Educational Uses of Web 2.0 Based Applications

July 29, 2008

Michael T. QaissauneeAssociate Professor, Engineering and Technology

Brookdale Community Collegeco-PI NCTT

Gordon F. Snyder, Jr.Springfield Technical Community College

Executive Director and PINational Center for Telecommunications Technologies

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Wireless Network

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Presentation Links

q-ontech.blogspot.com

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What do we want to do with

Web 2.0?

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Learn/Teach/Share!!- Blogs!!- Podcasts - Audio & Video!!- RSS/Subscription!!- Reader!!- iTunes!!- iPod/iPhone!!- Amazon Kindle

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!Collaborate!!- Webware!!- Skype/ VoIP!!- Social Networking

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Increase Productivity

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•Information•100 Years?•Analog vs Digital•New Paradigms •The New Web•Enabling Technology•Access•Emerging Technology

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Information

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Our Relationship With Information

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Our Relationship With Information

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Our Students Relationship With Information

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In Fact, Their World Looks More Like This ...

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100 Years?

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Digital Immigrants vs. Digital Natives

-- a new generation of employees who grew up on video games are demanding to be trained differently than the boomers and we need some new ways to transfer the vast amounts of boomer knowledge to these gamers

Karl M. Kapp, Ed.D, CFPIM, CIRM 17

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What Do These Have in

Common?

ANSWER:They’ All Been Banned in the

Classroom

e.g. Polleverywhere

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Demo

•Show Blog on Cell Phones•Polleverywhere•GrandCentral•Jott •Qik and others

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Digital24

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Nearly Everything can

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... and Mobile!

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Even after Starbucks had five stores and more than 20 employees, which item was unavailable for purchase at their stores:✓Espresso✓Hot Coffee✓Biscotti✓Frappucino®

blended beverage

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Whatever you think

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Think the opposite

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The Long Tail

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The Long Tail

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The Long Tail Quiz

True or False? More people watched more video on YouTube last week than watched the top ten shows on network television

The most popular soft drink in the country is ________.

a. Coca-Colab. Dr. Pepperc. 7UPd. Root Beere. "other": none of the above

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The Long Tail Quiz

Sales of the 150,000 titles in a big store (e.g. Barnes & Noble) account for _______ of Amazon's book sales.

a. Allb. 75%c. 50%d. 33%e. 25%

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Choice54

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Online Shopping

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Nearly Infinite Online

Inventory57

Search58

Digital is Easy to:

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Customize61

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Demo

•Webware•Office 2.0 Database •Google Docs•Zoho•Gliffy•Online presentations

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Tim Berners-Lee

I have always imagined the information space as something to which everyone has immediate and intuitive access, and not just

to browse, but to create. [...] Furthermore, the dream of people-to-people communication through shared knowledge must be

possible for groups of all sizes, interacting electronically with as much ease as they do now in person.

The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device.

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• Viral Video - Mentos• Jing• Video of David Riser• Bob Dylan mashup• NCTT Videos• Seesmic• Qik and others

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The New Web

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Web 2.0

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x2The amount of new technical

information isdoubling every ____ years

a. oneb. twoc. five d. ten

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Tidal waves don’t beg forgiveness

'CRASHED' and on their way

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How does one deal with information overload?

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Demo

• Google Reader• iGoogle

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The Tools • Email• Websites • Search• Instant Messaging• Blogging• Podcasting• Micro-blogging / Lifecasting• Video Conversations / Streaming• Viral Video• Webware• Aggregators• Wikis• Subscription/RSS• Mobility

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Demo

• Twitter, Powne, Jaiku• Friendfeed • Facebook/MySpace/LinkedIn

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Interactions

Community Clusters

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Emory University survey of incoming Freshmen> 90% of have a Facebook account

> 30% of check at least 18 times a day

The average regular newspaper reader is ___ years old.

Fewer than ___ in five people under the age of 25 ever reads a newspaper.

a. 25b. 35c. 45d. 55

a. oneb. twoc. three d. foursource unknown

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EnablingTechnology

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Bandwidth Today

Comcast Cable Modem (S. Hadley, MA)~$49.95/month

Verizon FiOS(Concord, MA)~$44.95/month

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Bandwidth Tomorrow

Asymmetric15000 kbps

Symmetric

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AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML

• Greater user interaction

• Web applications start to approach the richness & responsiveness of desktop applications

• not

• a technology,

• code or

• an application that can be downloaded

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Classic Web Application Model

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AJAX Web Application Model

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Access131

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TouchLight145

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Questions

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