Thing 2.5 (mini-thing): Getting Started with Blogger
In which you sign up for Blogger, Create a New Blog and Change Your Password, then post your blog address to our shared Google spreadsheet. Whee!
Task
1. Follow the instructions on this video to set up your Blogger blog.
2. Add your blog address to the Google tracking spreadsheet.
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Thing 2 What is Web 2.0 and (Why) Does it Matter?
Thing 2 (Week 1): What is Web 2.0 and (Why) Does it Matter?
Introduction
The term "Web 2.0" can be applied across broad categories of emerging technology tools and design principles, social and economic shifts, business philosophies, participatory media and culture, etc.... Web 2.0 tools (blogs, wikis, podcasts, social networking and social bookmarking sites, tagging, photo- and video-sharing, RSS, etc...) are collaborative, browser-based and user-driven. They include platforms and tools for publishing, connecting, sharing, organizing and remixing.
A popular synonym for "Web 2.0" is the "Read/Write" web, which suggests that users are contributing, creating and collaborating rather than just consuming web content. "Web 1.0" or the "Read-Only" web was a place where the average user didn't publish content, because it required technical knowledge (HTML and other programming code) and money (to purchase server space and software). Web 2.0 tools allow users to easily participate and to customize their online experiences.
At its core, Web 2.0 is about powerful Web-based technologies connecting people and ideas.
So, what is Web 2.0?
Here are a few "one-sentence" definitions, and one that is slightly longer:
* "It's not a web of computers, it's a web of people." - Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the World Wide Web
* "Working on the Internet is the same as working on your desktop." - Sarah Bresee, Outcast
* "Web 2.0 is the two-way web where content finds you." - Ron Rasmussen, KnowNow
* "People doing things together on the web." - Mitchell Baker, Mozilla Foundation
* "Web 2.0 is all the Web sites out there that get their value from the actions of users." - George Jones, InformationWeek
* "The new WWW: Whatever. Whenever. Wherever." - Tom March, Educator, Inventor of WebQuests
* "Less than a decade ago, when we were first getting used to the idea of an Internet, people described the act of going online as venturing into some foreign realm called cyberspace. But that metaphor no longer applies. MySpace, Flickr and all the other newcomers aren't places to go, but things to do, ways to express yourself, means to connect with others and extend your own horizons. Cyberspace was somewhere else. The Web is where we live." - Steven Levy and Brad Stone, Newsweek.
Discovery Exercise: (Why) does Web 2.0 matter?
Please watch the following video clips to learn a bit more about some important "21st Century Shifts."
¤ NOTE: If YouTube is blocked at your school, you may need to view these clips from home.
The Web is Changing...
Web 2.0: The Machine is Us/ing Us by Michael Wesch (4:30)
If you don't see the video, here is a direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g
The World is Changing...
Did You Know? 4.0 by Xplane, the Economist, Karl Fisch & Scott McLeod. (4:46)
Inspired by the original Shift Happens / Did You Know? (worth a watch to see the evolution!) by Karl Fisch (8:20)
If you don't see the video, here is a direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ILQrUrEWe8
Students are Changing...
A Vision of Students Today by Michael Wesch and students at Kansas State University (4:45)
If you don't see the video, here is a direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o
The Networked Student by Wendy Drexler
If you don't see the video, here is a direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o
Task
What might Web 2.0 look like in school and why should I care? Read this blog post: "Web 2.0 is the Future of Education" by Steve Hargadon, and the attached article "A Day in the Life of Web 2.0" by David Warlick. (Yes, these total of eight pages of reading, but they are an important stage-setter for the course).
Consider the ways in which Web 2.0 tools might change (or have already changed) your professional practice. How might you be able to use these new tools to to engage today's "digital learners?" Why would you want to? Next week (in Thing 3), you will be asked to complete a blog post reflecting on your initial thoughts about Web 2.0 and its role in 21st Century teaching and learning, so please make a few notes.
Introduction
The term "Web 2.0" can be applied across broad categories of emerging technology tools and design principles, social and economic shifts, business philosophies, participatory media and culture, etc.... Web 2.0 tools (blogs, wikis, podcasts, social networking and social bookmarking sites, tagging, photo- and video-sharing, RSS, etc...) are collaborative, browser-based and user-driven. They include platforms and tools for publishing, connecting, sharing, organizing and remixing.
A popular synonym for "Web 2.0" is the "Read/Write" web, which suggests that users are contributing, creating and collaborating rather than just consuming web content. "Web 1.0" or the "Read-Only" web was a place where the average user didn't publish content, because it required technical knowledge (HTML and other programming code) and money (to purchase server space and software). Web 2.0 tools allow users to easily participate and to customize their online experiences.
At its core, Web 2.0 is about powerful Web-based technologies connecting people and ideas.
So, what is Web 2.0?
Here are a few "one-sentence" definitions, and one that is slightly longer:
* "It's not a web of computers, it's a web of people." - Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the World Wide Web
* "Working on the Internet is the same as working on your desktop." - Sarah Bresee, Outcast
* "Web 2.0 is the two-way web where content finds you." - Ron Rasmussen, KnowNow
* "People doing things together on the web." - Mitchell Baker, Mozilla Foundation
* "Web 2.0 is all the Web sites out there that get their value from the actions of users." - George Jones, InformationWeek
* "The new WWW: Whatever. Whenever. Wherever." - Tom March, Educator, Inventor of WebQuests
* "Less than a decade ago, when we were first getting used to the idea of an Internet, people described the act of going online as venturing into some foreign realm called cyberspace. But that metaphor no longer applies. MySpace, Flickr and all the other newcomers aren't places to go, but things to do, ways to express yourself, means to connect with others and extend your own horizons. Cyberspace was somewhere else. The Web is where we live." - Steven Levy and Brad Stone, Newsweek.
Discovery Exercise: (Why) does Web 2.0 matter?
Please watch the following video clips to learn a bit more about some important "21st Century Shifts."
¤ NOTE: If YouTube is blocked at your school, you may need to view these clips from home.
The Web is Changing...
Web 2.0: The Machine is Us/ing Us by Michael Wesch (4:30)
If you don't see the video, here is a direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g
The World is Changing...
Did You Know? 4.0 by Xplane, the Economist, Karl Fisch & Scott McLeod. (4:46)
Inspired by the original Shift Happens / Did You Know? (worth a watch to see the evolution!) by Karl Fisch (8:20)
If you don't see the video, here is a direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ILQrUrEWe8
Students are Changing...
A Vision of Students Today by Michael Wesch and students at Kansas State University (4:45)
If you don't see the video, here is a direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o
The Networked Student by Wendy Drexler
If you don't see the video, here is a direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o
Task
What might Web 2.0 look like in school and why should I care? Read this blog post: "Web 2.0 is the Future of Education" by Steve Hargadon, and the attached article "A Day in the Life of Web 2.0" by David Warlick. (Yes, these total of eight pages of reading, but they are an important stage-setter for the course).
Consider the ways in which Web 2.0 tools might change (or have already changed) your professional practice. How might you be able to use these new tools to to engage today's "digital learners?" Why would you want to? Next week (in Thing 3), you will be asked to complete a blog post reflecting on your initial thoughts about Web 2.0 and its role in 21st Century teaching and learning, so please make a few notes.
Thing 1: Lifelong Learning
23 Things began as a tutorial on Web 2.0 for employees of the Public Library for Charlotte and Mecklinburg County. Please view this slideshow about Lifelong Learning.
7 1/2 Habits of Highly Successful Lifelong Learners
After you've finished viewing the slideshow, think about which habit will be easiest for you, which will be most difficult and which you think is most important. Once your blog is set up, share those thoughts with the participants. Be sure to read and comment on others blog posts as we continue through the course.
7 1/2 Habits of Highly Successful Lifelong Learners
After you've finished viewing the slideshow, think about which habit will be easiest for you, which will be most difficult and which you think is most important. Once your blog is set up, share those thoughts with the participants. Be sure to read and comment on others blog posts as we continue through the course.
Thing 0: Set up a Gmail account
Go to Gmail and set up an account. Once your account is set up, send an email to 23wasd (at) gmail (dot) com so that we have a way to contact you.
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