web 2.0 student toolkit

Presenters Presenters Kevin O’SheaKevin O’Shea

Teaching and Learning TechnologiesInstructional Development Center

Who Am I?

Kevin O’SheaEducational TechnologistDec. 2007 Grad of Purdue

• What is the toolkit?

• What are students using?

• What are our peers using it for?

• How can we use it?

Overview

What is the Student Toolkit?

feeds

Web Standards

Blogging RSS

Peer-to-peer

Wiki

GTD

User-generated content

social networkingGoogle

Open source

•Using the Web as a Platform–Zoho, Google Docs

•Simplicity•Open Source

–Reuse allowed and encouraged (CC)•User Generated Content

–YouTube, Blogs, Wikis•Categorized and Efficient

–Tagging, Social Bookmarking, Cross-linking

•Cross-platform/device Compatibility–Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone

Characteristics of Web 2.0

Why Does It Matter?

According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project (Lenhardt & Madden 2007) more than

60% of teens have created online media content, and more than 75% of those teens

have shared the content they have produced. This in turn has fueled the online revolution of

participation and collaboration.

• Blogging + RSS• Powerful communication and publishing tools

• Wikis• Online writing space allowing user to add and

modify its pages.

• Web Applications• Office Suites, News Aggregators, etc…

• Social Networks

What are they using?

RSS & Information

• Netvibes– http://www.netvibes.com

• iGoogle– http://www.google.com/ig

• Bloglines– http://www.bloglines.com

• Pageflakes– http://www.pageflakes.com

• MyYahoo– http://my.yahoo.com

How are they keeping track of it all?

•Movement away from Desktop

application reliance.

•Platform independent.

•Mobile device compatibility.

•Open source.

•Online collaboration

Online Applications

• Office Applications– Zoho– Google Docs– Office Live

• Presentation Applications– TeacherTube– SlideShare

• Task Management (GTD)– Remember the Milk

What Applications Are They Using?

Technology Mash ups

• Google Lit Trips– Using Google Earth, students discover where in the

world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place.

• Jott.com– Jott converts your voice into emails, text messages,

reminders, lists and appointments. Supports Gcal, LJ, Twitter, Tumblr, Blogger, Remember the Milk, & WordPress.

Facebook: The 800lb Gorilla/Guerilla

•Wikimono

•Blog It

•Zoho Online Office

•Notecentric

•Share Homework

•Scribd

•Twitter

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