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Young Jun, Ha Neul and Kashish

Technology Project

What.How. When.Should We?

Introduction: The school's technology department needs to make a presentation fortheir educational board to encourage the utilization of Web 2.0 within our classrooms.

There are many who are enthusiastic about this and many who are tensed as they feel a

threat to the educational process.

Challenge: We have to research and obtain background for our view point on Web 2.0and provide the information in our presentation to the board. We should include asynopsis of Web2, the tools available (at least 4), the software/hardware developments

that led to the web2 and how it can be harnessed educationally, and then we should use at

least two different communication mediums in your blog

Personal Group Questions: What is Web 2.0?

Is Web 2.0 good or bad? What kind of blog would we use?

How can we portray Web 2.0 information in a very interesting manner?

How would we organize our blog system?

Essential Questions:

In What Way Technology Influenced The Knowledge?

Acquaintance with facts, truths, or principles, as from study or investigation; generalerudition: (Dictionary.com). This definition is of knowledge. Knowledge is one of the

most common words. We hear the word knowledge when we are at school, we hear theword knowledge when we start working, we hear the word knowledge when we havechildren and we hear the word knowledge in our religion scriptures. Even though

knowledge is used in so many that it is quite common, it is one of the words that has one

of the deepest meaning. Knowledge is something that we learn throughout our lifetime, it

is said that no one knows the true meaning of knowledge until they are buried. Thismeans that we humans keep on learning throughout our lifetime.

In 21st century World Wide Web is being used for informing/teaching people. The

Internet facilitates, classifies and enables the exchange of information, knowledge andnews. (Seifkashani) .There are online news papers, blogs, encyclopedia, and articles etc

which are being used for enlightening people about various topics. The Internet could be

the major media to promote the reading level in the world. (Seifkashani) . Because ofinternet, it has become very easy for people to access learning. As internet is widely

diverse, not only do people get to know about different interpretations of various topics

but also get to share their views.

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Distribution of Internet Users, survey taken in March 31st 2009.

Internet has rapidly been growing throughout the world. Many people go n internet formany reasons and one of the reason is education. Internet is one of the biggest sources for

education. As internet especially Web 2.0 gives people the power to publish posts on

shared group websites, exchange of knowledge is therefore available.

Multi lingual web sites have improved the standards of internet quite a lot. Websites suchas Wikipedia are multi lingual, meaning that people can read the posts in their language

(if the language is available).

When everyone throughout the world can access internet, it is guaranteed that people will

receive knowledge. People can not only understand the information on internet by

reading text in their own knowledge but also seeing educational videos for visuallearners. This sum up to one thing that yes Technology Has Influenced The Knowledge,

but in a good way, instead, I believe that technology should be encouraged more in

schools for educational purpose. At OSC, we use technology for most of the subjects and

while doing that, we learn relate our theory knowledge with a technological medium todescribe our point of views. We use PowerPoint to show slides, we use Word to write

down essays, we use Moviemaker to make videos for our project, we use websites for

researching and last but not least, we use technology to relate ourselves with a widerbased community; sharing our knowledge.

Research:

What is Web 2.0?

It's a new generation (second generation) of web development communication andsharing information. (p.s. Web 1.0 is regarded as the First Generation.) It is the evolution

of Web-based communities; it opens more chances for the users by allowing them to post

or generate the content which was limited to only a few people before.

-Young jun

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Figure 1 - key difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 (the image is on the blog)

According to the definition on the web, Web 1.0 is 'a retronym which refers to the state of

the World Wide Web, and any website design style used before the advent of the Web 2.0'

According to the web cite called 'Cormode,' Web 2.0 is 'a term that is used to denoteseveral different concepts: Web sites based on a particular set of technologies such as

AJAX; Web sites which incorporate a strong social component, involving user profiles,

friend links; Web sites which encourage usergenerated content in the form of text, video,and photo postings along with comments, tags, and ratings'.

So basically, the major big difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 is that Web 2.0 is theboth-side way of communication on the internet and Web 1.0 is the one-side

communication way.

For easy explanation, a person published something on Web 1.0 then the uses only couldhave a look at it and they generated only few content or comment. As you see the figure 1

given above, Web 1.0 is the most likely read-only Web. However, as the population of

the internet users has been increased, people realized that it is much valuable to sharepeoples idea or opinion and they made it possible to make a comment or generate the

own content for the users also. Now it is more likely widely read-write Web.

-Posted by Haneul Choi

Works cited

Cormode, Graham, and Balachander Krishnamurthy. "Key Differences between Web 1.0

and Web 2.0a." Welcome to UIC. 15 Feb. 2008. 02 Apr. 2009 .

http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2125/1972.

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Figure 2 - Elements of the Web's Next Generation

Best (or most interesting) Web 2.0 Definitions and Explanations

In many internet sites like Skype, Wikipedia, and blogs, they show many differentdefinitions and explanations of WEB 2.0 and how it used in our life. We use Web 2.0 in

our lives quite often by filtering, sharing some contents and files, social searching,

collaboration, and social bookmarking (in library). Lots of information and files arelined-up that easy to find and looks simple by using the Web 2.0. And there is the biggest

advantage in Web 2.0 than Web 1.0, as the research I've done before show, in web 1.0 the

people and users interact only one way (uploader->reader) with `http://` internet sites

which are HTLM, Ajax, Flash etc. But in Web 2.0 which is new generation, the peopleand users interact two ways (uploader reader) with internet sites and themselves.

They can control and tagging to those services and faces which is RSS, REST, SOAP,HTML, Ajax, Flash etc. In addition, more people and users can use the software, web2.0, or internet sites in better condition.

Surveys

Do you know Web 2.0?

35 people answered this question. Out of 35 people, 60% know what web 2.0 is and 40%

dont know what it is. This tells us that not many people have the knowledge about Web2.0. We sent this survey to the entire secondary school and only 35 people answered the

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survey. As many didnt answer the survey, then there is a chance that there maybe more

students who know what it is and there maybe be some students who dont.

If your answer 'Yes' for Question 1, how well do you know about Web 2.0?

Out of the 21 people who know what Web 2.0 is, 7 people have said that they know Web2.0 very well that they can explain what Web 2.0 is. Though, as we sent our survey to the

entire secondary school, some grade 10's must have answered it as well, hence their is a

chance that those 7 people who know Web 2.0 very well can be grade 10's or maybe not.Other 14 people dont have too much knowledge about it but do understand the concept.

The 14 people have a brief idea about Web 2.0. To be honest this isnt impressive, out of

35 people 21 know Web 2.0 and 14 dont know and out of 21 people, only 7 know verywell and 14 just have a brief idea.

If you answered 'Yes' for question 1, please answer the question. What is/arethe example(s) of Web 2.0?

We gave people the options to choose that which websites they think are Web 2.0 (the

people who said that they know Web 2.0 are only supposed to answer this question). As

only 21 people in the previous questions said that they knew what Web 2.0 was, weexpected to get only 21 responses, but instead we got 25. Meaning that 4 people who

dont know what Web 2.0 is answered this question.

Most of the people voted for Face book; about 20 people did and it is completely correct.Facebook is Web 2.0 as people can share and write their ideas. Then YouTube got the

second highest votes. 19 people voted for YouTube which is also a Web 2.0 as people can

comment on the videos and have public forums on it for discussions. Then Myspace and

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Wikispaces got 17 votes (separately). Yes, those two community based sites are web 2.0.

We have then gotten 16 people who have voted for Blogger (which is totally web 2.0 as

we are using someone else's websites to publish our ). Whereas 6 people voted fornothing.\

Do you think that Web 2.0 should be incorporated into the schooleducation?

Out of 35 people, 24 people said yes, Web 2.0 should be incorporated into the school and

11 people said no that it shouldnt. As there were only 21 people who said that they know

about Web 2.0 and here we get to see that 24 people want Web 2.0 to be incorporated.

This means that there are some students who dont know about Web 2.0 want it to beincorporated into the school environment. That is good which means that people think

that it will help them. Though some people dont want Web 2.0 to be used. The reasons

may be using YouTube, Facebook and such sites in school would interrupt in theirstudies. Though we can still use other Web 2.0 sites which would help the students in

their studies.

-Posted by Kashish Sharma

Materials/Softwares:

Blogger.com

Movie Maker (for creating videos)

Power Point (presentations)

Internet (research)

Camera (for videoing)

Design Brief:As response to the challenge, we will create a blog which will contain our design cycle.

Through the blog we would post information as well have a electronic design cycle

online. That way we will be promoting more of Web 2.0 as it will make process journal

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consequence of our project will be that people would actually come to know the benefits

of Web 2.0 and soon our teachers would start using web 2.0 in-class.

Community and Service: This project is also related to community and service. We will

be creating video and presentation for OSC community who do not know about Web 2.0.

This way we will be helping a lot of people basically the school community. I myselfknow quite a lot of students who use Blogs and some teachers who encourage students to

use blogs for maintaining online journals and if we manage to make other teachers use

other types of Web 2.0 then that would be fantastic and the community will be benefitedfrom this.

Environments: "In what ways can environments influence technology choices?" This

question is quite big and deep as well. Our OSC environment encourages students tolearn and develop themselves as a whole person. There are some types of technology

which can either have good and bad effects on the environment. Like nuclear energy, it

was made for the betterment of the society but later on nuclear energy was also used for

making nuclear bombs. Technology can be used both good way and bad, it depends onthe user. If OSC makes the right use of Web 2.0 we will encourage the usage of

technology and people will learn to use things in different ways and may also make goodand proper use of it.

How do I test my product?

As the purpose is to create a presentation which will convince the educational board

(teachers) to use Web 2.0. We will ask teachers. We will show teachers our videos and

power point and ask them what they think about. We will get a feedback from them andhence we shall write that down in our evaluation if we were successful or not.

Planning:

Here we will work on our planning and write down the steps we will be taking to get out

task done in time. The purpose of the plan is that the students keep on track throughoutthe time while they are working. Plan also is useful to give you an understanding of the

amount of time which would take to complete the task in time.

Our Brief Plan:

1) Starting off with a blog which isnt complete (2 Days)

2) Writing an introduction of the blog (2 Days)3) Making the layout of the blog (2 Days)

4) Working on the starting posts (2 Days)

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5) Starting of the Research :

Research on Web 2.0 (2 Days)

Research on different types of Web 2.0 (3 Days)Survey; asking people about their views on Web 2.0 (4 Days)

Analyze the result from the Survey (2 Days)

Discuss on this with the other partners (1 Day)

6) Conclusion: Writing our view on using Web 2.0 and defining whether Web 2.0 is good

or bad (10 Days)

7) Publishing our Blog and letting people know about it (5 Days)

8) Evaluating our Blog and updating it so our readers are into it (8 Days)

Date Description

March 18 Today we created the blog.March 19 Today we wrote down brief introduction about our blog

March 20 Will create an online journal system on blog which will help

us to keep updated.

March 25 Will write the blog introduction on the front page.

March 26 Would finish with introductions and focus on the blog layout.

Adding different sections.

March 27 Would be finished with simple layout, will focus on

publishing our blog and having a proper title as well as a url.

April 3 Will divide the work and sections in between Ha Neul, YJ and

me (Kashish),

April 8 Will write down an introductory post for each section so thatwe dont get confused in between the process. As this is not

such a big process we will start our research from now on.

April 10-19 VACATIONS. Unlikely for anyone of us to work on the

project during the vacations as people would be gone. But inbetween people may research.

April 21 Young Jun and Ha Neul will be researching about Web 2.0whereas Kashish will be writing the essential question and its

answer.

April 22 Kashish will continue answering Essential Question but will

call a small meeting today so that the group could also

contribute its ideas. Last day for researching on the meaningof Web 2.0.

April 27 Kashish will end working on essential question. Young Jun

will send out survey and Ha Neul will work on different typesof Web 2.0. Kashish will then work on guiding questions for

the group.

April 28 Young Jun will collect survey and Kashish will analyze them.

Young Jun will be helping Ha Neul in the last part of the

research which is left.

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April 29 Kashish will end working on surveys today and Young Jun

and Ha Neul will be done with research today.

April 30 Kashish will start Design Brief and finish it today and

afterschool will work on Design Spec and hopefully finish it.As soon as the Design Spec is done, Ha Neul and Young Jun

will then start working on the script for the play. Kashish willwork on Relations to AOIs meanwhile.

May 1 Kashish will finish working on Investigation; hence the

biggest section would now be done. Young Jun and Ha Neul

will almost be done with the script. Young Jun would startworking on the PowerPoint design. Ha Neul will continue

working on the script.

May 2 We will film the video in Ha Neuls house today and will get

rid of our one create. Today Young Jun will be done with

editing the video and start on the PowerPoint whereas Kashishand Ha Neul will be working on evaluation the create section.

May 4 We will ask teachers to give feedbacks on our video and willthen write our evaluation on the bases of the feedbacks.

Design:

Evaluation:

During the entire process

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Design:

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Design

As we mentioned earlier in design brief and specification, we chose to make a video anda presentation for two different mediums to explain about Web 2.0 after a long

discussion. We had three different designs at first, word document, presentation using MS

Power point and short video using Windows Movie Maker, and we chose two of them,presentation and video for several reasons.

Design 1. Word Document

Word Document has quite a lot of advantages and disadvantages at the same time. First of

all, it would be the most original and we can give more information to explain Web 2.0

on the word document. However, we thought it would be a bit boring and long whichwould not fascinate people to read this. Besides, to write in a Document, we should be

really formal and using a proper technology word which is really strange to the normal

people.

We decided that the final product is for everyone who both well knows about computerand doesnt know about it at all, and we thought that it would be too difficult for them to

understand what Web 2.0 is.For these reasons, we decided not to make it in a Word Document.

Design 2. Presentation (Power Point)Next, we thought about the presentation. We can explain about Web 2.0 easily with less

word than the document. In addition, this could have lots of visuals such as pictures and

videos to make people easy to understand the concept of Web 2.0 which is the ultimatepurpose of this product. Images say more than what the words can say and its easier to

understand the concept; images dont need people to know about all the new professional

vocabulary for explaining Web 2.0.Like we said in Design Specification, this should be about 5 minutes long using the easy

words so that we can hold the audiences attention all the time and make them easy to

understand. The information given in this presentation should be really precise andwritten in easy words as well. This also should contain pictures and hyperlinks to the

good websites where more explanation is. However, we decided not to put the video in

this unlike what we said in Design Specification. We thought itll be too long if we put

the video in it; we believed that we better give them the links where they can learn moreabout Web 2.0 if they want.

Design 3. Video

We thought itll be the best way to explain what Web 2.0 is if we can actually explain it in

our own words in front of the students and teachers like the IT class. However, we cantdo that all the time, and then we thought we could film it and show it to the people

anytime and anywhere. Video also has quite a lot of advantages: itll be easy for people to

understand what Web 2.0 is since we would explain it in our own words, itll be the more

interesting than the presentation or the word documents so that itll always hold theaudiences attention and itll be impressing visually and aurally. Besides, as we are

filming this, we ourselves can also understand better about Web 2.0.

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Ha Neul, Kashish and Young jun, all three of us, will be on the video for sure. This will

be also less than 10 minutes long, otherwise itll be a bit boring and distracting. Like we

said in Design Specification, it will have some serious parts, but interesting, not beingserious, most of the time. Well be explaining the differences between Web 1.0 and Web

2.0 to make the audience easy to understand the main idea. We decided not to put the

pictures in it unlike what we decided in Design Specification, because itll be too much toedit them since we have changed the time plan for Create due to the running our of time

and its quite limited to edit the video with the Movie Maker.

So as we mentioned earlier we decided to make a video and a presentation for our final

two different products. I think its really good to reckon the advantages and disadvantages

of each designs to choose what to make. By the so, we could complete it better and thinkreasonably. It was also really nice to be detail how we are going to do it; we can plan how

we are going to make them as we are designing which means that we saved some times

as well.

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