Investigation Process

Introduction: The school's technology department needs to make a presentation for their educational board to encourage the utilisation of Web 2.0  within our classrooms. There are many who are enthusiastic about this and many who are tensed as they feel a threat to the educational process.

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Challenge: We have to research and obtain background for our view point on Web 2.0 and provide the information in our presentation to the board. We should include a synopsis of Web2, the tools available (at least 4), the software/hardware developments that led to the web2 and how it can be harnessed educationally, and then we should use at least two different communication mediums in your blog

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Personal Group Questions.

• 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?

Materials/Softwares:

• Blogger.com
• Movie Maker (for creating videos)
• Power Point  (presentations)
• Internet (research)
• Camera (for videoing)

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Design Brief:

As response to the challenge, we will create a blog which will contain our design cycle. Through the blog we would post information as well have a electronic design cycle online. That way we will be promoting more of Web 2.0 as it will make process journal enteried easier for us. Our group is with Web 2.0 and we will create a video  and powerpoint presentation which would help us convey to the community that there is no harm in using Web 2.0 but there is only profit.

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Design Specification:

After discussing, we came upto this conclusion that we will create a video and a power point as our two mediums to inform people that Web 2.0 is beneficial. The requirements that we have for our designs are:

For video:

1. Upto 10 minutes of the movie, not more.
2. Will be interesting, not too serious so that people dont get bored but learn at the same time.
3. Will have photos as well as video.
4. A sound track would be interesting as well.
5. Will be describing difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0.
6. Will contain all three partners- Ha Neul, Kashish and Young Jun.
7. Will have a plot/story which will demonstrate the importance of Web 2.0
8. MUST include that how Web 2.0 will benefit OSC!

For PowerPoint:

1.  Presentation shouldnt be more than 5-8 minutes.
2. Having not more than 10 slides
3. Containing pictures.
4. Information relevant, short and precise.
5. Must contain hyperlinks to different websites which will provide info on the topic as well.
6. Must have videos in it as well (optional, might not)
7. 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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Relation's to AOI's (Areas of Interaction).

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Human Ingenuity: This project is mostly related to Human Ingenuity. “Why and how do we create?” is one of the questions I have started with. We create whenever we need something. Hence we are creating a video and presentation in order to help on OSC community to understand the importance of Web 2.0. By creating the video and presentation, we will be telling them about Web 2.0 . “What are the consequences?” the consequence of our project will be that people would actually come to know  the benefits of Web 2.0 and soon our teachers would start using web 2.0 in-class.

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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.

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Environments: "In what ways can environments influence  technology choices?" This question is quite big and deep as well. Our OSC environment encourages students to learn and develop themselves as a whole person. There are some types of technology which can either have good and bad effects on the enviroment. Like nuclear energy, it was made for the betterment of the society but later on nuclear energy was also used for making nuclear bombs. Technology can be used both good way and bad, it depends on the user. If OSC makes the right use of Web 2.0 we will encourage the usage of  technology and people will learn to use things in different ways and may also make good and proper use of it.

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How do i test my product?

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As the purpose is to create a presentation which will convince the educational board (teachers) to use Web 2.0. We will ask teachers. We will show teachers our videos and power point and ask them what they think about. We will get a feedbacl from them and hence we shall write that down in our evaluation if we were successful or not.