Original Presentation "Exploring the New World Wide Web" by Ian Jones for the Colorado Association of Senior Centers - July 24, 2009. Updated March 6, 2010.

1. Exploring the New World Wide Web Ian Jones March 6, 2010

2. Disclaimers The list of tools in this presentation is, by no means, exhaustive. While I try to find sites that have nothing objectionable on them, sometimes it’s a little tough. There are a lot of links in this presentation – the only one you really need to write down is www.sharetabs.com/?web20casc. I have linked to every site in this presentation at this address. You may find this presentation at http://www.slideshare.net/jonesian1/exploring-the-new-world-wide-web, should you want to review it later.

3. Overview of Presentation Introduction: Michael Wesch - “The Machines are Us/ingUs” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g) Presentation: Internet Culture: Consumers to Creators Describe the evolution of Internet users from consumers of information to creators of information. Great Tools for You and Me (a.k.a. Web 2.0) List a variety of tools being used on the Internet and examine possible uses for each in both a personal and professional setting. Dialogue: Karl Fisch – “Did You Know?” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U&feature=related) Xplane- “Did You Know? 4.0” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ILQrUrEWe8&feature=related) Societal Impact of Web 2.0 Culture Changes in Education Examine both the positive and negative impacts of the new web tools on the global culture and the education world.

4. A Brief History of the Web Computer Networks The World Wide Web The Read-Only Web The Commercial Web The Multi-media Web The Social Web The Collaborative Web The Open Source Web The New Web Image courtesy of: The Journal of Social Computing http://web2.socialcomputingjournal.com/

5. A Human Network Gather Reflect Share Publish Interact Communicate Collaborate Participate Design Create Manipulate Image courtesy of: www.wikipedia.org

6. Research Google (so much more!) Bing (Microsoft’s new search engine) Wolfram Alpha (statistics) RSS (a whole other subject) Go2Web20 (web applications index) Wikipedia (consume and create knowledge)

7. Media Sharing Media Sharing Beware of Racy Content Social Aspect of Media Sharing

8. Delicious

9. Idea Sharing Blogs Wiki Podcasting

10. RSS: Too Good to Skip RSS Simplified My Favorite RSS Readers: Netvibes (www.netvibes.com) iGoogle or Google Reader (www.igoogle.com) (www.google.com/reader) PageFlakes (www.pageflakes.com)

12. Social Networking An Overview Social Implications Implications for Productivity An Array of Social Networks

13. Facebook

14. Ning

15. LinkedIn

16. Twitter

17. Yammer

18. And Then There is Not just a search engine:

19. Collaborate Google Docs Wiki SlideShare Project Management Google Wave

20. Google Docs Word Processing Spreadsheet Presentations Forms Google Talk

21. What is a Wiki? Collaborative Website Wiki-wiki is Hawaiian for “quick” Very easy to develop Extremely easy to edit Multiple authors The most famous: Wikipedia Two of my favorites wiki tools:

22. Create and Re-Mix Numerous Audio and Video Mash-up Sites Re-mix Audio and Video in Your Browser Share on the Web or Download to Your Desktop Software as a Service (SaaS)

23. Manipulate and Experience Virtual Worlds Multi-User Web-Based Video Gaming Very Interesting Possibilities in the Education World Development in SecondLife

24. Discussion Which application discussed today do you think would be most helpful in your personal life? In your professional life? What, do you believe, are the implications of the growth of an interactive web on society? On the business world? Having been presented with this information, where do you predict this is all headed? Do you have any questions that I have not answered today?

25. Follow-up Feel free to contact me at jonesian1(at)gmail(dot)com.