Are you ready for Web 2'0

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Are you ready for Web 2.0?
Focus Technology Resources for Enhancing
Instruction
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Web 2.0 Whats all the fuss about?

• Internet revolutionized the way we access
  information, conduct business, find
  entertainment
• The Web has replaced libraries, classrooms,
  bookstores, yellow pages, telephones, even paper
• Just the tip of the iceberg!

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The New Culture of Participation

• Web 2.0 an exceptional conduit for connecting
  users
• Social networking sites
• MySpace, YouTube, Yahoo! Groups
• Opportunity for instant global publication of
  information, thoughts, opinions, and ideas

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Second Nature to Kids

• Pew Internet American Life Project (2007)
• 55 of all online American young people ages
  12-17 use social networking sites for
  communicating

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Educators must get on board

• Digital natives have already found Web 2.0
  applications integral to daily life
• Educators need to step up and maximize these
  resources for teaching, learning, and driving
  innovation

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Personal Learning Environments (PLEs)

• Systems that help learners take control of and
  manage their own learning. This includes
  providing support for learners to
• set their own learning goals
• manage their learning managing both content and
  process
• communicate with others in the process of
  learning
• and thereby achieve learning goals.

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Examples of PLEs

• Blogs
• Social bookmarking sites
• Podcasting
• RSS feeds

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Blogs

• Web log or chronological online personal journal
  with reflections, comments, and often links to
  other Web sites produced by the writer.
• Others may subscribe to a persons blog, which
  allows them to read it and write comments in
  response.
• http//qvedtech.blogspot.com/

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Del.icio.us

• Social bookmarking
• A Web-based service where shared lists of
  user-created Internet bookmarks are displayed.
• These bookmarking sites are a popular way to
  locate, classify, rank, and share Internet
  resources.
• http//del.icio.us/qvedtech

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Podcasts

• Recordings of an individual, of a discussion, or
  perhaps of a presentation, delivered in MP3
  format
• Like blogs, they provide a voice, but this time
  in audio format than can be listened to on an MP3
  player or computer
• Like blogs or del.icio.us resources, podcasts can
  be delivered through an RSS feed to the listener
  or learner

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A sample podcast How do we create roaming
favorites and bookmarks?

• http//www.techlearning.com/techlearning/archives/
  itguy/podcasts/2007-03-06.mp3

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RSS and Aggregators

• Really Simple Syndication
• Blogs, del.icio.us., podcasts all produce RSS
  feeds which stream or deliver content
• The aggregator is like a mailbox and captures the
  information feeds and presents it to the user
• The aggregators value is that it presents feeds
  from multiple authors and content types (blogs,
  wikis, podcasts, Flickr, and del.icio.us) all in
  a single location for ease of processing.
• http//www.bloglines.com/

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Podcasts in Education

• Podcasts that can be used in classrooms include
  audio books, audio tours, lectures, foreign
  language instruction, and student-created
  podcasts.

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Audio file vs. podcast

• Audio files-requires the listener to manually
  select the content they wish to download
• Podcasts-process is automated a listener who
  subscribes to your podcast is subscribed to all
  of your content, whenever its available. No need
  to go back to the site to see whats new

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What you need to create an audio file or a
podcast

• A computer
• A microphone
• Software for creating .wav files (e.g., Audacity)
• Software for converting .wav files to .mp3 files
  (e.g., Lame)

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Audacity http//audacity.sourceforge.net/
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Lame

• Converts .wav files to .mp3 files
• Digital Native

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Then what?

• Upload your audio file to WebCT Vista as a media
  file
• Upload your audio file to a webpage
• Add your audio file to your social bookmarking
  site
• Ning
• Moodle

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What about a podcast?

• Join us at 120 pm today for a session on
  creating podcasts!

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Characteristics of a Digital Native

• The following is a compilation of characteristics
  of 21st century learners

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• Multimedia oriented
• Web-based
• Less fear of failure
• Instant gratification
• Impatient
• Nonlinear
• Multitasker
• Less textual, more modalities
• Active involvement
• Very creative
• Less structured
• Expressive
• Extremely social
• Need a sense of security that they are defining
  for and by themselves
• Egocentric

• Preference for electronic environments
• Have electronic friends
• Thrive with redefined structure
• Surface-oriented
• Information overload
• Widening gap to information access
• Share a common language
• Risk takers
• Technology is a need
• Arent looking for the right answer
• Feel a sense of entitlement
• Constant engagement
• All information is equal
• No cultural distinctions (global)
• Striving to be independent

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Are you ready for the Digital Native?
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Resources

• http//audacity.sourceforge.net/
• http//del.icio.us/
• http//www.apple.com/itunes/
• https//www.blogger.com/start
• http//www.bloglines.com/
• http//www-users.york.ac.uk/raa110/audacity/lame.
  html
• McLester, S. (2007). Technology literacy and the
  MySpace generation Theyre not asking
  permission. Technology Learning, 27(8), 16-22.