Ruminations of an Online Instructor / MD

What are Your Favorite Online Educational Resources? / Day 14 Ruminations becomes the Readers’ Blog

The Challenge for today, Day 14, is to turn the Ruminations Blog over to my readers, so I am opening the blog up to readers and fellow educators for comments on the following question:

What are your favorite online educational resources?

What I am looking for are the resources that you routinely share with colleagues that help make their teaching easier, using computers easier or more cheaply, like on an adjunct professors budget.

My Favorite Online Educational Resources

I created my own list of Online Educational Resources that I’ve posted on the site as a permanent page.

I am created a permanent page of my favorite Web 2.0 resources (which will be embellished based on answers to this question).

With a bit of luck, I might be able to compile a very useful list of online resources for other online educators.

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Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0 / Day 13 Write a Post Using Comments

The challenge for today was to write a blog post using a comment that someone had left on the Ruminations blog.

Michele Martin left this comment on my Ruminations Blog Audit / Day 10: Audit Comments on Your Own Blog

I agree with Sue that it might be about not knowing that they can comment or how to comment. It may also be, as you point out, that they are coming primarily for one-way communication and information, which is fine. I think it becomes an issue if you WANT more comments and aren’t getting them–if you’re trying to create community through comments and it’s not happening. But some blogs aren’t about the comments, and that’s fine, too.

Michele’s comment helped me to think about the differences in the way that I have been used to creating webpages as a one-way communication method and how much this older style (Web 1.0) differs from the newer blogging and social networking style (Web 2.0).

Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0

This comparison topic is one that emerged from several comments posted in the blog and my own search as a person very familiar with Web 1.0, to try and make sense of the new Web 2.0. Trying to figure out the differences between the two is something that I’ve been meaning to do for a while.

Web 2.0 Defined

The main definition for Web 2.0 comes from Tim O’Reilly (who coined the phrase)

Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as the platform.

Comparison in Images

Although a bit busy, these two images from JW Schmidt help to distinguish the differences between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 visually. Seeing these two images really helped put things into perspective for me.

Web 1.0

JW Schmidt. June 2007. Web 1.0 Elements. Wikiversity. GNU Free Documentation License.

Web 2.0

JW Schmidt. June 2007. Web 2.0 Elements. Wikiversity. GNU Free Documentation License.

O’Reilly’s Comparison

O’Reilly formulated their sense of Web 2.0 by creating a list of examples:

More Comparisons Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0

More comparisons between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 have been drawn by many other bloggers. These are just some of the examples that were given.

To help me think about the differences I grouped the comparisons into three categories: using the web, computers and the web and e-Commerce.

Using the Web

• Web 1.0 was about reading, Web 2.0 is about writing
• Web 1.0 was about HTML, Web 2.0 is about XML
• Web 1.0 was about home pages, Web 2.0 is about blogs
• Web 1.0 was about lectures, Web 2.0 is about conversation
• Web 1.0 was about web forms, Web 2.0 is about web applications
• Web 1.0 was about owning, Web 2.0 is about sharing
• Web 1.0 was about Netscape, Web 2.0 is about Google
• Web 1.0 was about portals, Web 2.0 is about RSS
• Web 1.0 was about taxonomy, Web 2.0 is about tags

Computers and the Web

• Web 1.0 was about wires, Web 2.0 is about wireless
• Web 1.0 was about dial-up, Web 2.0 is about broadband
• Web 1.0 was about hardware costs, Web 2.0 is about bandwidth costs

eCommerce = Services, Companies and the Web

• Web 1.0 was about services sold over the web, Web 2.0 is about web services
• Web 1.0 was about client-server, Web 2.0 is about peer to peer
• Web 1.0 was about advertising, Web 2.0 is about word of mouth
• Web 1.0 was about companies, Web 2.0 is about communities
• Web 1.0 was about IPOs, Web 2.0 is about trade sales

Sources Used:

O’Reilly T. September 30, 2005. What Is Web 2.0 Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software.

Joe Drumgoole. May 29th, 2006. Web 2.0 vs Web 1.0. Copacetic.

Darren Barefoot. May 29th, 2006. Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0. Darren Barefoot.

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