"Scott Siddall"
Scott Siddall
Denison University

What is Web 2.0?
Dot-com bombs of 2001
Web reinvented
O’Reilly Media conferences in 2004

What is Web 2.0?
The web as platform
Services that enable participation
(the “read-write web”)
Strong social basis for many Web 2.0 applications
Focused, modular, interoperating tools
NOT an installed desktop application

Early Web 2.0 examples
Personal web sites -> blogs
Content management -> wikis
Metadata -> tagging
Britannica Online -> Wikipedia
Netscape -> Google

YouTube

Mashups
Loosely-coupled, platform-agnostic services
Maps
Images and video
Search and shop
News
“mashed up” into a new presentation/tool
Software remixing
Not place-based
Mix and match as needed
Open source (free) or
    commercial often with ads

Mashups
Three elements
Microcontent with an open interface or API
Code to glue it together
AJAX
WebDAV (drag and drop)
Web browser for rendering
Need standards for interoperability

What are some Web 2.0 services?
Syndication
Word processing
Spreadsheets
Tagging
Searching
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Syndication of content

Geographic data

Mass storage services

The web office

Media tools

Low threshold publishing - blogs

Wikis for collaboration

Social networks

Social tagging

Tracking the tags

Tags as metadata

Browsing the tags

Shadow tags

Annotations as tags

Folksonomies

Podcasts

An exemplar of Web 2.0
New Media Consortium
http://www.nmc.org

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Impact on higher education
Lowers the threshold for publishing
Good and bad
Copyright violations are easier
Quality of writing goes up, goes down
Active learning, constructivist methods
Increases opportunity for collaboration, social learning
Encourages ownership and distribution of intellectual property

Impact on higher education
Moves from publishing to participation
Leverages “smart mob” approaches, communities
Creates a path of least resistance
Unstructured but easy to use
Empowering and appealing
Challenges centralized control

Impact on higher education
It is digital incunabula
new, dynamic, unfinished
It is an attitude as much as technology
We must learn how to leverage Web 2.0

Web 2.0 in action?
Blogs as alternative course management system
Wikis for group writing projects
Netvibes.com to organize diverse information resources
Google calendar for scheduling course work
And on and on….

Resources
EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative’s “7 Things You Should Know About” series
Mashups: The new breed of Web app.  Duane Merrill, Oct. 2006.
Web 2.0: A new wave of innovation for teaching and learning?  Bryan Alexander.  March/April 2006 EDUCAUSE Review.
eHub site of Web 2.0 applications.  Emily Chang.
Web 2.0…The Machine is Us/ing Us.  Michael Wesch, October, 2006

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