Lecture 1

 ED2203 – Networked Learning

Week One (2 Aug 2007)

• Web 1.0 is gaining information from the web
• Web 2.0 is constructing knowledge collaboratively on the web.
• Andy Budd
  • Web 2.0
• Web 1.0 à Personal websites, Britannica Online, Content Management systems, directories (taxonomy), screen scraping
• Web 2.0 à Blogs, Wikipedia, Wikis, Tagging (“Folksonomy”), Web Services
• Andy Budd is the Creative Director of Clearleft Ltd, a web design company based in Brighton, UK. Along with other Clearleft members Jeremy Keith and Richard Rutter, Budd organises a low-cost annual web developers’ conference in Brighton called d.Construct. Budd is generally seen as a leading member of the UK web standards scene and regularly talks at conferences around the world. He is also a technical advisor to .net magazine, published by Future Publishing.

• o Accessed 2 Aug 2007 9.00am
• o http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Budd
• Web 2.0, a phrase coined by O’Reilly Media in 2003^[1] and popularized by the first Web 2.0 conference in 2004^[2] , refers to a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services – such as social-networking sites, wikis and folksonomies – which facilitate collaboration and sharing between users. O’Reilly Media titled a series of conferences around the phrase, and it has since become widely adopted. Although the term suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to Web technical specifications, but to changes in the ways software developers and end-users use the web as a platform. According to Tim O’Reilly, “Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform.”^[3] Some technology experts, notably Tim Berners-Lee, have questioned whether one can use the term in a meaningful way, since many of the technology components of “Web 2.0″ have existed since the early days of the Web.^[4]
• o Accessed 2 Aug 2007 9.00am
• o http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

• Web 2.0 community based; free software (freeware)…
• What is Web 2.0?
  • It is essentially an increasing range of software that supports a variety of technologies for open and collaborative communication, learning and creativity. It requires:
    • A platform
    • Social networking
    • Read/write web
    • Social software
    • Gathering and sorting

How to Develop a pbwiki

How to Develop a pbwiki and general thoughtsPB Wiki
· A wiki is an easy-to-use web page that multiple people can edit. It’s like a shared whiteboard online. Don’t worry about getting IT support or installing any software. We handle all of that. You just start typing and get an online classroom in about 5 minutes.
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· Why use PBwiki? No HTML experience required. Create a syllabus, share it with your students, and let them write collaborative essays online. Create online Powerpoint-like presentations right from your wiki.
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· Who else is using PBwiki?We host over 135,000 wikis and thousands of others have used PBwikis for their classrooms, from elementary schools to Stanford and Harvard.

o http://mrlindsay.pbwiki.com is Mr. Lindsay’s beautiful classroom wiki, where he demos his students’ work with book reviews, poems, stories, and tons of other resources. It’s a wiki run “by the students, for the students.”

o http://cas100b.pbwiki.com is another excellent educational wiki. You’ll note the project proposals, class notes, and different sections for different classes.

o http://epochewiki.pbwiki.com is the Penn State English 15 course, which is required for all freshman English students at Penn State.
PBwiki can help you engage with your audiencePBwiki provides educators an easy way to post class room material online and gives students the ability to collaborate through the internet. Check out our video on how PBwiki is helping educators educate.Can’t access YouTube? Check out our video through TeacherTube’s site here: PBwiki helping educators educate.

Also, be sure to check out the rest of our videos and see what educators are saying about us. See the rest of our PBwiki Educator Videos.

Background Paper references and details on how to set up the Wiki are available on

http://pbwiki.com/edu.pb
A tutorial instruction page ins available in pbWiki

http://ndnetworked.pbwiki.com/FrontPage
Our Web 2.0 Wiki is up and running at

http://ndnetworked.pbwiki.com/ED2033-Web-2

ED2203 Lecture 2

ED2033 Networked Learning Lecture 2.
Review of Lecture 1.
Go to the Wiki
http://ndnetworked.pbwiki.com/ED2033-Web-2

Review the overview of Web 2.0 provided. Copy to your own blog.
Under all the software symbols in this Wiki you will find details about pbwiki and how to find it and use it. Copy this to your blog as well.

You will be allocated to a group to create and work on a wiki together.
These will not be friendship groups rather random groups chosen by the lecturer.
The Wiki will be gradually given more and more structure on which you are to build your understanding and knowledge of Web 2.0

To begin with the following issues are to be explored by your team

i) Qualities of a good virtual team

ii) Team rules for working on our wiki

iii) How do we ensure deep learning occurs

iv) The effective use of multiple medias on the wiki

And

v) Review of the work of writers

a. Marc Prensky

b. George Siemens

c. Diana Oblinger

d. Dana Boyd

And

vi) Flickr

a. An analysis of how it works, why it is Web 2.0 and how it can be used collaboratively.
b. A comparison of Flickr with Photobucket will also provide further insights into the nature of Web 2.0
Hyperlinks, Video clips, podcasts and other multiple media is expected to slowly become present in your group wiki. We do not have a wiki on your own. It is meant for collaborative development of knowledge with others.
A.J. Coman