Web 2.0 Tools - Social Software Todd W. Jorns Senior Director for Educational Technology Illinois Community College Board.

Web 2.0 Tools - Social Software

Todd W. JornsSenior Director for Educational Technology

Illinois Community College Board

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

Technologies

Wikis

Blogs

Podcasts/Vodcasts

Social Networking Sites

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.

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.

Wikis Benefits

Group organizing

Writing & knowledge building

Community development & building

Public or private

Wikis - Free Sites

pbworks - http://pbworks.com/

wetpaint - http://www.wetpaint.com

wikipedia – http://www.wikipedia.org

wikispaces - http://www.wikispaces.com

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.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=979

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. 

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.

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

Blog – Free Sites

Blogger - http://www.blogger.com

Edublogs - http://www.edublogs.org/

LiveJournal - http://www.livejournal.com/

Podbean – http://www.podbean.com

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

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

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.

Podcasting Process

Access• Subscribe using

podcatcher• Download episode• Playback episode

Create•Record episode •Edit episode

Distribute•Publish episode to webserver•Reference episode in feed

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

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

Podcast Tutorials

Podcasting 101 Tutorial.pdf - http://www.ilcco.net/ILCCO/index.cfm?page=Resources

ION's Pointers & Clickers (Pt. 1) - http://www.ion.uillinois.edu/resources/pointersclickers/2007_03/index.asp

ION's Pointers & Clickers (Pt. 2) - http://www.ion.uillinois.edu/resources/pointersclickers/2007_05/index.asp

Podcast Tutorials

How to Podcast – http://www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com/

Quick & Dirty Podcasting Primer - http://www.stager.org/podcasting/guide.html

Podcast – Free Software

Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Easy to use

Multi-track audio

Multi-platform (Mac & PC)

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.”

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).

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.

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/

Online Resources

Jeff Newell's Web 2.0 TiddlyWiki: https://edocs.uis.edu/jnewe2/www/TiddlyWiki_Jeff.html.

TiddlyWiki for the rest of us: http://giffmex.org/twfortherestofus.html

The World of Blogs: http://www.slais.ubc.ca/courses/libr500/05-06-wt1/www/A_Cho/examples.htm

Questions

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