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Menu Presentations / Web 2.0 and the Learning Environment

Presented by Trey Martindale on February 12, 2008.

What is Web 2.0

  1. Tim O'Reilly's classic article
  2. YouTube video explanation
  3. Wikipedia entry
  4. Seven Things You Should Know About... blogs, wikis, podcasting, RSS, course management, personal response systems, e-books, Creative Commons, open source, etc.
  5. Common Craft videos: short video explanations of many tools and processes.
  6. http://del.icio.us/martindale/web2.0 -- my Web 2.0 links
  7. The 2007 Web 2.0 Awards
  8. http://www.go2web20.net/ -- massive collection of services.

Mashups

Social Bookmarking, or "How to be a Librarian in Six Easy Steps".

Course related collections:

Wikis

for knowledge management, information organization, and institutional memory.

  • Video: Wikis in Plain English
  • A wiki is a piece of server-based software that enables the user to edit a web page via the web browser. There are many variations in terms of types of wikis. A common feature is the easy creation of new wiki “pages” by combining words to form a web link to a new document. Most wikis include a basic shorthand so that users can create web documents without needing to know HTML.
  • The most well-known and largest example of a wiki is probably Wikipedia—a vast web-based encyclopedia. Wikipedia is being developed and managed by a large group of vigilant contributors from around the globe. There are many other types of wikis.
  • Wikipedia
  • Wikibooks
  • Wikiquote
  • Mediawiki is the free software that runs the above wikis. You need a server to host it.

Free Wiki Services (often with ads)

Good explantory articles:

Other Collaborative Writing

  1. Zoho: collaborative everything.
  2. Google Docs collaborative word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations.

Blogs and blogging

for documenting processes, keeping date-stamped records, helping employees connect, and generating ideas and innovations. Blogs are typically "individual-centric" whereas wikis are generally for groups building a common resource.

A blog can take the form of a newspaper, newsletter, journal, public forum, external brain, etc.

Blog features include:

  • dated entries, archived content, and commenting
  • easily publishing a sophisticated site with search, archives, formatting.
  • auto-syndication with RSS.
  • images, audio, video.

Free blog services (they host):

  1. http:edublogs.org
  2. http://wordpress.com
  3. http://blogger.com

What is RSS and why is it important?

Sample Feeds

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What is an aggregator, and why should I use one?

Podcasting

Content Management

  1. Drupal
  2. Plone
  3. Joomla
  4. CivicSpace

Video Sharing

  1. YouTube
  2. TeacherTube

Social Networking

  1. Facebook
  2. MySpace
  3. ELGG
  4. LinkedIn
  5. Brandon Hall Network is a free online social network designed for e-learning professionals, consultants, vendors, professors, students, and newbies.

Image and Slide Sharing

  1. Flickr
  2. Slideshare
  3. Picasa

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