Part One

Web 2.0, part one

Introduction

• The question of time and intellectual generosity
• "microcontent", social functionality, open content, network constructivism
• Readings: Tim O'Reilly, Bryan Alexander
• Slideshows: 2007, overview presentation, overview 2008

Comment [related to overview 2008 image from history flow of Wikipedia page growth]. I think the reason wiki content continues to grow is because FINALLY, as Weinberger says, knowledge has been freed from physical constraints. What that means is that each of us now comes to content in the digital domain, able to add to, comment on, interact with -- to step into the stream, as it were, and make our thoughts available now and for the future in a continually accessible way -- digital community marginalia? [Marsha]

• A well done video clip, which also uses Web 2.0: "Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us"
• a map

Writing the web: the blog

• Memes: addressable content chunks, distributed conversations
• Platforms: Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, Moveable Type, WordPress
• regional, urban
• Diversity: warblogs, diaries, Carnivals, knitters, moblogs
• 12 million using MT, LJ, TP: majority women (Anil Dash, MeshForum 2006)

Selected examples from the world of education

• .edu, blogs as courseware: syllabus, student co-authoring, more co-authoring, students classblogging
• more .edu: student blogs, library-based blogs, student abroad,

1st-year French blog, 1st-year French blog (bis), one closed blog

• research: public intellectuals (right, left, legal)
• new .edu forms: blogging content, mixed blogs, world blogging, blog seminar, the blog book
• Blog groups: AnthroBlogs, Savage Minds, Four Stone Hearth
• Campus blog programs: Penn State
• one big list of blogs being used in education
• Liberal arts campus bloggers
• Liberal arts campus wikis
• Liberal arts campus social bookmarking
• One academic blogging portal
• But should we beware the creepy treehouse?

(image via David Sifry)

Social writing: wikis

• WikiProjects: WikiNews, Wiki, Wikimedia
• The most famous/notorious wiki: WikiPedia; IBM HistoryFlow; an alternative?
• Wiki hosting: WikiSpaces (Denison case), SocialText, TiddlyWiki, Minki
• Wikis your campus hosts: Confluence
• Wikis not called wikis: JotSpot, Writely, Google Docs, Buzzword, http://us.ajax13.com/en/ajaxwrite/ Ajax13, Zoho Writer, [[http://www.thinkfree.com/common/main.tfo | ThinkFree]
• .edu:

• Stewart Mader, Four Letter Words: how wiki and edit are making the Internet a better learning tool (2006)
• Don Tapscott, Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything (2007)

Social networking services

• YASNs: MySpace, Facebook, Cyworld (1/3rd of South Korea)
• Many young folks burning out on online sharing SFGATE
• Student culture: range, activism, publication
• A network you might already be part of: Zoominfo
• Ning. Roll your own social network. A meta-social-networking service.
• Social networking via e-mail xobni

(CyWorld, via Wikipedia)

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An example from Nathan: a course on local religious diversity, "PHIL309: Religious Diversity in Southeastern Pennsylvania", which had online content built around a couple of free websites:

• A portal site at Protopage
• A wiki at Wikispaces
• A blog at Blogger (students all kept individual blogs as well)
• A map at Wayfaring
• A bibliography at CiteULike, and another course booklist at H2Obeta
• Bookmarks at del.icio.us

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