycle

8. When Do We Move to the Next Generation? • Driving forces • Innovators and early adopters • Both faculty and students • Financial Considerations • Example: open source movement in CMS/LMS • Competition – what our peers are doing • Mitigating factors • Knowledge • Licensing commitments • Transition woes (the reluctant, hosting, support, training)

9. Wiki What? • Wikis • http://cpitwebtwoinfo.pbwiki.com/#Wikiplatforms • http://rayschroeder.wikispaces.org • http://rayschroeder.pbwiki.com • Next stage in collaborative environments • http://www.writely.com • Evolution is the wrong word – as Heraclitus would remind us - “constant change”

10. Brief Reality Check Technology for technology’s sake does not cut it. Exercise: • Recall your favorite class (f2f or online) • What made it so special? • The textbook? • The classroom? • The view out the window of the classroom? OR was it……..

11. Interaction - Engagement … the interaction with the instructor and the other students in the class? Recall Web 2.0: • Dynamic • Interactive • Engaging • Syndicated Podcasting is dynamic and syndicated, but where do we engage and interact?

12. Blogs While podcasts grew out of blogs, they have not supplanted blogs as a teaching/learning tool! • A blog created every second • Comment modes encourage interaction • Team blogs enable engagement • The “Blogosphere” is an incredible network with massive worldwide reach

13. Ray’s Blogs • Techo-News – begun in 2000 • Developed as a tool to share current research with students in graduate seminar • Selected current readings for required critiques • Ed Tech – begun at request of state board of ed • Online Learning Update • Turned into something more • Reach and Impact • Reflections – not just text

14. “This week I will be in Dallas, at the Association of Educational Communications and Technology conference . . . I’m busy loading up my iPod with podcast episodes for the trip, including. . . “ Chris Essex,Indiana University School of Education Instructional Consulting office http://teachwtech.blogspot.com/

15. Internet Safety for Kids In my online course, we have a weekly chat, and last Sunday’s chat was about Internet Safety. I shared this URL with them, and I’ll share it with you. It gives a nice list of tips to share with kids about keeping safe on the Net: http://www.netsmartz.org/safety/safetytips.htm http://teachwtech.blogspot.com/

16. RSS • “Really Simple Syndication” RSS 2.0 • Xml format – concisely describes a site • Enables a variety of tools to access and manipulate the feed • iTunes, Sharp Reader, Yahoo, Firefox … all offer RSS aggregation • Have already seen dynamic web sites • The thread that links many Web 2.0 apps

17. Mashups • Mashups “seamlessly combines content from more than one source into an integrated experience” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashup_(web_application_hybrid)

18. AJAX • the wikipedia definition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_%28programming%29 • this great list of examples http://www.ajaxprojects.com/ajax/viewcategory.php?categoryid=8

19. Learn Chinese • http://www.china-8.com/

20. Students and Blogging • Student lifehttp://www.uis.edu/studentlife/ • Student Assignmentshttp://ebrow3.blogspot.com/ • Classroom blogs • http://pac442b.blogspot.com/ • Personal blogs • LiveJournal- text message blogging • Jabber

21. iPods and Podcasting • iPods • First iPod released Oct 23, 2001 – latest (?) generation is the fifth generation • http://www.ipodreview.co.uk/#1 • http://www.md3d.com/ (6th generation mock-up by md3d) • Podcasting = iPOD + broadCASTING (using blogs) • iTunes version 4.9 and more recent aggregates the podcasts (using RSS) and auto-transfers them to iPod

22. Enhanced Podcasts • Change comes to podcasting! • Enhanced Podcasting • Enables insertion of graphics, photos, video • Enables chapters • Example (open with quicktime) • http://web.mac.com/margaretmaag/iWeb/Site/Podcast/Podcast.html • http://web.mac.com/rayschroeder/iWeb/Site/Podcast/Podcast.html • M-Learning arrives!

23. Student Podcasting • Students respond in kind via podcasts • Posts up to a five minute podcast to your blog! • Automatically hosted, RSS generated • And students can also post text, image or videos • Our colleague Burks Oakley used a simplified podcast mode for student podcasts: • http://audioblogger.com(No longer available)

24. 13 Podcast Episodes "Teach with Tech," is an innovative series of podcasts designed to provide IU School of Education faculty with timely, useful information about integrating technology into their teaching. "Teach with Tech" is a fun, friendly show of around a half hour in which we will discuss the latest technology news, tools and tricks. Information you can immediately use in your teaching. http://www.indiana.edu/~icy/podcast/

25. Students Podcasting Cont • Podcasting of weekly readings. • Post reading assignment one week ahead. • Podcasts created in a summary and discussion format

26. iPods now double as study aids “An increasing number of professors at college campuses are experimenting with making lectures and study materials available to students via iPods and other MP3 players. They become study aids for students, allowing them to fast-forward to a part of a lecture they may not have understood the first time or review complicated themes before exams.” http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/2006-03-14-ipod-university_x.htm?POE=TECISVA

27. Duke University http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2006/03/16/ipods-in-the-college-classroom/ Last year, all incoming Duke freshmen were given a free iPod. “This year, iPods are being distributed on a course-by-course basis, allowing upperclassmen to take part. And how's this for an incentive? Students who pass the course get to keep the iPod. (Only one per student.)” Richard Lucic, a professor of computer science, says 12 Duke classes experimented with using iPods last year. This year, the number is 42.

28. University of Nebraska-Lincoln Faculty member Dan Schmit says an architecture professor recorded a "sound-seeing" tour of campus buildings. Students can use their iPods to walk around campus and listen to the professor's remarks at their leisure. http://www.unl.edu/

29. “At the University of Iowa: Paramedic and medical students can watch a video that teaches how to intubate a patient, or insert a tube into the trachea to aid breathing.” http://www.uiowa.edu http://www.medpeek.com/category/organization/

30. iTunes U is a free, hosted service for colleges and universities that provides easy access to your educational content, including lectures and interviews 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. http://www.apple.com/education/solutions/itunes_u/

31. iTunes U Duke, Brown, Stanford, the University of Michigan, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Missouri School of Journalism — participated in the pilot program.

32. iTunes U Music to their teeth University of Michigan Dental School Dental student Jared Van Ittersum sought a way to reinforce what he'd heard in the University of Michigan lecture halls. … Van Ittersum completed three pilot studies with 60 dental students, comparing their preferences for web-based content and content that could be played on an iPod. Overwhelmingly, the students favored the flexibility and mobility of iPod, and the ease of use of downloading the content through iTunes U.

33. iPods now double as study aids "There is no substitute for the energy exchanged one-on-one in a living classroom," says Dave Collins, a marketing lecturer at the University of Northern Iowa. "I would compare it to listening to a CD or podcast of Dave Matthews as opposed to being at a concert.". http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/2006-03-14-ipod-university_x.htm?POE=TECISVA

34. Students and Wikis • Paper development • Journals • Storyboarding • Project planning • Glossary

35. Other Student Activities • Google Mail search/storage/chat/mobile • Google Maps satellite, draggable map • Skype www.skype.com • Openomy http://www.openomy.com/ • Flickr http://www.flickr.com/ • Backpackit http://www.backpackit.com/ • Technorati and del.icio.us-Folksonomic http://www.technorati.com/tag/ http://del.icio.us/

36. Collaborative Activities • MIT’s PDA participant simulations

37. Where to from Here? • We have dynamic, interactive, syndicated, engaging applications and sites • Next steps commonly come from convergence • Ubiquitous – WiMax? xMax? BPL? Gigabeam? • Motorola and Nokia announce cell/wifi phones • Integration of devices • Phone/PDA/iPod/Computer all in one • Microsoft/Samsung Origami $1,099 • OQO tablet $2,000 • Projection Keyboards $199

38. Not far off… • This second half of the first decade • Access, access, access – broadband via seamless mix • Mobility – via merged devices • Computers shrink into enhanced cell phones • Open source rules – 3rd party support rises • Distance learning becomes norm not exception • Key will be to look beyond the newest deployments to those in the pipeline – begin looking two steps ahead

39. Contact We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. – BF Ray Schroeder Schroeder.ray@uis.edu Maureen Yoderyoder.maureen@lesley.edu Shari McCurdy Mccurdy.shari@uis.edu

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