On the Way to Web 3.0

 

Foundations of the Web : Creating a Personal Learning Network in Livonia

Description: This series of three workshops will focus on today’s web users and web tools. We will discuss where the web has been and how it has moved from a static to a dynamic interactive resource. The first academy will cover copyright, Creative Commons and Fair Use. We will look at changes in the web, millennial learners and the rise of social media using video, and audio. This will address the needs of different learning styles and the importance of transparency/online reputation for teachers and students.

 

AGENDA:

• Intro:
  • How the web has changed from static to interactive/dynamic tool - to learn in and on! 
    
  • What is static
  • What is dynamic
  • Wayback Machine - archive of old websites
  • CNN 2000
  • CNN 2008
  • blogs, twitter, RSS feed, TV Viewer/Streaming, Podcast, email alerts, Widgets, questionaire
  • You are a person on the web and your thoughts count -PLN - personal learning network created - in CNN world - Overwhelming - numberless tools so that I can be heard! Looking at CNN which is a news website - now becomes a learning environment.  Using all different learning tools -Differentiating learning styles - to allow all types of learners the chance to learn.
    
  • Using social media to address different learning style - As a learning environment we need to use these web tools to teach our students as this is how they are learning at home.  REALTIME - a voice - active learner - part of their life!  The web has allowed us as educators to have many different kinds of tools for teaching.  Finally different tools for different learning styles at our finger tips!  Thanks to Web 3.0 -
    
    • reader: blog -Blogging begins ;  Blog with all the bells and whistles
    • reader: discussion board - Google - post questions like calling your friend
    • auditory: podcasting -
      
    • Jr. High Library student podcast -  Web 2.0 example
      
    • Podcast with video - Web 3.0 - CNN Hourly Update
    • visual:  embedded videos - VIDEO EXAMPLE
    • interpersonal: social interaction via the web: Twitter conversation 
    • REALTIME Learner - NASA Teacher
    • Web 3.0 takes all of this and applies it into one area - one page - one site.  Enabling all to learn with whatever tool they need or are comfortable with... busy - active page but the learning style is now your option -
      
    • The idea is many brains many people working together to answer questions - define words - express thoughts - Globalization at its best!
    • The Internet has revolutionized communication and connected the United States and the outside world like never before. It has given the whole world a practical source of two-way communication and the capability for everyone to hear both sides of the story. Even though the Internet does not seem to have helped international public opinion about the United States, it has offered something even more important - global freedom of speech.  Sited from:Global
    • International blog about this topic:  blog
  • Millennial learners and the rise of social media: the need for online reputation.  You are now a participant.
  • Example:  upstate NY high school physics students: create lab write-up on a wiki , search and embed YouTube/TeacherTube videos to demonstrate the concepts, used simple Paint program to create visuals to add to the wiki, made a video using their cellphones which they uploaded to YouTube.
  • Online Learning - remember Facebook, Myspace, Virtual Worlds - who you are is now created.
  • Standards - accepted - no hiding - personalities and identities are made here. 
    
  • Teaching this is hard but important!
    
  • this video is a bit on the "dark and scary web" side, but makes some valid points:
    
  • Digital Tattoo
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  • Copyright Laws / Creative Commons/ Fair Use:  the way you use other people's work in your teaching, and the way your students use them in learning will become part of their online reputations. Plagiarism is nothing new; but the rise of the web makes it so much easier.  We need to educate kids from the minute they enter school that there are rules about using other people's work when creating our own.  New tool and its implications:    Creative Commons -  FairShare -
    
  • Another Website example - Fair Use
  • WEBsites that help to educate and inform web users
    
  • Wired Safety
    
  • article:  top universities looking for online profiles of potential students
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• Show and Tell
  • One common tool on the web today is bookmarking.  We have all used the bookmarking that is available through your browser.  But a tool called Delicious takes this easy concept and puts a social twist to it.  This twist allows us to have a simple tool that incorporates the power of a social tool.  We can create a network or PLC and like they say 2 brains are better than one!  But you can add as many brains as you want.
  • Terms used in Delicious:
  • Bookmark
  • Tags
    
  • Networks
  • Feeds
    
  • Create an account - PLN - Group Academy - share a bookmark to an article about transparent learners or dynamic web (2.0,3.0)
    
• Playtime! - Create a Delicious Account for you - then create a network of all of us here today in this academy.  You can make us group called Academy Web 3.0
• Find an article about Transpancy or Web 3.0 that you would like to share with this group. - Tag it and share with network (group)
• Extra time - one of your first steps is organization.  What we started with was iGoogle, Google Reader, and Google Docs, three great FREE applications. 
  
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• Wrap Up & Resources
  • Contact Info and Bibliography
  • Glossary
  • Preparing to Use Interactive Web Tools
  • Copyright / Creative Commons / Fair Use
• Instant updates:  Take a look at a page full of Widgets on PBWIKI, or on a Livonia ToolboxPro page.

Expectation of the Academy Series

Academy 1 - Understanding how we are learning from the web today/terminology

Academy 2 - What tools are out there to use/examples

Academy 3 - Integrate a tool into your lesson and be able to use it in class

On the Way to Web 3.0

Anne-Marie Gordon and Wendy Villone, Livonia Central Schools

Are you using Web 2.0?  Watch out world!  Here comes Web 3.0!

Participants will learn the integration of cross-platform technology into content areas, including ways to blend these free items with district-required tools. Become aware of 21st century student skills leading to self-directed media tools: images, audio, video, text, and more that will prepare students for life beyond the classroom. Participants will observer successful library-classroom collaboration. Since teachers often face limited funds, tools shared and demonstrated are FREE and open-source. No licensing or upgrade fees here! Information on how to evaluate free tools for security, reliability, and the possibilities for integration will also be shared.

• Skype:  a live feed from the back of the room  (10 min) Email and Video Conferencing is a way of life today.  Evolution of communication.
  

• Introductions

• Web History:  2 examples.  The web is an incredibly powerful information tool!
  

• Introduce Web 3.0 with Digg.  This is for watching--just listen!  Don't Worry, Be Happy!  
  

• Web 1.0: the static web.  Pages exist for information only, no interaction.    CNN 2000
• Web 2.0: amazon.com: reviews, personalized recs, order history. CNN 2004
  
• Web 3.0: What might it look like?  ; Digg, DiggSwarm,  CNN today.
• Why are we showing you this?  Because we're geeks?  National Standards & state standards require technology integration at all levels. 
  
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• ISTE Student Profiles:  breaks down what students should be doing with technology by grade level.

• Show & Tell: how you can use the web as a tool today. 

  • Open source software: define what it is;
    

  • iGoogle, GoogleApps, Calendar

  • If you want to create a Google account right now, go ahead! 
    

  • Wendy's three: Firefox extensions: StumbleUpon, IE Tab

  • • A-M's three extensions: Delicious, FavLocs, FoxMarks, Colorful Tabs (if possible) 
    • Open Source List
      

  • portable apps - opensource - free - portableapps.com  (Working with internet filters)
    

  • Multimedia:  briefly show how to open and edit
    

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    • VoiceThread:
      
    • example
      
    •  Glogster
    • example
      
    •  Animoto:  take a look at the examples. 
    • example
      

  • Virtual Worlds

    • Second Life, 

    • NASA, AASL, conferences

  • The Instant Web:  Wiki / Blog / RSS feeds / MicroBlogging
    

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    • PBWiki
      
    • as content changes, any page picking up the "feed" changes, too. Protopage
      
    •  twitter

    • NASA twitter    text messaging going beyond - be heard txt "out loud"

  • Skype, CoverItLive :  instant reporting, interactive teaching, Google, Windows Live - many tools that allow you to stay organized and access easily from anywhere any time!  UStream: a way of communicating with one webcam
    

  • ...and more!

  
  
• Pulling it all together showing a site that integrates many of the tools we just displayed: Protopages
  
• AGAIN:  using these tools to MEET standards, not just to have fun (although we do that too.) 
  
• Our jobs are changing--you can drive the bus, or you can wait for a ride.
  
• Ideas on how to integrate into a lesson or classroom:  Livonia Primary 
• Example:     VoiceThread with PreK
• Organize resources:  Furoshiki 
• Promote or record special events:  Reading Buddies
• Prepare Materials for instruction and review:  Photography Tutorial   Glogster with preK
• Explore Literature:  Mr. G's Shakespeare VoiceThread   The Three Little Pigs
• Create student projects:   Europe VoiceThreads , Amazon Poster
• Provide differentiation:  Jason & Brooklyn's Words   Aubrey's Words 
• Assess students: VoiceThread Math
• Communicate with families:  Mendon Ponds
• Provide Professional Developement: Technology Playground
• Have fun!  Shadows

• Guided Practice:
• make a google account; copy and paste the playtime page into a Googledoc.   (Password cards distributed.)
  
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• Play Time:  http://squareone.pbwiki.com/1Nyscate
  
  

• Wrap Up

  • Millenial Student: kids are wired, we need to be, too.

  • Why is it so important on how to use the web for our students - jobs and colleges require computer skills, background checks (facebook, myspace), -
  •  http://www.archive.org/index.php - identity theft 
    
  • You can't hide now:  www.zabasearch.com
    
  • transparency:  make an online reputation
    

  • Evaluating WebTools:  Guided Practice

    • suggested evaluation sources:
      • Web of Trust:  Firefox Extension
      • Listio:  votes for interactive sites
        
      • Evaluating Web Content:  from SUNY Albany
  • Beginning your journey
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      • Discussion board:  Google Group
      •   Preparing to use these tools 
      • passwords for accounts
      • handouts, weblinks
        
  • Blogs, Wikis, Forums...oh my!  If you have a question, there's somebody out there who can help you.
    

 

• Resources