Web 2.

0 tools in
YOUR
professional life
Greg Carroll
gregc@outram.school.nz
http://blog.core-ed.net/greg
ULearn08
 Goals:
• Clarify understanding on what Web2.0 is.
• How can Web2.0 support teacher professional
learning?

• Find out about some key tools (and examples).

• Play and explore ... setting up some for yourself
if you want to.

• ....and ....
 What is Web 2.0?

• Web2.0 is about collaboration, connection and

co-creation of knowledge.

• Web1.0 Encarta (the CD) ..... Web2.0 Wikipedia

RSS - the basis for Web2.0
 soooooo ....
Social [ web2.0] software has two key attributes that could be
considered meaningful to educators:
Permits communication between groups and individuals – In this sense,
social software serves as a medium or channel that supports an
exchange, or an ecology where people, practices, and values connect,
interact, and evolve (Suter et al., 2005).
Enables the aggregation and sharing of resources -- Social software not
only allows people to collect, communicate, and collaborate online, it
allows data, information, and objects to be combined and consolidated,
serving as a place where both ideas and people can converge.

In terms of social software’s impact on teaching and learning, Mejias

(2005) suggests that social software’s
true potential lies in helping us figure out how to integrate our online and
offline social experiences. Thus, social so"ware must live up to its name by
relating to the individual's everyday social practices, which include interacting
with people online as we$ as people without access to these technologies….
[S]ocial so"ware can positively impact pedagogy by inculcating a desire to
reconnect to the world as a whole, not just the social parts that exist online.
FROM: http://eduspaces.net/csessums/weblog/125004.html
 So What ....
1. Aggregators
• Bloglines for blogs
• iTunes for audio and video - podcasts in
particular

2. Delicious.com - "on-line, searchable

bookmarks".

3. Blogs - as a reflective tool and for creating

networks of learners. Evolving.

4. Wikis - as a tool for collaboration, knowledge

sharing, etc. (more) Static.
 and .....
• Chat and IM tools (Twitter)
• YouTube, TeacherTube, etc
• Online Conferences - K12Online, Time4Online,
etc

• Facebook and other social networks

• Miro, SearchMe and PicLens .... three ‘must-
haves’
 examples and ideas
• http://wordle.com
• http://eportfolios.wikispaces.com/how-to
• http://team1407.blogspot.com/ - class digital
portfolio example

• http://room9youshine.blogspot.com/ - class blog

• http://blog.core-ed.net/greg - my blog
• http://outramsport.blogspot.com/ - sports blog
• http://www.bloglines.com/public/GregCarroll -
blogs etc I subscribe to
 and even more ...
• http://delicious.com/gregc5/Web2.0 - my delicious links
for Web2.0

• more web2.0 information - http://

shareski.wikispaces.com/

• http://www.glassdoor.com/index.htm - compare salaries

• Photosynth - David Pogue video
• TED talks - http://ted.com
• http://allencentre.wikispaces.com/home+page - library
wiki

• http://page2rss.com/ - create rss feed for page with none

 So Now What???
You have had the first part of this presentation
hearing what I think and believe ...

SO WHAT?

What does it mean for you?

What do you want to follow up on?

What is useful for you in your own PL?