web 2.0 and project citizen: what’s possible?
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Web 2.0 and Project Citizen: What’s Possible?. Ben Bohmfalk Colorado 3 rd District Coordinator Roaring Fork High School Teacher Carbondale, CO. What is “ Web 2.0 ”?. Wikipedia definition: web development and web design that facilitates interactive information sharing, - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Web 2.0 and Project Citizen: What’s Possible?
Ben BohmfalkColorado 3rd District CoordinatorRoaring Fork High School Teacher
Carbondale, CO
What is “Web 2.0”?Wikipedia definition: web development and web design that facilitates
– interactive information sharing, – user-centered design, and – collaboration on the World Wide Web.
“Editable web, not just by the writer but also the reader.
A Web 2.0 site allows its users to interact with other users or to change website content.
Wikimedia Commons
When the student creates new content for the Web, he is using Web 2.0
Web 1.0 approach Web 2.0 approach
YouTube Watch Create and comment
Blogs Read Micro-Blog and comment
Wikis Research Add content and create
Documents Attach Collaborate in cloud
Why use Web 2.0 with Project Citizen?• Real politics
– Obama campaign– Iran, Egypt, India, Myanmar
• Writing with purpose– WIRED article
• Student engagement• Prospect of real change• Collaboration"I think we're in the midst of a literacy revolution the
likes of which we haven't seen since Greek civilization," Andrea Lunsford, Stanford University.
Communicate with members of a pre-existing group
Expand network, gain supporters
Publicize a cause
Organize and publicize an event
‘It took our campaign six months to get 139,000 people on an e-mail list. It took one Facebook group a month to get 200,000. That's astronomical.”’ – Washington Post
Perhaps today’s politics largely exists as many small issues…which can’t really be dealt with in a monolithical manner by marching the streets with banners.Jill Walker Rettberg, an associate professor at the University of Bergen, Norway
Features Limitations Possibilities
•Search by content •Phone friendly
•Open
•140 characters
•Difficult to archive
•Difficult to gain large following
•All real-time
•Follow experts
•Tweet updates on action plan
WikisWiki=fast in Hawaiian
Web design that is•Simple•Collaborative•Web-based
Examples:•Google sites
•Student•Teacher•Class
•Wikispaces.com•PC Institute
Alerts
Docsvideo
Create and share your online document
Get email updates on the topics of your choice
Groups Create mailing lists and discussion groups
Sites Create websites and secure group wikis
•Started in Sept. 2008•Built for use in the classroom•Built with the privacy of students in mind•Free
•Assignments•Calendar•Potential for Project Citizen:
•Discuss Public Policy articles•Deliberate which Problem to address•Share links to Alternative Policies•Discuss Proposed Policy•Share links and docs
About Features
Video responses:Open conversation about issues
Potential with Project Citizen:•Post video of a problem, respond with alternative solutions•Post solutions, viewers vote for best policy•Post proposed policy, gain support, direct viewers to website
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Web 2.0 and Project Citizen: What’s Possible?
[email protected] 3rd District CoordinatorRoaring Fork High School Teacher
Carbondale, CO