EXPLORING THE NEW WORLD WIDE WEB

Ian Jones

July 24, 2009

Colorado Association of Senior Centers

DISCLAIMER

The list of tools in this presentation is, by no means, exhaustive.

While I try to find sites that have nothing objectionable on them, sometimes it’s a little tough.

There are a lot of links in this presentation – the only one you really need to write down is _______. I have linked to every site in this presentation at this address.

You may find this presentation at _________ should you want to review it later.

OVERVIEW OF PRESENTATION

Presentation: Internet Culture: Consumers to Creators

Describe the evolution of Internet users from consumers of information to creators of information.

Great Tools for You and Me (a.k.a. Web 2.0) List a variety of tools being used on the Internet and

examine possible uses for each in both a personal and professional setting.

Dialogue Societal Impact of Web 2.0 Culture Changes in Internet Education

Examine both the positive and negative impacts of the new web tools on the global culture and the education world.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE WEB

Communication Tool The Commercial Web The Multi-media Web The Collaborative Web The Open Source Web

Image courtesy of: The Journal of Social Computing http://web2.socialcomputingjournal.com/

THE NEW WEB

Research Reflect

Share Publish

Relate Communicate Collaborate Participate

Re-Mix Create Manipulate Image courtesy of: www.wikipedia.org

RESEARCH

Google (so much more!) Bing (Microsoft’s new search engine) Wolfram Alpha (statistics) RSS (a whole other subject) Go2Web20 (web applications index) Wikipedia (consume and create knowledge)

MEDIA SHARING Media Sharing Beware of Racy Content Social Aspect of Media

Sharing

DELICIOUS

IDEA SHARING

Blogs Wiki Podcasting

RSS: TOO GOOD TO SKIP

RSS Simplified My Favorite RSS

Readers: Netvibes (

www.netvibes.com) iGoogle or Google Reader

(www.igoogle.com) (www.google.com/reader)

PageFlakes (www.pageflakes.com)

SOCIAL NETWORKING

An Overview Social Implications Implications for Productivity An Array of Social Networks

FACEBOOK

NING

LINKEDIN

TWITTER

YAMMER

AND THEN THERE IS

Not just a search engine:

COLLABORATE

Google Docs Wiki SlideShare Project Management Coming Soon: Google Wave

GOOGLE DOCS

Word Processing Spreadsheet Presentations

Forms Google Talk

WHAT IS A WIKI?

Collaborative Website Wiki-wiki is Hawaiian for “quick” Very easy to develop Extremely easy to edit Multiple authors The most famous: Wikipedia Two of my favorites wiki tools:

CREATE AND RE-MIX

Numerous Audio and Video Mash-up Sites Re-mix Audio and Video in Your Browser Share on the Web or Download to Your

Desktop Software as a Service (SaaS)

MANIPULATE AND EXPERIENCE

Virtual Worlds Multi-User Web-Based Video Gaming Very Interesting Possibilities in the Education

World Development in SecondLife