Thursday, January 29, 2009

1/29 Class

First night of ITEC830 class! Lots of familiar faces.

SHARED IN CLASS:


- Commoncraft: Video shares in plain English

WHAT IS WEB 2.0?
- Collaborative, social, communal, cloud-think
- Multidirectional
- Global, far-reaching, distance-conquering
- Customizable
- Open source, creative commons, democratized
- Ease-of-use, economical, efficient
- A/synchronous
- No software, all web-based
- Creating natural learning environments, virtually
* Hidden agendas - capitalist veins, true costs
* Severity of viral infection

SIX C's of Web 2.0, Connectivism
- Content
- Context
- Create
- Communicate
- Collaborate
- Contribute

TOOLS
-A Whole New Mind - Daniel Fink 2005 (Required)
-The Design of Everyday Things - Donald Norman (Required)
-Flock - Web 2.0 enhanced web browser

ASSIGNMENTS
- Make Blog (DONE!)
- Sign-up for ITEC 830 Ning Group (DONE!)
- iGoogle (DONE - just rearranged it a bit)

Here's something fun. I think it's an example of how diy media is being created by your "average jo", and being shared around the world (viral?). Web 2.0 has enabled people notoriety, and the ability to influence others.

2 comments:

David Grabstald said...

I agree, what an interesting class! Nice use of keeping your blog text simple and to the point. Nice touch by adding the video, which will definitely keep people's interest. Love the extra video as well. Glad to be in class with you!

Best,

David G.

Brian said...

Hey Ty! I really enjoyed that video of the guy dancing around the world. I've never seen it before. That was a nice way of summing up your point about web 2.0. I also took a look at your Gaginang website (I found the link on Jeff's blogsite). That's a really cool organization. I'm very impressed.