What is Web 20

A waste of time or a revolutionary way

of working

--but is it dead already

EDU 626

Integrating Educational Technology

Spring 2013

Meet Abby the digital native2

Meet Abby the digital native2

Where does Web 20 fit

Uploaded by loots1964 on Oct 21 2009

Originally I planned on having kids tell me about how they used Web 20 technologies in

school but when I saw their reaction to my question that they clearly had no idea what a

Web 20 was - by name at least I realized I had stumbled onto a fascinating little bit of

information Web 20 is so innate to digital natives that they can‟t even identify it by name

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What is web 20 then

The definitions abound

Web 20 = the web as platform

Web 20 = the underlying

philosophy of relinquishing control

Web 20 = glocalization (ldquomaking

global information available to local

social contexts and giving people the

flexibility to find organize share

and create information in a locally

meaningful fashion that is globally

accessiblerdquo)

4

More of what is web 20

Web 20 = an attitude not a

technology

Web 20 = when data interface and

metadata no longer need to go hand

in hand

Web 20 = action-at-a-distance

interactions and ad hoc integration

Web 20 = power and control via

APIs

Web 20 = giving up control and

setting the data free

5

Itrsquos all of that and more

Web 20 is social it‟s open (or at least

it should be) it‟s letting go of control

over your data it‟s mixing the global

with the local Web 20 is about new

interfaces - new ways of searching and

accessing Web content And last but

not least Web 20 is a platform - and

not just for developers to create web

applications like Gmail and Flickr The

Web is a platform to build on for

educators media politics community

for virtually everyone in fact

6

So what is Web 20

From Presentation ldquoWeb 20rdquo by Satyajeet Singh available on Slideshare

7

Maybe this might help8

Back to Satyajeet Singh9

Participatory web

Dr Mark Grabe

httplearningaloudcomparticipatoryweb

10

Web 20 and constructivism

What is the Connection Between Web 20 and

Constructivist Theory

Web 20 tools can allow studentslearners to

demonstrate their understanding in a variety of ways

They can blog edit contribute rank tag upload and

enhance their web experiences through the use of Web 20

tools Additionally through the use of social networking

learners can also be exposed to other learners‟

perspectives

on a given topic or subject

bull Social Constructivism a wiki created for class EDER 67909 Web 20 and

Open Learning Environments

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Elements of Web 20

Wikis and blogs and all

What is a blog

bull bdquoA weblog is kind of a continual tour

with a human guide who you get to

know There are many guides to choose

from each develops an audience and

there‟s also comraderie [camaraderie]

and politics between the people who run

weblogs they point to each other in all

kinds of structures graphs loops etc‟bull Dave Winer The History of Weblogs

Last update Friday May 17 2002 at 123709 PM

Dave Winer is one of the

pioneers of blogging This

blog began in 1997

Davenet is from 1994

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What is a Blog

A log of websites visited Or a personal journal Or something else

ldquoDefining this variable form is not easy in the highly opinionated blogosphere - nor is it simple in the increasing number of newsrooms that are in embracing blogging Capturing the blogging beast is no small matter not when everybody from the lonely scribe in Paducah to me-too mass media in Manhattan is trying to get arms and minds around the virtual blob now encroaching onlinerdquo

bull Just what is a blog anyway

By Michael Conniff Posted 2005-09-29

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Can we define blogs

ldquoI donrsquot carerdquo

ldquoThere is no need to define bdquoblog‟

A blog is merely a tool that lets you do

anything from change the world to share

your shopping list People will use it however

they wish And it is way too soon in the

invention of uses for this tool to limit it with

a set definitionrdquobull Jeff Jarvis the veteran print journalist and prominent blogger

behind BuzzMachine

Quoted by Conniff in Just what is a blog anyway

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OK-so what makes a blog

Technically what is a weblog

A weblog is a hierarchy of text images

media objects and data arranged

chronologically that can be viewed in an

HTML browser

bull What makes a weblog a weblog

Fri May 23 2003 by Dave Winer

Weblogs At Harvard Law

15

Another technical definition

ldquo herersquos a definition of what a blog

is

A publication of

content and Web

links sorted in

chronological order with the most recent

at the top The content reflects personal

or corporate interests and is almost

always written by an individual rdquobull What are Blogs and Why Your Business

Should Use One Guest columnist Richard Zwicky

founder and the CEO of Metamend Software a Victoria BC

based firm whose cutting edge Search Engine Optimization software has

been recognized around the world as a leader in its field

16

History of blogs

Rebecca Blood

The original weblogs were link-driven sites

Each was a mixture in unique proportions of

links commentary and personal thoughts

and essays

These weblogs provide a valuable filtering

function for their readers The web has been

in effect pre-surfed for them

bull weblogs a history and perspective

7 september 2000 rebeccas pocket

bull ldquoJesse‟s bdquopage of only weblogs‟ lists the 23 known to

be in existence at the beginning of 1999rdquo ldquo last

updated on 12 Oct 2000rdquo with about 200 or 300

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Who coined the term ldquoweblogrdquo

Jorn Barger

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Blog History in Timeline Form

Dawn of Internet Time[=WWW time ie about 1989-90]

Tim Berners-Lee at CERN begins keeping a list of all new sites as they come online

June 1993

NCSA‟s oldest archived What‟s New list of sites

June 1993

Netscape begins running its Whats New list of sites

Jan 1994Justin Hall launches Justin‟s Home

Page which would become Links from the Underground (Now Justin‟s Links)

timbls blog

Original logo for

Mosaic the first web

browser from NCSA

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1999 the year it all explodedbullEarly 1999

bull Peter Merholz coins the term blog after announcing he was going to pronounce web blogs as ldquowee-blogrdquo This was then shortened to blog

bullEarly 1999 bull Brigitte Eaton starts the first portal devoted

to blogs with about 50 listings

bullJuly 1999 bull Metafilter‟s earliest archives

bullJuly 1999 bull Pitas launches the first free build

your own blog web tool [No longer available]

bullAugust 1999 bull Pyra releases Blogger which becomes the

most popular web based blogging tool to date and popularizes blogging with mainstream internet users

For What Its Worth

Ive decided to pronounce the

word weblog as wee- blog

Or blog for short

Importance of 1999

Advent of easy-edit web interfacebull July 1999 Pitas the first free build-your-

own-weblog tool launched

bull In August Pyra released Blogger and Groksoup launched

bull Late in 1999 software developer Dave Winerintroduced Edit This Page [a forerunner of Blog This] and Jeff A Campbell launched Velocinews

bull All of these services are free and all of them are designed to enable individuals to publish their own weblogs quickly and easily

bull Rebecca Blood weblogs a history and perspective

ldquoDave Winer the

protoblogger and

technology mavenrdquo

Dan Mitchell New

York Times

December 2 2006

Dave Winer‟s blog

Scripting News has

been going since

1997

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Why was Blogger so revolutionary

Rebecca Bloodrsquos opinionBlogger itself places no restrictions on the

form of content being posted Its web interface accessible from any browser consists of an empty form box into which the blogger can typeanything a passing thought an extended essay or a childhood recollection With a click Blogger will post thewhateveron the writers website archive it in the proper place and present the writer with another empty box just waiting to be filled

httpwwwrebeccabloodnetessaysweblog_historyhtml

Rebecca Blood is a

contributing writer

to

and a pioneering

blog writermdashher

blog goes back to

April 1999

22

Sample Blogger posting interface

23

Editing Blogger wysiwyg

24

Editing Blogger html view

25

bull httpmurraylibmediablogspotcom

Result (unfortunately not updated) 26

Editing Blogger wysiwyg

24

Editing Blogger html view

25

bull httpmurraylibmediablogspotcom

Result (unfortunately not updated) 26

Editing Blogger html view

25

bull httpmurraylibmediablogspotcom

Result (unfortunately not updated) 26

bull httpmurraylibmediablogspotcom

Result (unfortunately not updated) 26

Other blogging software

TypePad‟s easy-to-use editor

feedback management tools feed

and podcast support photo albums

and world-class customer support

To get started with WordPress set it up on a web host for the most flexibility or get a free blog on WordPresscom

lets you easily create

amp manage student

amp teacher blogs

quickly customize

designs

and include videos

photos amp podcasts

Free Pro or

Campus

subscriptions

Powered by

27

Can blogging be ldquosaferdquo

Safe blogs becoming a part of schoolThe fear of encouraging social networking and

leaving the door open for unsavory individuals to

see what students are doing online has caused most

districts to avoid the tool said David Warlick a

North Carolina public speaker and author whos

working on the second edition of ldquoClassroom

Blogging A Teachers Guide to the Blogosphererdquo

But new educational software such as Virtual

Office or Moodle which the Muskego-Norway

School District has implemented this year protects

students by letting them publish their writing

within a secure server where teachers can monitor

the comments

bull By Erin Richards of the Journal Sentinel Posted

March 25 2007

Some safer blogging sites

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A special case microblogging29

Microblogging sites

Watch Video Twitter in Plain English

As the Twitter App Ecosystem Tightens 12seconds Calls it Quits

30

What about wikis

What is a wiki

A wiki is a website where every

page can be edited in a web browser

by whomever happens to be reading

it Its so terrifically easy for people

to jump in and revise pages that

wikis are becoming known as the

tool of choice for large multiple-

participant projects

bull What Is a Wiki (and How to Use One

for Your Projects) by Tom Stafford

Matt Webb 07072006

31

Does it have anything to do with Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a wiki

The name ldquoWikipediardquo is a portmanteau

(a combination of portions of two words

and their meanings) of the words wiki (a

type of collaborative Web site) and

encyclopedia

Wikipedia is written collaboratively by

volunteers from all around the world

anyone can edit it

bull WikipediaAbout see also

History of Wikipedia

32

Be careful though

Wikipedia is just one example of a wiki

but not all wikis are Wikipedia or even like

Wikipedia

Wikis can cover all sorts of content

Wikis can be much more private than

Wikipedia (or much more open depending on

how security is handled)

33

What does it have to do with a hula dancer

The word ldquowikirdquo is Hawairsquoian

Explanation by the inventor of wikis

Ward Cunningham

bull Wiki wiki is the first Hawaiian term I

learned on my first visit to the islands The

airport counter agent directed me to take the

wiki wiki bus between terminals I said what

He explained that wiki wiki meant quick

Did you intend the word to be pronounced

as wee-kee (rhyming with leaky) or as

wick-ey (rhyming with sticky)

bull believe the former is the proper

pronunciation though Irsquove been known to

use the latter

bull Correspondence on the Etymology of Wiki

November 2003

Ward

Cunningham

invented wiki in

1995

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What does it have to do with a hula dancer

The word ldquowikirdquo is Hawairsquoian

Explanation by the inventor of wikis

Ward Cunningham

bull Wiki wiki is the first Hawaiian term I

learned on my first visit to the islands The

airport counter agent directed me to take the

wiki wiki bus between terminals I said what

He explained that wiki wiki meant quick

Did you intend the word to be pronounced

as wee-kee (rhyming with leaky) or as

wick-ey (rhyming with sticky)

bull believe the former is the proper

pronunciation though Irsquove been known to

use the latter

bull Correspondence on the Etymology of Wiki

November 2003

Ward

Cunningham

invented wiki in

1995

34

Wiki wiki sign outside Honolulu International Airport

(Image courtesy of A Barataz)

35

There is an index to wikis online

WikiIndexorg

WikiIndex is the wiki of wikis It is

an effort to create a complete

directory of wiki websites out there

on the Internet with a description of

each wiki and various systems of

categorisation We want to help

people find the kinds of wikis they

are most interested in and to map

out the Internet-wide wiki

landscape bull httpwwwaboutusorgWikiIndexorg

36

What about social networking

Social networking is the grouping of

individuals into specific groups like small

rural communities or a neighborhood

subdivision if you will Although social

networking is possible in person especially

in schools or in the workplace it is most

popular online

Social networking websites function like an

online community of internet users

37

Social Networking explained38

What exactly is it

Definition

We define social network sites as web-

based services that allow individuals to (1)

construct a public or semi-public profile

within a bounded system (2) articulate a

list of other users with whom they share a

connection and (3) view and traverse

their list of connections and those made by

others within the system

bull boyd d m amp Ellison N B (2007) Social network

sites Definition history and scholarship

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

13(1) article 11 httpjcmcindianaeduvol13issue1boydellisonhtml

danah boyd

Nicole Ellison

39

A timeline of social networking

A Brief History of Social Networking Sites

1995 = Classmatescom founded

1997 = Six Degrees of Separation founded

(Closed 2001) [boyd amp Ellison consider this the

first social networking site]

1999 = Circle of Friends founded

2002 = Friendstercom founded

2003 = MySpacecom founded

2004 = Orkutcom founded

2004 = Facebookcom founded

2005 = Yahoo360 founded [now closed]

bull From a blog no longer available dated June 26

2007

40

An International Educational Social

Networking Site

ePals Corporation (TSXV SLN) is an education technology

company and the leading provider of safe social learning

networks (SLN) Focused on the K-12 market ePals offers

elementary and secondary school administrators teachers

students and parents worldwide a safe and secure platform

for building educational communities providing quality

digital content and

facilitating

collaboration for

effective

21st century

learninghttpwwwepalscom

41

Another special case

Second Life is a three-

dimensional virtual community created entirely by its

membership Members assume an identity and take

up residence in Second Life creating a customized

avatar or personage to represent themselves The

avatar moves about in the virtual world using mouse

control and intuitive keyboard buttons

bull What is Second Life

42

Second Life snapshot43

Social bookmarking

Social Bookmarking 101

What is social bookmarking It is

tagging a website and saving it for

later Instead of saving them to your

web browser you are saving them to

the web And because your

bookmarks are online you can

easily share them with friendsbull What is Social Bookmarking and How Can It

Help Me By Daniel Nations former

Aboutcom Guide

Social

Bookmarking Sites

The Top Ten Social

Bookmarking Sites

on the Web

By Wendy Boswell

Aboutcom Guide

Acquired in

March 2009 by

Now shut down and

superseded bynow

Closed 101-2010

44

Social bookmarking

Social Bookmarking 101

What is social bookmarking It is

tagging a website and saving it for

later Instead of saving them to your

web browser you are saving them to

the web And because your

bookmarks are online you can

easily share them with friendsbull What is Social Bookmarking and How Can It

Help Me By Daniel Nations former

Aboutcom Guide

Social

Bookmarking Sites

The Top Ten Social

Bookmarking Sites

on the Web

By Wendy Boswell

Aboutcom Guide

Acquired in

March 2009 by

Now shut down and

superseded bynow

Closed 101-2010

44

Another very special social tool

45

A review of Glogster EDU

Glogster EDU - Glogster

The EDU community offered by Glogster is

designed to alleviate the problems of inappropriate

content and contact with outsiders not welcome

in your class electronic community The EDU area

provides classes advertising-free glogs and easy

teacher monitoring of student work Students can

comment and interact within a gated community

with education-friendly options for collaboration

and learning

Here is an example glog created by the

TeachersFirst Edge team

46

A Sample Glog for Web 20 sites

47

Another poster site48

httppinterestcomabouthelp

Creating stories out of social media

How To Curate Conversations With Storify

bull Storify is the best way to gather tweets comments snippets and images from all around the Web and put them into one post Its a new way of blogging that lets all your Internet friends participate

bull Storify uses drag-and-drop to move messages from the service tabs -Twitter Facebook YouTube SoundCloud Flickr Instagram Google RSS and more coming soon - into your story Favorites are a great way to pull out the posts you want so that theyre all right there in Storify and easy to find and drag

bull By Jon Mitchell October 28 2011

49

Recent statistics for Web 20 Use50

httpwwwpewinternetorgReports2013Teens-and-Techaspx

Related Research

Social Networking

Coming and Going on Facebook

Feb 5 2013

Lee Rainie

Social Networking

The Demographics of Social

Media Users mdash 2012

Feb 14 2013

httpwwwpewinternetorgPresentations2013

MarState-of-Social-Mediaaspx

Web 20 and safety issues

Help Kids Socialize Safely Online Help your kids understand what information should

be private

Use privacy settings to restrict who can access and

post on your childs website

Explain that kids should post only information that

you mdash and they mdash are comfortable with others seeing

Remind your kids that once they post information

online they cant take it back

Know how your kids are getting online

Talk to your kids about bullying

Talk to your kids about avoiding sex talk online

Tell your kids to trust their gut if they have suspicions

Read sites‟ privacy policies

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Find a good balance though

You can be too restrictiveContent filters and firewalls are great for keeping

kids away from pornography as required by the

Children‟s Internet Protection Act (download the

PDF) or preventing them from updating their

Facebook status during class But the same filters

can stop teachers from accessing cutting-edge

widgets and digital materials that have enormous

potential for expanding learning

New Hampshire kindergarten teacher Maria Knee

a pioneer in using Web 20 tools with young

learners points out that keeping powerful tools out

of students‟ reach during the school day doesnt

prepare them for life Our kids are going to be

using these tools and sites anyway she argues

bull Playing It Too Safe Online Will Make You Sorry

Bending the Rules

A student at the

Pleasantview Academy

in Hutchinson Kansas

uses ArtSnacks a site

typically blocked by the

school district after an

exception is made for a

class project

Credit Courtesy of

Kevin Honeycutt

52

Other cybersafety websites53

Another useful resource

Embrace Civility in the Digital Age

promotes approaches to address

youth well-being and risk in the

digital age in a manner that promotes

positive norms increases effective

skills and resiliency and encourages

young people to be helpful allies who

positively intervene when they

witness peers being hurt or at risk

bull httpwwwembracecivilityorgabout

Nancy Willard MS

JD

is the Director of

Embrace Civility in the

Digital Age Nancy is

author of Cyber

Savvy Embracing

Digital Safety and

Civility (2011 Corwin

Press) Find Out about

Nancy‟s books here

54

Is Web 20 getting old already

Web 20 Is Over

All Hail the Age of Mobile

On April 9 2012 Web 20 lost

its mantle as the most important

Internet paradigm We are now

starting the Age of Mobile

Google and Facebook‟s Internet dominance is no

longer guaranteed They face a threat from below

and an army of smartphone-touting masses that

sees little distinction between the piece of hardware

in their hands and the Internet world it opens up

bull

55

Is Web 20 dead or was it never alive in the first place