Download - L3 Emerging Technologies
Blogging, microblogging and networking for learning
Frances Bell, [email protected]
Image used under Creative Commons License from Edans 1Slide
Purpose of this lectureUnderstand what is Web 2.0
which Web 2.0 services? And how do they connect in networks?
Understand role of blogging, micro-blogging in expanding and sustaining personal learning networks
Understand use of RSS as a networking technology
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Web 2.0
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What is Web 2.0?
Created at Wordle.net http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/1030296/Web_2.0_article with text from Web 2.0 article http://oreilly.com/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html
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http://oreilly.com/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html
Web 2.0 Design Patterns
The Long Tail
Data is the Next Intel Inside
Users Add Value.
Network Effects by Default.
Some Rights Reserved.
The Perpetual Beta
Cooperate, Don't Control
Software Above the Level of a Single Device
Web 2.0Read/write web – consumers and producers
“It's an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will "interact" with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it.” http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2006/jul/20/guardianweeklytechnologysection2
What is Web 3.0? ‘semantic web’ that has understanding of its contentsE.g. “Which US Presidents died of disease ?”
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article2726190.ece
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Which Web 2.0 services? And how do they connect
in networks?
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Which Web 2.0 servicesBlogs
Wikis
Microblogging
Tagging and social bookmarking
Multimedia sharing
Audio blogging and podcasting
RSS and syndication
Blogs as networks Using Chris Sessums’ blog as an example
http://eduspaces.net/csessums/weblog/
Blogrolls
Using socialtech as an example http://fraser.typepad.com/socialtech/
Comments
Using francesbell as an example http://francesbell.com/2009/09/18/connectivisms-relationship-to-theory-and-practice/
Linkbacks
RSS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU
MicrobloggingTwitter, Jaiku, Facebook updates
http://twitter.com, search for Salford
140 character limit
Web links
Many clients for PCs and mobile devices – Tweetdeck, Tweeties, etc.
Upload pictures and link e.g.Twitpic
Link to audio e.g. via Audioboo
Role of blogging, micro-blogging in personal learning networks
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http://www.neuroproductions.be/twitter_friends_network_browser/
Twitter networksBuild a trusted network
Give and takeLink posted by trusted node ‘better than search’Amongst social noise, questions asked and
answered
Stream flows by – can’t see it all
Assume all is public
Visualising networksUnderstand 1st and 2nd order connections
Can utilise 1st order connections to get in touch with 2nd order connections
Can use as aid to trimming and growing network
Frances Bell Facebook Friend Wheel Sep 2007, see
http://francesbell.com/2007/09/07/18/
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Frances Bell Facebook Friend Wheel October 2009
IssuesDigital identity / profile
Symmetry of connectionCompare Facebook and Twitter
Public / private
Social/ business/ professional I explored this here
http://francesbell.com/2009/07/23/moving-between-categories-in-online-identity/#more-262
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Resourceshttp://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/
techwatch/tsw0701b.pdf