SREB Web2.0
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How I learned to stop worrying and love Web 2.0
http://www.flickr.com/photos/maisonbisson/109211670/
I have been online a long time
- OK, maybe not that long...
And like many people, I wanted to understand the present in terms of the past
- The growth in the number of people connected online (or that more and more of them have never lived when the Web wasn't around) doesn't matter
- The growing connectivity (over 50% of the world's population now owns a cell phone) and computing speeds is just an incremental change
- Web 2.0? Just a bunch of sites done by Mac designers
- Blogs...whatever, just glorified personal home pages
- Wikis...yeah, been there, done that
But eventually I came to see that the future is going to be much different than the past
- In 2006, more than one billion people are connected to the Internet
- In 2007, more than three billion people (50% of the world's population) carry mobile telephones.
- The 2010 freshman class has never known a world without the Web.
- AJAX, XHTML, Flash, REST... - this ain't no cgi-bin, this ain't no <blink> tag.
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What this has to do with Web 2.0
- Web 2.0 should be seen as BOTH a RESULT of these web site design atlanta massive changes in connectivity, computing power and network literacy AS WELL AS a RESPONSE to it
Finally, I came to stop worrying and learned to love Web 2.0
- But it took a long time, and it happened bit by bit. This is the story.
from - http://thinglink.org/thing:203psf
How I learned to love...simplicity, usability and the joy of use
from http://www.andybudd.com/presentations/dcontruct05/
- Actually, it's not so much a case of coming to love these as these being what people love about software
- 'lowered' barrier to entry
- Flickr - making adding metadata fun! http://www.flickr.com/photos/upload/
How I learned to love...Rich Web-based Applications
from http://blogs.zoho.com/general/document-vs-web-document/
- Google Docs http://docs.google.com/, Zoho
- And now the rich web apps can be used offline, cf http://gears.google.com/ and http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/zoho_on_gears.php
How I learned to love...Openness
from - http://www.flickr.com/photos/slippek/25069593/
- Openness has been a major component in the rash of current innovation we are seeing
- Open Content, Open APIs and Open Source
- For some of us, it was hard to see how this was any different
...Open Content
- The Matrix of Blog Uses in Education http://www.edtechpost.ca/wordpress/2003/10/09/matrix-of-some-uses-of-blogs-in-education/
...Open API
http://www.flickr.com/photos/harry/542628863/ which was a modification of
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nathangibbs/70425448/
- Library Lookup Bookmarklet - http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/stories/2002/12/11/librarylookup.html
...Open Source
- Like many people, my love of open source likely began with Apache
- You really start to appreciate the power of open source when someone else fixes a problem for you,
- for free,
- in 20 minutes.
How I learned to love...Syndication and Aggregation
- The Read/Write Web
- Write Once - Read EVERYWHERE
- Greader - http://www.google.com/reader/view/
- Feed2JS - http://feed2js.org/
- Embedding RSS in your WebCT course
How I learned to love...Microcontent and Linkability
- The power of the URL
- One thing few people appreciate is how the unique address of each blog post helped blogs explode
- This has been further used through extensions like CommentPress - cf. http://web.nmc.org/communication/
- The power of the <embed> tag
How I learned to love...Tagging
- Serendipity isn't just luck, it's a way of life!
- Tagclouds
How I learned to love...the Mass Amateurization of Everything
- Eyespot - http://www.edtechpost.ca/wordpress/2006/05/17/eyespot-and-one-true-media-online-video-editing-tools/
How I learned to love...Peer Production and Participatory Culture
from http://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/2061653308/
- The Twitter Collaboration Stories Wiki http://onlinefacilitation.wikispaces.com/Twitter+Collaboration+Stories
- The History of VLEs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_virtual_learning_environments
How I learned to love...User-Centered AND Social Software
from - http://www.flickr.com/photos/greenem/11696663/
- A major turn in Web 2.0 is around user-centric design and motivation
- e.g. instead of building institutional "repositories" building personal ones that end up benefiting the institutional need as well
- Similarly, "social software" puts each user at the centre of their own social network, which can be built on top of tags, resources, relationships, almost anything
- "Social Networking is a feature, not a destination" - http://www.thelongtail.com/the_long_tail/2007/09/social-networki.html
How I learned to love...Mashups
- Calendar of Edtech Events - http://www.edtechpost.ca/wordpress/2007/03/13/conference-listings-want-to-be-free-too/
- Send2Wiki - example
The End
- Innovation and Adoption is happening because of
- Easy to Use Apps
- Openess (of Content, of APIs)
- Some specific technology innovations
- More than anything, Web 2.0 is showing us that
- by not trying to control it all...
- you create the conditions in which creativity and innovation can flourish
