Web 2.0

Web 2.0 in Learning : 

Web 2.0 in Learning

DAY ONE: CLIENT SIDE : 

DAY ONE: CLIENT SIDE

Participants will explore the full range of web 2.0 applications from a client perspective, exploring and creating content on a wide variety of web sites and services. : 

Participants will explore the full range of web 2.0 applications from a client perspective, exploring and creating content on a wide variety of web sites and services.

The intent will be not online to provide participants with a strong understanding of current web technology, but to explore the underlying technologies and to develop a sense of what to expect in the future. : 

The intent will be not online to provide participants with a strong understanding of current web technology, but to explore the underlying technologies and to develop a sense of what to expect in the future.

9:00 - 10:30 Introducing Web 2.0 : 

9:00 - 10:30 Introducing Web 2.0

A quick tour – looking at Web 2.0 sites : 

A quick tour – looking at Web 2.0 sites Flickr - http://www.flickr.com Gliffy - http://www.gliffy.com Wikipedia - http://www.wikipedia.org YouTube - http://www.youtube.com Facebook - http://www.facebook.com Second Life - http://www.secondlife.com

Basic principles and trends : 

Basic principles and trends Structured data Services instead of Websites Remixing content Users are in control Communities build social information Separating content from style http://www.digital-web.com/articles/web_2_for_designers/

A look at major writings : 

A look at major writings Cluetrain - markets are about conversations http://www.cluetrain.com/ Clay Shirky / Chris Anderson - the long tail http://www.thelongtail.com/ O’Reilly - the web as platform http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html Suroeiki - the wisdom of crowds http://www.randomhouse.com/features/wisdomofcrowds/ Boyd - MySpace is my identity space http://www.danah.org/papers/AAAS2006.html

Outline of Underlying Technologies : 

Outline of Underlying Technologies Social Networking Tagging AJAX Application Program Interfaces JSON

Future directions : 

Future directions Learning as Creation Social Learning Personal Learning Environment Immersive learning The Living Arts Things You Really Need to Learn

11:00 - 12:30 User-Generated Content : 

11:00 - 12:30 User-Generated Content

Blogs and blogging software : 

Blogs and blogging software Blogger - http://www.blogger.com WordPress - http://wordpress.com LiveJournal - http://www.livejournal.com Movable Type - http://www.movabletype.org TypePad - http://www.typepad.com/

Blogging Resources : 

Blogging Resources Mashable - http://mashable.com/2007/06/19/blogging-toolbox/ Numerous resources for Blogger, WordPress, etc., themes, templates, plugins WordPress Plugins http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ Business Blogging Toolset http://www.businesscreditcards.com/bootstrapper/the-business-blogging-toolset-100-resources-for-entrepreneur-writers

About blogging, how to blog, uses of blogs : 

About blogging, how to blog, uses of blogs How to Be Heard - http://www.downes.ca/post/2 How to Blog (Robin Good) - http://www.masternewmedia.org/independent_publishing/blogging-how-to-blog/guide-to-publishing-first-blog-20071104.htm.htm Blogging for Beginners http://www.problogger.net/archives/2006/02/14/blogging-for-beginners-2/

Educational Blogging : 

Educational Blogging Educational Blogging - http://www.downes.ca/post/40939 Uses of Blogs - bookmarks, discussion, news and events Five Stages of Educational Blogging The Use of Blogs in Education

Blogs and marketing : 

Blogs and marketing Robin Good http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2004/12/07/how_to_use_blogs_for.htm Top Marketing Blogs http://adage.com/power150/ Beth Kanter - nonprofits http://www.bethkanter.org/ Viral Marketing (and Memes) http://www.wilsonweb.com/wmt5/viral-principles.htm

Citizen Journalism : 

Citizen Journalism 11 Layers of Citizen Journalism - Poynter http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=83126 We the Media - Dan Gilmor http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wemedia/book/index.csp Citizen Media Initiatives - http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/002226.php OurMedia - free media uploads - http://www.ourmedia.org

Blogging accessories – tagging, Technorati, folksonomies, blogrolls : 

Blogging accessories – tagging, Technorati, folksonomies, blogrolls Technorati - http://www.technorati.com Tagging - Technorati Tags http://technorati.com/help/tags.html Flickr - Tagging http://www.flickr.com/help/tags/ Rashmisinha - Cognitive Aspects http://www.rashmisinha.com/archives/05_09/tagging-cognitive.html Rashmisinha - Social Aspects http://www.rashmisinha.com/archives/06_01/social-tagging.html

1:30 - 3:00 Syndicated Media : 

1:30 - 3:00 Syndicated Media

The idea of content syndication : 

The idea of content syndication Content Syndication and Online Learning - http://www.downes.ca/post/148

RSS and Atom : 

RSS and Atom RSS 1.0 http://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/ 2.0 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html RSS Tutorial http://www.mnot.net/rss/tutorial/ How to Create an RSS Feed http://www.downes.ca/post/56 Atom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(standard) RFC 4287 - "The Atom Syndication Format" RFC 5023 - "The Atom Publishing Protocol"

RSS readers – Google Reader, Bloglines, others : 

RSS readers – Google Reader, Bloglines, others Google Reader - http://reader.google.com Bloglines - http://www.bloglines.com Desktop readers - Newsgator, FeedDemon, NetNewsWire, Outlook 2007 and Windows Live Mail Browser-based: Live Bookmarks, Favorites

Yahoo Pipes and customized syndication engines : 

Yahoo Pipes and customized syndication engines River of News - Dave Winer http://www.reallysimplesyndication.com/riverOfNews Yahoo Pipes - http://pipes.yahoo.com 10 Filters for RSS Feeds - http://www.oscandy.com/hacking/581-filter-rss-feeds Combine and Filter feeds - Blogsieve http://www.blogsieve.com/ Edu_RSS - http://www.downes.ca/edurss02.htm

Related specifications: OPML, FOAF : 

Related specifications: OPML, FOAF OPML - http://www.opml.org/spec SuprGlu - http://suprglu.com/ MyGlu - http://www.downes.ca/myglu.htm OPML Editor - http://support.opml.org/ FOAF - http://www.foaf-project.org/

Social Networking Theory – Watts and Barabasi : 

Social Networking Theory – Watts and Barabasi Social Network Theory - http://www.istheory.yorku.ca/socialnetworktheory.htm Six Degrees - http://www.sociology.columbia.edu/fac-bios/watts/faculty.html Current Research - http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/perrolle/archive/Ethier-SocialNetworks.html Linked - Barabasi http://www.andreas.com/faq-barabasi.html

Social networks : 

Social networks Friendster - http://www.friendster.com Orkut - http://www.orkut.com Yahoo 360 - http://360.yahoo.com MySpace - http://www.myspace.com Bebo - http://www.bebo.com Facebook - http://www.facebook.com

3:30 - 5:00 Making Multimedia : 

3:30 - 5:00 Making Multimedia

Essential multimedia formats – MP3 and beyond : 

Essential multimedia formats – MP3 and beyond Audio File Formats http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_file_format Video File Formats Containers and CODECS http://www.shallowsky.com/linux/videoformats.html Flash Video http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Video

Podcasting and audio – iTunes, Audacity and beyond : 

Podcasting and audio – iTunes, Audacity and beyond Podcasts / iTunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/podcasts.html iPodder (now Juice) http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/ Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ LAME - http://lame.buanzo.com.ar/

Photos and Photo Editing – Flickr, Picasa and the rest : 

Photos and Photo Editing – Flickr, Picasa and the rest Flickr - http://www.flickr.com Picasa - http://picasa.google.com Pixer - http://pixer.us/ Photo Editing http://www.basic-digital-photography.com/editing-photos.html

Video and YouTube – From MovieMaker to Premiere : 

Video and YouTube – From MovieMaker to Premiere YouTube - http://www.youtube.com Google Video - http://video.google.com Windows MovieMaker http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/default.mspx Premiere - http://www.adobe.com/products/premiereel/ Camtasia - scieen video http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp

Flash content – Slideshare and other online creations : 

Flash content – Slideshare and other online creations Slideshare - http://www.slideshare.net

Trends : 

Trends citizen journalism recommender networks e-learning

DAY TWO: SERVER SIDE : 

DAY TWO: SERVER SIDE

In the second day, participants will look behind the scenes, accessing a live web server and trying some hands-on software installations and configurations. : 

In the second day, participants will look behind the scenes, accessing a live web server and trying some hands-on software installations and configurations.

The session will progress from essential concepts common to all web servers to systems and applications specific to Web 2.0 including the advanced scripting techniques used to create interactive web programs. : 

The session will progress from essential concepts common to all web servers to systems and applications specific to Web 2.0 including the advanced scripting techniques used to create interactive web programs.

9:00 - 10:30 Basic Server architecture : 

9:00 - 10:30 Basic Server architecture Client Server Architecture http://www.webdevelopersnotes.com/basics/client_server_architecture.php3 Servers - administration, accounts, permissions The web server architecture

A quick intro to LAMP: : 

A quick intro to LAMP: LINUX - http://www.linux.org/ Apache - http://www.apache.org/ MySQL - http://www.mysql.com/ Perl - http://www.perl.org/ PHP - http://www.php.net/ Python - http://www.python.org/ LAMP How-To http://lamphowto.com/

GET and POST: How CGI scripts work : 

GET and POST: How CGI scripts work Common gateway Interface (CGI) http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/ HTTP GET HTTP POST

Hosting Services : 

Hosting Services Cpanel - http://www.cpanel.net/index.html Direct Admin http://www.directadmin.com/ Plesk http://www.swsoft.com/plesk/

Accessing Web Servers – FTP and SSH : 

Accessing Web Servers – FTP and SSH FTP - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Transfer_Protocol Filezilla - http://filezilla-project.org/ WS FTP - http://www.ipswitch.com/ CyberDuck - http://cyberduck.ch/ Fetch - http://www.fetchsoftworks.com/ SSH - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell Terminal PuTTY - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

Confuguring Databases – MySQL and DBI : 

Confuguring Databases – MySQL and DBI Set Up MySQL http://www.washington.edu/computing/web/publishing/mysql-install.html PHPMyAdmin - http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/index.php CRUD - Create, read, update and delete http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Create,_read,_update_and_delete

Installing Web Software - WordPress on LAMP : 

Installing Web Software - WordPress on LAMP Installing WordPress http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress Configuring WordPresshttp://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins

11:00 - 12:30 Content Management Systems : 

11:00 - 12:30 Content Management Systems

Basic concepts of Content Management Systems : 

Basic concepts of Content Management Systems The Concept of the CMS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system List of CMSs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_content_management_systems Features of CMSs http://www.steptwo.com.au/papers/kmc_evaluate/

The key scripting languages: Perl and PHP : 

The key scripting languages: Perl and PHP PERL CPAN - http://www.cpan.org/ Perl Monks - http://www.perlmonks.org/ PHP Zend - http://www.zend.com/en/

PHP in detail in major CMSs: Drupal, Joomla : 

PHP in detail in major CMSs: Drupal, Joomla

Perl and Perl modules - Slashcode, LiveJournal code : 

Perl and Perl modules - Slashcode, LiveJournal code

1:30 - 3:00 Data structures : 

1:30 - 3:00 Data structures

The relation between Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web : 

The relation between Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web XML - http://www.xml.com Resource Description Format http://www.w3.org/RDF/ Web Services http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_service Schemas and Ontologies http://xml.coverpages.org/schemas.html

Creating syndicated content engines : 

Creating syndicated content engines RSS and Atom again, from the inside Data transfer – REST (as compared to Web Services) Open APIs – the Blogger API, the Facebook APIMixing media: Mash-ups

3:30 - 5:00 Advanced scripting and frameworks : 

3:30 - 5:00 Advanced scripting and frameworks

Javascript fundamentals and dynamic scripting - DHTML : 

Javascript fundamentals and dynamic scripting - DHTML The Document Object Model (DOM) Javascript, JSON, HTTP Request and AJAX

Frameworks: Parrot, Ruby on Rails, etc : 

Frameworks: Parrot, Ruby on Rails, etc Parrot - http://www.parrotcode.org/ Ruby on Rails - http://www.rubyonrails.org/ J2EE - http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/docs/tutorial/doc/ .Net - http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/default.aspx

Distributed systems – Jabber and other P2P applications : 

Distributed systems – Jabber and other P2P applications Jabber - http://www.jabber.org Twitter - http://www.twitter.com

Authentication and Identification: OpenID and YADIS : 

Authentication and Identification: OpenID and YADIS Authentication and Identification http://www.downes.ca/post/12 OpenID - http://openid.net/