Online Collaboration and Communication

Dr. Henry Keil

Using Web2.0 tools

• Web1.0The Web as a platform (for passive browsing - ’consuming’)

What is Web2.0?What is Web2.0?

• Web2.0 (Dale Dougherty)(Dale Dougherty)

The Web as a service (dynamic)You DO things on the Web by‘creating and sharing’

• Blogger

Examples of Web 2.0?Examples of Web 2.0?

Do these words mean anything to you?

• Wikipedia

• YouTube

• MySpace/Facebook

• Kazaa/Napster

• Flickr

• Del.icio.us • Technorati

• Odeo

• Diigo

• Netvibes

What is Web 2.0?What is Web 2.0?

The Machine is Us/ing Us

Best explained via one of its own tools!!

by Michael Wesch

Why Web 2.0? Why Web 2.0?

How People Learn?!How People Learn?!

Doing things in Web 2.0Doing things in Web 2.0

Media

Forums

Tagging/Sharing

Wikis/GoogleDocs

Personal learning space

Examples of Good Practice

Bubbl.us

Buzz-words in Web 2.0Buzz-words in Web 2.0

Social networking

User-generated content (UGC)

Folksonomies

Syndication

Weblog/vblog

‘‘Web-logs and Web-logs and blogging blogging

What is its purpose? Provides opportunities for reflection Other advantages Other people can provide comments Proper tagging allows searches

What is a blog? An online personal diary

You choose the medium Writing or verbal (audio-blogging) Video-blogging (vblog)

‘‘Social networking’Social networking’

Architecture of participation Online sharing of data (photos – Flickr),

audio (iTunes, Odeo), video (YouTube) Online collaboration and co-production GoogleDocs/Wikis

Social tagging of content - Folksonomies (social bookmarking, Slideshare)

Multi-user virtual environments (MUVEs) Educational gaming (role play)

The contextThe context

The Power of Social NetworkingThe Power of Social Networking

Are You A Digital Native?Are You A Digital Native?

Collaborative authoring – Collaborative authoring – tools for group work tools for group work

GoogleDocs, Acrobat.com

Wiki (WetPaint)

Social networking – the toolsSocial networking – the tools

MySpace

Facebook

Ning

File sharing: contentFile sharing: contentcreation – not only consumptioncreation – not only consumption

Flickr

Odeo; iTunes; iMesh

YouTube; Google Video; blib.tv

Folksonomies – Folksonomies – Social bookmarking and tagging Social bookmarking and tagging

Diigo, del.icio.us

- Accessing bookmarks anywhere- Tagging and sharing bookmarks- Finding people with the same interests

RSS-feeds (syndication) RSS-feeds (syndication) Keep your information up-to-dateKeep your information up-to-date

RSS (Web) feeds are a useful tool to receive updated information from relevant Web-sites or Blogs

You subscribe by clicking on the feed icon

You get a list of recent contributions and additions in IE7

Personal learning spaces Personal learning spaces (PLE)(PLE)

Create your own interface

Centralisation of access and content

Current information through syndication

Share information with whom you want

Personal learning space in Personal learning space in iGoogleiGoogle

Multiuser 3D Worlds –Multiuser 3D Worlds –

‘Immersive learning‘Immersive learning’’