2011+Workshops

=  2011 Workshops by Lee Carleton... = = Wikis for Writing and Drafting: Collaboration on Steroids = ===// Wiki-wiki is the Hawaiian phrase for “very quick” but speed of editing is not the only advantage //// to using a wiki for writing, drafting and collaboration. In this workshop we will review some of the // //more popular wiki sites, the basics of how to use each one, and what features can significantly// // empower your composition whether you are working alone or collaborating with a group. //===

Use the Wikipedia Sandbox to learn how to edit, contribute and create articles.
=== **//For more advanced practice,// from the Main Page** you can f ind an article about a topic, person, place or event that you know well such as your high school or your hometown and log in to Wikipedia to make an edit in the article by adding additional information, a relevant link or a needed correction. Note that any Wikipedia article can be edited by anyone at any time even without an account or username. In such cases, Wikipedia records your IP Address and this becomes your ID. By creating an account with a pseudonym (//real names are prohibited//) the user can then keep the IP address private. ===

** Wikispaces **

 * == **Get started with a username, password and email address. Watch closely & work along with me as I set up a basic site in Wikispaces** ==
 * **Invent a name for your site, publish it and send the address link to me at leecarleton@gmail.com**
 * **Browse for information about the recent disasters in Japan that is more specific than what you have heard on the news or that adds information left out of recent reporting.**
 * **Collect text, links, images and one video that provide this information**
 * **Compose this information along with your own commentary in your wiki on at least two pages**
 * **You can review the basics anytime with** // Wikispaces Tutorial Videos //

=Other useful wiki sites=

** Weebly **
=Non-wiki collaboration tools=

** Google **

 * Blogs**
 * Docs**
 * Pages**

Writing Spider handout.pdf
(click above to download handout)

=== What is Web 2.0 // and how can you // be the spider and not the fly // ? This workshop will briefly review the history of the Web as a foundation for exploring the exciting new tools available that build on skills you already have. From blogs to social networking sites to mobile devices and cloud computing, we will survey basic navigation and practical academic applications of Web 2.0 //===

// It means to become the creative weaver of your own web and the connector of your own threads rather than simply buzzing around aimlessly in cyberspace getting stuck in other webs. //
===// Being the spider means using new online tools to collaborate, research, share work, create new presentations, store and access needed information and generally enhance your academic and work performance. //===

How It All Began:
===The Web as an idea go back to 1945 with Vannevar Bush's concept of the "memex" but the actual development of it began with a military project called ARPANET in 1969 which developed the system of nodes called the Internet. Email arrived in 1971 and the first web browser was developed in 1990 marking the transition from the Internet to the World Wide Web**.** **In 1995**, there were only [|25,000] websites on the Web, in **2002**: [|9,040,000] and now they number over [|100 million]. These figures are for sites that contain multiple pages, meaning that the total number of web pages is in the billions. A recent [|Pew study] also reveals huge increases in high-speed access to the Web encouraging further growth as Web surfers use new digital tools to produce and post their own impressively varied content. The [|2008 Web Server Survey] attributes a recent 3.1 million website increase largely to the impact of Blogger, one of the new digital tools of [|Web 2.0]. And on YouTube, another new tool, in addition to plenty of stupid pet videos, we can find political speeches, news stories, classic movie clips, concert clips, animation, interviews and contemporary re-mixes of classic films like Wax Tailor's "Que Sera" mashup of Fritz Lang's 1927 silent film Metropolis. ===

Did You Know?
=Some Possible Uses for:=

**BLOGS -**

 * ===personal reflection and expression===
 * ===business & professional communication===
 * ===family & friends, hobbies & entertainment===
 * ===academic projects, one time or ongoing===
 * ===community news & organizing===

=WIKIS & Websites -=
 * ===personal interest===
 * ===family photos===
 * ===organizational collaboration===
 * ===academic collaboration===
 * ===research collection & organization===
 * ===drafting writing===
 * ===e-portfolio===

=Networking Sites -=
 * ===social contact & connection===
 * ===group/organizational pages===
 * ===school clubs===
 * ===family connections===
 * ===professional networking & online credentials===

= = = = = = =Blogging Sites=

TypePad
=LiveJournal= = = = = =Social Networking=

YouTube
GOOGLE Tools

= = =Professional Networking=

LinkedIn
= = =KODA=

Ziggs
= = =Wikipedia=

= = = = = Wikis / Websites & Collaboration Spaces =

Weebly
=Other Web 2.0 tools -=

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__blog__: short for web log, online self-publishing of text, image & video
==__cloud computing__: essentially a new name for the Web and the way we use it now, accessing files and running programs on other computers instead of using up the space and processing power of our own computer. //**"Cloud computing** is a technology that uses the internet and central remote servers to maintain data and applications. Cloud computing// allows consumers and businesses to use applications without installation and access their personal files at any computer with internet access //. This technology allows for much more efficient computing by centralizing storage, memory, processing and bandwidth. A simple example of cloud computing is Yahoo email or Gmail etc. You dont need a software or a server to use them."//==

__e-portofolio:__ short for "electronic portfolio" referring to a collection of your work (in all media) that is stored and viewable on the web.
==__file format:__ refers to the kind of digital file and is usually designated as a "suffix" or letters after a dot like .doc (document) or .pdf (portable document format) or the format used for many images .jpg (Joint Photography Experts Group). An extensive list of file formats in alphabetical order can be found on Wikipedia.==

__ISP:__ Internet Service Provider (aka IAP Internet Access Provider) is the company used to access the Web such as Comcast or Verizon.
==__markup__//__:__// anything done to a text to make it more accessible and useful for the reader such as punctuation, spacing, capitalization, indentation, layout, font style and even personal annotations & highlighting//.//==

__wiki__: group edited website, named for Hawaiian word for "quick", approved members can add or delete text, images & video.
==__Web 2.0:__ following the protocol of numbering different versions of software, this unofficial title refers to new online tools such as blogging, video and audio streaming, and social networking sites that have made adding content to the web much easier for non-technical users thus massively increasing the number of contributors and expanding access to a worldwide pool of knowledge and interaction. ==