AN EXPLORATION OF THE EDUCATIONAL USE OF WEB 2.0 TOOLS

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Whats All the Buzz?

• AN EXPLORATION OF THE EDUCATIONAL USE OF WEB 2.0
  TOOLS
• MICHAEL AMICK
• DEAN OF ACADEMIC AND TECHNOLOGIES
• CENTRAL LAKES COLLEGE, BRAINERD/STAPLES, MN

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What is Web 2.0???

• Web 1.0 1990s
• Web 2.0 2000s
• Characteristics
• Web 3.0 2010
• Created by Dion Hinchcliffe, used with permission
  CC

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The Computer

• Danny Hillis refers to it as an imagination
  machine, which starts with the ideas we put into
  it and takes them farther than we ever could have
  taken them on our own.

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2.7 billionsearches a month

• All Free
• GOOGLE

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Flickr

• Flickr is a photo sharing website and an online
  community platform. Popularity has been fueled by
  its innovative online community tools that allow
  photos to be tagged and browsed by folksonomic
  means.
• It hosts more than 3 billion images. (flickr
  started in 2004)
• Info from Wikipedia.

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Examples/Issues

• CLC
• Berkley
• Berkley-Classes
• ART-Andy GoldsWorthy
• Hulu

• YouTube is a popular video sharing website where
  users can upload, view, and share video clips.
• Created in 2005 purchased in 2006 for 1.5 billion
  by Google
• 6 months of Video uploads 1.5 million hours,
  over 9000 hours a day (Michael Wesch)

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Poll Everywhere

• Polling by Text or Web

• Results

Poll Everywhere
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Social Networking Sites

• MOST SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICES ARE PRIMARILY WEB
  BASED AND PROVIDE A COLLECTION OF VARIOUS WAYS
  FOR USERS TO INTERACT, SUCH AS CHAT, MESSAGING,
  EMAIL, VIDEO, VOICE CHAT, FILE SHARING, BLOGGING,
  DISCUSSION GROUPS, AND SO ON. WIKIPEDIA
• SHELFARI NING TWITTER

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Instant Messaging/Texting

• Texting

• IM

ACK Acknowledge ADAD Another day, another dollar
ADD Address ADN Any day now AEAP As early as
possible AFC Away from computer AFAIK As far as
I know AFK Away from keyboard AFPOE A fresh
pair of eyes AIGHT Alright AISB As it should be
AISB As I said before AISI As I see it E-mail
is for old people -Student quote

• A computer application which allows instant text
  communication between two or more people through
  a network such as the Internet
• Meebo

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• Del.icio.us (pronounced "delicious") is a social
  bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and
  discovering web bookmarks.
• It has more than three million users and 100
  million bookmarked URLs.
• Delicious
• DIIGO

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Mashups

• Price Drive
• Mashed Maps Speed Trap
• Mashup awards
• Music Mash

• A digital mashup is a digital media file
  containing any or all of text, graphics, audio,
  video and animation drawn from pre-existing
  sources, to create a new derivative work or
  application.

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• Games and Virtual Worlds
• One popular game (Everquest) has tens of
  thousands of people interacting within a virtual
  world at any given point. Another has over 7
  million subscribers (WoW).
• Wolfquest

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WebCam/Web Conference

• Tokbox
• Web conference
• Dim Dim
• Vyew

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Technology

• Engage students by Bringing them into
  applications that will elevate their learning
  experience and meet your educational objectives

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