Succeeding with Web 2.0 Projects: A Case Study

ByTerry Freedman

What will be covered

• Where I’m coming from• Starting from the end • The E13 Learning Community

• Some background information• Anatomy of a successful project• Reflections/Questions

Personal Learning and Thinking Skills

• team working • independent enquiry • self-management • reflective learning • effective participation • creative thinking

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The schools

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Every Child Matters

• be healthy• stay safe• enjoy and achieve• make a positive contribution and• achieve economic well-being

Aims

There were overall aims for the project as a whole, but each school wanted to do its own thing within that framework.

http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/e13project See Projects slide or above URL.

The Projects

Anatomy of a successful project

Get the key decision-makers on board

Agree on the teaching and learning aims of the project

Measuring success

Getting the equipment

The importance of the community

Importance of project management

Importance of having a preferred supplier

Managing the project in school

The importance of working within the current framework

The importance of senior leadership

What the kids and teachers thought

A sense of community

Unintended consequences

Writing up the project

Wordle: Benefits of Web 2.0

Wordle: Recommendations

Reflections

• Are there any points you’d like to discuss further or would like further clarification about?

• How would you know if you’ve achieved the aims of your project?

Do you have a great Web 2.0 project going on?

If so, why not contribute to a forthcoming ebook of project ideas?

The 1st edition of the book has been downloaded nearly 12,000 times in the past year!

The online form will take just a few minutes to complete.

Others benefit from reading about your project.

You benefit from reading about others’ ideas, and publicising your own!

Specially extended deadline: 30 November 2009

Interested? See next slide

Web 2.0 project guidelines

What works

If the website at the URL is quite extensive, it would be really helpful if you could drill down to a specific area or even page

that visitors go to as a starting point.

The URL should be one that anyone can access.

A focus on what the users did, and how they benefitted, not

the application.

An interesting idea

Submitting something!

http://www.ictineducation.org Thank you!