Web2 inschools November 2010

Using Web 2.0 in a school
environment November 2010
Phil Bradley
http://www.philb.com

What is Web 2.0?
• Let’s just not go there shall we?
• Definitions are less important than what you
can do with it
• Oh, if you really insist…

What is Web 2.0?
• Web 2.0 is a term often applied to a perceived
ongoing transition of the World Wide Web
from a collection of websites to a full-fledged
computing platform serving web applications
to end users. Ultimately Web 2.0 services are
expected to replace desktop computing
applications for many purposes.
– Wikipedia entry

• Web 1.0 was
computer based
• Web 2.0 uses the
web as a platform

• Web 1.0 relied on
installed software
• Web 2.0 uses the
browser

• Web 1.0 was solitary • Web 2.0 encourages
sharing

• Web 1.0 was
individuals working
alone
• Web 2.0 is
community, sharing
wisdom

• Web 2.0 is the
portability of data
• Web 1.0 was data in
one place

• Web 1.0 was about
consuming (data)
• Web 2.0 is about
creating data
– Weblogs
– Photograph sharing
– Wikis
– Collaborative
resources
– Social networking
– Bookmarking

• Web 1.0 was home
pages
• Web 2.0 is weblogs

• Web 1.0 was
tracking information
down
• Web 2.0 is having
information come to
you

• Web 1.0 was
badging your
content
• Web 2.0 is getting
the answer out there
quickly

• Web 1.0 was slow
transfer rates
• Web 2.0 is about
broadband

• Web 1.0 was
hardware £s
• Web 2.0 is
broadband £s

• Web 1.0 was getting
it perfect
• Web 2.0 is doing it
and moving on

• Web 1.0 was
stationary
• Web 2.0 is mobile

• Web 1.0 was about
limitations
• Web 2.0 is about a
state of mind

Yes… but?
• “It’s vacuous marketing hype”
• “Web 2.0 is totally silly”
• “Meaningless”
• “is made entirely of pretentious self serving
morons.”
• “a lot of thin but very hot air blown at you by
those who are convinced that having nothing
to say is by no means a good reason to shut
up.”

So…
• Is it a question of degrees of difference?

Or…
• A difference of kind? (Is it or isn’t it a fad?)

Websites
• “If you don't have the will or the ability to
change your website at a moment's notice,
then you don't have a website. You have a
billboard.”
– http://twitter.com/defenestrate99

Los Angeles Public Library Teen Web

Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg

A Jigsaw
• A website should be modular in approach
• Composed of various different elements
• Click them in, try them in different places
• Discard, start again
• Living, changing and dynamic

Greater involvement
• Use Twitter
– Integrate your tweets into your website
– Contact and connect with other librarians,
parents, school children
– View Trending information for current affairs
– Follow historical figures

More Twitter
• Use hashtags to involve a class
– 140 word book reviews
• Or to involve parents!
– Create closed Twitter accounts
• Use Twitter polls
• Use Twitpic for images

Wordle
• Take some text
– Webpage
– Opening page of a book
– Essay
– Book titles
– Characters in a book
– Author names

• Go to Wordle.net
– Cut and paste the text
– Display the Wordle
– Save and use in the library, or on the website

How you can use this:
• Which book/author/play is this?
• Children’s book reviews wordled
• Create posters, copy onto t-shirts
• Poll a classroom (favourite colour, team etc.)

Tagxedo
• Next generation Wordle product
• Simple and easy to use
• Flexible
• You can add your own images to create your
own wordcloud shapes

Wikis
• A wiki allows individuals to collaborate
together
• Creative writing
• Book clubs
• Story telling

Yarra Road Primary School wiki

Facebook
• “Facebook is dangerous, so don’t use it”
• “Facebook is dangerous, so here’s how to use
it safely”

Presentations
• Create presentations and use them online
with
– Slideshare
– Authorstream
– Sliderocket
• Embed them on your site, weblog, wiki

Home/Start pages
• Netvibes, Pageflakes or iGoogle
• Create content, hosted by a 3rd
party
• Update when necessary, instantly
• Incorporate content back onto the website
• Easy to create and maintain

Dixie Grammer School on Netvibes

Using Flickr
• Create a free account
• Post photographs of the school, school trips,
the library, library events, local history
• Create trading cards
• Create motivational posters
• Blend back into the website, weblog, wiki

Multimedia
• Voice thread
– A secure network to allow students and teachers
to collaborate and share ideas with classrooms
anywhere in the world
• TeacherTube
– an online community for sharing instructional
videos
• SchoolTube
– Educational, moderated

Weblogs
• Use weblogs as an aid in the library
– Historical, educational, fictional weblogs
– Link to existing book collections
– Create new weblogs
– Use weblogs for book reviews

WW1: Experiences of an English
Soldier

Communication & news gathering
• Weblogs
– Create a library weblog
– Additional or new library resources
– Introduce members of staff
– Use it as a repository of data and information by
using categories and tags
– Don’t regard a weblog as a diary – it’s an
important website in its own right…

Weblogs continued…
• Use the weblog RSS feed on the site home
page as a news feed
• Encourage people to add the feed to their
start page or RSS reader
• Create a different weblog for a different
subject area – invite other authors
• Use it in a different way, on a different page

Bookmarking
• Share and collaborate on bookmarks
– With Staff, students, parents, other librarians
• Blend bookmarks into website, specific pages,
weblog, wikis
• Encourage continual additions
• Delicious, Diigo etc.

Jogtheweb
http://www.jogtheweb.com/run/FKRZ1SQDhvv7/Multimedia-resources-for-librarians

Jogtheweb
http://www.jogtheweb.com/run/CIPGOqlOglsi/Library-tools

Start pages with Tizmos.com
• Mine is at
http://www.tizmos.com/Philbradley

Online Stickies http://en.linoit.com
• Like Wallwisher, but more flexible

Create your own search engines

There are challenges
• Cyberbullying
– Is this CYBERbullying or just BULLYING?
• Copyright issues
• Privacy issues
– Images of children
• Technical issues
• So create spaces, not just posters
• Cultivate volunteers

In summary:
• Websites must be flexible and under the
control of the librarian
• Blend information
• Be a cyber nomad
• Incorporate, play, use, discard
• Encourage collaboration
• ‘Let’s try it’ and not ‘Let’s not’

And there’s more...
• Quizzes, jigsaws and crossword puzzles
• Speaking avatars
• Google street view
• Etc...

Photopeach
• Add images, grab some music, create a video!

Create a Bayeux tapestry
http://www.adgame-wonderland.de/type/bayeux.php

Random name/word picker
http://classtools.net/

Braineos flash cards
http://www.braineos.com/home

Thank you
• http://www.philb.com
• http://www.philbradley.typepad.com
• http://www.twitter.com/Philbradley
• http://www.slideshare.net/Philbradley
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/philbradley/
• http://delicious.com/Philbradley

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