Cathy Swan's List: Web 2.0: Transforming Education Through Media and Technology

• • I like the visualizatio of Web 2.0. Although it dates from the early days of the concept, it seems to capture it exceedingly well.

• The Web As Platform

    

  Like many important concepts, Web 2.0 doesn't have a hard boundary, but rather, a gravitational core. You can visualize Web 2.0 as a set of principles and practices that tie together a veritable solar system of sites that demonstrate some or all of those principles, at a varying distance from that core.

     

  
• • Google vs the standard browser. What changed? Just about everything.
• Google, by contrast, began its life as a native web application, never sold or packaged, but delivered as a service, with customers paying, directly or indirectly, for the use of that service. None of the trappings of the old software industry are present. No scheduled software releases, just continuous improvement. No licensing or sale, just usage. No porting to different platforms so that customers can run the software on their own equipment, just a massively scalable collection of commodity PCs running open source operating systems plus homegrown applications and utilities that no one outside the company ever gets to see.

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• What a great way to build capacity for thoughtful conversations and expertise in a short amount of time.

•     Web 2.0 Tools 
             

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  Following is a list of no-cost Web 2.0 sites that are available for teachers to evaluate. Many of these tools are on the open Internet, so look at them carefully before using with your students! Be sure to check out myShedding Light on Web 2.0page listed below with links to over 50 tools for teachers and learners.

• focused on the ability  for people to collaborate and share information online.
• static HTML Web pages to a more  dynamic
• open communication with an  emphasis on Web-based communities of users, and more open sharing of  information.

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• A very basic and very friendly definition of Web 2.0. - Cathy Swan on 2009-03-11

• Get to the PowerPoint in 20 Slides Then Sit the Hell Down

  • Get to the (Power) PoInt!
• exactly 20 slides displayed for 20 seconds each
• transform corporate cliché into surprisingly compelling beat-the-clock performance art.

  • It seems like this could help to eliminate the cut and paste mentality that then becomes a "Script". IF students have to distill what they've cut and pasted into 20 concise seconds...they might finally grasp public speaking!!
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