City of Westminster

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City of Westminster Royal Borough of Kensington
and Chelsea ICT Conference June 17th 2008
Philip Mann
Web 2.0
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agenda

• Making the most of broadband? Being creative
  with ICT applications? Web 2.0 gives children
  wonderful opportunities to extend their learning.
  You will find out what is out there to excite and
  challenge and most of it is free! You will go
  away with lots of useful hints and tips.

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You will . . .

• Have access to a great deal of Web 2 material
  through the links in this PowerPoint.
• There is too much information here so choose
  carefully and go with one or two web 2
  applications only!

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We will look at . . . . . .

• Social networking sites
• Graphics manipulation sites
• Educational software online
• Collaborative applications
• Blogging
• Podcasting
• Social bookmarking
• Wikis
• RSS really simple syndication

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What does it mean?

• Read/write
• We provide the content
• Highly interactive
• Logical result of broadband/faster access

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What does it bring to us?

• Web 2.0 applications are characterised by all
  or some of the following features
• Simple and intuitive to use
• Collaborative in nature (Usually rely on the user
  base for content)
• Free or very cheap
• Extensive use of tagging to organise the web

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Web 2 is technologically enabled

• Faster broadband
• Means larger files
• With different programming . . . . . .
• . . . . and things will get faster

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Where does it fit in?

• How adaptable is your scheme of work?
• Time to go well beyond the QCA scheme of work

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What can you do for your children?

• Take your time to see what there is
• Adapt your SoW. Our curriculum has been static
  emphasis chiefly on ICT skills QCA written in
  1997 smothered our innovation!
• Web 2 applications are growing very quickly, too
  much too fast
• Choose one to exploit and stay with it
• Get inspired and learn on the job - read other
  teachers blogs see end of slides.

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The social impact of Web 2

• Social networking sites Facebook
• File sharing sites Flickr (with picnic)
• Myspace come to my party
• Video sites YouTube design ideas northern
  lights

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Educational impact

• Software online 2Simple the way things will
  go for schools?
• Office applications Google Documents
• Video conferencing Skype . . . . . . . .
• Blog sites Glasgow Primary School

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Some image applications via web 2

• http//fotoflexer.com/ - DIY image enhancement
• http//animoto.com/ Gorse Ride Junior video
  from stills
• http//www.sandaigprimary.co.uk/pivot/archives/arc
  hive_2007-m10.php
• http//www.picturetrail.com/samples/flicks

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Blogging

• Doing it in New Zealand video
• Doing it in Thailand Traill School Blog
• Doing it at work ICT training! group blog
• Try Google pages easy start

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Podcasting

• More complex that blogging
• Brilliant for the less able/forthcoming
• Wider curriculum impact?
• Doing it in New Zealand again !
• This site has many podcasting examples
• Music from Glasgow

LINK
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bookmarking

• You need to set up a del.icio.us site
• http//del.icio.us/philipmann
• http//www.commoncraft.com/bookmarking-plain-engli
  sh

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E-Safety

• Think carefully about security
• Commercial applications/educational applications
• The more Web 2 the greater the risks

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Web 2 wikis

• http//school20.wikispaces.com/?responseTokenb314
  a34be48bece9ba797c38d40d3092
• http//web2inprimary.pbwiki.com/
• http//techwithme.pbwiki.com/Web2ToolsforEduca
  tion
• http//educationalsoftware.wikispaces.com/

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Are you making the most of Web 2.0?
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Making a start with Web 2.0ideas from blog sites

• Subscribe to others blogsites get ideas and
  feedback
• http//twowhizzy.blogspot.com/search/label/assessm
  ent
• http//www.creativeict.co.uk/index.html
• http//tbarrett.edublogs.org/
• http//creativeblogs.net/blog-community/
• http//nicholashughes.blogspot.com/
• http//ddraig-goch.blogspot.com/

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RSS

• Really simple syndication brings the sites to
  you whenever theyre updated.
• Get a reader or aggregator
• Put in the URLs you want to come to you
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v0klgLsSxGsU for a
  good explanation of RSS

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Finally . . . . .

• http//www.sandaigprimary.co.uk/
• http//www.sandaigprimary.co.uk/radio_sandaig/mp3s
  /radio_sandaig_special-the_mix.mp3

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Absolutely finally . . . .

• Watch this video think about the world our
  children are heading for . . . . .

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