2. Who are our students?
Who are we teaching?
Our Students are Digital Natives
3. Students have changed.
Today’s students:
•Are digital natives who live in a world where
technology is omnipresent.
•Are not the people our educational system was
designed to teach.
•Have not just changed incrementally from those
of the past…our students have chanced radically.
•Represent the first generation to grow up with
this new technology.
•Think and process information fundamentally
differently from their predecessors.
•Are all native speakers of the digital language of
computers, video games and the Internet.
(Prensky 2001, p. 1)
4. What is Web 2.0?
Web 2.0 is simply the use of the Internet as a two-
way medium- - -that it is a platform upon which
content is not only consumed but also created. For
my generation, our use of the Web largely
mirrored our experiences with print and broadcast
media: we were the audience, and a select few
were the creators (this would be Web 1.0, if you
will).
“Moving Toward Web 2.0 in K-12 Education”
Steve Hargadon (2008)
5. Web 2.0
Web 2.0 are so aligned with significant educational
pedagogies that we are going to have to
dramatically rethink our educational institutions
and expectations because of them.
6. The WWW has changed.
The web is now a much more democratic place for
users. Users can:
Participate
Interact
Create
Collaborate
Share
Web 2.0: New Tools, New Schools
Solomon & Schrum (2007)
7. Web 2.0 Applications
YOUTUBE
To set up an official channel on
YouTube, colleges must sign an agreement
with the company, though no money
changes hands. That allows the colleges to
brand their section of the site, by including
a logo or school colors, and to upload
longer videos than typical users are
allowed.
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
8. Web 2.0 Applications
YOUTUBE
Michael L. Wesch, an assistant professor of
cultural anthropology at Kansas State
University, made a video about Web 2.0 that
drew more than 400,000 views.
9. Web 2.0 Applications
YOUTUBE
Two professors at the University of Minnesota
created a 3-D animation explaining a mathematical
concept, and attracted more than 1 million views on
YouTube.
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
10. Web 2.0 Applications
YOUTUBE
Yet some lectures on Berkeley's channel
scored 100,000 viewers each, and people
were sitting through the whole talks.
quot;Professors in a sense are rock stars,quot; Mr.
Hochman concludes. quot;We're getting as
many hits as you would find with some of
the big media players.quot;
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
14. Web 2.0 Applications
FACEBOOK
Students report that one of the most
common topics of conversation on the
social networking scene is education.
Almost 60 percent of students who use
social networking talk about education
topics online and, surprisingly, more than
50 percent talk specifically about
schoolwork.
National school boards association, 2007
15. Web 2.0 Applications
The Facebook Classroom: 25 Facebook Applications That Are Perfect for Online Education
For Students
Books iRead: Share the books you're reading, and see what others think of books with this
application.
DoResearch4me: This app makes it easy to gather information using your thesis
statement, instructions, and more.
Flashcards: With this application, you can create flash cards to help you study on Facebook.
Wikiseek Search: Use this research tool to find Wikipedia articles and more through Facebook.
SkoolPool: Get the lowdown on schools, online and otherwise, with this neat application.
Rate My Professors: Find out what other students think of professors before you register for their
class.
JSTOR Search: Find full text research articles on Facebook with this application.
Notely: Organize your school life with Notely, an app that helps you wrangle your
calendar, notes, assignments, and more.
Study Groups: Get everyone together on your group project by collaborating with this application.
Get Homework Help: This application will get you connected with tutors and other students that
can help you with your assignments.
SwapRoll: Save money on textbooks by trading them with the Swap Roll application.
Notecentric: Take notes right inside of Facebook and share them with classmates using this
application.
Class Notes: Use this application to find scanned notes for your classes on Facebook.
The Facebook Classroom, 2009
16. Web 2.0 Applications
The Facebook Classroom: 25 Facebook Applications That Are Perfect for Online Education
For Teachers and Administrators
Share assignments, slides, and so much more with these applications.
BookTag: This application offers a great way to share and loan books out to students, plus create
helpful quizzes for studying.
Webinaria Screencast Recorder: Record a video for students, and share it with this application.
Mathematical Formulas: Distribute formulas, solutions, and more with this application.
SlideShare: Create presentations to send to students with this slideshow application.
The Facebook Classroom, 2009
17. Web 2.0 Applications
The Facebook Classroom: 25 Facebook Applications That Are Perfect for Online Education
For Everyone
These applications are great for just about anyone in online education.
Calendar: This calendar app from 30 Boxes lets you organize your days, set reminders and share
your calendar with others.
To-Do List: Stay on top of your tasks with this Facebook to-do application.
Zoho Online Office: With this office application, you can keep all of your documents online, and
even share them with classmates, students, and colleagues.
Courses: Courses offers loads of functionality for online education, with features that let you add
your courses, post announcements and assignments, search university reviews find
classmates, create discussions and form study groups.
Files: Powered by Box.net, this application makes it easy to store and retrieve documents in
Facebook, so you can access them anywhere you have a connection.
WorldCat: Use WorldCat to do research, catalog your library's collection, and share information
with students.
HeyMath!: These mini-movies explain difficult math concepts, so these are great to share with
students or use on your own.
CourseFeed: Take advantage of CourseFeed's class sharing, announcements, file
storage, notifications, and more on Facebook.
The Facebook Classroom, 2009
21. Web 2.0 Applications
WEBLOGS
What are WEB-LOGS?
A user-generated website where entries
are made in journal style and displayed in
a reverse chronological order.
Why use them in the classroom?
22. Web 2.0 Applications
WEBLOGS
Weblogs:
•Support constructivist learning
•Expand the boundaries of time and
space
•Promote reflection
•Benefit all students through posted
questions/comments
•Are already familiar to students
•Create authentic audiences for
students
•Support student to student, student
to content, student to instructor
interaction
23. Web 2.0 Applications
WEBLOGS
Edublogs hosts hundreds of thousands of
blogs for
teachers, students, researchers, professors, li
brarians, administrators and anyone and
everyone else involved in education.
Edublogs are completely free, and come with
20MB of free upload space (easily extended
to 5 GB as a Supporter) and a heap of great
features
24. Web 2.0 Applications
WIKIS
Wiki is a piece of server software that allows
users to freely create and edit Web page
content using any Web browser.
Like many simple concepts, quot;open editingquot;
has some profound and subtle effects on
Wiki usage. Allowing everyday users to create
and edit any page in a Web site is exciting in
that it encourages democratic use of the
Web and promotes content composition by
nontechnical users.
http://wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WhatIsWiki
Wiki in Plain English---funny and straight
forward explanation of how wikis work.
25. Web 2.0 Applications
WIKIS
Open - Any reader can edit it as they see fit.
Interaction - This enables guest interaction.
Collaboration - both synchronously and
asynchronously.
Observable – Activity can be watched and
reviewed by any other visitor to the site.
Sharing - of
information, knowledge, experience, ideas, vi
ews...
Fun - Everybody can contribute; nobody has
to.
26. Web 2.0 Applications
WIKIS
Trust - This is the most important thing in a
wiki. Trust the people, trust the
process, enable trust-building. Everyone
controls and checks the content. Wiki relies
on the assumption that most readers have
good intentions.
29. Web 2.0 Applications
WORD PROCESSORS
Have you ever wanted a web-based word
processor where multiple people can login and
share ideas? Writeboard does that and a whole lot
more. You can start a board very quickly and easily
and invite your co-writers to join in and help
brainstorm with you. RSS updates are available for
your board so you know when changes have been
made, a very nice feature. Another great feature is
the ability to have multiple versions of a document
so you can roll back if needed.
31. Web 2.0 Applications
RSS FEEDS (REALLY SIMPLE SYNDICATION)
RSS (Rich Site Summary) is a format for
delivering regularly changing web content.
Many news-related sites, weblogs and other
online publishers syndicate their content as
an RSS Feed to whoever wants it.
http://www.whatisrss.com/
32.
33. Web 2.0 Applications
BOOKMARKS AND FAVORITES
Delicious is a Social Bookmarking
service, which means you can save all your
bookmarks online, share them with other
people, and see what other people are
bookmarking. It also means that we can
show you the most popular bookmarks being
saved right now across many areas of
interest. In addition, our search and tagging
tools help you keep track of your entire
bookmark collection and find tasty new
bookmarks from people like you.
34. Web 2.0 Applications
FLICKR
Almost certainly the best online photo
management and sharing application in the
world - has two main goals:
1. We want to help people make their
content available to the people who
matter to them.
2. We want to enable new ways of
organizing photos and video.
35. Web 2.0 Applications
SLIDESHARE
Upload and share your PowerPoint
presentations and Word documents on
SlideShare. Share publicly or privately. Add
audio to make a webinar.
