web 2.0 applications for higher education
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Web 2.0 Applicationsfor Higher Education
John Thompson, PhDBuffalo State College
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Presentation Agenda
Highlight Web 2.0 educational apps Free apps (mostly) Interactive presentation
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What is “Web 2.0?”
Web 1.0 • read-only medium• static Web – provide information
Web 2.0 • read-write Web• relies on user participation • information is transmitted and consumed with
content being created, shared, remixed, repurposed, and passed along (Downes, 2005)
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Web 2.0 in Education
Increases user creativity and community while concurrently empowering user ownership of content
User-generated content leading to "collective intelligence" that benefits many
Collaborative in nature and features user-generated content
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Web 2.0 Videos
Tim O'Reilly on What is Web 2.0? Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Coming of Age: Primary Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Panel Discussion - What is Web 2.0? Web 2.0 and Education Web 2.0 in Education What is Web 2.0? The Machine is Us/ing Us
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human-computer interaction
personal connections--from words, pictures, video, and audio
authentic, peer-to-peer channel of communication
open, flexible collaboration
data and applications opened to creative use by the public
harnessing collective intelligence
collaboration/participation/collective intelligence
second generation of services
Web as a platform
the wisdom of crowds
creative amateur is cherished
“democratizes” media
amoral
authentic, peer-to-peer channel of communication
collective judgments
user-generated content
safety in numbers
participative Web collective power community
Web changing from “medium” to “platform”
user actions provide valuearchitecture of participation
bookmarking >>> social bookmarking
transparent selves…transparent Web
interactive, community-based Internet applications
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Trying to define and categorize what “Web 2.0” means is like trying to change the tire on your car while it’s going down the highway.
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Sharing PhotosVideo – Online Photo Sharing in Plain English
Library of Congress’ Flickr site
Image sharing on Flickr
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Sharing Videos
List of video sharing sites
Top 10 comparison chart
List of video sites from around the world
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Sharing PowerPoints
And even more sites!
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Sharing Documents
24/7 anytime, anywhere access to projects or assignments
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Social Networks
7 Things You Should Know About Ning
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Blogs
blogging engine created specifically for classroom use
100 Best Higher Education Blogs
Higher Education Blog Directory
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Podcasts
Higher Education Podcasts
Podcasting in Higher Education
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Collaboration
Web Collaboration Software wiki.com domain name sold for $2.86 million (8/06)
Wiki – online software that lets users modify any content, plus everything (formatting included) about the wiki
Social bookmarking – store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of Web sites using metadata & tagging
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Education Online
Coursecast – podcast or videocast lecture (like a Tivo for courses)
Partial list of higher ed schools offering open source courseware and/or coursecasts:• Harvard• Carnegie Mellon• UC Berkeley• Duke• MIT• Notre Dame• Johns Hopkins
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Miscellaneous
Real-time information network
Share bookmarks
Diagrams
Share graphics
21st century instruction resources
Explanatory video
Twitter in HE
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Miscellaneous
Office productivity suite
RSS aggregators
Creating ePortfolios with Web 2.0 Tools
Mash-ups• ePortfolio Mash Up with GoogleApps
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Video
Long list
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Miscellaneous
“online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments using voice, text, audio file, or video and share them”
“captures and shares images and video…from your computer to anywhere”
“Enables users to express themselves on the web in their own voice using a talking character. Customize your Voki to look like you…Your Voki can speak with your own voice which is added via microphone, upload, or phone.”
desktop Web conferencing
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Miscellaneous
create surveys and polls for your Web site, blog and social network profiles
sync files online and across computers… automatically
one-to-many live interactive video broadcast platform enabling anyone with a camera and an Internet connection to broadcast to a unlimited global audience
• Beyond just driving directions…
• 100 Things to do
Directory of Web 2.0 apps & services • 1937 logos as of 1/19/08 • over 3,000 as of 3/15/10
flippable PDF docs
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Web 2.0 Web Sites & Tools for Higher Education
Top 20 Web 2.0 applications in HE Apps for HE Web 2.0 for the classroom teacher Best Apps for education - 2009 Tools for teachers E-learning & tools for teachers Teaching & Learning w/ Web 2.0 Tools
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Problems
Unaware Inadequate instructions Usual suspects
• Filtering policies (K-12 schools) • Insufficient support • Time
Others?
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Coming Attractions
Starbucks Effect
Blurring of work & personal lives…& apps
9 to 5 >>>
Growing reliance on Internet – “cloud”
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“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.” - James Baldwin
What Next?
Baby steps…one new app at a time
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Summary
Tons of Web 2.0 apps available Creates rich, engaging & exciting
learning environment Users become information producers
& collaborators, not just consumers Promotes student-centered learning Users become more efficient
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PresenterJohn Thompson, PhDAssociate Professor
Educational Technology ProgramComputer Information Systems Department
Buffalo State CollegeChase 208, 1300 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14222716.878.3531 [email protected]