Web 2.0 and Teaching & Learning

 

What is Web 2.0 and how can I use it in Teaching & Learning?  Today we will explore a few Web 2.0 apps and use them while we are exploring them.

You're challenge, should you choose to accept it is to jump into Web 2.0 without looking!

 

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First listen and read a tiny bit about...

What is Web 2.0?

 

• Wikipedia defines Web 2.0
• Dr. Wesch uses Web 2.0 to explain Web 2.0

 

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Create a Twitter account

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Create a blog

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Visit and participate in our live blog

 

What are blogs?

• Wikipedia defines blogs

 

What is podcasting?

• Theory by Dr. Coop SMCC

 

What are wikis? 

• Wiki defined
• Wikipedia defines wikipedia

 

What is mircoblogging?

• Micro-blogging defined

• What is Twitter?

• Twitter defined
• FAQ's for Twitter

Twitter: What are some ways you can use tagging for your courses?

 

What is Tagging?

• Dr. Michael Wesh explains Tagging
• What are tags?

• Del.icio.us defined

• What is Del.icio.us?
• How to get started
• To use Del.icio.us when surfing the internet
• How do you share your tags?

• I'll share with you my Maricopa tagged sites
• Eng101 Tags shared

 

What is Creative Commons?

http://creativecommons.org/

About

Why do you think Creative Commons came about?

How can you use Creative Commons in your work?

 

What is Flickr?

flickr.com

 

Slideshare

http://www.slideshare.net/

 

 

I ask now...

 

 

Second Life

Ohio University

NMC Campus

 

Jing Project

http://www.jingproject.com/

 

More to explore

Dr. Alisa Cooper's Top Web 2.0 Tools