1. 5000 Web Apps in 333 Seconds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs_xnyJtWEc
Amaztype
http://amaztype.tha.jp/US/Books/Title?q=Learning+2.0
Learning 2.0 website
http://23things.info

2. “The future exists today.
William Gibson
It’s just unevenly distributed”

3. 1. Introduction
2. Information changes in the world
3. What is Web 2.0, and why bother?
4. “Learning 2.0” Blogsite to learn with at
http://23things.info – where to start?
5. Start creating yourself… Blogging
6. Conclusion – just the start!

6. Currently over 1.4 billion
Internet users worldwide
World usage growth
2000-2008
305%

7. Middle East usage growth
2000-2008
1,177%

8. A recent Zayed University (UAE)
study concluded that 94% of
students have home internet.

12. Future changes to
information will speed up
Over the next 13 years an ipod size device will hold:
• A year’s worth of video by 2012
• All commercial music ever created by 2015
All content ever created
(in all media) by 2020!

13. Pocket-sized devices will
dominate

14. In 2006
it was estimated that the world creates as
much information each year
as the Library of Congress
print collection
37,000 times over!

15. So what is
“Web 2.0”
all about?

18. Wikis and wiki web sites
Wikipedia has 2.5m articles growing at 25% p.a.
Blogs and Blog sites
WordPress growing by 444% in late 2007
Video , music and image sharing
YouTube adding 150,000 videos …
…
daily!
Social Networking sites – huge growth!
MySpace had over 114m visitors/month in mid-2007
Facebook had over 52m visitors in the same
period, but increasing at 270% p.a.
RSS
Social Tagging

23. More than 50% of U.S.
21-year-olds
have
created content
on the web.

24. More than 70% of U.S.
4-year-olds
have
used a computer.

25. How do these figures translate into the
UAE setting?

26. What’s happening in Education?

28. … from how to
make timelines

29. .. to primary math wikis
…or 4th Grade
students
using a wiki to
better learn about
animal adaptations
and habitats

30. Recent research has found that...
“young learners are prolific users of Web 2.0 technologies”
Schools and teachers using Web 2.0 in the
classroom have found benefits such as…
• Web 2.0 helps to encourage student engagement and increase
participation
• social networking technology can encourage online discussion
• encourages some individuals to extend their learning
• pupils feel a sense of ownership and engagement when they publish their
work online

31. However …
Recent research has ALSO found that
…
… the majority of teachers questioned had
never used Web 2.0 applications in lessons
Why?

32. Their main concerns involved ..
• a lack of time to familiarize themselves
with the technology, and
• worries about managing the use of the
internet in class.
Anything
surprising there?

36. Start Monday!

37. http://23things.info

41. Credits
•Images from Daphne Selbert, Stephen Abram, and Google Images
•Internet Usage statistics (slides 6,7) http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
•Information r/evolution from Youtube (slide 9) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4CV05HyAbM
•Statistics (slides 10,11,12) from Stephen Abram Powerpoint presentations available
http://stephenslighthouse.sirsidynix.com/
•Did you know 2.0 from Youtube (slides 23,24) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U
•6 & 7 Year olds and BLOGS! From TeacherTube (slide 27)
http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=601b9f31bf04019c8593
•Statistics re Library of Congress (Slide 14) from Godwin, P. (2008) Information Literacy meets
Library 2.0
•Quote from Abrams (slide 40) Abrams, S. (2006) 43 Things I might want to do this year. Retrieved
February, 2008 from http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FWE/is_2_10/ai_n16133338
•BECTA statistics from the UK 2007/08 studies (slide 23) http://news.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?
resID=38417
•BECTA statistics from the UK 2007/08 studies (slides 30, 31, 32) from
http://schools.becta.org.uk/index.php?section=tl&catcode=ss_tl_dig_02&rid=15903