Transcript Got Web 2.0? A Review of Web 2.0 Tools for Curriculum

Got Web 2.0?
A Review of Web 2.0 Tools for
the Information Systems
Curriculum
Pat Sendall
Merrimack College
Wendy Ceccucci
Quinnipiac University
Alan Peslak
Penn State University
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Phoenix, AZ
What is Web 2.0?
Collaborative
Internet
Technologies
• Sharing knowledge
• Active user participation
in developing and
managing content
• Collective intelligence
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Background
• The term was officially coined in 2004 by
a vice-president at O’Reilly Media
– During an internal team discussion while
planning for a future Web conference
• How is it different from Web 1.0?
– Great user participation in developing and
managing content
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Background
• Web 2.0
– enables and facilitates the active
participation of each user
• Web 2.0 applications and services
– allow publishing and storing of textual
information
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by individuals (blogs)
collectively (wikis)
audio recordings (podcasts)
video material (vidcasts or vodcasts)
pictures
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Benefits
• Approximately 80% of all
corporations believe that Web 2.0
has the potential to increase
revenues
• However, about 50% of business
managers do not understand the
benefits of Web 2.0 technology
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Students
• As the ‘net generation moves into
the workforce, employers are going
to expect social networking,
blogging, forums, etc.
• Today’s students will not only
manage business innovations of the
future, but in many cases will drive
them
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Students
• Teaching and learning with Web 2.0 is
– Cooperative, collaborative, and
conversational
– Provides students with opportunities
to interact with each other to
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Clarify and share ideas,
Seek assistance,
Negotiate problems, and
Discuss solutions
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Resources
• Videos
– Web 2.0 in Just 5 Minutes (YouTube)
– What is Web 2.0? (YouTube)
– Common Craft www.commoncraft.com
• Wikis in Plain English
• Podcasts in Plain English
• Social Networking in Plain English
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Resources
• Documents
– 101 Web 2.0 Teaching Tools
• 101 free online tools for the classroom
– Web 2.0: A Vehicle for Transforming
Education
• Overview of commonly used technologies
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Web 2.0 Terminology
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Blog
• Web Log
• Simple webpage consisting of
• brief paragraphs of opinion,
• information,
• personal diary entries, or links, called
posts,
• published in reverse chronological order
with the latest entry at the top
• An informal online journal, usually
reflecting the author’s personal thoughts
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Blog
• Blogs can be used to create reflective or
writing journals, discuss ethical issues,
or as a dialog for group work
• Blog development sites:
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Blackboard
Blogger (www.blogger.com)
Blogster (http://www.blogster.com)
Blogstream (http://www.blogstream.com)
Class Blogmeister (http://classblogmeister.com) is
specifically developed for educational use
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Blog
• Blog search tools
– Technorati (http://www.technorati.com)
• Directory of blogs and the most well-known blogsearch tool
– Google Blog Search (http://blogsearch.google.com)
– Yahoo MyWeb (http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com)
– CoComment (http://www.cocomment.com)
• Tracks all comments or blogs that you post on
various Websites
• Creates tiny bookmarklet and a single Web page
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Collaboration Sites
• Enable groups to share documents and
other information
– Twine (www.twine.com)
• Educators and students can share bookmarks,
thoughts and ideas, and files
• Educators can create different subject areas or
twines
• Students can post files and information in this twine
• These twines can be publicly accessible or private
– Google Apps (www.google.com/apps)
• Create wikis, share spreadsheets, word processed
documents, etc.
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Gadget
• A mini application that resides on a
computer desktop or personal home page
• Typically found in the Windows
environment
• Functions include:
– Customized news and stock quotes, calendar,
news, dictionary lookups, cartoons, games, etc.
– iGoogle (http://www.google.com/ig) personal
home pages
– Gadgets provide useful functions that are always
available on the desktop or that can be called up
in an instant
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Mashups
• Web application that presents
information integrated from a
variety of sources
– Housingmaps.com
• Craigslist rentals mapped to Google maps
• Mashup videos for the classroom
– What is a Mashup?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRcP2CZ8DS8
– 7 Cool "Mashup" Websites
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMlEggjjrik
• Google Mashup Editor http://code.google.com/gme/
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Microblogging
• Enables users to post short
messages that are distributed
within their community
• Are usually short sentences
notifying their community what the
current activity or interest is
– Twitter (www.twitter.com)
– Yammer (www.yammer.com)
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Microcontent
• Information published in short
form
• Content that conveys one primary
idea or concept
– Today's weather forecast
– Arrival and departure times for a
flight
– An abstract from a long publication
– A single instant message
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Multimedia Sharing
• Allow users to share video or picture files
• Photo sharing sites
– Flickr (www.flickr.com),
– Picasa (www.picasa.com),
• Video sharing sites
– YouTube (www.youtube.com)
– Wikipedia lists over 40 video sharing sites
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_sharing_websites)
• Download or convert video files free of
charge
– Catch Video (http://catchvideo.net )
– Movavi (http://online.movavi.com)
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Podcast
• Audio recordings, usually MP3
– Talks: interviews and lectures
– Can be played either on a PC or MP3
devices
• Apple’s iTunes podcast directory
– Large number of educational podcasts
– Instructions on how to create a podcast
• Audacity
– Free multi-platform application for
recording podcasts
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RSS
• Really Simple Syndication, or Rich Site
Summary, or RDF Site Summary
• A Web 2.0 syntax for syndicating content
• Users alerted to
– News headlines, blog postings, podcasts,
tables of contents of published electronic
journals, etc.
• RSSfeeds.com
– Provides a searchable directory of RSS feeds
with over 85,000 feeds listed and categorized
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Social Bookmarking/ Tagging
• Practice of saving bookmarks on a
public Web site and “tagging” them
with keywords
• Organize and share your bookmarks
with others
• Classroom
– Social bookmarking simplifies the distribution
of reference lists, bibliographies, papers, and
other resources among peers or students
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Social Bookmarking/ Tagging
• Tag
– A word used to describe a bookmark
– Tag Set: group of tags
• Tag Cloud
– Groups of tag sets from a number of different
users of a tagging service
– Tag frequency information is displayed
graphically as a ‘cloud’
– Tags with higher frequency of use displayed
in larger text (e.g., http://del.icio.us/tag)
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Social Bookmarking/Tagging
• Social bookmarking sites
– Del.icio.us: one of the most popular social
bookmarking managers, uses bookmarklets or tags, add
bookmarks and categorize; also has an e-learning
section
– Digg: technology topics, users vote for, or “digg,”
stories they like, and the site promotes the results
accordingly
– StumbleUpon uses ratings to form collaborative
opinions on website quality
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Social Networking/Social Software
• Connect friends, family, and
colleagues people with similar
interests
• Internet technologies create value
through mass user participation
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Facebook
MySpace
Bebo
LinkedIn
Second Life
Google Lively
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Social Text
• Allows users to set up accounts,
write and revise their collaborative
work
– Socialtext.com
• Blocks access to selected pages except
by passwords, narrowing the pool of
potential collaborators
– Twiki .com
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Web Widget
• A portable chunk of code
• Installed and executed within Web
page by end user
• No additional compilation
• Can be used in Web forms, dialogs,
and wizards to elicit information
from users
• Other terms include: gadget, badge,
module, capsule, snippet
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Wiki
• A webpage or set of web pages that can
be easily edited by anyone who is
allowed access
• A collaborative tool that facilitates the
production of a group work
• Organizes information into topics
– Wikipedia
– Google Knol (http://knol.google.com/k#), a new
Wikipedia competitor
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Wiki
• Development sites
• WikiSpaces, “wikis for everyone”
– Also has an educational wiki space called
EduWikis, provides resources for educators
wanting to incorporate wikis into their teaching
• Twiki
– A structured wiki, used for project development
space, a document management system, a
knowledge base, or any other groupware tool
• Writeboard
– Sharable web-based text documents, can save
edits, roll back to any version, compare changes
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Educational Wikis
• Wiki in Education
– Case studies on how teachers use wikis in the
classroom
• Wikiversity
– Shows how open content websites works
• WikiEducator
– Development of open education resources
(OER), e-learning
• Medpedia
– Collaborative project to gather health, medicine info
• Second Life Educator’s Wiki
– Limited to students pursuing advanced degrees
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Vodcast
• Video incarnation of a podcast
• Video on demand (VOD)
multicasting technology
• How to create a vodcast:
– http://www.freemarketingzone.com/rss/createvodcasts.html
– http://www.macworld.com/article/46066/2005/07
/howtovodcast.html
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Conclusion
• Web 2.0 skills are necessary to
prepare students for careers
• Resources are available to get
started
• Collaboration creativity promises to
be a key business skill in upcoming
years.
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