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Brave New World (Wide Web)
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Mark Elliott
24th July 2008
The Internet
Access: not only on your desktop…
Mobile phones..
PDAs, Game Consoles..
Connectivity: broadband, wifi
hotspots etc…
The Internet and digital technologies
have evolved…
Web 1,0 - “Web 1.0 was dial-up, 50K average bandwidth,
Web 2.0 is an average 1 megabit of bandwidth and Web
3.0 will be 10 megabits of bandwidth all the time, which will
be the full video Web, and that will feel like Web 3.0.”
Web 2.0 - is a term describing the trend in the use of World
Wide Web technology and web design that aims to
enhance creativity, information sharing, and, most notably,
collaboration among users.
Web 3.0 - Following the introduction of the phrase "Web 2.0"
as a description of the recent evolution of the Web, the
term "Web 3.0" has been introduced to hypothesize about
a future wave of Internet innovation.
Opportunities / Challenges / Issues
• Are we up to date with current developments?
• Are we thinking through the potential of these
applications?
• Are we ensuring that young people especially,
understand the new landscape and the old rules?
• Are we ensuring that we are maximising
opportunities?
• Are we learning how to discriminate information?
• Do we manage knowledge better and use these new
tools?
• Can we create new opportunites using the new
tools?
• Do we develop online communities?
References:
Some features of Web 2 sites and services:
http://www.43things.com
I really love 43things.
Instant Messaging Software
http://www.meebo.com/
msn web messenger
http://www.ebuddy.com/
Photo / Video Sharing Communities – why don’t we use these to share resources between members?
Software as a Service:
www.flickr.com
www.youtube.com
www.scribd.com
Google Education Tools
On google. E.g google maps.
Some examples of newer web applications / trends:
http://del.icio.us/
http://video.google.com/
www.bloglines.com
www.google.com/alerts
http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/index.html
Mobile and Web Broadcasting – easy to do from your mobile phone!
http://www.kyte.tv/home/index.html
http://www.ustream.tv/
http://www.comvu.com/
http://qik.com/
http://www.flixwagon.com/
Peer2peer file sharing
Social Networking Sites
www.bebo.com
www.facebook.com
www.piczo.com
www.myspace.com
Virtual Worlds – why not explore EH scenarios in Second Life, see the reaction?
Second life, Habbo, Club Penguin, Neopets, Whyville. The big corporations have a presence in Second life
such as Nike, why not CIEH?
http://www.habbo.co.uk/
Blogs - audio / video / mobile
http://home.services.spaces.live.com/
https://www.blogger.com/start
http://www.vidblogs.com/
http://www.phlog.net/
Twitter - social networking and micro blogging service.
http://twitter.com/
Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the
exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?
Virtual Online Learning - the tools are out there free! :
http://moodle.org/
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Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed
using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities.
You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale
from a single-teacher site to a University with 200,000 students. This site itself is created using
Moodle, so check out the Moodle Demonstration Courses or read the latest Moodle Buzz.
http://www.wiziq.com/
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Use WiZiQ's Virtual Classroom for synchronous online teaching and learning. Equipped with live
audio/video, text chat, document/whiteboard sharing, and session recording capabilities, this web
conferencing tool is available for unlimited free use.
http://www.dimdim.com/
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Dimdim is a free web conferencing service where you can share your desktop, show slides,
collaborate, chat, talk and broadcast via webcam with absolutely no download required for
attendees.
http://www.wimba.com/
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wimba - Help publishers and schools to create, deliver and assess compelling digital content in all
disciplines.
http://elgg.org/
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Elgg is a robust open source social application engine. Elgg provides elegant, flexible and scalable
solutions for organisations, groups and individuals. Take advantage of powerful social technology
today.
From a full social networking site to an iPhone widget, Elgg can power it all.
http://www.ectolearning.com
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EctoLearning is a social, collaborative, online learning environment that directly addresses the
needs of the modern learning environment by making the new communication skills and
competencies for content creation and sharing central to the classroom experience.
EctoLearning is also a full Learning Management System (LMS) with attendance tracking, grade
book, and a sophisticated assessment engine including the use of rubrics based evaluations.
http://www.ning.com/
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Create your own social network for nothing.
The End or……the beginning?