What is Web 2.0?

 

Tim O'Reilly coined the term Web 2.0.

 

 

Summary of Web 2.0 - Wikipedia

 

 

Significant enhancement over read-only websites

Collaboration & sharing between users - genuinely interactive (people can upload as well as download)

Users generate & distribute content, often with freedom to share & re-use

 

 

 

 Summary of Web 2.0 Characteristics - SPS Online Learning Centre

 

 

 Data is being enhanced by users. Consider AMAZON’s user feedback and book reviews. It isn’t just the basic data anymore. It is continually pushed to go further,  include more, and invite more interaction.

 Web 2.0 includes devices other than just the PC. Ipods and other media devices download the information and play it for information on the go. Here come podcasts (downloadable audio files to listen to on the go), and other mobile information formats.

 Rich user experiences. Do more. Show more. See more. Dynamic. Engaging. Several great tools allow, when combined, a new type of interaction

 

 

                                                                                               The Complete Web 2.0 Directory

 

 

 

 

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Emerging Web 2.0 Technologies:

 

 

 

 

 

Personalized Start Page

 

Using Personalized Start Pages for your browser's home page is a tidy and efficient solution for keeping all your favourite and frequently visited resources on the Web on one handy and customizable page.

 

NetVibes

Pageflakes

Protopage

iGoogle

 

 

 

 

 

RSS aggregator (RSS reader)

 

RSS can eliminate the endless search for desired information, but rather have the latest information of chosen topic come to you!

The RSS feed aggregator is the most valuable Web 2.0 tool for teacher-librarians who wish to participate in the current dialogue about technology and education. RSS stands for real simple syndication or rich site summary. It is an application that allows you to ‘subscribe’ to a web site, and then notifies you when new information has been added to the site.

 

A RSS aggregator collects new information from the different sources to which you subscribe and displays it in one place. It brings the information you want directly to your computer screen without you having to go look for it. A RSS aggregator gathers information while you sleep, maintains a virtual filing cabinet of your finds, and allows you to share resources easily with your colleagues (Yucht). Once you have signed into the aggregator, you can quickly glance through the list of sites to see if a blog has been updated.

 

When you see these icons on a web page they indicate that the page has a feed to which you can subscribe.

 

 

 

What does an RSS Aggregator look like?

 

Bloglines

Google Reader (within the past six months Google Reader has grown in popularity and many individuals have moved to this reader - check it out!)

 

RSS in Plain English - Video

 

 

Where to find blogs to subscribe to:

 

SupportBlogging.com

This wiki is dedicated entirely to educational blogs. Note the table of contents on the top right corner.

 

 

 

Tip - Don't subscribe to too many blogs.

 

 

 

Blogs

 

A blog is a personal space to record and communicate thoughts, discoveries, and understandings. A blogger observes their experience, reflects on it, and then provides a written response. As the written commentary has a global audience, others are able to read your reflections and respond from their perspectives by commenting or writing their own blog article. Learning, therefore, becomes socially negotiable, as reading the varying perspectives cause one to analyze and possible refine their viewpoints.

 

 

 

Blogging Techniques for the K-12 Classroom

 

Online Blogging services:

 

 

Blogger Tutorial - Video

 

 

This Blogger Tutorial will also help you set up your blog. Pay particular attention to the comments section.

 

Examples:

 

 

 

Wikis

 

Wiki-wiki is the Hawaiian word for quick.

 

A wiki is a collaborative website whose content can be edited by anyone who has access to it (The most well known being Wikipedia).

 

In the case of the CPCI library wiki, all teaching staff members have access to the WIKI which includes valuable links for each subject area. Wiki websites are designed to enable users to make additions or edit any page of the site. If you have an awesome link that you would like to add, please feel free.

 

If you are uncomfortable making edits, please give your link information to me & I will add this information for you. All information regarding edits (including what edits have been made, by whom, & at what time) come to me. Please add only sites that we can use as professional teachers.

 

This is only the beginning of a work in progress, but I think that it has great potential for us at CPCI.

 

 

 

Wikis in Plain English - Video

 

 

I found that I was saving too many good links to my favorites list. I had hoped to share the links with CPCI staff, but didn't have a good format to do so. After learning about Wikis, I decided that this may be a good way of sharing valuable online resources with staff. This is a work in progress. It is by no means complete.

 

 

CPCI Library Wiki - www.cpcilibrary.pbwiki.com - password – lrclrclrc

 

 

 

 

 

Sign up for your own pbwiki

 

Choose a site name - (eg. http://_____________________.pbwiki.com)

 

Your own email address not mine!!! (confirmation message will be sent to this address - can use ___________@spsd.sk.ca)

 

For 'Tell us about your new wiki' - Choose "for education"

 

 

 

 

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The Future of Innovation - discussion

 

 

 

“Did you Know” – video presentation (7 minutes 37 seconds)

*Note: Presentation presents US stats – however Canada’s stats wouldn’t likely differ that much

 

 

 

 

What does this all mean??? Teaching can & likely should include technology in some form. We can all make a SHIFT in our teaching.

 

 

 

101 Resources & Tools for Authentic Learning

 

Environments

 

 

 

 

 This is an amazing document put together by Ben Wilkoff online educator with Douglas County School District.

 

 

Definition of an Authentic Learning Environment

 

An Authentic Learning Environment is anywhere that asks students to create products and learn processes with real purposes and a real audience. Purposes outside of getting a grade & pleasing the teacher increase ownership of learning. Audiences larger than just a singular classroom increase achievement and metacognition. The Six Strings of authentic learning describe Authentic Learning as a Contextual, Connected, Collaborative, Change-directed, Conversational, and Continuous environment. This means that teachers should create activities, assignments, and assessments based upon the idea that all learning can and should last longer than the course.

 

Tools

 

Tools are any website that allows the user to create, collaborate, or connect for a specific pedagogical purpose. They may be able to more than one thing, but they are not something that challenges thinking. It is something to use within the authentic environment, but it cannot become a reason to do the assignment.

 

Resources

 

Resources are any webpage that allows the user to learn more about pedagogy, teaching strategies, or technology usage. Resources are places that you can keep coming back to because there is frequently updated content. They are works that challenge you to think differently and teach differently. They are places that ask you for contributions to the conversation. Resources are models for your practice, but tools are required to put the ideas proposed into your own authentic environment.

 

Pages 4-19 lists 101 Resources & Tools for Authentic Learning Environments.

 

Each of the 101 Resources & Tools include 3 valuable items:

 

1. The website address - URL (Universal Resource Locator)

 

2. A description of the Resource/Tool

 

3. An educational application

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Check out the following if it interests you:

 

Digital Native vs. Digital Immigrant

 

Students today are referred to as Digital Natives. They are native speakers of technology, fluent in the digital language of computers, video games, and the Internet. They have grown up immersed in technology.

 

I have learned that I am, what is referred to by Marc Prensky, as a Digital Immigrant.  I am trying to get to terms with digital technology – it is a struggle for me. I didn’t grow up immersed in technology. I didn’t have daily access to a computer, and there was no such thing as the internet.

 

Prensky refers to those of us who were not born into the digital world as digital immigrants. We have adopted many aspects of the technology, but just like those who learn another language later in life, we retain an “accent” because we still have one foot in the past. We will read a manual, for example, to understand a program before we think to let the program teach itself. Our accent from the predigital world often makes it difficult for us to effectively communicate with our students.

 

There are considerable differences between digital native learners and digital immigrant teachers.

 

 

Note: The following technology-related articles are recommended readings.

 

Follow link to Marc Prensky's Site & click on Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants - A New Way to look at Ourselves and our Kids

 

Follow link to Marc Prensky's Site & click on Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants, Part II: Do They Really think Differently?

 

Chapter 4 – Using Technology as a Learning Tool, Not Just The Cool New Thing by Ben McNeely (from Educating the Net Generation Diana G. Oblinger and James L. Oblinger, Editors)

 

Web 2.0 – A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning by Bryan Alexander

 

The New Face of Learning – Online and learn anything, anywhere, anytime? by WillRicharson