CUNY Week 3 -Web 2.0 is an attitude not a technology.

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Remix RSS from cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by eBlog

The name of this post is a quote from Ian Davis one of the co-authors of RSS 1.0, which I think is a great way to kick off thoughts for Week 3 and Web 2.0. RSS is one of the web’s catalyst technologies that transitioned the Web from Read-Only to Read-Write. People following RSS feeds of blogs could easily be alerted of new posts receiving using an RSS reader. This led to people following one another’s sequential conversations, which lead to commenting on conversations, which leads to more syndication opportunities, and on and on. The Daily Create Website uses RSS feeds to drive your properly tagged photos on Flickr into the page for each particular assignment. And that aggregation of photos presented using a great photo gallery tool allows you to also link back to the original and leave comments. More conversation, all due to RSS!

WEEK Three’s Quick Description

Speaking of the Daily Create, a number of you have communicated that you’re photos are not showing up on the site. I’ve done my best to check links to images you’ve sent and it looks like most of you are tagging photos correctly, but your Flickr account permissions and sharing settings are not allowing your photos to share. Here are my settings for reference hopefully this will help (click on images for full size):

If you haven’t, create an account on the ds106 website.

If you don’t have your blog up and working and/or haven’t submitted it on the Week 1 form, it’s time to start thinking about dropping the class as you will not be able to pass the course.

WEEK THREE ASSIGNMENTS: For this week we are going to thinking about Web 2.0 ideas reading a few texts suggested by the UMW section of ds106. I want you to read:

Draw from these text salient points about Web 2.0 ideas and philosophies and reflect on them in a blog post on your site. This is the writing part of the assignment. Tag this post web20reading.

Second, visit Alan Levine‘s “50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Digital Story” site and browser through the many free online tools available to create stories with. Choose one and create something that also reflects on the ideas of the readings. Make sure that what you create can be embedded in a blog post. Tag this post web20story.

Both your written reflection and your creative digital story reflection should be posted in your blog and are due by Tuesday’s class Feb 21 (class meets on Tuesday with the Monday holiday).

Looking forward to seeing everyone’s work and keep up on your daily creates!

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2 responses to “CUNY Week 3 -Web 2.0 is an attitude not a technology.”

  1. Iddan Avatar

    If you are having trouble having your tagged flickr photos show up, try making 5 of your flickr photos public.

    1. mbransons Avatar

      How does that help? A link to resource? And it would make sense if photos are private you can’t share them!