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Web 2.0 in teaching & learning


This workshop is simply designed to remove the mysteries associated with recently developed Internet technologies such as blogging, wikis, swickis and podcasting. Web 2.0 is the second generation Internet that facilitates collaboration and sharing between users such as teachers and learners.

Educators who are keen to take their use of the Internet that one step further and make full use of Web 2.0 to support and enhance the learning experience for their students are heartily recommended to attend this workshop.

What is Web 2.0?

Web 2.0 encompasses Internet technologies such as blogging, wikis, swickis and podcasting. Web 2.0 is the second generation Internet that can facilitate collaboration and sharing between users such as teachers and learners.

"Web 2.0", is a phrase that was coined by O'Reilly Media in 2003 and popularised by the first Web 2.0 conference in 2004. It is a reference to a perceived "second generation of web-based communities and hosted services"

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These web based entities include blogs, wikis, swickis and folksonomies. They can all faciliate collaboration between individuals. Explore the resources and links on the right to find out more.

Description

Upon conclusion of this course participants will be able to…

  • Create and establish an online web log ~ blog
  • Work with online tools including del.icio.us and flickr
  • Search more effectively on the Internet
  • Make better use of the latest developments in web browsers
  • Work with wikis and swikis to create a dynamic user-centered content source for their students
  • Explore a variety of other tools including Bloglines, Voice Thread, Jaiku, and Twitter

Workshop Resources for Participants

A selection of resources are available for download in the right hand column on this web page.

Outcomes

This workshop is designed for educators and conducted by, an educator with experience in tertiary, secondary and adult education. The workshop is designed for educators who wish to take their use of the Internet that one step further and make full use of Web 2.0, the second generation Internet that facilitates collaboration and sharing between users, to support and enhance the learning experience for their students

Web based applications that will be utilized and presented during the workshop include:

  • Blogger: a simple to use web based tool that allows you to create and manage your own blog
  • Flickr: an online image hosting service
  • Posterous
  • PB Wikis
  • Wikispaces
  • Swicki
  • del.icio.us
  • Twitter
  • Jaiku
  • Voice Thread
  • Firefox web browser

During the course of the workshop participants will be shown the steps that one can take to create an effective online presence using web based applications that are freely available on the Internet. These steps include setting up a personal or course based blog (web log) and online resources that support the blog including:

  • Online image gallery
  • RSS feed
  • Wiki
  • Swicki
  • Del.icio.us links
  • Twitter
  • Jaiku
  • Voice Thread.

RSS ~ the stuff that Web 2.0 feeds upon

Digital Storytelling

The Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling at the University of Houston (this link is courtesy of Alexandra Francisco ~ thank you!)
Alan Levine: Wiki ~ Follow the link to 50 ways to tell a story wiki
Alan Levine: Open Discussion on 50+ ways to tell a story
Alan Levine and Bryan Alexander: Educause article on 50+ ways to tell a story ~ PDF
Alan Levine: New Media Consortium Presentation: 50 Ways to Tell a Story

Voicethread
What is a Voicethread?


Miguel Guhlin: Digital storytelling workshop wiki
Miguel Guhlin: Place based storytelling
Miguel Guhlin: Digital storytelling with web based tools ~ Wiki
Miguel Guhlin: Voicethread Tutorial
Matthew Needleman: Digital Storytelling Blog Carnival #1 and #2
Educational Origami ~ Voicethread Tutorial

Web 2.0 Storytelling Wiki

Center for Digital Storytelling
Digital Storytelling Toolkit
Instructify: Digital Storytelling
Keeping the Mood Light: Digital Storytelling
Open Thinking: Center for Future Storytelling
The Art of Storytelling
International Day of Sharing Life Stories

 

Web 2.0 Workshop ~ Kuala Lumpur, Novemeber 2009

Wordpress
Wordpress.org ~ self hosted Wordpress blog
Wordpress MU ~ multi-user organisation wide solution
Posterous
PBWorks ~ Sign up for free academic edition here
Mediawiki ~ wiki creation tool

Wordpress: Workshop document
Posterous: Workshop document
PBWorks Wiki: Workshop document

Educause: 7 Things You Should Know About Blogs
Educause: 7 Things You Should Know About Wikis
Educause: 7 Things You Should Know About RSS

Commoncraft: Blogs in Plain English
Commoncraft: Wikis in Plain English
Commoncraft: RSS in Plain English

Real teachers, their students and researchers

Clay Burell ~ High School Humanities and Tech Integration at an International School in Seoul Korea.

Christina Kang
Michael Park

Sivasothi N. Lecturer in Biology at NUS, Singapore. For over five years Siva has been blogging about his passion ~ the enviornment and he has instilled this passion in his students and other bloggers across Singapore. These are just some of the blogs authored by Siva and his students.

Siva' First Blog
The Otterman ~ Siva's current blog
Habitat News
Biology Refugia
LSM2351 Ecology and Environmental Processes
LSM1103 Biodiversity
LSM3261 Life Form and Function
LSM1301 Animal Behaviour
Biodiversity Crew at NUS ~ Blogs
Biodiversity Crew at NUS ~ Main
The Pursuit of Anurans
Biodiversity of Insects at Kent Ridge
Fauna of Kent Ridge
Johora singaporensis
Frogs in Singapore
Horseshoe Crabs of Kranji
ToddyCats
Mangrove Shrimps of Kranji
Pasir Panjang Heritage
Singapore Heritage Blog

Alec Couros Computers in the Classroom

Al Upton: Primary school teacher, South Australia.

The mini-legends ~ Current situation
The mini-legends blog

Kevin Lim ~ Social cyborg and social networking doctoral student

Groups and collaborations

Weaving Technology - Ning
History Web 2.0 - Ning
Classroom 2.0 - Ning
OZ/NZ Educators - Ning
EVICTS ~ Educators Valuing ICT in Schools - Ning
The Global Education Collaborative ~ Ning
Flat Classroom Project
Flat Classroom Project Ning ~ Ning
1001 Flat World Tales ~ Wiki
1001 Flat World Tales ~ The stories
me.edu.au ~ EDNA
eTools and Tips for Educators ~ Ning
Advocates for Digital Citizenship, Safety and Success ~ Google Group

Personal Learning Networks

Stephen Downes ~ The beginnings of PLN
Sue Waters ~ Setting up a PLN
Lucy Gray ~ Personal Learning Network Workshop
Connectivism ~ A learning theory for the digital age
Jenny Wood ~ How to get a grip on your Personal Learning Network
Jeff Utecht ~ Connecting people or connecting content?
Jeff Utecht ~ RSS is about contemt, Twitter is about people

Virtual Professional Development

Powerful learning practice ~ PLP is a professional development model that immerses educators into environments and practices that allow them to learn and own the literacies of 21st Century learning and teaching.

Certificate of Educational Technology & Information Literacy ~ This is a course run by Jeff Utecht and Kim Cofino of the International School of Bangkok. Attendees are both real and virtual.

Online Professional Development ~ Sue Waters and Jo Hart of TAFE, Western Australia regularly conduct online professional development via Elluminate. Sue’s blog: http://aquaculturepda.edublogs.org/

The Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration (CILC) ~ The Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration (CILC) is a great resource for not only identifying and/or announcing classroom collaborative projects, but also for finding professional development providers for your school and district who present over video.
For example the CILC has hosted PD conducted by Wes Fryer that is also available at his own site: http://www.wesfryer.com/teaching/

The Educause Resource Center is an international repository for information concerning use and management of information technology in higher education.

The New Media Consortium (NMC) is an international not-for-profit consortium of learning-focused organizations dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies. Check out their annual Horizon Reports.

Educause Resources

Seven things you should know about:

Blogs ~ pdf download
Wikis ~ pdf download
Flickr ~ pdf download
Social Bookmarking ~ pdf download
Twitter ~ pdf download
Wikipedia ~ pdf download
RSS ~ pdf download
Virtual Worlds ~ pdf download

Common Craft

Explanations in plain English. This site has a variety of entertaining video presentations that display concepts and tools in an easily understood manner. Topics include RSS, Twitter, Wikis and so on.

A collection of outstanding and practical education blogs...

The Edublogger ~ tips for teachers
Larry Ferlazzo ~ great advice and resources for teachers
Langwitches ~ brilliant
Instructify
Lifehack ~ slow down, stop and smell the roses

Digital Storytelling

The Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling at the University of Houston (this link is courtesy of Alexandra Francisco ~ thank you!)
Alan Levine: Wiki ~ Follow the link to 50 ways to tell a story wiki
Alan Levine: Open Discussion on 50+ ways to tell a story
Alan Levine and Bryan Alexander: Educause article on 50+ ways to tell a story ~ PDF
Alan Levine: New Media Consortium Presentation: 50 Ways to Tell a Story
Miguel Guhlin: Digital storytelling workshop wiki
Miguel Guhlin: Place based storytelling
Miguel Guhlin: Digital storytelling with web based tools ~ Wiki
Miguel Guhlin: Voicethread Tutorial
Matthew Needleman: Digital Storytelling Blog Carnival #1 and #2
Educational Origami ~ Voicethread Tutorial
Web 2.0 Storytelling Wiki
Center for Digital Storytelling
Digital Storytelling Toolkit
Instructify: Digital Storytelling
Keeping the Mood Light: Digital Storytelling
Open Thinking: Center for Future Storytelling
The Art of Storytelling
International Day of Sharing Life Stories

Virtual Worlds: Second Life ~ downloads, tips and resources

Second Life ~ download software ~ video tutorials
ISTE International Society for Technology in Education

ISTE in Second Life
ISTE Second Life Wiki
ISTE in Second Life SLurl

USQ in Second Life

Terra Incognita ~ SLurl link

Westley Field and Skoolabarate

Second Life in Education Wiki

Getting started with Second Life
Jokay and Joykadia ~ The Virtual Classroom Project

 

 

Advocates for Digital Citizenship, Safety and Success

Advocates for Digital Citizenship, Safety and Success ~ Wiki Site
Advocates for Digital Citizenship, Safety and Success ~ Diigo Site
Digiteen ~ Digital Citizenship Wiki Site

Diigo Groups

Ed-Tech Talk
Educators
OzEducators

Twitter related sites

The Twitter Cycle
How to become a Twitter Teacher in 23 Steps or less
A Spreadsheet of Educators on Twitter
Directory of eLearning Professionals on Twitter
Quick start tips for new twitters
Twellow ~ Education category
Twitter for academics
47 Awesome Twitter Tools You Should be Using
On the Uses and ‘Abuses’ of Twitter (or, “Digital Gymnastics”)
The Most Popular Twitter Apps According to the Blogosphere
Twitter - A Teaching and Learning Tool
Twitter Learning Professionals : eLearning Technology
TwitterThings: 6 Unusual Entities That Tweet
Twitter in Plain English
The value of Twitter for educators
Jo McLeay's excellent essay on Twitter ~ Twitter as a community of practice for educators: Microblogging Explored
Jo McLeay's list of Twitter resources
A professor's tips for using Twitter
How to pick up followers on Twitter

25+ Incredibly Useful Twitter Tools and Firefox Plugins

Pageflakes & Netvibes Examples

Will Richardson
Kevin Lim
Steve Harris ~ his slidehsare presentation
Nice blog post by Hey Jude about Pageflakes ~ Teacher Edition
John Larkin ~ a work in progress ^_^

Wikis

Technology Boot Camp for Administrators
Moving Forward and Seminal Blog Posts
Mobile Technology in TAFE
Be An Edublogger
Collaborative Learning
Mister Mak's Learning Wiki
School 2.0 Wiki
Web 2.0 Tutorial
Wikis in education
Wikis: Pros and cons
Educause: Wikis ready or not
Wiki assessment rubric
Using wikis in the classroom
Wikipedia wiki lesson

Live collaborations

Classroom 2.0 Live Conversations
Alec Couros EC&I 831 Conversations
Alec Couros EC&I Computers In The Classrooms

Taking it to the limit

Steven Downes: Educator and Researcher in Moncton, Canada
Main Web Site ~ Blog

Semantic Web, Mashups and OpenID

Yahoo Pipes
Yahoo Pipes ~ collected by John Larkin
Yahoo Pipes ~ by the Otterman
Dapper
AideRSS
Reuters ~ Calais
OpenID

Web 3.0

What is Web 3.0?
Web 3.0: Sites to Services

Tools and add-ons

Web 2.0 Tool Extras
Blogger

Blog This Toolbar Button
Blogger plug-in for Microsoft Word

Google Reader  
iGoogle Google reader widget ~ search in here
ScribeFire Blog posting add-on for Firefox
del.icio.us

Firefox buttons
Safari buttons
How to save bookmarks
Explorer buttons

Bloglines Subscribe buttons for browser toolbars
Twitter

Twitterific
Snitter
Tweetbar [Firefox and Flock plug-in]
TwiityTunes[Firefox and Flock plug-in]
Tweetscan

Jaiku Juhu ~ Mac OSX client
Flickr Flickr tools
Flickr Finder Mac OSX Client for Flickr
iWeb

iWeb Optimiser
Easy iWeb Publisher

Some links to the tools

   

A few blogs to explore...

 

Creative Commons License
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Education Technology Workshops in Singapore

Workshop examples and links can be found on the Web 2.0 Workshop page. Links and resources for Comic Life can be found here.

Workshop resources can be downloaded from the Technology Guides page.


Workshops

Digital Photography
Digital Videography
Comic Life
Web 2.0
Podcasting
Blended Learning
Web Presence
Trivantis Lectora
Managing your computer

Workshop Resources

Background material
Read~Write Web Overview
Information sharing

Curriuculum Ideas
Curriculum integration aid
Curriculum evaluation aid
Sample teaching unit

Core tools
Setting up a Wordpress blog
Setting up an Edublog blog
Setting up a Blogger blog
Setting up a Posterous blog
Setting up a wiki
Setting up Delicious bookmarks
Setting up a Diigo account
Setting up a Flickr account

Support tools
Setting up a Twitter account
Setting up a Jaiku account
Setting up a Swicki
Setting up a Feedburner account
Pageflakes
Creating a WebNode site

Working with RSS
Setting up a Google Reader
Setting up Bloglines
Working with Yahoo! Pipes
Creating feeds with Dapper
Filtering feeds with AideRSS

Web 2.0 Resources

Web 2.0 tools, links & add-ons
Presentations and guides
Blogrolls

Swicki