Session 2:
Using Web 2.0 Technologies to
Create Teacher Web Pages

 Web Syndication
 Really Simple Syndication
 Really Serious Stress Relief
 Allows you to easily access frequently
updated Internet content
 You “subscribe” and updated content is
delivered to your computer

 CommonCraft
 Many quick video how-to’s
 RSS in Plain English

 Teacher:
 Posts lecture on site
 Publishes lecture to Web Server
 Newsfeed file
 XML file
 RSS file
 Catalog of all information published

 Student
 Installs a “news reader” or “news aggregator”
 One function: check web server and downloads an
identified RSS newsfeed on a regular basis
 Effectively and continually asks the server, “Is
there new content?”
 Similar to e-mail – “Is there new e-mail?”
 Server reports new content – aggregator
dutifully downloads it

 Google Reader
 Bloglines

 Plurk Question:
 n2teaching will rebuild my blog roll. I think
I am over the incident. If you would like to
send me your blog/web url, I would
appreciate it very much.
 Link to responses

 Describe an item so that it can be found
again by browsing or searching
 Conveys meaning about the content
 Folksonomies
 Groups of tags

 K12 Online Conference
 Chris Betcher – Sydney, Australia
 “I Like Delicious Things”

 When students tag –
 They are forced to think about themes and the
big idea - metacognition
 There becomes value to their writing – global
audience

 Displays shared lists of user-created
Internet bookmarks
 Allows you to:
 Organize
 Rank
 Display for others to see and use

 Content classified by tags
 Allow searches for bookmarks using tags
 People can connect
 Find similar interests
 Subscribe to other’s bookmarks
 Allow access wherever you are – with
Internet connection

 CommonCraft
 Social Bookmarking in Plain English

 del.icio.us
 Diigo