Web 2.0 and the Gateway to 21 st Century Skills
Dec 19, 2015
Web 2.0 and the Gateway to 21st Century Skills
What is Web 2.0?
• Some technology experts, notably Tim Berners-Lee, have questioned whether one can use the term in a meaningful way, since many of the technology components of "Web 2.0" have existed since the early days of the Web.
For Gateway purposes
• Web 2.0 is a term describing the trend in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to enhance creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users.
– From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0
World Wide Web technology
• With a Web browser, a user views Web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigates between them using hyperlinks.
– From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0
Web Design
• The intent of web design is to create a web site (a collection of electronic files residing on one or more web servers) that presents content (including interactive features or interfaces) to the end user in the form of web pages.
Gateway content is metadata
• Metadata ( information about or describing other information)– For the Gateway this metadata is about
educational resources– Almost 49,000 resources cataloged
– NASA– PBS– National Science Foundation– Smithsonian– Over 700 contributors
Gateway content is metadata
• Using GEM controlled vocabularies to describe learning resources – Terms useful to educators– Terms useful in learning management
systems
Gateway content is metadata
• Using “Web 2.0 friendly” RDF/XML file format
• Allows Web 2.0 activity by applications and humans
– Faceted searches– Data exchange between applications– Interactive features– Annotations
Gateway Web 2.0 collaboration features
• Sharing discoveries– Email a link to a resource record to yourself or
to others– Print from within a resource record
• To file• Hard copy
– Use metadata to populate useful applications• Calendars• Learning management systems• Web 2.0 sites like Digg
Gateway Web 2.0 collaboration features
• Annotations– Make comments about learning resources
that you find – For yourself and to share with others
– Make ratings– Add an assessment of the quality of a resource as part of
a resource record
Using Gateway Web 2.0 Features
Print hard copy for your records
Print to file for local storage
PDF of lesson metadata
Creating Annotations
Creating Annotations
– Comments• How have you used a resource• How does it correlate to your academic standards• How have you modified it to suit your needs or
your student’s
– Assessments • as a rating for resources
– One to five stars based on defined characteristics of the assessment rubric
Adding an Assessment Annotation
Populate Useful Web 2.0 Applications
• Creating a lesson calendar and personal portfolio– Using Gateway metadata– Google Calendar (as an example)
Using the Gateway with Other Web 2.0 Applications
Clicking to Digg
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