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What is Web 2.0?

What is Web 2.0?. Dr. Oliver Dreon Assistant Professor Millersville University. Goals for this presentation. Discuss the history of the Internet and Web 2.0 Describe characteristics of Web 2.0 applications Identify different Web 2.0 applications

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What is Web 2.0?

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  1. What is Web 2.0? Dr. Oliver Dreon Assistant Professor Millersville University

  2. Goals for this presentation • Discuss the history of the Internet and Web 2.0 • Describe characteristics of Web 2.0 applications • Identify different Web 2.0 applications • Discuss how Web 2.0 can be used to enrich gifted classroom • Discuss considerations for the classroom

  3. What is Web 2.0? • Probably better to start with the history of the web • Originally built to allow scientists and researchers to communicate & share at a distance

  4. Characteristics of Web 1.0 • Web 1.0 was easy & hard at the same time • Static web pages • Needed real expertise to participate • Web developers ruled the Internet • Others built the web. We just showed up.

  5. Characteristics of Web 2.0 • Architecture of participation • Social • Collaborative • User defined • Decentralized

  6. Types of Web 2.0 applications • Social networking sites • Sites with user-generated content • Sites that bring content to you • “Desktop applications” now online

  7. Web 2.0 applications • Social networking sites • Club Penguin • Imbee • MySpace • Facebook • Twitter

  8. Web 2.0 applications • Sites with user-created content • Wikis (like Wikipedia) • Blogs • YouTube • iTunes (with Podcasting and iMix) • Flickr

  9. Web 2.0 applications • Tools that bring content to you • Del.icio.us • RSS feeds • Personalized home pages (iGoogle, MSN)

  10. Web 2.0 applications • “Desktop applications” now on the web • Google docs • Photoshop online • myWebspiration

  11. Advantages for Education • Reduces the need to buy software or install updates • Students can collaborate/communicate/network with classmates or with people from around the world • Provides new opportunities for student learning and assessment

  12. Web 2.0 in the gifted classroom? “Educators of the gifted strive to provide curricula with complexity and depth. This includes organizing, analyzing, synthesizing, and communicating large amounts of information. Technology can be used effectively in this process” (Siegle, 2004)

  13. Bloom’s Taxonomy (revised for the Web 2.0 world) • Remembering • Understanding • Applying • Analyzing • Evaluating • Creating Searching, social bookmarking, social networking Mashing, linking, tagging Blogging, Boolean searching, subscribing Beta testing, collaborating, posting Editing, uploading Programming, publishing, podcasting, vodcasting http://21centuryconnections.com/node/507

  14. Some issues to consider… • Security concerns • Access for low income students • Lesson/tool compatibility

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