Produsage Project and Web 2.0 Tools

Since our upcoming produsage assignment is centered around using Web 2.0 tools for learning, I wanted to share a resource that I posted to our Pinterest group early on in the course. I have observed and participated in some great interactions and discussions on this week's Canvas discussion board about ideas for the produsage assignment and which tools will best support these ideas. From what I have noticed and from my own experience, we begin with a tool in mind and then as we talk through our idea for the online space, we wonder about the capabilities of the tool... 

• Can you comment on other's posts?
• Can the online space be open (for contribution) to the public either by invite or a URL? [view only or edit capabilities]
• Can you like, react or favourite posts?
• Does it have the ability to save posts and resources
• Is it compatible with images, videos, hyperlinks and attachments? 

These are some questions I am pondering and you may be too. Certain tools are designed for particular knowledge sharing and communication purposes. We may begin with a tool in mind and then discover a new tool along the way that better suits our vision.  

The resource I found and shared on our Pinterest group, The Ultimate List of Web 2.0 Tools identifies 50 Web 2.0 tools. 

For each tool, the author, Chad Hochstetler, offers a brief description of the tool, its purpose, links to the tool and videos on how to create an account and use the tool. While some of the videos are outdated (and some have been taken down), I find the visual list of tools and the brief description of how it can be used quite valuable. 

To help decide which tool, I have been thinking about my vision or what I want to accomplish. My goal is to create a collaborative space for users interested in coral conservation to connect with each other through commenting, collaborate by adding to the learning space and in the process, contribute to a shared artifact of ideas, knowledge, resources. As a refresher, in week 7, we learned about designing networked learning activities and the types of social media, based on their functions: 

• Social networking
• Media sharing
• Document sharing 
• Live communication 
• Collaboration 
• Blogging and microblogging 

-(Gülbahar et al., 2017)

So the Web 2.0 tool(s) I want to use for my idea needs to be able to support media sharing, document sharing and collaboration. 

Now for some inspiration! I saw a tweet today that I think is fitting to inspire us to get into the social media mindset. The amazing thing about social media that we learned in week 1 in our Networked book is that social media allows us to have a far reach and connect with others across the world. This assignment is about creating a space for learning (informal or formal) and I couldn't agree more that as creators, developers and educators, "we have this great power to enable people to change their entire world by learning something new"

An #AIDC21 nugget of wisdom from @briandusablon: "We have this great power as instructional designers and developers and training leaders, to enable people to change their entire world by learning something new. Why would we limit access to that?” @the_tldc

— Scissortail Creative Services, LLC (@ScissortailCS) July 9, 2021

References

Gülbahar, Y., Rapp, C., Kilis, S., & Sitnikova, A. (2017). Enriching higher education with social media: Development and evaluation of a social media toolkitLinks to an external site.. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 18(1). https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v18i1.2656