Web 2.0

EDU 626 Integrating Educational Technology 1
Spring 2012

What is Web 2.0?
A waste of time, or a revolutionary way
of working?

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Meet Abby, the digital native!

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Where doe Web 2.0 fit?

Uploaded by loots1964 on Oct 21, 2009
Originally, I planned on having kids tell me about how they used Web 2.0 technologies in
school, but when I saw their reaction to my question, that they clearly had no idea what a
Web 2.0 was - by name, at least, I realized I had stumbled onto a fascinating little bit of
information. Web 2.0 is so innate to digital natives, that they can‟t even identify it by name!

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What is web 2.0, then?
The definitions abound!
Web 2.0 = the web as platform
Web 2.0 = the underlying
philosophy of relinquishing control
Web 2.0 = glocalization (“making
global information available to local
social contexts and giving people
the flexibility to find, organize,
share and create information in a
locally meaningful fashion that is
globally accessible”)

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More of what is web 2.0
Web 2.0 = an attitude not a
technology
Web 2.0 = when data, interface and
metadata no longer need to go hand
in hand
Web 2.0 = action-at-a-distance
interactions and ad hoc integration
Web 2.0 = power and control via
APIs
Web 2.0 = giving up control and
setting the data free

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It’s all of that, and more!
Web 2.0 is social, it‟s open (or at least
it should be), it‟s letting go of control
over your data, it‟s mixing the global
with the local. Web 2.0 is about new
interfaces - new ways of searching
and accessing Web content. And last
but not least, Web 2.0 is a platform -
and not just for developers to create
web applications like Gmail and
Flickr. The Web is a platform to
build on for educators, media,
politics, community, for virtually
everyone in fact!

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So, what is Web 2.0??

From Presentation “Web 2.0” by Satyajeet Singh available on Slideshare

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Participatory web?

Dr. Mark Grabe

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Web 2.0 and constructivism
What is the Connection Between Web
2.0 and Constructivist Theory?
Web 2.0 tools can . . . allow
students/learners to demonstrate their
understanding in a variety of ways. They
can blog, edit, contribute, rank, tag,
upload and enhance their web
experiences through the use of Web 2.0
tools. Additionally through the use of
social networking, learners can also be
exposed to other learners‟ perspectives
on a given topic or subject.
• Social Constructivism, a wiki created for class
EDER 679.09 Web 2.0 and Open Learning
Environments

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Elements of Web 2.0
Wikis and blogs and all
What is a blog?
• „A weblog is kind of a continual tour,
with a human guide who you get to
know. There are many guides to choose
from, each develops an audience, and
there‟s also comraderie [camaraderie]
and politics between the people who run
weblogs, they point to each other, in all
kinds of structures, graphs, loops, etc.‟
– Dave Winer, The History of Weblogs
Last update: Friday, May 17, 2002 at 12:37:09 PM

Dave Winer is one of the
pioneers of blogging.
This blog began in 1997.
Davenet is from 1994,

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What is a Blog?
A log of websites visited? Or a
personal journal? Or something else?
“Defining this variable form is not easy
in the highly opinionated blogosphere -
nor is it simple in the increasing number
of newsrooms that are in embracing
blogging. . . . Capturing the blogging
beast is no small matter, not when
everybody from the lonely scribe in
Paducah to me-too mass media in
Manhattan is trying to get arms and
minds around the virtual blob now
encroaching online.”
•Just what is a blog, anyway?
By Michael Conniff Posted: 2005-09-29

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Can we define blogs?
“I don’t care,”
“There is no need to define „blog.‟
. . . A blog is merely a tool that lets
you do anything from change the
world to share your shopping list.
People will use it however they
wish. And it is way too soon in the
invention of uses for this tool to
limit it with a set definition.”
• Jeff Jarvis, the veteran print journalist and
prominent blogger behind BuzzMachine
Quoted by Conniff in Just what is a blog, anyway?

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OK-so what makes a blog?
Technically, what is a weblog?
A weblog is a hierarchy of text,
images, media objects and data,
arranged chronologically, that
can be viewed in an HTML
browser.
• What makes a weblog a weblog?
Fri, May 23, 2003; by Dave Winer
Weblogs At Harvard Law

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Another technical definition
“. . . here’s a definition of what a blog
is:
A publication of
content and Web
links, sorted in
chronological order, with the most
recent at the top. The content reflects
personal or corporate interests, and is
almost always written by an individual.
. . .”
• What are Blogs, and Why Your Business Should Use
One, Guest columnist Richard Zwicky, founder and the CEO of
Metamend Software, a Victoria, B.C. based firm whose cutting edge
Search Engine Optimization software has been recognized around the
world as a leader in its field.

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History of blogs
Rebecca Blood:
The original weblogs were link-driven
sites. Each was a mixture in unique
proportions of links, commentary,
and personal thoughts and essays.
These weblogs provide a valuable
filtering function for their readers.
The web has been, in effect, pre-
surfed for them.
• weblogs: a history and perspective
7 september 2000 rebecca's pocket
• “Jesse‟s „page of only weblogs‟ lists the 23
known to be in existence at the beginning
of 1999.” “. . . last updated on 12 Oct
2000” with about 200 or 300.

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Who coined the term “weblog”?
Jorn Barger

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Blog History in Timeline Form
Dawn of Internet Time:
[=WWW time, ie about 1989-90]
Tim Berners-Lee at CERN begins
keeping a list of all new sites as they
come online.
June 1993:
NCSA‟s oldest archived What‟s New timbl's blog
list of sites.
June 1993:
Netscape begins running its What's
New! list of sites.
Jan 1994:
Justin Hall launches Justin‟s Home Original logo for
Page which would become Links from Mosaic, the
the Underground. (Now Justin‟s Links) first web browser from
NCSA

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1999: the year it all exploded
•Early 1999:
– Peter Merholz coins the term blog For What It's Worth
after announcing he was going to
pronounce web blogs as “wee-blog”. I've decided to pronounce the
word "weblog" as wee'- blog.
This was then shortened to blog. Or "blog" for short.
•Early 1999:
– Brigitte Eaton starts the first portal
devoted to blogs with about 50 listings.
•July 1999:
– Metafilter‟s earliest archives.
•July 1999:
– Pitas launches the first free build
your own blog web tool.
•August 1999:
– Pyra releases Blogger which becomes the
most popular web based blogging tool to
date, and popularizes blogging with
mainstream internet users.

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Importance of 1999?
Advent of easy-edit web interface
• July 1999 . . . Pitas, the first free build-
your-own-weblog tool launched
• In August, Pyra released
Blogger, and Groksoup
launched
• Late in 1999 software developer Dave
Winer introduced Edit This Page [a “Dave Winer, the
forerunner of Blog This?], and Jeff A. protoblogger and
Campbell launched Velocinews technology maven”
• All of these services are free, and all of Dan Mitchell, New
them are designed to enable individuals York Times,
December 2, 2006
to publish their own weblogs quickly Dave Winer‟s blog,
and easily. Scripting News, has
• Rebecca Blood, weblogs: a history and perspective been going since
1997

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Why was Blogger so revolutionary?

Rebecca Blood’s opinion:
Blogger itself places no restrictions on the
form of content being posted. Its web
interface, accessible from any browser,
consists of an empty form box into which
the blogger can type...anything: a passing
thought, an extended essay, or a childhood
recollection. With a click, Blogger will post
Rebecca Blood is a
the...whatever...on the writer's website, contributing writer
archive it in the proper place, and present to
the writer with another empty box, just
waiting to be filled.
 http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html and a pioneering
blog writer—her
blog goes back to
April 1999

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Sample Blogger posting interface

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Editing Blogger: wysiwyg

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Editing Blogger: html view

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• http://murraylibmedia.blogspot.com/ Result

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Other blogging software

TypePad‟s easy-to-use editor,
feedback management tools, feed
and podcast support, photo lets you easily create
albums and world-class customer & manage student
& teacher blogs,
support. quickly customize
designs
and include videos,
photos & podcasts.
Free, Pro or
Campus
To get started with WordPress, subscriptions.
set it up on a web host for the Powered by
most flexibility or get a free blog
on WordPress.com.

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Can blogging be “safe”?
Safe blogs becoming a part of school Some safer blogging
sites:
 The fear of encouraging social networking and
leaving the door open for unsavory individuals to
see what students are doing online has caused
most districts to avoid the tool, said David
Warlick, a North Carolina public speaker and
author who's working on the second edition of
“Classroom Blogging: A Teacher's Guide to the
Blogosphere.”
 But new educational software, such as Virtual
Office or Moodle, which the Muskego-Norway
School District has implemented this year,
protects students by letting them "publish" their
writing within a secure server where teachers can
monitor the comments.
• By Erin Richards of the Journal Sentinel Posted:
March 25, 2007

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What about wikis?
What is a wiki?
A wiki is a website where every
page can be edited in a web
browser, by whomever happens to
be reading it. It's so terrifically easy
for people to jump in and revise
pages that wikis are becoming
known as the tool of choice for
large, multiple-participant projects.
• What Is a Wiki (and How to Use One
for Your Projects) by Tom Stafford,
Matt Webb 07/07/2006

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Does it have anything to do with Wikipedia?
Wikipedia is a wiki
The name “Wikipedia” is a
portmanteau (a combination of
portions of two words and their
meanings) of the words wiki (a type
of collaborative Web site) and
encyclopedia.
Wikipedia is written
collaboratively by volunteers from
all around the world; anyone can
edit it.
• Wikipedia:About see also
History of Wikipedia

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What does it have to do with a hula dancer?
The word “wiki” is Hawai’ian
Explanation by the inventor of wikis,
Ward Cunningham:
• Wiki wiki is the first Hawai'ian term I
learned on my first visit to the islands. The Ward Cunningham
airport counter agent directed me to take the invented wiki in
wiki wiki bus between terminals. I said what? 1995.
He explained that wiki wiki meant quick.
Did you intend the word to be pronounced
as wee-kee (rhyming with leaky) or as wick-
ey (rhyming with sticky)?
• believe the former is the proper
pronunciation though I’ve been known to use
the latter.
– Correspondence on the Etymology of Wiki
November, 2003.

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Wiki wiki sign outside Honolulu International Airport.
(Image courtesy of A. Barataz)

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There is an index to wikis online
WikiIndex.org
WikiIndex is the wiki of wikis. It is
an effort to create a complete
directory of wiki websites out there
on the Internet, with a description
of each wiki and various systems of
categorisation. We want to help
people find the kinds of wikis they
are most interested in and to map
out the Internet-wide wiki
landscape.
• http://www.aboutus.org/WikiIndex.org

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Social networking

 Social networking is the grouping of
individuals into specific
groups, like small rural communities or
a neighborhood subdivision, if you
will. Although social networking is
possible in person, especially in schools
or in the workplace, it is most popular
online.
Social networking websites function like
an online community of internet users.

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Social Networking explained

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What exactly is it?
Definition:
We define social network sites as web-
based services that allow individuals to
(1) construct a public or semi-public
profile within a bounded system, (2)
articulate a list of other users with * danah boyd *
whom they share a connection, and (3)
view and traverse their list of
connections and those made by others
within the system.
• boyd, d. m., & Ellison, N. B. (2007). Social
network sites: Definition, history, and
scholarship. Journal of Computer-Mediated
Communication, 13(1), article 11.
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.html
Nicole Ellison

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A timeline of social networking
A Brief History of Social Networking
Sites:
1995 = Classmates.com founded, now:
1997 = Six Degrees of Separation founded
(Closed 2001) [boyd & Ellison consider
this the first social networking site!]
1999 = Circle of Friends founded
2002 = Friendster.com founded
2003 = MySpace.com founded
2004 = Orkut.com founded
2004 = Facebook.com founded
2005 = Yahoo!360 founded [now closed]
• Submitted by Linda Raphael on June 26, 2007

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A special case: microblogging

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Microblogging sites

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Another special case

Second Life is a three-
dimensional virtual community created
entirely by its membership. Members
assume an identity and take up residence
in Second Life, creating a customized
avatar or personage to represent
themselves. The avatar moves about in
the virtual world using mouse control and
intuitive keyboard buttons.
• What is Second Life?

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Social bookmarking
Social
Bookmarking Sites
Social Bookmarking 101 The Top Ten Social
Bookmarking Sites
What is social bookmarking? It is on the Web
By Wendy Boswell,
tagging a website and saving it for About.com Guide

later. Instead of saving them to
your web browser, you are saving
them to the web. And, because your
bookmarks are online, you can Acquired in
easily share them with friends. March 2009 by

• What is Social Bookmarking and How Can It
Help Me? By Daniel Nations, About.com
Guide

Now shut down and
superseded by
now
Now changed!

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Another very special social tool

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A Sample
Glog for
Web 2.0 sites
TeachersFirst Edge Entry: For moderately
adventurous technology users (teachers) and most
student users (with significant help in primary
grades). Glogster EDU is a tool to create online
multimedia "posters" that can incorporate all types
of elements into a visual space: links, images, text,
videos, music, and more. Your students will have
multiple ways to express themselves and to learn
from each other, making it easy for you to
differentiate and engage each student.
Here is an example glog created by the
TeachersFirst Edge team.

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Creating stories out of social media

How To Curate Conversations With Storify
• Storify is the best way to gather tweets,
comments, snippets and images from all
around the Web and put them into one post.
It's a new way of blogging that lets all your
Internet friends participate.
• Storify uses drag-and-drop to move messages
from the service tabs - Twitter, Facebook,
YouTube, SoundCloud, Flickr, Instagram,
Google, RSS, and more coming soon! - into
your story. Favorites are a great way to pull
out the posts you want, so that they're all
right there in Storify and easy to find and
drag.
• By Jon Mitchell / October 28, 2011

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Recent statistics for Web 2.0 Use

Related Research
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Teens, kindness and cruelty
on social network sites
Nov 9, 2011
Amanda Lenhart

Teens
Teens and Mobile Phones
Apr 20, 2010
Amanda Lenhart

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Web 2.0 and safety issues
Help Kids Socialize Safely Online
 Help your kids understand what information
should be private
 Use privacy settings to restrict who can access and
post on your child's website.
 Explain that kids should post only information that
you — and they — are comfortable with others
seeing
 Remind your kids that once they post information
online, they can't take it back
 Know how your kids are getting online
 Talk to your kids about bullying
 Talk to your kids about avoiding sex talk online
 Tell your kids to trust their gut if they have
suspicions
 Read sites‟ privacy policies

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Find a good balance, though!
You can be too restrictive!
 Content filters and firewalls are great for keeping
kids away from pornography, as required by the
Children‟s Internet Protection Act (download the
PDF), or preventing them from updating their Bending the Rules:
Facebook status during class. But the same filters A student at the
Pleasantview Academy,
can stop teachers from accessing cutting-edge
in Hutchinson, Kansas,
widgets and digital materials that have enormous uses ArtSnacks, a site
potential for expanding learning. typically blocked by the
school district, after an
 New Hampshire kindergarten teacher Maria
exception is made for a
Knee, a pioneer in using Web 2.0 tools with young class project.
learners, points out that keeping powerful tools Credit: Courtesy of
out of students‟ reach during the school day Kevin Honeycutt
doesn't prepare them for life. "Our kids are going
to be using these tools and sites anyway," she
argues.
• Playing It Too Safe Online Will Make You Sorry

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Another useful resource

Trying to prepare students for their
future and teach them about Internet
safety without Web 2.0 in schools is like
trying to teach a child to swim without a
swimming pool!
The Center for Safe and Responsible
Nancy Willard, M.S.,
Internet Use has developed a new J.D.
framework for addressing these issues director of the Center for
Safe and Responsible
under the overall concept of Cyber Savvy Internet Use. This Center
Schools. More information on Cyber provides for educators
and other professionals
Savvy Schools is here. on youth risk online
issues.

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