What is Web 2.0 and How Can it Enhance Teaching and Learning?

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Web 2.0 in Teaching and Learning
By Robin Rider, Andreas Brockhaus Jane Van Galen,
Rob Estes
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The Evolution of the Web

• Web 1.0
• Consuming content
• Users read, listen
• Lecture modes of teaching
• Web 2.0
• Internet is a means of communication, content
  creation, collaboration
• Users write, create media, interact with other
  users, participate in learning networks
• Active, constructivist teaching and learning

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New Possibilities for Teaching and Learning with
Web 2.0

• Collaboration
• External
• Internal
• Learning from expansive networks
• Connecting to Authentic Audiences
• Media Rich Content Creation
• Millennials Technology is assumed to be a
  natural part of the environment.

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Collaboration

• Wikis online collaborative spaces
• Robins class Final projecthttp//uwbeduc591.pbw
  iki.com/
• Amrits class building and presenting small
  group projectshttp//4thgradesocialstudies.pbwiki
  .com/
• Google Docs
• Sharing lesson plans, family letter with MT, ELL
  teacher for translation

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Network and Community Building

• Social Bookmarks - saving bookmarks to a public
  website
• Del.icio.us,
• Art Resources http//del.icio.us/nancyrogers1
• Social Networks often includes profiles, public
  commentary and social connections
• Ning
• Facebook

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Connecting with Authentic Audiences

• Blogs - personal online log/journal
• Podcasts media files distributed via the Web
• http//aspengler.edublogs.org/
• Literacy Vignettes
• http//dawsona9.googlepages.com/vignette

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Media Rich Content Creation

• Tech Portfolios
• http//dowling.carlene.googlepages.com/home
• Digital Storytelling audio/video narratives
• How to Create a Science Notebook
• http//x8redcarpet.blogspot.com/2008/01/science-no
  tebooks.html
• Google Maps
• Our Community
• Voice Threads - collaborative online
  conversations around images, documents and videos
• http//voicethread.com/q.b71272.i365716

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Possible Next Steps

• Ideas? What Works Well for Us?
• Some ideas
• Ten Minute Tech Shows
• Faculty support Andreas, Librarians, Colleagues,
  student lab support
• Collaborate on technology for course assignments
• Continue exploring learning/pedagogical issues