A detailed presentation on web 2.0, its implications on education.

2. Contents
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3. Web 1.0 was Commerce
Web 2.0 is People
- Ross Mayfield
Web 2.0 seems to be like Pink Floyd
lyrics: It can mean different things to
different people, depending upon the
your state of mind.
- Kevin Maney

4. Introduction
• The concept of "Web 2.0" began with a
conference brainstorming session between
O'Reilly and MediaLive International in 2004
• The phrase "Web 2.0" hints at an improved form
of the World Wide Web
• Emphasizing tools and platforms that enable the
user to Tag, Blog, Comment, Modify, Augment,
Rank, etc.
• The more explicit synonym of "Participatory
Web"

5. Web 2.0? Second generation of web-based
communities and hosted services — such as social
networking sites, wikis, etc. — which facilitate
collaboration and sharing between users.
(wikipedia.com)

6. The average person can put their
work on the web
eg:
Photographers,
journalists,
aspiring writers,
students, etc.

7. One out of Eight Couples Married
in 2006 Met Online.
MySpace is the 11th Largest
Country in the World.
The Number of Text Messages
Sent each day exceed the Total
Population of Earth.
2.7 Billion Google Searches Per
Month.

8. Web 2.0?
Wide use of internet, common platform
Increased amount of information generated
Increased demand for ease of use
Increased demand for “connectedness”
Need to “level the playing field”
Need to contribute

9. The Old Way
(Supply Push)
• A digital library, largely a source of
information for students.
• A large collection and collation of
information with varying degrees of
reliability and authenticity.
• Mostly surfing from one static Web site to
another while collecting or viewing data
along the way.

10. The New Way
(Demand Pull)
• Web is the platform.
• wwww – whatever, wherever, whenever,
whoever.
• Users publish, share information, collaborate
on content, and converse worldwide via social-
software tools.
• Read-write web (not read-only web)
• Data comes from many users and sources

11. Principles of Web 2.0
. It marks the progression from static web pages to
dynamic, interactive ones
. Read/write web
. Sharing, collaboration, & user
involvement
. Reviews
. Comment on news stories
. Upload photos
. Share digital videos

12. Benefits of Web 2.0
Recruitment:
Due to the cutting-edge underlying technologies and
usability-focused interfaces (the ‘cool’ factor)
Organisations adopting Web 2.0 tend to attract
sophisticated, high-caliber technical candidates.
Reduced cost:
Not only are Web 2.0 offerings low-cost, but the same
techniques can also be applied to existing (non-Web 2.0)
products and services, lowering costs.
For example, wikis can enable your users to build
documentation and knowledge base systems, with
relatively little investment from yourself.

13. Benefits of Web 2.0
Loyalty
The open, participatory Web 2.0 environment encourages
user contribution, enhancing customer loyalty and lifespan.
Marketing/PR.
By taking advantage of the aforementioned benefits,
marketing and PR teams can implement low-cost, wide-
coverage, viral strategies.
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Web 2.0 delivery mechanisms - such as Blogs and RSS -
significantly enhance search engine exposure through their
distributed nature

14. Implications for education
From To
To
Consuming Producing
Authority Transparency
Expert Facilitator
Classroom Hallway
Access to information Access to people
Learning about Learning to be
Passive learning Passionate learning
Presentation Participation
Publication Conversation
Formal education Lifelong learning
Supply-push Demand-pull
John Seely Brown

15. Implications for education (TRENDS)
• Content Creation (Explosion)
• Information (Overload)
• Participation (Increase)
• Producer / Consumer (Prosumer)
• Collaboration (Increase)
• Innovation (Increase)
• Flatter and Faster
• Classroom to Hallway
• Social Networking (Increase)
Steve Hardagon

16. Implications for education (What can we do?)
• Know Web 2.0
• Lurk
• Participate
• Prosume
• Empower others to produce
• Lead and Converse with students:
E-Safety
Accessing Content
Creating Content
Critical Thinking
• Discuss / Debate – What are the Questions?

17. BLOGS
www.global2.vic.edu.au
A blog is an online diary that other people can comment on. They are great for documenting a
learning journey. You can add images, audio and video. Blogs are much more powerful when
other people comment on them and give feedback. You can have a whole school blog, a
class blog or even individual student blogs.

18. Wikis
What is a Wiki?
 “Server software that allows users to freely create and edit
web page content using any web browser.” – Ward
Cunningham
 The term is Hawaiian meaning fast.
 A wiki is supposed to be a fast way to create on the web.

19. WIKI
Wikis (1)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=University_of_Warwick
 Wikis provide
collaborative, easy-
to-use Web-based
authoring.
 Sounds ideal for
HE:
Students,
researchers and
support staff:
 collaborative work
 focus on content,
not on authoring
tools
 ..
Issue: (for Web/marketing people)
Issue: (for Web/marketing people)
•• Shouldn't you be proactive in ensuring content is accurate, …
Shouldn't you be proactive in ensuring content is accurate, … 19
•• Should you seek to lead in order to define structure?
Should you seek to lead in order to define structure?

20. GOOGLE DOCS
(www.docs.google.com)
Imagine being able to have more than 1 person typing on a Word document, an Excel
spreadsheet or even creating a Powerpoint presentation at the same time. This program
allows you to do just that! You can have as many people as you like working on the exact
same document at the same time. They do not need to be in the same room or even the
same country! This is useful for teachers with their planning documents and for students
working in groups on projects. The best thing is there is no emailing the ‘latest’ version of
the document around as the online version is always the most up to date version.

21. Podcast
What is a Podcast?
 A podcast is a series of digital media files (either
audio or video ) that are released episodically and
downloaded through web syndication.
 Researchers at the Center for Journalism and Mass
Communication Research at the University of Texas
at Austin are proposing a three-part definition of a
podcast: first, that it is episodic; second, that it is
downloadable; and third, that it is program-driven,
mainly with a host and/or theme
-Wikipedia

22. WEBQUESTS
www.webquest.org
A webquest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that
learners work with comes from the web. Students work in groups to research a topic.
They each research different elements of the topic and then bring their findings back
together. Webquests are highly structured and there are 1000s of webquests available on
1000s of topics or you can make your own.

23. VOICE THREAD
www.voicethread.com
A VoiceThread is a collaborative slide show that can hold images, documents and/or videos
and lets people interact and comment on the content in 5 ways; using voice with either a
microphone or telephone, text, audio file or video. The people's comments appear around the
edges of the image/document/video. Teachers can upload a powerpoint presentations and
have students respond to each slide. Fantastic for response to text and images.

24. VISUAL DICTIONARY
http://visual.merriam-webster.com
Visual Dictionary is designed to help students find the right word at a glance. It will have
the answer in situations when the students know what something looks like but not what
it's called, or when they know the word but can't picture the object.

25. TIMERIME
www.timerime.com
Are you looking to create a timeline on any subject? Create as many timelines as you
want and add maps, images, video and sound. You can even set up an account just for
your class. This tool is great for students wanting to create a timeline about a book,
historical figure, their own lives etc.

26. DIIGO
www.diigo.com
Diigo allows you to save your favourite websites online. This is much more useful than saving
your favourites to your computer as you can access them from any computer at any time. You
can also share great websites you have found with other people who have similar interests as
you. You can use the Diigo tools to highlight important parts of websites and place virtual sticky
notes on websites. If your students have Diigo accounts they can visit these websites and see
your highlighted parts and sticky notes.

27. SLIDESHARE
www.slideshare.com
Slideshare is an online space for sharing your Powerpoint presentations. You can search for
presentations other people have created or upload your own. This is useful for sharing your
slideshow with a much wider audience- simply give people the address to your slideshare or
tell them to search for it.

28. VISUWORDS
http://www.visuwords.com
It's a dictionary! It's a thesaurus! Look up words to find their meanings and associations
with other words and concepts. As well as showing the meanings of words Visuwords
shows connecting words, related words, words that are similar, words that are the opposite
and much more! All of the words are connected with different coloured lines depending on
their relationship to the main word (similar to a mind map).

29. TEACHERTUBE
www.teachertube.com
Teachertube is Youtube for teachers and students. The focus of this site is educational videos.
These can be uploaded by teachers to help other teachers or to show their class. They can
also be projects uploaded by students. The great thing about teachertube is that unlike
Youtube, it is moderated AND not blocked in schools. You can search for videos/ audio or
images on any topic or upload your own.

30. VOKI
www.voki.com
Voki allows you to create personalised talking characters using either your own voice or a
computer generated voice. You can share your Voki with other people online. Vokis are
particularly useful for students who are too shy to read their own work out or stand in front
of a class and give a report. Loads of uses in Language and LOTE classrooms too!

31. PREZI
www.prezi.com
Sick of seeing boring old Powerpoints? Prezi is a far more engaging and interactive version
of a Powerpoint. You can add images, videos, audio and text. It is stored online so you can
share it with friends (you can even download a copy to keep on your computer). Prezi
makes it super easy to create an impressive presentation in a less 'linear' format than
Powerpoint.

32. STORYBIRD
www.storybird.com
Storybird 'reverses the process of visual storytelling by starting with the image and "unlocking"
the story inside. Choose an artist or a theme, get inspired, and start writing.' This website
provides you with a range of beautiful illustrations that require an author to turn them into a
story. The end product is an online picture book that can be shared with anyone. Another great
aspect of this site is the ability to collaborate on a story- invite someone else to make the book
with you.

33. PIVOT STICK FIGURE ANIMATION
http://pivot-stickfigure-animator.en.softonic.com
Allows you to make fun stick figure animations that range from the simple to the amazing!
You can even save your animation as a GIF file. You could ask students to demonstrate their
understanding of a topic such as the digestive system, levers and pulleys and more. Kids love
making Pivot animations. You can Google tutorials on how to make characters run, leap etc.

34. INSIDE A DOG
www.insideadog.com.au
Read and write book reviews at the State Library site
'Inside a Dog'. These reviews are written BY kids FOR kids. You can also win books just by
doing a review. The reviews provide a basic template and make it very easy for all students to
submit a review- regardless of how good their literacy skills are. The site also includes loads of
fabulous resources for teachers of Literacy including Literacy Circle resources.

35. ETHERPAD
www.ietherpad.com
Etherpad is an online collaborative notepad. You can create a new pad in 1 simple click and
give the address to whoever you want to share the pad with. Each person has a unique text
colour so you can see who has contributed what. A time slider option plays back all of
the contributions in a short movie- great to see who is doing all the work!

36. FREEMIND
http://freemind.en.softonic.com/
Freemind is mindmapping software. It is easy to use and is designed to be a basic looking
(bling free) mindmapping tool. The focus with this software is the ideas presented NOT the
fancy fonts and images that waste so much of our students time. It is simple to use (just click
the light bulb at the top to add a new idea). It is free and requires no sign up. This software is
downloaded onto your computer and requires no internet connection to use/

37. TOONDOO
www.toondoo.com
Toondoo provides you with everything you need to make a comic strip- the layout, the images
and the speech bubbles. Just select your background and your characters and add text! You
can also make online books. Share them online or embed them in a blog once completed. Sign
up required.

38. TIKATOK
www.tikatok.com
Tikatock enables you to create online storybooks. You can create a books from scratch
(adding your own images and text) or use a 'Storyspark' to help you come up with a story.
The end result is an interactive online book that can be shared with friends or even
printed out into a real book (for a fee).

39. GLOGSTER
www.edu.glogster.com
Glogster enables you to create interactive online posters. You can add the usual things that
'normal' posters have- text, images and headings BUT you can also add audio and video!
Imagine how much more engaging a poster with audio and video would be. Easy to use and
very effective! Teachers can create a class account and have student accounts linked to this.
Great for use as a student digital portfolio at the end of a unit of work.

40. RUBISTAR
www.rubistar.4teachers.org
Rubistar is a tool to 'help teachers create quality rubrics.' This is a great starting base for
teachers when constructing rubrics on any topic. There are preset suggestions on a range of
educational topics- or you can create your own from scratch. Why not search for a pre-made
rubric before creating your own. It is all about sharing what we do.

41. TODAY'S MEET
www.todaysmeet.com
Today'sMeet quickly and easily allows you to share your thoughts, questions and ideas with
other people. This is commonly used as a 'back channel' for participants in meetings and PDs.
It allows participants to discuss the content of the meeting/PD etc at the time that it is being
delivered. It encourages people to question what they are learning and share their thoughts.
This has been used in classrooms with kids watching documentaries and listening to stories
etc.

42. WOLFRAM ALPHA
www.wolframalpha.com
Type any question or calculation and watch Wolfram Alpha provide the answers. This search
engine is extremely clever- it can even demonstrate how it works out the maths equations.
Ask a question and it will provide you with as many up to date facts as it can about the topic.
This search engine is different to Google in that it is not about information- it is about hard
facts.

43. AUDACITY
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Audacity is a voice recording program. It allows you to record your voice then edit out the bad
bits, add background music etc. Audacity is excellent for making podcasts and audio diaries.
Export the final product as an MP3 and embed in a blog or Powerpoint presentation etc. This
program is downloaded onto your computer and does not require an internet connection to use.

44. ONENOTE
(This is a part of the Microsoft Office package)
This is a scrapbook with all of the modern extras! You can do everything you normally would in
a scrapbook- scribble notes, stick pictures in, highlight things PLUS you can add audio and
video diary entries, copy and paste from the internet (with website references), add 'to do' lists,
add hyperlinks and tables and do a quick search to find your notes- no need to madly flick
through pages looking for something you wrote last term! This is fantastic for collating
research/meeting notes.

45. GOOGLE SKETCHUP
http://sketchup.google.com/download/
Google SketchUp allows you to create 3D models of different shapes to explore mathematical
concepts. Students can create anything from basic 3D shapes right through to scale models
of complex buildings. There are loads of video tutorials on how to create models in Google
SketchUp- just Google it!

46. SURVEY MONKEY
www.surveymokey.com
Survey Monkey allows you to create surveys and questionnaires with up to 10 questions.
You have multiple choice answers, text answers, yes/no answers etc. Once you share the
link with participants and they complete the survey you can view the results (usually
shown as graphs). This is a quick way of getting feedback from multiple people.

47. FUSE
www.fuse.education.vic.gov.au
FUSE is the Department's repository for teaching resources. Search in FUSE for activities
related to your topic BEFORE searching anywhere else. FUSE has recommended websites,
images, audio, video AND interactive online activities for kids (related to your topic). Each
resource is linked to an appropriate VELS level. There is also a student version with access to
loads of fantastic resources.

48. PHOTOPEACH
www.photopeach.com
Similar to photostory. Create a slideshow of your photos/images then add music (from a small
selection available online). The difference between this website and Photostoy is that you can
easily share the end results with other people online. (You can also download the presentation
to save on your computer). You do need to create an account to use Photopeach but it is very
quick and easy to do this. An option for classes is to create a class account and have all
students use the one account.

49. SMORE
www.smore.com
Create fantastic looking publications online. You can create one from scratch or use of the
templates supplied on this site. Easily create newsletters, flyers, invitations and
advertisements. Drag and drop images onto the template (no more uploading to the web
first!) Change the background and styles and then easily share your finished publication
online. Requires a sign in but this is very quick and easy!

50. QUIZLET
www.quizlet.com
Create flash cards for students using Quizlet. You can use any of the ready made piles of
flashcards on 100s of topics or you (or your students) can create your own. Once you have
made a set you can share them with students (downloadable onto iphone, ipads etc) and play
interactive matching and spelling games. Great for languages as you can hear the words being
spoken. Also very good for teaching academic vocabulary. Sign in required.

51. BUBBLR
http://www.pimpampum.net/bubblr
Search for images using tags. Find an appropriate photo and add thought bubbles and
speech bubbles. Use a single photo or create a series of photos. Students can show what
people in photos may be thinking r saying based on what they see in the image. Give the
photos a name and share the unique URL. (No login required)

52. PHRASR
http://www.pimpampum.net/phrasr
Type in a sentence and click ‘Start.’ This site will find an image for each of your words to
create a visual representation of your words. You can change the image for each word until
you find an image you are satisfied with. When you are finished you can watch a mini cycle
of your images and words. You can easily share the unique web address of your finished
piece. (No login required)

53. PRIMARYWALL
http://www.primarywall.com
Create an online wall of sticky notes with your students. It is simple to create a blank wall
and have students double click to leave a sticky note. This site goes further than
WallWisher as it allows you to send all the words from the noted to Wordle. Primarywall also
includes a bad language filter. No sign up required!

54. POPPLET
http://www.popplet.com
Popplet is an online brainstorming/mindmapping tool. It takes 1 minutes to create an
account and then you can create up to 5 free mindmaps. The great thing is you can share
and collaborate on your mindmaps with other people. You can add images and video and
you can easily identify who has contributed each idea. This tool is great for kids doing a
brainstorm or a concept map in a group.

55. TRICIDER
https://tricider.com
Ask a question and have other people respond to it. The responses can then be voted on.
Useful for discussions around being persuasive as students have the opportunity to give a
response and then add supporting detail to their response. Share your question with a small
group or with the world!

56. Points for further debate
• Are children as digitally 'native' as we think? It may be necessary to
review the skills, attitudes, that are needed in the new world of Web
2.0. There are information literacy issues and we need to educate
children and students on how to make best use of these new,
collaborative technologies (Boulos, 2006).
• We will need to educate young people more deeply about privacy,
trust and the social Web. Those who participate often don’t seem to
appreciate that the reach of the network means that their profile
could potentially be viewed by millions of people and that there
could be long-term implications to this (George, 2006). As one
example, in autumn 2006, the University of California required
students to attend classes in social networking.
• What are the challenges and issues with regard to user identity on
the network

57. What’s coming next?

58. Web 3.0
O This term that has been coined to
describe the Semantic Web
O It promises to “organize the world’s
information”
O Can reason about information and
make new conclusions

59. References
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60. Thank you !