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Wikis and twitters and blogs, oh my
1. “Wikis and twitters and blogs, oh
my!” Is Web 2.0 technology a road
schools should be going down?
Mark Childs
E-learning Development Fellow
Coventry University
2. Web what?
• Web 1.0 - linking together information over
the Internet for people to access – webpages,
movies, etc
• Web 2.0 – bringing together user-generated
content, wikis, blogs, social networking sites,
3D platforms
• Web 3.0 – the semantic web, information
organised, synthesised and presented
3. A range of services we take part in
• http://www.flickr.com/ for photos
• http://www.youtube.com/ for videos
• http://www.youtube.com/user/arcp59/
• http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#
• http://www.linkedin.com/
• http://www.slideshare.net/ for ppts
• http://www.slideshare.net/markchilds
5. Some examples from HE
• Wikis, ESOL teacher training, Kirklees College
• Wikis, workplacements, BLU (Herts.)
• Ning, Collaboration, Huddersfield University
– http://teamhudd.ning.com/
• Blogs, Theatre, Warwick
– http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/hesterbond/entry/the
_eumenides/
– http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/lmatthews/entry/sst1_
stuffargh_work/
6. For: new forms of learning
• Collaboration, Publication, Literacies, Inquiry
• Socialising the expressive: media design,
sharing, and publication
• Socialising the reflective: blogs, social
networks, and wikis
• Socialising the exploratory: syndication,
recommenders, folksonomies
7. For: new forms of learners
• No Future Left Behind
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kra_z9vM
nHo
8. Against
• Distraction q
• Dissent
• Security of systems
• Privacy of users
• Policy