WEB 2.0 New Tools for the 21st Century Classroom Debra L. Hargrove, Ed.D. Director, Florida TechNet

Who Are Our Students? A vision of Students Today http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o&feature=player_embedded

Teaching Tools Have Changed Blackboards Smart Boards

Teaching Tools Have Changed Textbooks Audiobooks

Teaching Tools Have Changed Writing Texting

We Must Adapt to Make an Impact Objectives Introduce Web 2.0 What’s Changed? Examples Practical Applications

Objectives

Introduce Web 2.0

What’s Changed?

Examples

Practical Applications

What’s All the Hype About? Thoughts from a Blogger “ The challenge for educators now and for the future is to learn and teach Internet literacy , converse and collaborate with their students using Web tools , and help our students make sense of the huge amounts of information and media that surround us.” Posted by Richard MacManus , September 7th, 2005 http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=5

“ The challenge for educators now and for the future is to learn and teach Internet literacy , converse and collaborate with their students using Web tools , and help our students make sense of the huge amounts of information and media that surround us.”

Posted by Richard MacManus , September 7th, 2005 http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=5

What IS Web 2.0 Exactly? It’s not just about reading webpages It’s allowing others to make connections It’s allowing unbounded creativity in writing, journalism, design, video Source:http://www.slideshare.net/revells/what-is-web20

What IS Web 2.0 Exactly? Second generation WWW Away from static webpages to dynamic, shareable content and networking

What IS Web 2.0 Exactly? It’s the tools our students have in their toolbox ~ Isn’t it time we had them too?

Filling Your Web 2.0 Toolbox Wordle http://www.wordle.net Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. Voice Thread http:// voicethread.com / - http:// voicethread.ning.com / (Voicethread for educators) With VoiceThread, group conversations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. Slide http:// www.slide.com / slideshows with music OurStory http:// www.ourstory.com / Save Stories, Photos, and Videos Timeline http://www.xtimeline.com/ Timelines to entertain and educate Flashcard Exchange http:// www.flashcardexchange.com / Poll Daddy http:// www.polldaddy.com / With your free account from PollDaddy you can create online surveys and polls for your website, blog and social network. http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1938151

Wordle http://www.wordle.net Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.

Voice Thread http:// voicethread.com / - http:// voicethread.ning.com / (Voicethread for educators) With VoiceThread, group conversations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world.

Slide http:// www.slide.com / slideshows with music

OurStory http:// www.ourstory.com / Save Stories, Photos, and Videos

Timeline http://www.xtimeline.com/ Timelines to entertain and educate

Flashcard Exchange http:// www.flashcardexchange.com /

Poll Daddy http:// www.polldaddy.com / With your free account from PollDaddy you can create online surveys and polls for your website, blog and social network.

Thirsty for More? http://www.go2web20.net

Let’s Be Practical Wordle Timeline Voice Thread Flashcard Exchange Others?

Wordle

Timeline

Voice Thread

Flashcard Exchange

Others?

References and Contact Info http://www.slideshare.net/revells/what-is-web20 http://www.slideshare.net/murcha/where-to-start-with-web20-home-economics-teachers-presentation A vision of Students Today http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o&feature=player_embedded Debra L. Hargrove, Ed.D. Director, Florida TechNet www.floridatechnet.org [email_address]

http://www.slideshare.net/revells/what-is-web20

http://www.slideshare.net/murcha/where-to-start-with-web20-home-economics-teachers-presentation

A vision of Students Today

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o&feature=player_embedded