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Web 2.0 and Project Citizen: What’s Possible?

Web 2.0 and Project Citizen: What’s Possible?. Ben Bohmfalk Colorado 3 rd District Coordinator Roaring Fork High School Teacher Carbondale, CO. What is “ Web 2.0 ”?. Wikipedia definition: web development and web design that facilitates interactive information sharing,

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Web 2.0 and Project Citizen: What’s Possible?

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  1. Web 2.0 and Project Citizen: What’s Possible? Ben Bohmfalk Colorado 3rd District Coordinator Roaring Fork High School Teacher Carbondale, CO

  2. What is “Web 2.0”? Wikipedia definition: web development and web design that facilitates • interactive information sharing, • user-centered design, and • collaboration on the World Wide Web. “Editable web, not just by the writer but also the reader. A Web 2.0 site allows its users to interact with other users or to change website content.

  3. Wikimedia Commons

  4. When the student creates new content for the Web, he is using Web 2.0

  5. Why use Web 2.0 with Project Citizen? • Real politics • Obama campaign • Iran, Egypt, India, Myanmar • Writing with purpose • WIRED article • Student engagement • Prospect of real change • Collaboration "I think we're in the midst of a literacy revolutionthe likes of which we haven't seen since Greek civilization," Andrea Lunsford, Stanford University.

  6. Communicate with members of a pre-existing group • Expand network, gain supporters • Publicize a cause • Organize and publicize an event

  7. ‘It took our campaign six months to get 139,000 people on an e-mail list. It took one Facebook group a month to get 200,000. That's astronomical.”’ – Washington Post Perhaps today’s politics largely exists as many small issues…which can’t really be dealt with in a monolithical manner by marching the streets with banners. Jill Walker Rettberg, an associate professor at the University of Bergen, Norway

  8. Wikis • Wiki=fast in Hawaiian • Web design that is • Simple • Collaborative • Web-based • Examples: • Google sites • Student • Teacher • Class • Wikispaces.com • PC Institute

  9. Get email updates on the topics of your choice Alerts Create and share your online document Docs video Groups Create mailing lists and discussion groups Create websites and secure group wikis Sites

  10. About Features • Assignments • Calendar • Potential for Project Citizen: • Discuss Public Policy articles • Deliberate which Problem to address • Share links to Alternative Policies • Discuss Proposed Policy • Share links and docs • Started in Sept. 2008 • Built for use in the classroom • Built with the privacy of students in mind • Free

  11. Video responses: • Open conversation about issues • Potential with Project Citizen: • Post video of a problem, respond with alternative solutions • Post solutions, viewers vote for best policy • Post proposed policy, gain support, direct viewers to website

  12. Moodle is a course management system designed to help educators who want to create quality online courses.

  13. Web 2.0 and Project Citizen: What’s Possible? Ben Bohmfalk bbohmfalk@rfsd.k12.co.us bbohmfalk@gmail.com Colorado 3rd District Coordinator Roaring Fork High School Teacher Carbondale, CO

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