4 Web 2.0 Technologies To Inspire Students

 

By Chris-Rachael Oseland CampusTechnology.com

09/14/11

Instructional Technologist Marta Magnuson is used to some skepticism when students see her syllabus. A lot of them have never heard of Web 2.0 technologies like Diigo, Glogster, Prezi, and PBworks. For some, the thought of using any technology they can't access from their phone breaks them out in a cold sweat. For others, there's a very real concern that investing hours into Web 2.0 projects could result in waking up one morning to discover the cloud ate their homework.


Magnuson said she has faith that the four technologies she finds most useful in the classroom aren't going anywhere. She's willing to back that faith up with examples of real world success in using Diigo, Glogster, Prezi, and PBworks as teaching tools.

Realistically, Magnuson said, there's a risk these technologies might disappear, but she said she believes teaching students how to use Web 2.0 technologies is almost as important as the course material. "Students are going to be using a computer every day at their job, even if they're not in an IT field," she said. "There aren't a lot of jobs out there anymore where you're not sitting in front of a computer every day. The more you know about computers the more job opportunities you're going to have. Plus, not having to wait for the help desk makes you more efficient. If you're on a deadline and you know how to solve your own problem, that makes you a real asset."


By the end of her classes, Magnuson said, she's converted most of her skeptics.

Campus Technology recently had an opportunity to talk to Magnuson about how she uses Web 2.0 technologies in both the graduate library science course she teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and in her position as Instructional Technologist at Carthage College in Kenosha, WI.


Chris-Rachael Oseland: You say there are four big Web 2.0 technologies you advocate in the classroom. Let's take a close look at each of them. Tell me how you use PBworks.

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SOURCE:  By Chris-Rachael Oseland http://campustechnology.com/articles/2011/09/14/4-web-2.0-technologies-to-inspire-students.aspx

Ten emerging Enterprise 2.0 technologies to watch

By Dion Hinchcliffe ZDNet.com

Summary: Two significant and closely related trends in enterprise computing this year are the growth of Software-as-a-service (SaaS) and social computing. By most accounts, both are gaining ground fairly rapidly while still not being used for core business functions or mission critical applications in most large firms, at least not yet.Here's a breakdown of what Enterprise 2.0 technologies and products to watch this year.

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I expect to see a new wave of unified communication products that include Enterprise 2.0 as a first class citizen. Two significant and closely related trends in enterprise computing this year are the growth of Software-as-a-service (SaaS) and social computing. By most accounts, both are gaining ground quite rapidly while still not being used for core business functions or mission critical applications in most large firms, at least not yet.

The reality is that broader social and cloud computing trends continue to evolve faster than most enterprises are able to absorb. It may be years before many organizations are comfortable with and ready to adopt either of these technologies strategically despite apparent benefits.

However, that doesn't mean that it's not important for organizations to closely track both of these leading computing trends (both have solid double digit industry growth) and understand the emerging technologies that are likely to shape their use in key business functions in the near future. In fact, quite the contrary, particularly when it comes to Enterprise 2.0.

The potential overall impact of enterprise social computing (aka Enterprise 2.0) is significant for most organizations, at least in the medium term. The business functions that are likely to be affected and transformed by these new social business models (and its associated delivery model, SaaS) includes general purpose communication and collaboration, product development, customer relationship management, marketing, operations, and business productivity solutions. And certainly, ad hoc use and early adopters have already being doing this for years, but as we'll see, many Enterprise 2.0 technologies are only now becoming a reality. What then, are the areas to watch and build competency in this year?

 

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SOURCE: By Dion Hinchcliffe http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hinchcliffe/ten-emerging-enterprise-2-0-technologies-to-watch/1224

What is Web 2.0 ?

By Tim O'Reilly OReilly.com

by Tim O'Reilly
09/30/2005

Oct. 2009: Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle answer the question of "What's next for Web 2.0?" in Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On.

The bursting of the dot-com bubble in the fall of 2001 marked a turning point for the web. Many people concluded that the web was overhyped, when in fact bubbles and consequent shakeouts appear to be a common feature of all technological revolutions. Shakeouts typically mark the point at which an ascendant technology is ready to take its place at center stage. The pretenders are given the bum's rush, the real success stories show their strength, and there begins to be an understanding of what separates one from the other.

The concept of "Web 2.0" began with a conference brainstorming session between O'Reilly and MediaLive International. Dale Dougherty, web pioneer and O'Reilly VP, noted that far from having "crashed", the web was more important than ever, with exciting new applications and sites popping up with surprising regularity. What's more, the companies that had survived the collapse seemed to have some things in common. Could it be that the dot-com collapse marked some kind of turning point for the web, such that a call to action such as "Web 2.0" might make sense? We agreed that it did, and so the Web 2.0 Conference was born.

In the year and a half since, the term "Web 2.0" has clearly taken hold, with more than 9.5 million citations in Google. But there's still a huge amount of disagreement about just what Web 2.0 means, with some people decrying it as a meaningless marketing buzzword, and others accepting it as the new conventional wisdom.

This article is an attempt to clarify just what we mean by Web 2.0.

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SOURCE:  By Tim O'Reilly http://oreilly.com/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html