wikis and twitters and blogs, oh my
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“Wikis and twitters and blogs, oh my!” Is Web 2.0 technology a road schools should be going
down?
Mark ChildsE-learning Development Fellow
Coventry University
Web what?
• Web 1.0 - linking together information over the Internet for people to access – webpages, movies, etc
• Web 2.0 – bringing together user-generated content, wikis, blogs, social networking sites, 3D platforms
• Web 3.0 – the semantic web, information organised, synthesised and presented
A range of services we take part in
• http://www.flickr.com/ for photos• http://www.youtube.com/ for videos• http://www.youtube.com/user/arcp59/ • http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#• http://www.linkedin.com/• http://www.slideshare.net/ for ppts• http://www.slideshare.net/markchilds
Collaboration
• http://theatron.wikispaces.com/
• http://cuba.coventry.ac.uk/markchilds/• http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/markchilds/• http://www.pageflakes.com/default.aspx
• http://twitter.com/
Some examples from HE
• Wikis, ESOL teacher training, Kirklees College• Wikis, workplacements, BLU (Herts.)• Ning, Collaboration, Huddersfield University– http://teamhudd.ning.com/
• Blogs, Theatre, Warwick– http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/hesterbond/entry/the
_eumenides/
– http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/lmatthews/entry/sst1_stuffargh_work/
For: new forms of learning
• Collaboration, Publication, Literacies, Inquiry• Socialising the expressive: media design,
sharing, and publication• Socialising the reflective: blogs, social
networks, and wikis• Socialising the exploratory: syndication,
recommenders, folksonomies
For: new forms of learners
• No Future Left Behind• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kra_z9vM
nHo
Against
• Distraction q• Dissent • Security of systems• Privacy of users• Policy
http://www.techlearning.com/article/20896
Resources
• Education 2.0 http://www.tlrp.org/pub/documents/TELcomm.pdf