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So as part of our class i have already mentioned that we were experimenting with the mediums taht our students owuld use and one of these is facebook.

Similar to MySpace, facebook allows for online communities, friendships, and photo sharing. However unlike most people around my age, I never joined MySpace. It simply did not interest me! I didn’t want to waste time in front of the computer and I’d rather SEE my friends for a cathc up! And frankly I felt the same way about facebook!

However, we have all admitted thet slowly (or not so slowly ) but definitely surely, we are all becoming addicted!!!!!!!! The privacy in your communities that it offers is great, its s easy to share info and pictures and everyone is loving the food fights!!!!!!!

I have to wonder how many of us will keep ysing facebook after we finish Networked Learning!!!!!!!!! hehe Allan has created lots of little typing monsters!!!!!! ugh argg!!!

Obviously as we are doing an education degree there must be a point in learning all about computers and the web! (we hope! hehe)

As I said, on my prac the technology available to us was incredibly useful in lessons. It communicated our point clearly, in different forms and in a way that the students were familiar with. So obviously as our knowledge and use of web2.0 increases, hopefully, so does the students higher learning!

First of all, the generation of student we will be teaching are defintely digital natives! They have grown up on the technology we are learning about and use it daily in their schoolwork and social lives.

This means that by using it as teachers we will be coming into their comforts zones and creating common groud between the generetions.

Blogs and wikis are available to be viewed publicaly on the internet. This means that they are great resources for the students to utilise. A teacher can use a blog to post information, assignments and discussions which the students can access and understand in a familiar medium.

As wikis are similar to blogs they can be used in the same manner. Additionaly though, wikis are a collaborative effoprt. They can be formed in groups or individually. Rather then posting comments on a blog, groups can use the wiki as a home page of sorts. they would all be able to contribute the the page, add comments, make ammendmants and edit information.

This would make wikis a fantastic tool in group or class tasks. The wiki would be available to the entire groups. They could use it as communication between thier group, other groups, the teacher or the class. It could be used as a discussion board or even a space to post the actual assignment or task!!!!

So flickr does not like me but apparently wiki’s do!!!!!!! hehe we set up a group wiki today! A wiki is similar to a blog but it allows for group collaboration. There are four members of my group and we set up the wiki (www.soymocha.pbwiki.com) with no hassles!!

However I found out when I got home that my Mac is apparently not compatible so it will not let me update the page from home! this should be interesting!!!!!! ;0

In class we have looking at web1.0 and web2.0, what they require and what they offer. Now we are going to start experimenting with examples of web2.0!!!! uhoh

As mentioned I’m pretty bad with technology and didn’t get off to a great start with Flickr (which still does not like me by the way!!! grrr) but we will be lloking at wiki’s and facebook sooooo…. wish me luck!!!!

I really liked this description or definition of Web2.0 and its features. Although I am technically part of the computer generation, most of the time I am more like a “digital immigrant” then a born “digital native”!!!

Practically hopeless on computers and any other technological device, I think this is the reason why I never became addited to MySpace or MSN or anything similar as the basics were quite hard for me to grasp.

However this idea of “open, collaborative communication, learning and creativity” is exactly what web2.0 offers. The freedom and communities that it offers are definitely what the digital natives are all about.

The feature of web2.0 were also appealing to me. It seems almost that what it requires is also what it provides! the interaction that is allowed on web2.0 gives the communities, reading and writing opportunities as well as a platform for higher learning.

It is essentiall an increasing range of software that supports a variety of technologies for open, collaborative communication, learning and creativity.

It requires:
1.a platform
2.social networking
3.read/write web
4.social software
5.gathering and sorting

So when technology works, it can run the world! But when it is not in the mood to co-operate…….

My attempt to join the flickr community during the week could only be described as UNSUCCESSFUL!!!!! It can drive you to insanity!

And in actual fact I did manage to join but then it would not let me load pictures, change my profile or comment on others peoples spots!!!!!!

I am still trying too be allowed to join the site and then actually USE it!!!!!

I’ll let you know!!!!

Even though we have now studyed numerous computing classes in Education and I use technology almost everyday, I don’t think I had ever really looked at it as multi dimensional.

On our recent practical experiences, I was lucky to be at a very technology literate school. The resources availabe to use on the internet and through other technology sources was invaluable on the experience.

These resources such as computer, laptops, overhead projectors and more meant that we could communicate on more then one medium. It also meant that we were definitely on the same wave length as the students who live on my space and msn.

However I had never considered that some forms of the web are NOT interactionary! This new idea of web 1.0 and web 2.0 was completely new to me. It did make sense once I thought about it but it definitely took me by surprise!

You can use a computer or the internet and get a desired result, wether it be information or an assignment. This to me seemed to be an interationary process.

However looking at some of the forms of web2.0 this theory has definitely cleared some!!! The way that people can form communities online, create whole worlds and interacte with people as if they were next door is certainly a step up from making your own website!!!!!!!!!!!

THE WEB

Web 1.0 is gathering information on the web.
Web 2.0 is constructing knowledge collaboratively on the web.
Web 2.0 is the heart and soul of online education. e.g. podcast, ajax, tagging, second life etc.
Web 2.0 is putting the “we” in “web”!!!
Experts in Web 2.0: Andy Budd
http://www.andybudd.com/presentations/dcontruct05/

WEB 1.0 EXAMPLES

Personal Web Sites

Britannica Online

Content Management Systems

Directories

Screen Scrapings

WEB 2.0 EXAMPLES

Blogs

Wikipedia

Wikis

Tagging

Web Services