Web 2.0 Tools - Social Software

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Web 2.0 Tools - Social Software

• Todd W. Jorns
• Senior Director for Educational Technology
• Illinois Community College Board

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Definition

• Web 2.0 is a set of economic, social, and
  technology trends that collectively form the
  basis for the next generation of the Internet
• a more mature, distinctive medium
  characterized by user participation, openness,
  and network effects."

O'Reilly Radar
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Technologies

• Wikis
• Blogs
• Podcasts/Vodcasts
• Social Networking Sites

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Wikis

• A wiki is computer software that allows users to
  easily create, edit and link web pages Social
  Knowledge tool.
• Wikis are often used to create collaborative
  websites, power community websites, and are
  increasingly being installed by businesses to
  provide affordable and effective Intranets for
  Knowledge Management.

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Wikis

• Ward Cunningham, developer of the first wiki,
  WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the
  simplest online database that could possibly
  work".
• One of the best-known wikis is Wikipedia.

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Wikis Benefits

• Group organizing
• Writing knowledge building
• Community development building
• Public or private

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Wikis - Free Sites

• pbworks - http//pbworks.com/
• wetpaint - http//www.wetpaint.com
• wikipedia http//www.wikipedia.org
• wikispaces - http//www.wikispaces.com

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Wikis Software Example

• Personal wikis that can be used on your computer
  or a pen drive (as well as online)
• TiddlyWiki - http//www.tiddlywiki.com/
• MonkeyGTD - http//monkeygtd.tiddlyspot.com/
• Wiki-based lesson example http//www.readwritethi
  nk.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id979

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Blog

• Blog is short for Web log.
• Publicly available web pages, with personal views
  and links expressing the opinions and
  observations of a particular person.
• Usually on a specific topic or theme (political,
  personal, topical, health, travel, research,
  etc.)
• Updated regularly reflecting the personality of
  the author. 

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Blog

• Can be online diaries/news forums that feature
  links to news items and stories from across the
  Internet's World Wide Web.
• Most blogs are headed by an individual called a
  blogger and many of these are people who want to
  bring their own views online.
• Other bloggers are journalists or industry
  insiders who create forums for expressing their
  opinions without editorial constraint.

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Blog Benefits

• Post class materials and class supplements.
• Integrate all types of multimedia (webpages,
  audio, video, photos, slideshows, etc.).
• Comment modes encourage interaction.
• Team blogs enable engagement.
• Create a class publication
• Student journaling reflection

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Blog Free Sites

• Blogger - http//www.blogger.com
• Edublogs - http//www.edublogs.org/
• LiveJournal - http//www.livejournal.com/
• Podbean http//www.podbean.com

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Blog Resources

• More information http//www.slais.ubc.ca/courses/
  libr500/05-06-wt1/www/A_Cho/history.htm
• Create a blog in THREE Minutes!
  http//blogger.com

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Podcast

• (iPOD broadCAST) is an audio broadcast that has
  been converted to an MP3 file or other audio file
  format for playback in a digital music player or
  computer.
• The "pod" in podcast was coined from "iPod," the
  predominant portable, digital music player, and
  although podcasts are mostly verbal, they may
  contain music.
• Video Podcasts - vodcasts

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Podcast

• Using the RSS 2.0 syndication format, podcasts
  are made available to subscribers just like news
  feeds.
• The client program that captures the audio feeds
  and synchronizes them with the music player is a
  "podcatcher," such as Curry's own iPodder,
  available at www.indiepodder.org.

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Podcasting Process

• Access
• Subscribe using podcatcher
• Download episode
• Playback episode

• Create
• Record episode
• Edit episode

• Distribute
• Publish episode to webserver
• Reference episode in feed

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Podcasting in Education

• Distribute course content
• Provide overview of week
• Distribute lecture content
• Provide examples
• Add personalization to online classes
• Increase student involvement (i.e.,
  presentations)
• Accommodates mobile learning
• Student presentations or reflection

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Podcasting Benefits

• Low-cost, low-barrier tool for disseminating
  content
• Designed for offline listening
• Content is delivered to students
• Frees learning from physical constraints
• Reaches out to auditory learners

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Podcast Tutorials

• Podcasting 101 Tutorial.pdf - http//www.ilcco.net
  /ILCCO/index.cfm?pageResources
• ION's Pointers Clickers (Pt. 1) -
  http//www.ion.uillinois.edu/resources/pointerscli
  ckers/2007_03/index.asp
• ION's Pointers Clickers (Pt. 2) -
  http//www.ion.uillinois.edu/resources/pointerscli
  ckers/2007_05/index.asp

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Podcast Tutorials

• How to Podcast
• http//www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com/
• Quick Dirty Podcasting Primer -
  http//www.stager.org/podcasting/guide.html

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Podcast Free Software

• Audacity - http//audacity.sourceforge.net/
• Easy to use
• Multi-track audio
• Multi-platform (Mac PC)

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Social Networking Sites

• A Web site that provides a virtual community for
  people interested in a particular subject or just
  to "hang out" together.
• Members communicate by voice, chat, instant
  message, videoconference and blogs, and the
  service typically provides a way for members to
  contact friends of other members.
• The "social networking site" is the 21st century
  term for "virtual community.

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MySpace

• MySpace is a social networking website offering
  an interactive, user-submitted network of
  friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups,
  photos, music and videos internationally.
• Currently the world's sixth most popular
  English-language website.
• Third most popular website in the United States,
  (it has topped the chart on various weeks).

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Social Networking Examples

• Friendster (www.friendster.com) was the first
  social networking site, which was introduced in
  2002
• MySpace (www.myspace.com) came out in 2003.
• Facebook (www.facebook.com) came out in 2004
  initially targeting college students, but later
  welcoming everyone.

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Social Networking Examples

• TagWorld (www.tagworld.com) introduced tools for
  creating more personalized Web pages.
• Tagged (www.tagged.com) introduced the concept of
  building tag teams for teens with like interests.
  
• MyPlace http//classportals.org/myplace/

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Online Resources

• Jeff Newell's Web 2.0 TiddlyWiki
  https//edocs.uis.edu/jnewe2/www/TiddlyWiki_Jeff.h
  tml.
• TiddlyWiki for the rest of us http//giffmex.org/
  twfortherestofus.html
• The World of Blogs http//www.slais.ubc.ca/course
  s/libr500/05-06-wt1/www/A_Cho/examples.htm

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Questions

• Todd.Jorns_at_illinois.gov
• [phone]
• www.flip4u.org