PREPARING FOR

THE FUTURE:
WHAT IS WEB 2.0?
A. Hardi Prasetyo, PBI, USD, 14 March 2011
The Case for 21 Century st

Education
 Education is changing.
 Competition is changing internationally.
 The workplace, jobs, and skill demands are
changing.
Digital Natives
 “Different kinds of experiences lead to different
brain structures” - Dr. Bruce D. Berry of Baylor
College of Medicine.
 it is very likely that our students’ brains have
physically changed as a result of how they grew up
Who are the digital natives?
 Our students today are all “native speakers” of the
digital language of computers, video games,
instantaneous communication, and the Internet.
 Those of us who were not born into the digital
world but have, at some later point in our lives,
become fascinated by and adopted many or most
aspects of the new technology are Digital
Immigrants.
The Challenge
 Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an
outdated language (that of the pre-digital age), are
struggling to teach a population that speaks an
entirely new language
The characteristics of our students
 Digital Natives are used to receiving information
really fast.
 They like to parallel process and multi-task.
 They prefer their graphics before their text rather
than the opposite.
Methodology
 Today’s teachers have to learn to communicate in
the language and style of their students.
 This doesn’t mean changing the meaning of what is
important, or of good thinking skills.
What is Web 2.0?
 The Internet itself is a series of interconnected
servers joined by a web of protocols to provide
mass communication and document storage.
 Web 2.0 is an additional layer over the Internet that
allows people to interact with
information and be content
providers. The Read/Write Web.
Web 2.0 Culture
 Fills the web space with blogs, wikis, and online
collaboration tools.

 Most of these tools are free and offer “unlimited”

space.

 For the most part, they also share whatever you

post to them with a global audience.
Web 2.0 Culture
 Developed Social Networking sites
 Tagging…
 Web data has been connected by HyperText – the
ability to connect through a series of links.
 Web 2.0 allows data to be connected through TAGS.
 Tagging assigns a keyword to a piece of media like a
picture, video, or blog. These tags are then shared in
social networking sites to connect people based on
similar interests.
 http://technorati.com
Photo from: http://webshift.blogspot.com/
 Web 2.0 Categories

Social Blogs and Broadcasting Wikis Collaboration

Networking Website and Podcasting Tools
Creation
Digital Storage Organize and Mindmapping Content Research Tools
Manage Aggregation
and
Management
Social Online Media
Bookmarking Creation
 Social Networking
 Ning – Create your own social network for anything. Create it, have
others join it, then share it.
http://www.ning.com
 Sandra’s NING http://k20edtech.ning.com/
 Joel’s NING - http://2007ssi.ning.com/
Successful Schools Interact discussion
 Yackpack - Live voice, presence, voice and text messaging. Perfect
for keeping teams in touch.
http://www.yackpack.net/yackpack/index.jsp
 Others:
 Facebook: www.facebook.com
 MySpace (www.myspace.com), Friendster (www.friendster), Multiply

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 Second Life
 Site – http://secondlife.com

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 Blogs and Website Creation
 Blogs
 http://wordpress.com
 http://blogger.com
 http://edublogs.org
 Website Builders
 http://doodlekit.com
 http://gogofrog.com
 Google page creator

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 Broadcasting/Podcasting
 PodOmatic
http://www.podomatic.com/
Create, Find, Share Podcasts!
 http://www.kaltura.com/ video creation and upload
 Create “how-to” videos and share your knowledge with the
world http://www.mindbites.com/

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 Broadcasting/Podcasting
 http://teachertube.com – upload and share video

 http://schooltube.com – students upload and share

their work

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 Wikis
 http://www.wikipedia.org/ online, publicly edited encyclopedia
 http://pbwiki.com/ wikis for everyone
 http://www.wikispaces.com/ wiki space
 Examples
 http://bisd-math.wikispaces.com/
 http://hooverportfolio.wikispaces.com/
 http://confusing-english-words.pbwiki.com/
 http://englishteacherwannabe.pbwiki.com/
 http://callpbiusd.pbwiki.com/

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 Collaboration Tools
 ePals – find classroom buddies for worldwide
projects
 Gaggle.net – free, safe email, blog and resources
for teachers and students
 Think.com
 Stickis – leave sticky notes on a web page and
share them with others when they visit that page

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 Digital Storage
 A Drive (50G) http://adrive.com
 Flip Drive (20G) http://www.flipdrive.com/
 Media Max (25G) http://www.mediamax.com/
 Google Docs
http://www.google.com/google-d-s/intl/en/tour1.ht
ml

 Pay attention to security, hidden fees, trial periods, file

types accepted…READ before you commit.
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Organization and Management
 http://projectoffice.net/Index.aspx Create projects, assign roles
and tasks, keep a calendar, track time spent and more
 http://deskaway.com/ organize, manage and track your projects
from a central location
 http://www.teamworkpm.net/ create groups, assign tasks, leave
messages, make to-do lists, calendars, etc.
 Stikkit http://www.stikkit.com/ online notes, calendar, to-do-list
and contacts
 http://iwantsandy.com – personal email assistant
 GradeMate – online student organizer
http://www.mygrademate.com/
 Content Aggregation and Management
 Pageflakes - combine all your news readers, blogs, RSS pages, podcasts,
etc. into one space….and then share it with others.
 http://www.pageflakes.com/

 Netvibes - combine all your news readers, blogs, RSS pages, podcasts, etc.
into one space….and then share it with others.
 http://www.netvibes.com

 iGoogle – Create customized class start pages, add media, bring in RSS
feeds, and even make your own gadgets.Igoogle.com
 http://igoogle.com

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 Content Aggregation and Management

 Yacapaca– http://yacapaca.com/ – create surveys,

quizzes, tests grade online and get data from results
 Voyager RSS Feed Reader
http://rssvoyage.com/#RSS=loaded
 Google Reader – create a shared page to really filter
your feed content

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 Research Tools
 Taking Notes
 Notestar http://notestar.4teachers.org/
 My Note IT http://www.mynoteit.com/
 NoteStar http://notestar.4teachers.org/ - NoteStar is an Internet utility to
assist in the preparation of research papers. Teachers and students can set up
research projects with topics and sub-topics. Students may then take advantage
of NoteStar's many features to collect and organize their notes and prepare
their bibliography page.  

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Mindmapping
 http://bubbl.us
 http://www.mindomo.com/mindomodemo.php
 http://www.mindmeister.com/
 http://thinkature.com/login/?redirect=/home/
 http://www.gliffy.com/

Graphic organizers
 http://www.exploratree.org.uk/
 Social Bookmarking
 www.Del.icio.us.com
 http://del.icio.us/shinesbisd
 http://del.icio.us/Digital_Diva
 http://del.icio.us/burlesonbusiness?page=1
 Furl - http://www.furl.net/
 Digg - http://www.digg.com/
 Reddit - http://reddit.com/
 Stumbleupon - http://www.stumbleupon.com/

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Online media creation tools
 Docs.google.com – online word document and spreadsheet with
collaboration tools

 www.Zoho.com – online surveys, word processing, spreadsheet,

and presentation tools with collaboration

 www.JumpCut.com – online video editing tool

 http://teachertube.com/ - videos for education

 http://thinkfree.com online alternative to Microsoft Office