Web 2.0 Learning Technologies

What is Web 2.0?
1. - A Metaphor for a spectrum of emerging novel Internet application
2. - A Transformed and more advanced approach to applications of the Internet
3. - Enable users not only to consume but also to create information and contribute to the sites by publishing content
4. - "Read-Write" Web
5. - User control of information
6. - New forms of expression
7. - Web as a point of presence
8. - Internet-mediated social/collective activities
9. - Web as a platform
10. - Rich user experiences
Collection of Web 2.0 sites
Web 2.0 Applications
1. Blogs
  1. About Blog
    1. A web-based publication system that allows an ordinary Internet user to create a Web page consisting of periodical articles
    2. No technical skills required to create a blog
    3. Contains text, graphics, animations, and other media and provide links to other sites
    4. Types of blogs
      1. Standard text-based blogs
      2. Linklogs
      3. a collection of links maintained by an individual
      4. moblogs
      5. blogging with content posted from mobile devices
      6. Vlogs
      7. blogs posts as video recordings
      8. Audilogs
      9. blog posts as audio recordings
    5. Blogger
      1. Someone who has a personal blog and provides periodical posts
    6. Blogsphere is a a community of bloggers
  2. Blog Tools
2. Wikies
  1. Web-based publication system supporting an ordinary Internet user to participate in collective publishing activities to produce Internet-based resources
  2. Wiki is social software that allows collaborative development of an article of common interest to its authors
  3. Best known example: Wikipedia
    1. - 75,000 active contributors
    2. - >10,000,000 articles in more than 250 languages
    3. - >2,300,000 articles in English
    4. - Hundreds of thousands of visitors daily, tens of thousands of edits and new articles
  4. Wiki Tools
3. Subscribing to Information
  1. Users subscribe to an information service and information is delivered to them when it becomes available
  2. Possible through a "syndication feed" or "RSS" protocol that allows information to be pushed to subscribers
  3. Information in audio and video formats can also be delivered through "podcasting"
  4. Latest podcasts can be automatically downloaded to user's system and portable players
  5. Users can podcast their own audio and video content to anyone who wants to subscribe to it
4. RSS Feeds
  1. Provide an updated list of content from a site
  2. RSS Tools
5. Podcasting
  1. A method of distributing audio programs or video over the Internet for playback on mobile devices and personal computers, using either RSS or Atom syndication formats
  2. Podcasting Tools
6. Social Spaces
  1. Where people engage in collective activities
  2. Where individuals can create, manage, and publish information and resources that they want others to access
  3. Members of such spaces usually identify and connect with other individuals and form sub-communities of interest (or "tribes")
  4. Resources sharing and referencing systems are another powerful form of Web 2.0 social spaces
    1. YouTube
      1. Sharing videos
    2. del.icio.us
      1. Referencing Web sites
    3. Flickr
      1. Sharing images
    4. Napster
      1. Sharing music
    5. CiteUlike
      1. Referencing academic articles
  5. Also allow users to add a resource and to create their own tags or labels descriptive of that resource through the process
  6. Allow individuals to add comments, provide recommendations, and assign a number of stars to the resource indicating its value in some way
  7. The design of flexible systems that are able to "learn" and improve based on users' activities
    1. Amazon.com
7. Social Bookmarking & Social Repositories
  1. Allow book marking and sharing resources collaboratively
  2. Social Bookmarking Tools
  3. Social Repositories Tools
8. Social Networking
  1. Provide online platform for communicating and sharing resources
  2. Social Networking Tools
9. "Web as a platform" Applications
  1. Signifies a gradual transformation of the Internet into a platform that contains tools traditionally understood as being native to desktop computer
  2. Provide an online platform for communication and collaborative learning
  3. Topic
10. Open Source
  1. People are keen to monitor developments of collectively written articles of interest to them and quickly eliminate inaccurate entries
  2. Designed for "hackability"
  3. "Remixability"
  4. Free for everything to download and edit the content
  5. Topic
11. Mashups
  1. A Web page or application that uses and combines data, presentation or functionality from two or more sources to create new services
  2. Topic
Wide Spread of Web 2.0
1. Millions of "digital en citizens" across the world visit Web 2.0 sites
  1. Provide their contribution in forms such as multimedia content, blogs comments and tags
  2. Develop new partnerships
  3. Discover new knowledge from a pool of collective intelligence existing in these environments
2. More than 25 million hits a day and over 40 million unique video clips uplaoding in YouTube (2006)
3. Over 90 million members of MySpace (2006)
4. Over 4.5 million articles in over 100 languages, millions of hits and thousands of edits and new articles per day in Wikipedia (2006)
5. 75,000 blogs are created every day and over 50,000 updates every hour (2006)
Education and Web 2.0
1. In business, companies continuously strive to explore ways to redesign their strategies to meet the demands of emerging paradigms that dominate the understanding and expectations of a dynamic client base
2. In education, we are somehow stuck with a more rigid culture that often results in our being reluctant or slow in adapting
3. Applications of Web 2.0 in teaching & learning might promote
  1. - new forms of assessment such as digital portfolios
  2. - use of Internet-mediated social learning spaces and new forms of collaborative learning
  3. - new models and methods for design of learning objects and other kinds of digital curriculum materials
  4. - new models for resources sharing and support for technology integration of communities of teachers
  5. - new generations of learning managements systems (LMS), or possibly no LMS at all, but rather modular content and services management platforms
4. Two ongoing studies
  1. Use of a blog to support teaching and learning in a graduate university course
  2. Social spaces and repositories for teachers
5. Web 2.0 Ideas
  1. - folxonomy/folksonomy
  2. - a wiki-like system
  3. - syndication feeds
  4. - tracking mechanisms along the line
  5. - use of podcasting