What is Web 2.0?

A waste of time, or a revolutionary way of working?

--or is it dead already?

EDU 626 Integrating Educational Technology

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Meet Abby, the digital native!

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Where does Web 2.0 fit?

Uploaded by loots1964 on Oct 21, 2009Originally, I planned on having kids tell me about how they used Web 2.0 technologies in school, but when I saw their reaction to my question, that they clearly had no idea what a Web 2.0 was - by name, at least, I realized I had stumbled onto a fascinating little bit of information. Web 2.0 is so innate to digital natives, that they can’t even identify it by name!

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What is web 2.0, then?

The definitions abound! Web 2.0 = the web as platform Web 2.0 = the underlying philosophy of relinquishing control

Web 2.0 = glocalization (“making global information available to local social contexts and giving people the flexibility to find, organize, share and create information in a locally meaningful fashion that is globally accessible”)

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/web2explorer/what-is-web-2-0/5

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More of what is web 2.0

Web 2.0 = an attitude not a technology

Web 2.0 = when data, interface and metadata no longer need to go hand in hand

Web 2.0 = action-at-a-distance interactions and ad hoc integration

Web 2.0 = power and control via APIs

Web 2.0 = giving up control and setting the data free

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/web2explorer/what-is-web-2-0/5

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It’s all of that, and more! Web 2.0 is social, it’s open (or at least it should be), it’s letting go of control over your data, it’s mixing the global with the local. Web 2.0 is about new interfaces - new ways of searching and accessing Web content. And last but not least, Web 2.0 is a platform - and not just for developers to create web applications like Gmail and Flickr. The Web is a platform to build on for educators, media, politics, community, for virtually everyone in fact!

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/web2explorer/what-is-web-2-0/5

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So, what is Web 2.0??

From Presentation “Web 2.0” by Satyajeet Singh available on Slideshare

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Maybe this might help!

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Back to Satyajeet Singh

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Participatory web?

Dr. Mark Grabe

http://learningaloud.com/participatoryweb/

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Web 2.0 and constructivismWhat is the Connection Between Web 2.0 and Constructivist Theory?

Web 2.0 tools can . . . allow students/learners to demonstrate their understanding in a variety of ways. They can blog, edit, contribute, rank, tag, upload and enhance their web experiences through the use of Web 2.0 tools. Additionally through the use of social networking, learners can also be exposed to other learners’ perspectives on a given topic or subject.

• Social Constructivism, a wiki created for class EDER 679.09 Web 2.0 and Open Learning Environments

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Elements of Web 2.0

Wikis and blogs and all What is a blog?• ‘A weblog is kind of a continual tour,

with a human guide who you get to know. There are many guides to choose from, each develops an audience, and there’s also comraderie [camaraderie?] and politics between the people who run weblogs, they point to each other, in all kinds of structures, graphs, loops, etc.’

• Dave Winer, The History of Weblogs Last update: Friday, May 17, 2002 at 12:37:09 PM

Dave Winer is one of the pioneers of blogging. This blog began in 1997. Davenet is from 1994,

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What is a Blog?

•A log of websites visited? Or a personal journal? Or something else?• “Defining this variable form is not easy in the highly

opinionated blogosphere - nor is it simple in the increasing number of newsrooms that are in embracing blogging. . . . Capturing the blogging beast is no small matter, not when everybody from the lonely scribe in Paducah to me-too mass media in Manhattan is trying to get arms and minds around the virtual blob now encroaching online.”

• Just what is a blog, anyway? By Michael Conniff Posted: 2005-09-29

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Can we define blogs?

• “I don’t care,” • “There is no need to define ‘blog.’

. . . A blog is merely a tool that lets you do anything from change the world to share your shopping list. People will use it however they wish. And it is way too soon in the invention of uses for this tool to limit it with a set definition.”

• Jeff Jarvis, the veteran print journalist and prominent blogger behind BuzzMachine

Quoted by Conniff in Just what is a blog, anyway?

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OK-so what makes a blog?

•Technically, what is a weblog? • A weblog is a hierarchy of text, images,

media objects and data, arranged chronologically, that can be viewed in an HTML browser.

•What makes a weblog a weblog?Fri, May 23, 2003; by Dave Winer Weblogs At Harvard Law

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Another technical definition

• “. . . here’s a definition of what a blog is: • A publication of

content and Web links, sorted in chronological order, with the most recent at the top. The content reflects personal or corporate interests, and is almost always written by an individual. . . .”• What are Blogs, and Why Your Business Should Use One,

Guest columnist Richard Zwicky, founder and the CEO of Metamend Software, a Victoria, B.C. based firm whose cutting edge Search Engine Optimization software has been recognized around the world as a leader in its field.

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History of blogs•Rebecca Blood:• The original weblogs were link-driven sites.

Each was a mixture in unique proportions of links, commentary, and personal thoughts and essays.

• These weblogs provide a valuable filtering function for their readers. The web has been, in effect, pre-surfed for them.• weblogs: a history and perspective 7 september 2000 rebecca's pocket • “Jesse’s ‘page of only weblogs’ lists the 23 known to be in existence at the beginning of 1999.” “. . . last updated on 12 Oct 2000” with about 200 or 300.

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Who coined the term “weblog”?

Jorn Barger

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Blog History in Timeline Form

• Dawn of Internet Time: [=WWW time, ie about 1989-90] • Tim Berners-Lee at CERN begins

keeping a list of all new sites as they come online.

• June 1993: • NCSA’s oldest archived What’s New list

of sites. • June 1993:

• Netscape begins running its What's New! list of sites.

• Jan 1994: • Justin Hall launches Justin’s Home

Page which would become Links from the Underground. (Now Justin’s Links)

timbl's blog

Original logo for Mosaic, the first web browser from NCSA

1999: the year it all exploded•Early 1999: • Peter Merholz coins the term blog

after announcing he was going to pronounce web blogs as “wee-blog”. This was then shortened to blog.

•Early 1999: • Brigitte Eaton starts the first portal devoted

to blogs with about 50 listings.•July 1999: • Metafilter’s earliest archives.

•July 1999: • Pitas launches the first free build

your own blog web tool. [No longer available]

•August 1999: • Pyra releases Blogger which becomes the

most popular web based blogging tool to date, and popularizes blogging with mainstream internet users.

For What It's Worth

I've decided to pronounce the word "weblog" as wee'- blog. Or "blog" for short.

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Importance of 1999?

•Advent of easy-edit web interface• July 1999 . . . Pitas, the first free build-your-

own-weblog tool launched • In August, Pyra released

Blogger, and Groksoup launched

• Late in 1999 software developer Dave Winer introduced Edit This Page [a forerunner of Blog This?], and Jeff A. Campbell launched Velocinews

• All of these services are free, and all of them are designed to enable individuals to publish their own weblogs quickly and easily.• Rebecca Blood, weblogs: a history and perspective

“Dave Winer, the protoblogger and technology maven”Dan Mitchell, New York Times, December 2, 2006Dave Winer’s blog, Scripting News, has been going since 1997

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Why was Blogger so revolutionary?

•Rebecca Blood’s opinion:• Blogger itself places no restrictions on the

form of content being posted. Its web interface, accessible from any browser, consists of an empty form box into which the blogger can type...anything: a passing thought, an extended essay, or a childhood recollection. With a click, Blogger will post the...whatever...on the writer's website, archive it in the proper place, and present the writer with another empty box, just waiting to be filled.

• http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html

Rebecca Blood is a contributing writer to

and a pioneering blog writer—her blog goes back to April 1999

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Sample Blogger posting interface

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Editing Blogger: wysiwyg

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Editing Blogger: html view

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• http://murraylibmedia.blogspot.com/

Result (unfortunately, the blog has not been updated!)

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Other blogging software

• • TypePad’s easy-to-use editor,

feedback management tools, feed and podcast support, photo albums and world-class customer support.

• • To get started with WordPress,

set it up on a web host for the most flexibility or get a free blog on WordPress.com.

lets you easily create & manage student & teacher blogs, quickly customize designs and include videos, photos & podcasts. Free, Pro or Campus subscriptions.Powered by

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Can blogging be “safe”?

Safe blogs becoming a part of school The fear of encouraging social networking and

leaving the door open for unsavory individuals to see what students are doing online has caused most districts to avoid the tool, said David Warlick, a North Carolina public speaker and author who’s working on the second edition of “Classroom Blogging: A Teacher's Guide to the Blogosphere.”

But new educational software, such as Virtual Office or Moodle, which the Muskego-Norway School District has implemented this year, protects students by letting them “publish” their writing within a secure server where teachers can monitor the comments.

• By Erin Richards of the Journal Sentinel Posted: March 25, 2007

Some safer blogging sites:

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A special case: microblogging

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Microblogging sites

Watch Video: Twitter in Plain English

5 Microblogging Sites That Aren’t Twitter

As the Twitter App Ecosystem Tightens, 12seconds Calls it Quits

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What about wikis?

What is a wiki? A wiki is a website where every page can be edited in a web browser, by whomever happens to be reading it. It's so terrifically easy for people to jump in and revise pages that wikis are becoming known as the tool of choice for large, multiple-participant projects.•What Is a Wiki (and How to Use One for Your Projects) by Tom Stafford, Matt Webb 07/07/2006

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Does it have anything to do with Wikipedia?

Wikipedia is a wiki The name “Wikipedia” is a portmanteau (a combination of portions of two words and their meanings) of the words wiki (a type of collaborative Web site) and encyclopedia.

Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers from all around the world; anyone can edit it.•Wikipedia:About see also History of Wikipedia

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Be careful, though!

Wikipedia is just one example of a wiki, but not all wikis are Wikipedia or even like Wikipedia!

Wikis can cover all sorts of content Wikis can be much more private than Wikipedia (or much more open, depending on how security is handled)

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What does it have to do with a hula dancer?The word “wiki” is Hawai’ian

Explanation by the inventor of wikis, Ward Cunningham:•Wiki wiki is the first Hawai'ian term I learned on my first visit to the islands. The airport counter agent directed me to take the wiki wiki bus between terminals. I said what? He explained that wiki wiki meant quick.

Did you intend the word to be pronounced as wee-kee (rhyming with leaky) or as wick-ey (rhyming with sticky)? • believe the former is the proper pronunciation though I’ve been known to use the latter.

•Correspondence on the Etymology of WikiNovember, 2003.

Ward Cunningham

invented wiki in 1995.

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Wiki wiki sign outside Honolulu International Airport. (Image courtesy of A. Barataz)

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There is an index to wikis online

WikiIndex.org WikiIndex is the wiki of wikis. It is an effort to create a complete directory of wiki websites out there on the Internet, with a description of each wiki and various systems of categorisation. We want to help people find the kinds of wikis they are most interested in and to map out the Internet-wide wiki landscape.

• http://www.aboutus.org/WikiIndex.org

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What about social networking?

Social networking is the grouping of individuals into specific groups, like small rural communities or a neighborhood subdivision, if you will.  Although social networking is possible in person, especially in schools or in the workplace, it is most popular online. 

Social networking websites function like an online community of internet users. 

http://www.whatissocialnetworking.com/

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Social Networking explained

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What exactly is it?Definition:

We define social network sites as web-based services that allow individuals to (1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, (2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and (3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system.

• boyd, d. m., & Ellison, N. B. (2007). Social network sites: Definition, history, and scholarship. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1), article 11. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.html

* danah boyd *

Nicole Ellison

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A timeline of social networkingA Brief History of Social Networking Sites: 1995 = Classmates.com founded 1997 = Six Degrees of Separation founded

(Closed 2001) [boyd & Ellison consider this the first social networking site!]

1999 = Circle of Friends founded 2002 = Friendster.com founded 2003 = MySpace.com founded 2004 = Orkut.com founded 2004 = Facebook.com founded 2005 = Yahoo!360 founded [now closed]

• From a blog no longer available, dated June 26, 2007

41An International Educational Social Networking Site

ePals Corporation (TSXV: SLN) is an education technology

company and the leading provider of safe social learning networks (SLN). Focused on the K-12 market, ePals offers elementary and secondary school administrators, teachers, students and parents worldwide a safe and secure platform for building educational communities, providing quality digital content and facilitating collaboration for effective 21st century learning.http://www.epals.com/

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Is this different from “social media”?

http://twitter140characters.blogspot.com/2012/11/what-is-difference-between-social-media.html

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Another special case

Second Life is a three-dimensional virtual community created entirely by its membership. Members assume an identity and take up residence in Second Life, creating a customized avatar or personage to represent themselves. The avatar moves about in the virtual world using mouse control and intuitive keyboard buttons.

• What is Second Life?

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Second Life snapshot

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Social bookmarkingSocial Bookmarking 101

What is social bookmarking? It is tagging a website and saving it for later. Instead of saving them to your web browser, you are saving them to the web. And, because your bookmarks are online, you can easily share them with friends.

• What is Social Bookmarking and How Can It Help Me? By Daniel Nations, former About.com Guide

Social Bookmarking Sites The Top Ten Social Bookmarking Sites on the WebBy Wendy Boswell, About.com Guide

Acquired in March 2009 by

Now shut down and superseded bynow

Closed 10/1-2010. . . the Clipboard service at clipboard.com will be discontinued on June 30, 2013

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Another very special social tool

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A review of Glogster EDU

Glogster EDU - Glogster The EDU community offered by Glogster is

designed to alleviate the problems of inappropriate content and contact with “outsiders” not welcome in your class electronic community. The EDU area provides classes advertising-free glogs and easy teacher monitoring of student work. Students can comment and interact within a “gated community” with education-friendly options for collaboration and learning.

Here is an example glog created by the TeachersFirst Edge team.

A Sample Glog for Web 2.0 sites48

http://karenogen.edu.glogster.com/web-20-tools/

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Another poster site

http://pinterest.com/about/help/

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Creating stories out of social media

How To Curate Conversations With Storify• Storify is the best way to gather tweets, comments, snippets and images from all around the Web and put them into one post. It's a new way of blogging that lets all your Internet friends participate.• Storify uses drag-and-drop to move messages from the service tabs - Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, SoundCloud, Flickr, Instagram, Google, RSS, and more coming soon! - into your story. Favorites are a great way to pull out the posts you want, so that they're all right there in Storify and easy to find and drag.•By Jon Mitchell / October 28, 2011

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Recent statistics for Web 2.0 Use

http://www.pewinternet.org/Presentations/2013/Mar/State-of-Social-Media.aspx

Overview

Teens are sharing more information about themselves on social media sites than they have in the past, but they are also taking a variety of technical and non-technical steps to manage the privacy of that information. Despite taking these privacy-protective actions, teen social media users do not express a high level of concern about third-parties (such as businesses or advertisers) accessing their data; just 9% say they are “very” concerned.

http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/Teens-Social-Media-And-Privacy.aspx

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Web 2.0 and safety issues

Kids and Socializing Online Remind

Kids That Online Actions Have Consequences

Tell Kids to Limit What They Share Encourage Online Manners Limit Access to Your Kids’ Profiles Talk to Kids About What They’re Do

ing Online

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Find a good balance, though!

You can be too restrictive! Content filters and firewalls are great for keeping

kids away from pornography, as required by the Children’s Internet Protection Act (download the PDF), or preventing them from updating their Facebook status during class. But the same filters can stop teachers from accessing cutting-edge widgets and digital materials that have enormous potential for expanding learning.

New Hampshire kindergarten teacher Maria Knee, a pioneer in using Web 2.0 tools with young learners, points out that keeping powerful tools out of students’ reach during the school day doesn't prepare them for life. "Our kids are going to be using these tools and sites anyway," she argues.

• Playing It Too Safe Online Will Make You Sorry

Bending the Rules:A student at the Pleasantview Academy, in Hutchinson, Kansas, uses ArtSnacks, a site typically blocked by the school district, after an exception is made for a class project.Credit: Courtesy of Kevin Honeycutt

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Other cybersafety websites

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Another useful resource

Embrace Civility in the Digital Age promotes approaches to address youth well-being and risk in the digital age in a manner that promotes positive norms, increases effective skills and resiliency, and encourages young people to be helpful allies who positively intervene when they witness peers being hurt or at risk.•http://www.embracecivility.org/about/

Nancy Willard, M.S., J.D

.is the Director of

Embrace Civility in the Digital Age

. Nancy is author of . . . Cyber Savvy: Embracing Digital Safety

and Civility (2011, Corwin Press). Find Out

about Nancy’s books here.

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Is Web 2.0 getting old already?

Web 2.0 Is Over, All Hail the Age of Mobile

On April 9, 2012, Web 2.0 lost its mantle as the most important Internet paradigm. We are now starting the Age of Mobile. Google and Facebook’s Internet dominance is no longer guaranteed. They face a threat from below and an army of smartphone-touting masses that sees little distinction between the piece of hardware in their hands and the Internet world it opens up.

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Is Web 2.0 dead, or was it never alive in the first place

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Maybe a little premature?

See Nicholas Carr’s posts The death of Wikipedia (May 24, 2006) and Netscape's junk drawer (July 3, 2006)