Design Cycle- Blog
Sunday, May 3, 2009
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Friday, May 1, 2009
Web 2.0 Videos
Here we will be posting videos which are related to Web 2.0. The videos below will help many people and even us understand the meaning of Web 2.0. These videos are basically for visual learners.
- Explaining Web 2.0
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-Explaining the difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0
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-Explaining difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 in depth
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-Explains the impact of Web 2.0 when it started. Talks about Web 2.0 effecting global and economics as well.
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-Explaining Web 2.0 but in a very interesting way.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Essential Question
“Acquaintance with facts, truths, or principles, as from study or investigation; general erudition:” (Dictionary.com). This definition is of knowledge. Knowledge is one of the most common words. We hear the word knowledge when we are at school, we hear the word knowledge when we start working, we hear the word ‘knowledge’ when we have children and we hear the word ‘knowledge’ in our religion scriptures. Even though knowledge is used in so many that it is quite common, it is one of the words that has one of the deepest meaning. Knowledge is something that we learn throughout our lifetime, it is said that “no one knows the true meaning of knowledge until they are buried”. This means that we humans keep on learning throughout our lifetime.
In 21st century World Wide Web is being used for informing/teaching people. “The
Internet facilitates, classifies and enables the exchange of information, knowledge and news.” (Seifkashani) .There are online news papers, blogs, encyclopedia, and articles etc which are being used for enlightening people about various topics. “The Internet could be the major media to promote the reading level in the world.” (Seifkashani) . Because of internet, it has become very easy for people to access learning. As internet is widely diverse, not only do people get to know about different interpretations of various topics but also get to share their views.
Distribution of Internet Users, survey taken in March 31st 2009.Internet has rapidly been growing throughout the world. Many people go n internet for many reasons and one of the reason is education. Internet is one of the biggest sources for education. As internet especially Web 2.0 gives people the power to publish posts on shared group websites, exchange of knowledge is therefore available.
Multi lingual web sites have improved the standards of internet quite a lot. Websites such as Wikipedia are multi lingual, meaning that people can read the posts in their language (if the language is available).
When everyone throughout the world can access internet, it is guaranteed that people will receive knowledge. People can not only understand the information on internet by reading text in their own knowledge but also seeing educational videos for visual learners. These sum up to one thing that yes Technology Has Influenced The Knowledge, but in a good way, instead, I believe that technology should be encouraged more in schools for educational purpose. At OSC, we use technology for most of the subjects and while doing that, we learn relate our theory knowledge with a technological medium to describe our point of views. We use PowerPoint to show slides, we use Word to write down essays, we use Moviemaker to make videos for our project, we use websites for researching and last but not least, we use technology to relate ourselves with a wider based community; sharing our knowledge.
Work Cited:
Homepage IFLA Website. 19 Mar. 2009 http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla69/papers/020e-Seifkashani.pdf.
-Kashish
Friday, March 20, 2009
Planning
Our Brief Plan:
1) Starting off with a blog which isnt complete (2 Days)
2) Writing an introduction of the blog (2 Days)
3) Making the layout of the blog (2 Days)
4) Working on the starting posts (2 Days)
5) Starting of the Research :
- Research on Web 2.0 (2 Days)
- Research on different types of Web 2.0 (3 Days)
- Survey; asking people about their views on Web 2.0 (4 Days)
- Analyse the result from the Survey (2 Days)
- Discuss on this with the other partners (1 Day)
6) Conclusion: Writing our view on using Web 2.0 and defining whether Web 2.0 is good or bad (10 Days)
7) Publishing our Blog and letting people know about it (5 Days)
8) Evaluating our Blog and updating it so our readers are into it (8 Days)


Research Information
As we mentioned about Web 2.0 in the introduction, it is the place where anyone can share their knowledge or information and communicate with the others freely. Facebook, Hi5, Wikispaces, Myspaces, orkut, and Youtube are all good examples of Web 2.0.





Figure 1 - key difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0
According to the definition on the web, Web 1.0 is 'a retronym which refers to the state of the World Wide Web, and any website design style used before the advent of the Web 2.0'
According to the web cite called 'Cormode,' Web 2.0 is 'a term that is used to denote several different concepts: Web sites based on a particular set of technologies such as AJAX; Web sites which incorporate a strong social component, involving user profiles, friend links; Web sites which encourage user–generated content in the form of text, video, and photo postings along with comments, tags, and ratings'.
So basically, the major big difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 is that Web 2.0 is the both-side way of communication on the internet and Web 1.0 is the one-side communication way.
For easy explanation, a person published something on Web 1.0 then the uses only could have a look at it and they generated only few content or comment. As you see the figure 1 given above, Web 1.0 is ‘the most likely read-only Web’. However, as the population of the internet users has been increased, people realized that it is much valuable to share people’s idea or opinion and they made it possible to make a comment or generate the own content for the users also. Now it is more likely ‘widely read-write Web’.
-Posted by Haneul Choi
-Edited by Young jun SONG
Cormode, Graham, and Balachander Krishnamurthy. "Key Differences between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0a." Welcome to UIC. 15 Feb. 2008. 02 Apr. 2009
Figure 2 - Elements of the Web's Next Generation
Best (or most interesting) Web 2.0 Definitions and Explanations
In many internet sites like Skype, Wikipedia, and blogs, they show many different definitions and explanations of WEB 2.0 and how it used in our life. We use Web 2.0 in our lives quite often by filtering, sharing some contents and files, social searching, collaboration, and social bookmarking (in library). Lots of information and files are lined-up that easy to find and looks simple by using the Web 2.0. And there is the biggest advantage in Web 2.0 than Web 1.0, as the research I've done before show, in web 1.0 the people and users interact only one way (uploader->reader) with `http://` internet sites which are HTLM, Ajax, Flash… etc. But in Web 2.0 which is new generation, the people and users interact two ways (uploader <-> reader) with internet sites and themselves. They can control and tagging to those services and faces which is RSS, REST, SOAP, HTML, Ajax, Flash… etc. In addition, more people and users can use the software, web 2.0, or internet sites in better condition.
Works Cited
"Elements of the Web's Next Generation." Savarino Networks Random droppings from Matt Savarino. 26 Mar. 2009 http://savarino.net/files/web20in2006.jpg.
-Posted by Hanuel Choi
Surveys
Do you know Web 2.0?

35 people answered this question. Out of 35 people, 60% know what web 2.0 is and 40% dont know what it is. This tells us that not many people have the knowledge about Web 2.0. We sent this survey to the entire secondary school and only 35 people answered the survey. As many didnt answer the survey, then there is a chance that there maybe more students who know what it is and there maybe be some students who dont.
If your answer 'Yes' for Question 1, How well do you know about Web 2.0?
Out of the 21 people who know what Web 2.0 is, 7 people have said that they know Web 2.0 very well that they can explain what Web 2.0 is. Though, as we sent our survey to the entire secondary school, some grade 10's must have answered it as well, hence their is a chance that those 7 people who know Web 2.0 very well can be grade 10's or maybe not. Other 14 people dont have too much knowledge about it but do understand the concept. The 14 people have a brief idea about Web 2.0. To be honest this isnt impressive, out of 35 people 21 know Web 2.0 and 14 dont know and out of 21 people, only 7 know very well and 14 just have a brief idea.
If you answered 'Yes' for question 1, please answer the question. What is/are the example(s) of Web 2.0?
We gave people the options to choose that which websites they think are Web 2.0 (the people who said that they know Web 2.0 are only supposed to answer this question). As only 21 people in the previous questions said that they knew what Web 2.0 was, we expected to get only 21 responses, but instead we got 25. Meaning that 4 people who dont know what Web 2.0 is answered this question.
Most of the people voted for Facebook; about 20 people did and it is completely correct. Facebook is Web 2.0 as people can share and write their ideas. Then Youtube got the second highest votes. 19 people peoplte voted for Youtube which is also a Web 2.0 as people can comment on the videos and have public forums on it for discussions. Then Myspace and Wikispaces got 17 votes (separately). Yes, those two community based sites are web 2.0. We have then gotten 16 people who have voted for Blogger (which is totally web 2.0 as we are using someone else's websites to publish our's). Whereas 6 people voted for nothing.\
Do you think that Web 2.0 should be incorporated into the school education?

Out of 35 people, 24 people said yes, Web 2.0 should be incorporated into the school and 11 people said no that it shouldnt. As there were only 21 people who said that they know about Web 2.0 and here we get to see that 24 people want Web 2.0 to be incorporated. This means that there are some students who dont know about Web 2.0 want it to be incorporated into the school environment. That is good which means that people think that it will help them. Though,s some people dont want Web 2.0 to be used. The reasons may be using Youtube, Facebook and such sites in school would interrupt in their studies. Though we can still use other Web 2.0 sites which would help the students in their studies.
-Posted by Kashish Sharma
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Process Journal
We will be posting our entries here. Writing about what we did.
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18th of March
Ha neul joined to our group, but Kashish is not here today, so we (Haneul and Young jun) made a blog. We all three are going to do more research on the topic and going to post several things like articles or any information of the advantages of using Web 2.0.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Investigation Process
- What is Web 2.0?
- Is Web 2.0 good or bad?
- What kind of blog would we use?
- How can we portray Web 2.0 information in a very interesting manner?
- How would we organize our blog system?
- Blogger.com
- Movie Maker (for creating videos)
- Power Point (presentations)
- Internet (research)
- Camera (for videoing)
- Upto 10 minutes of the movie, not more.
- Will be interesting, not too serious so that people dont get bored but learn at the same time.
- Will have photos as well as video.
- A sound track would be interesting as well.
- Will be describing difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0.
- Will contain all three partners- Ha Neul, Kashish and Young Jun.
- Will have a plot/story which will demonstrate the importance of Web 2.0
- MUST include that how Web 2.0 will benefit OSC!
For PowerPoint:
- Presentation shouldnt be more than 5-8 minutes.
- Having not more than 10 slides
- Containing pictures.
- Information relevant, short and precise.
- Must contain hyperlinks to different websites which will provide info on the topic as well.
- Must have videos in it as well (optional, might not)
- MUST include that how Web 2.0 will benefit OSC!
I think that it is relevant to have at least these points in our video and presentation in order for it to be precise, interesting and effective. If we manage to make our create like the points above we might succeed in our aim as the points above lead to a short presentation which would contain information but will be interesting as well and hopefully wont make the audience sleep during the presentation. Keeping the audience into the presentation and providing them with information about Web 2.0 and how it could be beneficial in the OSC environment.
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Community and Service: This project is also related to community and service. We will be creating video and presentation for OSC community who do not know about Web 2.0. This way we will be helping a lot of people basically the school community. I myself know quite a lot of students who use Blogs and some teachers who encourage students to use blogs for maintaining online journals and if we manage to make other teachers use other types of Web 2.0 then that would be fantastic and the community will be benefited from this.