The Connected Classroom

Notes from my first USDLA session of the day:
Pedagogy of Web 2.0 | Dr. Sribhagyam Srinivasan of Lamar State College-Orange

How many Web 2.0 verbs can you name?
o    Social networking
o    Googling
o    Twittering
o    Blogging
o    Tagging

Web 2.0 is user controlled. Web 2.0 is the second generation of web-based applications and services; from passive Internet usage to active participant.

Cites Bruns’ C4C, 2007:
o    Content Production – Creative
o    Participatory Nature – Communicative
o    Knowledge Exchange – Critical
o    High Pedagogical Value – Collaborative

Web 2.0 tool discussed:
o    Twitter – great example participant gave during session: her students post on environmental facts and news, follow those who do the same (like Al Gore)
o    Blog | Vlog
o    Social Bookmarking |  Delicious – be a part of a network of people with similar interest; create a bibliography and an organizational hierarchy (with tagging)
o    Wiki – example: teacher in session plants false facts in her class wiki so students must weed out bad information
o    Google – few examples: read articles, journals, books and create, share publish documents
o    Podcast | Vodcast
o    Digg It | Tag It

Conclusion: Information explosion! Web 2.0 is a great way to organize all the information that is out there.

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