1. Web 2.0 for Learning
e-Learning Workshops for Students
Mike Chui
mikechui@ied.edu.hk
Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology (LTTC)
http://www.ied.edu.hk/lttc
2. Today’s Agenda
What is Web 2.0?
How to catch the opportunities of Web 2.0?
What are the impacts on education?
Sharing of Web 2.0 technologies (hands-on)
Q & A + Survey
3. What is Web 2.0?
Not a new Internet
Interactive information sharing
Interoperability
User-centered design and collaboration on the
World Wide Web
24/7 ability to produce, communicate, collaborate,
share, store, network and learn
4. Prosumer + Folksonomy
Prosumer
Producer + Consumer
Professional Consumer
Folksonomy
Using user-defined labels or tags to organize and
share information
Folk classification
5. 1. Delicious
It is a social bookmarking site
Go to http://delicious.com/
6. 1. Delicious (con’t)
Suppose you want to know more about e-portfolios,
so how can you make use of Delicious?
How many bookmarks are related to e-portfolios?
How can you relate the searched bookmarks to
higher education?
How many bookmarks did you get?
8. 1. Delicious (con’t)
What are the differences between using Delicious
and adding as My Favourite?
9. 2. SlideShare
It is an online presentation sharing space
Go to http://www.slideshare.net/
Click on Signup
How can I upload a PowerPoint file?
How can I allow people download my presentation?
What are the benefits and drawbacks of using
online presentation tool?
10. 3. Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
It benefits publishers by letting
the subscribers to get the
syndicated content automatically
Subscribers 無需一天刷新幾十次
自己感興趣的Web site或blog,
因爲它們更新的內容會通過RSS
feeds源源不斷地輸送到你的
feeds閱讀器中。
11. 3.1 How to subscribe a RSS feed (with iGoogle)
Go to http://www.google.com.hk/ig
You may select a theme
Click on See your page button
12. 3.1 How to subscribe a RSS feed (with iGoogle)
You may delete some unwanted gadgets
13. 3.1 How to subscribe a RSS feed (with iGoogle)
Click on Add Stuff (新增小工具)
14. 3.1 How to subscribe a RSS feed (with iGoogle)
Click on 新增資訊提供或小工具
Open a new Internet browser page
Go to http://www.mingpao.com/
Click on RSS button
Select your favourite category and copy the .xml
link
15. 3.1 How to subscribe a RSS feed (with iGoogle)
Go back the 新增資訊提供或小工具 box
Paste the copied URL:
http://inews.mingpao.com/rss/INews/gb.xml
Click on 新增 button
16. 4. Subscribe a blog (Using iGoogle)
Click on Add Stuff (新增小工具)
Click on 新增資訊提供或小工具
Enter http://educator.viviti.com
Click on 新增 button
17. 5. Wikispaces
It facilitates collaborative writing and tracking
history of editions
Go to http://www.wikispaces.com/