Web 2.0 Slam - 'Performing' Innovative Practice

Frances BellJosie Fraser

Helen Keegan

The Machine is Us/ing Us

• Mike Wesch’s video on youtube

Whirlwind tour of Web 2.0

• Josie Fraser gave us a whirlwind tour of Web 2.0 services and applications

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• What is Web 2.0 and social software?

• Why should I be interested?

• Why is Web 2.0 social software having such an impact?

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centralized decentralized

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Distributed

Grounding Web 2.0 in practice

Using Web 2.0 in practice – KISS

Example• Del.icio.us – tag identified

for resources, tag link published in VLE

• Wiki to store video links and comments – videos from youtube

• Students investigating Web 2.0 and using it to present findings

Students can add links too

Resources survive VLE, can be shared

Students can collaborate on reviewing/ filtering

X Public tags may be abused

Medium and message

Frances Bell

Innovation styles, Marie Jasinski , Design Planet http://www.flexiblelearning.net.au/flx/go/home/projects/2007/newpractices2007/recent

Style

• Exploring

• Visioning

• Experimenting

• Modifying

Web 2.0

• Invites this

• Challenging in a turbulent environment

• Recording, measuring, evaluating

• Bricolage, everyday practice, continuity

Frances Bell

Blog-based communities

• Blackboard blog• SMS

• Students • Tutor

• Blogger• Flickr • Skype

• Students• Tutors• Friends• Family

Group blogs and linked blogsSocial, academic, practical support

Helen Keegan

The Slams

First Helen

Web 2.0ISSUES

identity

“The dynamics of identity production play out visibly… Profiles are digital bodies, public displays of identity where people can explore impression management.”

DANAH BOYD (Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace)

Governance

Can your site be viewed in China?

Iranian women bloggers

Privacy

Who has your data?

Who controls your data?

Inclusion

…as you serve to emphasise one destruction of distance, another one pops up.

… networked governance… the space of flows… flexible networks… connecting some and disconnecting and isolating others….

Copyright

“… against interpretations of copyright that could stifle innovation and discourse online.“ Laurence Lessig

Impact of Web 2.0

on education today?

Then Frances

Too much informationToo much information

a Web 2.0 morality talea Web 2.0 morality tale

Whose behaviours will change in a connected world?

• Then Josie did Dating Web 2.0

Tell us your titles

Prepare your slam

Stand and Deliver

Slam delivery

Points mean Prizes