Welcome to Web 2.0 www.wtvi.com/teks/web2 A workshop presented by Wesley A. Fryer Last updated Wednesday, March 29, 2006 Workshop Description Abstract: An new age of publication and collaboration has started. Referred to as Web 2.0 and the Read/Write Web, WikiPedia defines this new environment as " a perceived transition of the World Wide Web from a collection of websites to a full-fledged computing platform serving web applications to end users. The proponents of this thinking expect that ultimately Web 2.0 services will replace desktop computing applications for many purposes." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0) This workshop introduces participants to Web 2.0 and many of its available tools. These include WikiPedia, RSS, social bookmarks, feed aggregators, validation of online content, blogs, and creative commons. Welcome to Web 2.0. Welcome to the revolution. Outline Defining Web 2.0 with 3 Stories WikiPedia RSS Social Bookmarks Feed Aggregators Validation Blogs Creative Commons More Web 2.0 Tools! Other Resources 1. Defining Web 2.0 with 3 Stories Let's start with a short online survey about your current use of web 2.0 tools and why you are here! 3 Read/Write Web Personal Stories International Skypecast and Global Conversation 3rd Grade Danielle blogging in Seattle ClustrMaps Characteristics of (most) Web 2.0 or Read/Write Web tools: The web is the platform. Sharing is inherent to the tool. Tools facilitate communication and interaction. What are teachers and students doing with technology in the classroom? Consider the October 2005 Edutopia responses to "What technology is most effective in the classroom?" Of the 10, only 1 references student creation of multimedia products (#1), the rest focus on sustaining (rather than disruptive) technology uses to support traditional content/teacher centered instruction. Some guiding educational principles: Education is a conversation not an exercise in regurgitation on demand. Education is a journey, not a football game or a track race. Experiences and relationships transform perceptions and thereby transform people. Web 2.0 represents a fundamental revolution in communication no less important or transformative than the invention of the Guttenburg printing press. The conversation is global, ongoing, and you are invited. Hold onto your hats, because "you ain't seen nuthin' yet!" 2. WikiPedia WikiPedia is a free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Sound crazy and impossible? Think again. Consider: Graphs of WikiPedia's growth (all languages) Graphs of WikiPedia's growth (English only) Task 1: Search WikiPedia for a topic about which you are knowledgeable. How does the content stack up against traditional sources? Task 2: Search WikiPedia for a current topic, issue, or person in the news. Repeat question above? Task 3: Search WikiPedia for any topic. Click the HISTORY tab at the top. What do you notice, and what implications does this have? Task 4: Register for a WikiPedia account and write down your username / password. Task 5: Edit a page of your choice on WikiPedia, adding at least a sentence of your own content. Challenge 1: Familiarize your students with WikiPedia and encourage them to use it. Challenge 2: Contribute to the WikiPedia at least 2 more times before the next long holiday break, and share the websites you have edited with your students, family, at least 2 teachers and your principal. Challenge 3: Encourage your students to contribute to WikiPedia and share their contributions as stories with the class.   3. RSS RSS stands for "REAL SIMPLE SYNDICATION." So what is syndication? Together we'll view a short 5 minute movie explaining what RSS is, comparing it to a card catalog and oceans of information. My opinion: RSS is the most important technological development of the early 21st century. Now we'll explore some ways we can use RSS!   4. Social Bookmarks How do you save websites you want to refer back to later? What are the benefits and limitations of your current method(s)? Introducing: del.icio.us Keep all your bookmarks in delicious and access them from home, office, anywhere. Share your bookmarks with family, friends, and colleagues. Discover new sites from the delicious community (browse, find, get recommendations). Task 1: Register for a free del.icio.us account. Write down your username and password. Task 2: Check your email and confirm the account. Task 3: Write your del.icio.us username (NOT your password) on a slip of paper and give it to your workshop presenter. Task 4: Click the ABOUT del.icio.us link and add the buttons to your web browser Challenge 1: On your classroom computer and home computer, click the ABOUT del.icio.us link and add the buttons to your web browser Challenge 2: Use del.icio.us to save worthwhile websites you find with students. Challenge 2: Ask students to use del.icio.us to save and record all the websites they use for a research project under a single tag.   5. Feed Aggregators Bloglines.com is one of many feed aggregators available. It is web-based. Wesley's Bloglines feeds are available on http://bloglines.com/public/wfryer. Customized Research Tools Google News: Over 4500 news sources tracked 24/7 About Google News Feeds Customized Google News Feeds Single topic: http://news.google.com/news?q=lemurs&output=rss Exact two word phase: http://news.google.com/news?q=%22laptop+initiative%22&output=rss http://findory.com Task 1: Register for a free Bloglines account and write down your username and password. Task 2: Subscribe to at least 3 different RSS feeds with your Bloglines account. Task 3: Create a customized Google News RSS feed and subscribe to it with Bloglines Challenge 1: Show your students Bloglines and teach them what you know about it. Challenge 2: Encourage your students to use Bloglines and custom RSS Google news feeds for research projects Challenge 3: Use your Bloglines account regularly to access diverse news sources about topics of interest to you. (Become a RSS news consumer!)     6. Validation In pre-Internet days, the textbook, printed encyclopedias, and library books were primary sources of information and content for students. Today, it is the Internet. We MUST teach students to validate their sources. Refer to the article "Digital Literacy Now!" for more suggestions and links relating to content validation. Task 1: Google for the phrase (without quotation marks) "Martin Luther King." Out of over 24 million hits, what is hit #3? (Look carefully) Task 2: Review and practice David Warlick's SEARCH strategy for conducting online research. Challenge 1: Later, read the entire article "Digital Literacy Now!" Challenge 2: Teach your students the SEARCH strategy mentioned above. Challenge 3: Share with your students the importance of validating information and comparing multiple sources. Model this regularly for them in the classroom.   7. Blogs According to WikiPedia, “A weblog, web log or simply a blog, is a web application which contains periodic time-stamped posts on a common webpage. These posts are often but not necessarily in reverse chronological order. Such a website would typically be accessible to any Internet user.” Task 1: Setup a free weblog and publish at least 2 posts on it. Steps for setting up an account and using Blogger: www.blogger.com Blogger Setup Tips: Write down your username and password on the the last page! Write down your Blog address (URL) on the last page! You can always change your template later. Blogger QuickStart Tips: To return to Blogger, visit www.blogger.com and log in. Do NOT click "remember me" on a computer other people have access to with the same login you are using. From your DASHBOARD click on the name of your blog to view editing options. (Do NOT click "CREATE A BLOG" each time you log in.) Click EDIT beside a message you want to edit or change. Click DELETE on the far right side of a post's entry to delete it. Click CREATE NEW POST to create a new message on your blog. Click PUBLISH POST after you are finished. Set preferred commenting preferences. (ANONYMOUS commenting is discouraged) Click SETTINGS - MEMBERS to send email inviting others (like grade level teacher team members) to post to your blog. Challenge 1: Read the article "Successful and Safe Educational Blogging" later. Discuss it with another teacher. Challenge 2: Use your blog account to communicate with parents: Post news, announcements, homework, supplementary lesson websites. Send your blog website address home with students to give to parents! Challenge 3: Use your blog to publish student work samples (with permission). Challenge 4: Regularly visit Will Richardson's site, "Weblogg-Ed: The Read/Write Web in the Classroom" for ideas and tips on using blogs within instruction: www.weblogg-ed.com   8. Creative Commons US Copyright law by default makes all rights reserved for any work created by anyone. Creative Commons lets people share their work with others for specific types of uses. Task 1: View the "Get Creative" movie on the Learn More page of Creative Commons. Task 2 : Use the following search tools: Creative Commons Search Yahoo Creative Commons Search Flickr Creative Commons Photos (click a license type to search)   Challenge 1: Teach your students about Creative Commons. Challenge 2: Encourage your students to use and properly cite Creative Commons content in their research. Challenge 3: Encourage your students to use Creative Commons licenses when publishing their own work on a blog or the Internet Archive. For this latter case, teach them about the free tool CCPublisher. Challenge 4: Read the article "Copyright 101 for Educators" later. Discuss it with another teacher. 9. More Web 2.0 Tools Google Maps Google Earth Google Mars Google Planimater Google Maps Pedometer WikiPedia English version BubbleShare - share narrated slideshows free Springdoo - send voice emails free Writely - collaborative online wordprocessor JotSpot Live - collaborative note writing WikiTools: PBWiki, Jot.com, SeedWiki, WikiSpaces (Irving ISD's Inspired Classrooms Wiki) Audioblogger - audio podcast with a cell phone free YackPack - Collaborative voice messaging My social bookmarks for read/write web tools   10. Other Resources MIT $100 Laptop Initiative The Internet Archive Podcasting Tools and Techniques (from this site) Wesley's Blog: speedofcreativity.org Moving at the Speed of Creativity podcasts The George Lucas Educational Foundation: www.edutopia.org     Tools for the TEKS home | Article Archive | Technology Workshops Mailing List | Feedback | Tools and Techniques | Technology Idea Exchange Contact me using this webform. Links to my blogs are also available. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.