50 Ways to Energize Your Teaching Using Web 2.0 Applications :John Thompson, Ph.D. Buffalo State College 50 Ways to Energize Your Teaching Using Web 2.0 Applications


Presentation Agenda :Presentation Agenda Dr. John Thompson - TCEA 2009 2 Highlight many Web 2.0 educational apps Free apps (mostly…at this point in time) Interactive presentation


What is “Web 2.0?” :What is “Web 2.0?” Dr. John Thompson - TCEA 2009 3 Web 1.0 read-only medium static Web – provide information Web 2.0 read-write Web relies on user participation information is transmitted and consumed with content being created, shared, remixed, repurposed, and passed along (Downes, 2005)


Web 2.0 in Education :Web 2.0 in Education Dr. John Thompson - TCEA 2009 4 Increases user creativity and community while concurrently empowering user ownership of content User-generated content leading to "collective intelligence" that benefits many Collaborative in nature and features user-generated content


Web 2.0 Videos :Web 2.0 Videos Dr. John Thompson - TCEA 2009 5 Tim O'Reilly on What is Web 2.0? Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Introducing Web 2.0 Coming of Age: Primary Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Panel Discussion - What is Web 2.0? Co-Creating with Web 2.0 Web 2.0 and Education Web 2.0 in Education What is Web 2.0? The Machine is Us/ing Us


Slide 6:Dr. John Thompson - TCEA 2009 6 human-computer interaction personal connections--from words, pictures, video, and audio authentic, peer-to-peer channel of communication open, flexible collaboration data and applications opened to creative use by the public harnessing collective intelligence collaboration/participation/collective intelligence second generation of services Web as a platform the wisdom of crowds creative amateur is cherished “democratizes” media amoral authentic, peer-to-peer channel of communication collective judgments user-generated content safety in numbers participative Web collective power community Web changing from “medium” to “platform” user actions provide value architecture of participation bookmarking >>> social bookmarking transparent selves…transparent Web interactive, community-based Internet applications


Slide 7:Dr. John Thompson - TCEA 2009 7 Trying to define and categorize what “Web 2.0” means is like trying to change the tire on your car while it’s going down the highway.


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Sharing Photos :Sharing Photos Dr. John Thompson - TCEA 2009 9 Educational Uses Scrapbooking Class reunions Portfolio School events Fundraising Embed in blogs, PowerPoints, class Web sites… Other uses? Video – Online Photo Sharing in Plain English Library of Congress’ Flickr site


Sharing Videos :Sharing Videos Dr. John Thompson - TCEA 2009 10 48% of online adults have visited video Web sites, according to a Pew Internet & American Life Project report. There was a 45% 2007-2008 year-to-year growth. List of video sharing sites


Sharing PowerPoints :Dr. John Thompson - TCEA 2009 11 Sharing PowerPoints And even more sites! “free Web-based alternative to PowerPoint. Create & edit Flash presentations online. Send presentations via e-mail or publish on your Web site or blog” Synch uploaded video with your PowerPoint


Sharing Documents :Dr. John Thompson - TCEA 2009 12 Sharing Documents 24/7 anytime, anywhere access to projects or assignments – extends school day


Social Networks :Social Networks Dr. John Thompson - TCEA 2009 13


Blogs :Dr. John Thompson - TCEA 2009 14 Blogs Audio blogs/conversations blogging engine created specifically for classroom use


Education Blogs :Education Blogs Dr. John Thompson - TCEA 2009 15 Best Education Blogs 2007 Top 100 Education Blogs 2006 Find a Teacher Blog Best Education Blogs 2008


Podcasts :Dr. John Thompson - TCEA 2009 16 Podcasts “Record your podcast via a toll-free call from any phone. Never even touch a computer!”


Collaboration :Dr. John Thompson - TCEA 2009 17 Collaboration Web Collaboration Software wiki.com domain name sold for $2.86 million (8/06) Wiki – online software that lets users modify any content, plus everything (formatting included) about the wiki Social bookmarking – store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of Web sites using metadata & tagging


Education Online :Education Online Dr. John Thompson - TCEA 2009 18 Coursecast – podcast or videocast lecture (like a Tivo for courses) Partial list of higher ed schools offering open source courseware and/or coursecasts: Harvard Carnegie Mellon UC Berkeley Duke MIT Notre Dame Johns Hopkins Lecture-capture software for educational institutions - capture, edit, index, archive and stream video and audio over the Internet Free Online Education listing


Miscellaneous :Miscellaneous Dr. John Thompson - TCEA 2009 19 Online community Share bookmarks Social browser Calendar Diagrams Explanatory video


Miscellaneous :Miscellaneous Office productivity suite RSS aggregators Creating ePortfolios with Web 2.0 Tools ePortfolio Mash Up with GoogleApps Share graphics Dr. John Thompson - TCEA 2009 20 Video Long list


Miscellaneous :Miscellaneous Dr. John Thompson - TCEA 2009 21 “online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) - and share them with anyone they wish. A VoiceThread allows group conversations to be collected and shared in one place, from anywhere in the world.” -- group audio blogging to enhance group communication and reflection “captures and shares images and video…from your computer to anywhere” “Enables users to express themselves on the web in their own voice using a talking character. Customize your Voki to look like you…Your Voki can speak with your own voice which is added via microphone, upload, or phone.”


Miscellaneous :Miscellaneous Dr. John Thompson - TCEA 2009 22 create surveys and polls for your Web site, blog and social network profiles Fleck.com allows you to add notes or bullets to Web sites. Share these annotated pages with others. one-to-many live interactive video broadcast platform enabling anyone with a camera and an Internet connection to broadcast to a unlimited global audience Beyond just driving directions… 100 Things to do Directory of web 2.0 apps & services – 2795 logos (2/3/09) (1937 logos back on 1/19/08)


Web 2.0 Apps in Education :Web 2.0 Apps in Education Dr. John Thompson - TCEA 2009 23 Web 2.0 in Education Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0 Best Web 2.0 Applications for Elementary School Best Web 2.0 Applications for Education — 2007 Best Web 2.0 Applications for Education – 2008 Web 2.0 for the Classroom Teacher Kathy Schrock suggested links


“Top” Lists :“Top” Lists Dr. John Thompson - TCEA 2009 24 The Most Useful Web Tools Web 2.0 list Free Tools for Teachers Directory of Learning Tools ISTE’s Top 10 Blogs & Podcasts for Jan. 2008 self-running slide show of over 1,400 of the best Web2.0 sites - categorized by tags and sorted alphabetically


Problems :Problems Dr. John Thompson - TCEA 2009 25 Unaware Inadequate instructions Usual suspects Filtering policies Insufficient support Time Others?


Coming Attractions :Coming Attractions Dr. John Thompson - TCEA 2009 26 Starbucks Effect Blurring of work & personal lives…& apps 9 to 5 >>> 24/7 Growing reliance on Internet – “cloud”


What Next? :What Next? Dr. John Thompson - TCEA 2009 27 “Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”          - James Baldwin Baby steps…one new app at a time


Summary :Summary Dr. John Thompson - TCEA 2009 28 Lots of Web 2.0 apps for education Creates rich, engaging & exciting learning environment Users become information producers & collaborators, not just consumers Promotes student-centered learning Educators become more efficient


Presenter :Presenter Dr. John Thompson - TCEA 2009 29 John Thompson, PhD Associate Professor Coordinator, Educational Technology Program Computer Information Systems Department Buffalo State College Chase 208, 1300 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, NY 14222 716.878.3531 thompsjt@buffalostate.edu