Catch+the+Wave

=Student Benefits= toc

=Rationale=

[|Richard McManus & Joshua Porter] "Enter Web 2.0, a vision of the Web in which information is broken up into “microcontent” units that can be distributed over dozens of domains. The Web of documents has morphed into a Web of data. We are no longer just looking to the same old sources for information. Now we’re looking to a new set of tools to aggregate and remix microcontent in new and useful ways."

[|Stephen Downes] "In a nutshell, what was happening was that the Web was shifting from being a medium, in which information was transmitted and consumed, into being a platform, in which content was created, shared, remixed, repurposed, and passed along. And what people were doing with the Web was not merely reading books, listening to the radio or watching TV, but having a conversation, with a vocabulary consisting not just of words but of images, video, multimedia and whatever they could get their hands on. And this became, and looked like, and behaved like, a network."

=Examples & Scenarios=

A student takes a walking tour of a historic district and takes photographs of various architectural elements. These photos are organized into a Photoset and then viewed in a //Flickr// generated slideshow during an oral report to his class. He later uses them as a reference resource for his coursework. From [|Derek Baird]


 * [|Gliffy diagram]of "Why Teachers Blog"

Flickr
 * [|Using Flickr as a discussion prompt]
 * [|Adding hotspots/ notes to a photo]
 * [|Another Flickr hotspot example]
 * [|Visual Storytelling with Flickr]
 * [|Fliction]
 * [|Spell with Flickr]
 * [|Using YouTube for interview techniques]
 * [|Creative Commons] - Licensing explanations for Flickr
 * [|FD's Flickr Toys]
 * [|Flickr Bits and Pieces] - Even more unbelievable Flickr tools
 * [|Third party Flickr tools]

Classroom Examples
More from Kuropatwa
 * Flikr - [|Darren Kuropatwa]
 * [|Pre-calculus 30S]
 * [|Russian Multiplication]