a n00bies guide to Web 2.

Sarah Currier, Project Consultant

SHEEN Web 2.0 Resource Sharing
Project
... it’s a catch-all, un-defined term that
refers to stuff on the Web that allows
users to create and share their own
content globally, and within their own
self-organised communities ...
... or, to quote one well-known Web 2.0
site, Wikipedia:
“The term "Web 2.0" describes the
changing trends in the use of World
Wide Web technology and web design
that aim to enhance creativity,
communications, secure information
sharing, collaboration and functionality
of the web.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0
... this graphic
is from 2006
by the way ...
 Community building
• Group spaces (e.g. Google Groups, Yahoo Groups, Ning)
• Social networking (e.g. Facebook, MySpace, Bebo)
• Professional networking (e.g. LinkedIn, UNYK)
 Resource sharing, reviewing & recommendation
• File sharing sites (all files, e.g. Scribd; specific filetypes,
e.g. Flickr, YouTube, SlideShare; learning materials
repositories, e.g. Jorum)
• Social bookmarking and recommendation sites (e.g.
Delicious, Digg, reddit, many others)
 Collaborative resource development
• Blogs (individual or collaborative news sites)
• Wikis (collaboratively created websites)
• Collaborative document development (e.g. GoogleDocs,
GoogleMaps)
... anyhoo ...
 FEEDS, FEEDS, FEEDS
• The lynchpin to everything Web 2.0.
• Support alerts, notifications, aggregating content, mashing content
together...
 Building a shared knowledge base
• Tagging resources enables all kinds of systems and tools to pull
together user knowledge about all kinds of resources for ease of
discovery
• Shared evaluation of what’s good, useful, or widely used through
comments, discussion, recommendation & rating systems
 Community licensing
• For putting your materials out there on the Web, and reusing other
people’s materials: what can you and others do with copyright
resources?
• Creative Commons is widely used, understood and accepted.
• JorumOpen will support Creative Commons and UK-specific
educational licences.
RSS and Atom newsfeeds are
supported by virtually every Web 2.0
application.
This means resources can be shared
and delivered in highly flexible, user-
friendly ways regardless of tools used
by individual community members.
Let’s start with some live examples...
I start my working day by:
• Opening my email,
• Opening my feed reader:

http://www.google.co.uk/reader/
Image on 1st slide by ycc2106:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ycc2106/103383461/ available under Creative
Commons: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en_GB

Image on 4th slide by jonastherkildsen:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonastherkildsen/122881874/ available under Creative
Commons: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en_GB

Image on 7th slide by trumpetflickr, taken from www.futureexploration.net:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/trumpetca/2383941503/ available under Creative
Commons: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/

Image on 8th slide from www.futureexploration.net:

http://www.rossdawsonblog.com/Web2_Framework.pdf available under Creative
Commons: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/

Slides by Sarah Currier, Consultant, SHEEN Web 2.0 Resource Sharing Project
http://www.sarahcurrier.com/
sarah.currier@gmail.com

Slides © Higher Education Academy, 2009.