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Web 2.0 and Project Citizen:
What’s Possible?
Ben Bohmfalk
Colorado 3rd District Coordinator
Roaring Fork High School Teacher
Carbondale, CO
What is “Web 2.0”?
Wikipedia definition: web development and web design that facilitates
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interactive information sharing,
user-centered design, and
collaboration on the World Wide Web.
“Editable web, not just by the writer but also the reader.
interact with other users or to
A Web 2.0 site allows its users to
change website content.
When the student creates new content for the
Web, he is using Web 2.0
Web 1.0 approach
Web 2.0 approach
YouTube
Watch
Blogs
Read
Wikis
Research
Documents
Attach
Create and
comment
Micro-Blog
and comment
Add content
and create
Collaborate in
cloud
Why use Web 2.0 with Project Citizen?
• Real politics
– Obama campaign
– Iran, Egypt, India, Myanmar
• Writing with purpose
– WIRED article
• Student engagement
• Prospect of real change
"I think we're in the midst of a literacy revolution the
• Collaboration
likes of which we haven't seen since Greek civilization,"
Andrea Lunsford, Stanford University.
Communicate with members
of a pre-existing group
Expand network, gain
supporters
Publicize a cause
Organize and publicize an
event
‘It took our campaign six months to get 139,000
people on an e-mail list. It took one Facebook group
a month to get 200,000. That's astronomical.”’ –
Washington Post
Perhaps today’s politics largely exists as
many small issues…which can’t really be
dealt with in a monolithical manner by
marching the streets with banners.
Jill Walker Rettberg, an associate professor at the University of
Bergen, Norway
Features
Limitations
Possibilities
•Search by content
•140 characters
•Follow experts
•Phone friendly
•Difficult to archive
•Tweet updates on
action plan
•Open
•Difficult to gain
large following
•All real-time
Wikis
Wiki=fast in Hawaiian
Web design that is
•Simple
•Collaborative
•Web-based
Examples:
•Google sites
•Wikispaces.com
•PBWiki
Alerts
Docs
Groups
Sites
Get email updates
on the topics of your
choice
Create and share
your online
document
Create mailing lists
and discussion
groups
Create websites and
secure group wikis
About
•Started in Sept. 2008
•Built for use in the
classroom
•Built with the privacy of
students in mind
•Free
Features
•Assignments
•Calendar
•Potential for Project Citizen:
•Discuss Public Policy articles
•Deliberate which Problem to address
•Share links to Alternative Policies
•Discuss Proposed Policy
•Share links and docs
Video responses:
Open conversation about issues
Potential with Project Citizen:
•Post video of a problem, respond with
alternative solutions
•Post solutions, viewers vote for best
policy
•Post proposed policy, gain support, direct
viewers to website
Article links
• 15 essential web tools
for students
(mashable.com)
• Clive Thompson on The
New Literacy
(wired.com)