Looking into Blogs, wikis, and podcasts

Latasha created this great summary of the first few chapters of W. Richardson's book (copyright 2010 -- current stuff!) Take a look:

“Tim Berners-Lee had a grand vision for the Internet when he began development of the World Wide Web in 1989 (Richardson 2010, p. 1)”. The first part of Berners-Lee dream came in fruition in 1993, with the development of Mosic Web”. (Richardson 2010, P. 1).

“As early as 2003, a Pew Internet & American Life Project found that more than 53 million American adults, or 44 percent of adult Internet users, had used the Internet to publish their thought, respond to others post pictures, share files, and otherwise contribute to the explosion of content available online”. (Richardson 2010, p. 2).

“ Blogs are the first widely adopted easy publishing tool of the Read/Write Web, which people use to create personal journals of their lives, build resource sites with colleagues, or filter the news of the audiences large and small with no need to know how to code pages or transfer files (Richardson 2010, p. 2). We have entered the world of online communication. Our thoughts are shared online and others can post comments. “ In the context of those connections, we can form groups around our various passions and interests, a capability that fundamentally changes almost everything (Richardson 2010 p. 3)”. For example “My Space, Face Book and Twitter enable people to network and group forming abilities are established”. (Richardson 2010, p. 3).

“In 2007, USA Today was among the first to make it possible for readers to comment on any story-adding opinions, asking further questions, or even correcting what was written-and most other online newspapers have since followed suit”. (Richardson 2010, p. 5). By including people in the process, this new web creates all sorts of opportunities for participatory journalism, which, of course, creates all sorts of new definitions and descriptions of what journalism is”. (Richardson 2010, p. 5).

“Traditional media outlets such as the “Washington Post, the BBC, and others, are scrambling to respond to this trend, creating interactive spaces for readers, buying on-the-spot news photos from people with camera phones, and running amateur video of news events”. (Richardson 2010, p. 5). “Communicating and collaborating with peers using instant or text messaging, twitter or they’re my space accounts allows them to be “always on” and always connected”. (Richardson 2010, p. 5).

• Weblogs are updateable websites that allows the author to publish instantly to the Internet from any Internet connection. They can be interactive; teachers and students can begin conversations or add to published information.
• Wikis are a collaborative Web space: anyone can add or edit content that has already been published. In schools, teachers and students have begun using a password-protected wikis to create their own textbooks & resource sites.
• Really Simple Syndication (RSS) technology that allows educators to subscribe to “feeds” of the content that is created on the Internet, whether it’s written in a weblog or in a more traditional space such as a newspaper or magazine.
• Aggregators is an aggregator who collects and organizes the content generated via the RSS feed.
• Social Bookmarking are bookmarking sites that allow users to do more than just save the Web address of interesting content. They allow readers to save and archive entire pages, thus producing a form of a searchable, “personal Internet.” In addition, social bookmarking sites like Digo.com and Delicious.com allow teachers and students to build subject-specific resource lists that they can easily share when using RSS. This in turn creates a community of information gathers who extend the reach of any one person.
• Online Photo Galleries: Publishing digital photos to the Web not only means sharing pictures with family and friends, it means becoming a part of a community of photographers sharing experiences.
• Audio/Visual Casting: New technologies make it easy to not only produce digital voice and video files, they also make it easy to publish and distribute them to wide Internet audiences. Students can now easily “write” in many different media, a fact that opens up all sorts of possibilities for the classroom. They can also begin to create live streaming TV online.
• Twitter: While Twitter has become all the rage for movie stars and millions of ordinary folks, it has also quietly become on of the most powerful tolls for connecting and sharing the great content and professional development opportunities that are available to educators today.
• Social Networking Sites: Out-of-the-box social networking sites like Ning.com and Facebook . (1-6 Richardson 2010, p. 10 ) (7-9 Richardson 2010, p. 11).

This is a list of the social networks, which has transformed technology. People are no longer communicating solely by the telephone or writing letters. This new technology has transformed our lives in many ways.

Now, what do you think??