A N00bies Guide To Web 2.0: Sarah Currier, Project Consultant

a n00bies guide to Web 2.0

Sarah Currier, Project Consultant

SHEEN Web 2.0 Resource Sharing Project

... it’s a catch-all, un-defined term that refers to stuff on the Web that allows users to create and share their own content globally, and within their own self-organised communities ...

... or, to quote one well-known Web 2.0 site, Wikipedia: “The term "Web 2.0" describes the changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aim to enhance creativity, communications, secure information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the web.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

... this graphic is from 2006 by the way ...

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Community building • Group spaces (e.g. Google Groups, Yahoo Groups, Ning) • Social networking (e.g. Facebook, MySpace, Bebo) • Professional networking (e.g. LinkedIn, UNYK)

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Resource sharing, reviewing & recommendation • File sharing sites (all files, e.g. Scribd; specific filetypes,

e.g. Flickr, YouTube, SlideShare; learning materials repositories, e.g. Jorum) • Social bookmarking and recommendation sites (e.g. Delicious, Digg, reddit, many others) 

Collaborative resource development • Blogs (individual or collaborative news sites) • Wikis (collaboratively created websites) • Collaborative document development (e.g. GoogleDocs,

GoogleMaps)

... anyhoo ...

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FEEDS, FEEDS, FEEDS

• The lynchpin to everything Web 2.0. • Support alerts, notifications, aggregating content, mashing content

together...

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Building a shared knowledge base

• Tagging resources enables all kinds of systems and tools to pull

together user knowledge about all kinds of resources for ease of discovery • Shared evaluation of what’s good, useful, or widely used through comments, discussion, recommendation & rating systems 

Community licensing

• For putting your materials out there on the Web, and reusing other

people’s materials: what can you and others do with copyright resources? • Creative Commons is widely used, understood and accepted. • JorumOpen will support Creative Commons and UK-specific educational licences.

RSS

and Atom newsfeeds are supported by virtually every Web 2.0 application. This means resources can be shared and delivered in highly flexible, userfriendly ways regardless of tools used by individual community members. Let’s start with some live examples...

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start my working day by:

• Opening my email, • Opening my feed reader:

http://www.google.co.uk/reader/

Image on 1st slide by ycc2106: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ycc2106/103383461/ available under Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en_GB Image on 4th slide by jonastherkildsen: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonastherkildsen/122881874/ available under Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en_GB Image on 7th slide by trumpetflickr, taken from www.futureexploration.net: http://www.flickr.com/photos/trumpetca/2383941503/ available under Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ Image on 8th slide from www.futureexploration.net: http://www.rossdawsonblog.com/Web2_Framework.pdf available under Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ Slides by Sarah Currier, Consultant, SHEEN Web 2.0 Resource Sharing Project http://www.sarahcurrier.com/ [email protected] Slides © Higher Education Academy, 2009.