Web 2'0 Promises and Potential

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Web 2.0 Promises and Potential

• Quentin DSouza and Rob De Lorenzo

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Web 2.0

• Buzzword

Participatory Web
Openness
Read/Write Web
Services and Tools
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Two Tims
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http//www.youtube.com/watch?v6gmP4nk0EOE
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Our Children Have A Different Relationship With
Information
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10,000 hours on cell phones
20,000 hours watching TV
Net Generation by 21 Years Old
under 5,000 hours reading
200,000 e-mails
10,000 hours playing video games
From Teaching and Learning with the Net
Generation by Kassandra Barnes, Raymond C.
Marateo, and S. Pixy Ferris
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What is Changing?

• 1. User Created Content
• 2. New Forms of Publishing
• and Research
• 3. Webware vs. Software
• 4. Mobile Learning
• 5. Openness

Educational Shifts with Web 2.0

• References
• New Media Consortium and Educause, The Horizon
  Report, 2007.
• P. Anderson, What is Web 2.0? Ideas, Technologies
  and Implications for Education, 2007.
• M. Owen, L. Grant, S. Sayers and K.Facer, Social
  software and learning An Opening Education
  report from Futurelab, 2006.

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User Created Content
Paradigm Shift
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User Created Content
Radio Show Hosts
Book Author
Guide
Personal Publishing
Writer
Photographer
Film Producer
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User Created Content
Money
Reputation
Big Corporations
Hits
People
Publisher Has Final Say
Motivation
Mainstream Media
The Long Tail
The Head
C. Anderson, The Long Tail, 2006
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User Created Content
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New Forms of Publishing and Research
Paradigm Shift
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New Forms of Publishing and Researching

• Why Blog?
• Teachers
• Easily publish to the World Wide Web
• PD and Professional dialogue
• Students
• eJournaling
• Online discussions i.e. Literature Circles
• Sharing work with global audience
• Administrators
• Staff community space
• Strengthening the home - school connection

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Grade 2 Blog on Community
Secondary School Students Hamlet Blogs
Ed Blogs
Administrators Blogs
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New Forms of Publishing and Researching

• Using Podcasts/Video Podcasts in Schools
• Teachers
• Enhance Instruction.
• Incorporate suppplementary course information
• Students
• Culminating activities
• Broadcast student community cultural events
• Example of an instructional podcast LearnOutLoud
  Great Speeches in History
• Example of a student-created podcast Bishop
  Strachan School

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Student Created Content
Enhance Instructional Content
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New Forms of Publishing and Researching

• Other Forms of Publishing

Publishing images for assignments/presentations
Use Creative Commons-licensed images for
presentations
Publishing documents for presentations
Sharing/collaborating on assignments
Publishing documents for global sharing
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Sharing Teacher Created Content
Publishing School Content
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Webware vs. Software
Paradigm Shift
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Software vs. Webware

• Why Use Web 2.0 Webware?
• Web-based versions are affordable
• Webware offers collaborative tools
• Web-based suites are available remotely and from
  any computer

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Mobile Learning
Paradigm Shift
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Mobile Learning

• Using Mobile Devices for Learning - iPod
• Free Audiobooks - LibriVox 
• Using Mobile Phone in the Classroom
• Create Content for iPod - Mogopop      
• Public domain texts for PDA, iPod, mobile phone
  
• image from http//www.socksoff.co.uk

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Mobile Learning
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Openness
Paradigm Shift
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Openness
Konrad Glogowski Teacher http//twitter.com/teacha
ndlearn
Tim Lauer Principal http//twitter.com/timlauer

• Gray morning here in Toronto ... getting ready
  for a busy day in grade eight 0809 AM April 26,
  2007 from web.
• Just finished talking to one class of grade
  eights about their research - the progress chart
  seems to be working well 1122 AM April 26, 2007
  from web.
• Just finished reading some new student entries -
  good progress generally speaking 0945 AM April
  26, 2007 from web.  
• Looking over the progress reports that the eights
  filled out today 0650 PM April 26, 2007 from
  web. 

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Openness
Open Source Software
MySQL
Open Editing
Open APIs
Firefox
Apache
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Openness
Open Source Software
MySQL
Open Editing
Open APIs
Mulivo the multilingual vocabulary resource
Firefox
Apache
Flat Planet Project
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• Participate