How Education can leverage Web 2.0
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This document discusses how education can leverage Web 2.0 technologies. It provides background on the evolution of the internet from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0, noting that Web 2.0 emphasizes user-generated content and participation. Web 2.0 allows for collaborative learning through tools like blogs, wikis, social networks, and content sharing sites. These technologies can help supplement classroom teaching by facilitating discussion, peer learning, and access to online resources. Specific Web 2.0 tools that are useful for educators are highlighted.
How Education can leverage Web 2.0
- 1. How Education can Leverage Web 2.0 Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) 15 th June’ 09, New Delhi
- 2. Presentation Flow Quick background - SlideShare Internet’s Historical Evolution Web 2.0 and its genesis Web 2.0 in Education / E-learning Resources
- 3. Co-founder & COO, SlideShare Webyantra : Blog on Indian startups, technology, entrepreneurship Techie turned marketer turned entrepreneur Who am I ?
- 4. SlideShare World’s largest community for presentation sharing….. We also invented this space!
- 5. ‘ YouTube of PowerPoint ’ - TechCrunch Launched Oct’ 06 24 member startup – Delhi & U.S. Global users: > 65 languages, >150 countries What is SlideShare?
- 6. Global scale social sharing site for photos for video for presentations
- 7. Cartoons Paintings Humor Love Songs Talk slides Images of women Sermons Standalone presentations Activism Academic Lessons Movie reviews Mother’s day cards What people use SlideShare for?
- 9. Currently pre-revenue stage Aiming to attain threshold user-base Business model based on monetising attention (lead generation, advertising etc) Freemium model Business Model
- 10. Web 2.0 & it’s genesis
- 11. Web 1.0 was Commerce Web 2.0 is People - Ross Mayfield (CEO, SocialText)
- 12. 1995 – 1998 : Early stage internet, Technology focus 1999 – 2004 : Web 1.0, Dot Com Boom, Ecommerce focus 2005 - current : Web 2.0, People focus Historical Evolution of the World Wide Web…..
- 13. Web 2.0 – The genesis The term ‘Web 2.0’ introduced by Time O’Reilly at a conference in 2004 ‘ Web 2.0’ - an improved form of the World Wide Web Emphasizing tools/platforms that enable users to tag, blog, comment, modify, augment, rank etc. Notion of The ‘ Participatory Web’
- 14. Web 2.0 : Key Principles Read V/s Read & Write
- 15. User Generated Content Web 2.0 : Key Principles
- 16. Web 2.0 : Key Principles Experts V/s Wisdom of Crowds
- 17. 80:20 V/s The Long Tail Web 2.0 : Key Principles
- 18. Web 2.0 : Key Principles … the content comes to you…
- 19. Web 2.0 in Education
- 20. Collaborative Learning Collective Intelligence & Wisdom of Crowds - Sharing of teaching resources - Peer Learning - Self Learning via online resources - Higher involvement via rich, engaging media How Web 2.0 helps in Education?
- 21. Blogs Wikis Podcasts Videos, Presentations, Pictures Social Networks Microblogging Tagging Social Bookmarking RSS Web 2.0 Tools for Educators
- 22. Blogs Easy online publishing Facilitate discussion & conversations Post Assignments Student & Teacher Blogs Resources: Blogger, Wordpress
- 23. Wikis Collaborative knowledge base Involve students in creative process Open & accessible repository Resources: Wikipedia, PBwiki, Wikispaces
- 24. Social Bookmarking Collaborative Filtering Overcome Information overload Point Students towards authoratative resources Resources: Delicious, StumbleUpon
- 25. Video & Presentation Sharing Share courses via presentations & video lectures Supplement classroom teaching Search references, case studies Resources : Youtube, SlideShare, TeacherTube
- 26. RSS (Real Simple Syndication) Content Syndication & Distribution Manage Information overload Get latest updates via web or email Subscribe to alerts
- 27. Social Networks Build community of educators Public or private Interact, discuss, collaborate, share, forums Resources: Ning, Facebook
- 28. Tagging Semantic Classification Collaborative Folksonomy Information retrieval & filtering Helps search, discovery & navigation
- 29. Web 2.0 Resources for Educators
- 30. Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies C4LPT - www.c4lpt.co.uk
- 31. C4LPT Annual Educators Survey of Web based tools
- 32. The Edublog Awards : Best Teacher Blogs
- 33. MIT’s Open CourseWare (OCW) ( http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm)
- 34. Discovery Education ( http://school.discoveryeducation.com/)
- 35. Thanks Slides available on SlideShare (www.slideshare.net/amitranjan)