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Web 2.0 – Student Publishing Tools: Blogs, Wikis, and Web Apps John Patten – Director of Technology And Information Systems Sylvan Union School District
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Web 2.0 – Student Publishing Tools:
Blogs, Wikis, and Web Apps
John Patten – Director of Technology And Information Systems
Sylvan Union School District
What is Web 2.0?
• the Web as platform • data as the driving force • network effects created by an
architecture of participation • innovation in assembly of systems and sites composed
by pulling together features from distributed, independent developers (a kind of "open source" development)
• the end of the software adoption cycle ("the perpetual beta")
• software above the level of a single device– Compliments of Wikipedia
Blog and Wiki Examples
• Youth Voices – Personal Learning Landscape – http://youthvoices.net/elgg/nichole/weblog– Everyone:
http://youthvoices.net/elgg/_weblog/everyone.php
Wiki Examples
• Wikipedia– http://www.wikipedia.org
• Westwood High School Wiki– http://westwood.wikispaces.com/
• Paul Allison at High School Collaborative Writing– http://schools.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
• Class Created Textbook Online (Private)– https://room34pstext.wikispaces.com/
EduBlogs
• www.edublogs.org– WordPress
• 3 Minute Tutorial– (http://www.archive.org/download/WP_1.1_intro/
wpintro1.1.swf)
Blogger.com
• Google Owned
• Full featured
• Some schools filter out Blogger
www.wikispaces.com
• Tutorials• http://www.wikispaces.com/site/tour#introduction
Google Docs
• www.google.com
• Online Word Processor
• Spreadsheet
• Presentation Software
• Publish Directly to Your Blog
Visuwords
• www.visuwords.com– Online Visual Library
Online “Office” for Free
• http://www.thinkfree.com
Scrap Blog
• http://www.scrapblog.com
Extra, Extras
• Moodle.org– Secure environment for wikis and Blogs
• Elgg– www.elgg.org– Blogging, portfolios, and more
• Technorati– http://www.technorati.com/
• Ning – www.ning.com
Contact Information
• John Patten
• 209 574-5000 ext 242
