Using Web 2.0 Tools and Technology to Enhance Instruction

Using Web 2.0 Tools and Technology to Enhance Instruction Evelyn McCormack Dutchess County BOCES Supt. Conf. Day Feb. 26, 2009

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So what is Web 2.0?

Open source content -- sites get their value from their users

Anyone can be a publisher

All material is free

Web based , so you won't clutter up your hard drive & you can access from any computer

Relies on a community that encourages reusing materials

Tools for commentary/free expression - text, audio, video

Web 2.0 Characteristics

Social Software: The Tools of Web 2.0 Blogs Wikis Del.icio.us/Digg/etc. Nings YouTube Podcasting Flickr Twitter Google Docs Google Earth Google Maps PageFlakes SecondBrain SecondLife Slideshare Skype

How can a teacher use Web 2.0?

Outside the Classroom:

Personal and professional development -- Social Networking (Nings, Facebook, LinkedIn) Social Bookmarking

Inside the Classroom:

Collaborative learning tools -- Wikis, Blogs, Vlogs, Podcasts

Outside the Classroom Your Personal Learning Network

Caution: One Foot in Front of the Other

Join a professional social network. (Ning sites, LinkedIn groups, Facebook groups, etc.) A great source for everything: ( http://socialnetworksined.wikispaces.com/ )

Find a handful of blogs you like and subscribe to them using RSS feeds, Google Reader, etc. Comment, if you want. Bloggers love comments!

Join a microblogging network like Twitter, Plurk or EdModo (see appendix)

Watch things quietly for a while, then become part of the conversation.

Classroom 2.0 Ning A great place for building contacts with other educators who are interested in using Web 2.0 tools. 18,600 members. A weekly live show on Saturdays gives members a chance to communicate and learn together. I joined this network for blog ideas. They also have a FaceBook page (2,300 members), a Wiki and a blog . Nings, Anyone? Classroom 2.0 18,000 members

Special Ed in the 21st Century Ning 35 members Technology in Special Education Ning 150 members

Join Facebook or LinkedIn Teaching Critical Thinking Group on FaceBook Active Learning Group on FaceBook

LinkedIn My LinkedIn Page Just another way to connect with people who have similar jobs, to network, to share interesting links/presentations, etc.

Inside the Classroom: Wikis! www.pbwiki.com www.wikispaces.com www.wetpaint.com www.wikipedia.com Wiki platforms

What you can do with a Wiki…

Build a school newspaper online

Publish student projects and research

Manage class documents

Use as a presentation tool

Debate topics, assigned readings

Support service learning projects (build a website around a project)

Lee County Schools Wiki

Wikis Across the Curriculum Wikispaces – 100,000 K-12 classroom wikis. Wiki how-to designed for teachers new to setting up their own wikis.

Mr. C.'s Science Class Raleigh, N.C.

The Iditarod Collaborative Project School in Grand Forks, ND More Wikis are listed in my appendix.

Inside the Classroom: Blogs

classblogmeister.com : gated blogging tool

flickr.com : photo blogging community

epnweb.org : education podcast network

Edublogs -- Wordpress blog tool for educators

Wordpress blogging platform

Blogger -- Google blogging platform

Blog platforms and tools

What to do with a class blog?

Post a writing prompt

Week in Review

Respond to a reading

Find the facts

Current events

Mr. Smith’s 4th Grade Bloggers (Hannibal, MO)

Glenbrook North High School Business Law Class Blog

Mrs. Pena's Science Blog

Edublogs's Student Blogging Challenge

Vlogs

blip.tv : make your own video blog

youtube.com : 100 million videos downloaded daily

Teachertube.com : alternative to youtube

UstreamTV

Vlogit: video production software offered by Adobe

Freevlog

Video Toolbox: 150+ Online Video Tools

DeafRead (best of deaf blogs and vlogs)

Vlogging tools

Mr. Duey the Math Teacher -- available on YouTube and TeacherTube

Why I Hate Mid-Winter Break -- available on TeacherTube.

We Are the Media: Videoblogging in Education

DeafVideoTV

Academic Earth

ACTE Video Album on TeacherTube

EcoFacts on ITunes

Who's got a YouTube page?

Pope Benedict on YouTube (662,000 views)

Carnegie Mellon University , Harvard, MIT, etc.

The Museum of Modern Art (1.6 million views)

Ed in 08 (1.3 million views)

Autism Speaks (1.1 million views)

SWBOCES Career and Tech Ed Videos

Jennifer ESL

The New York Times

Barack Obama (128 million views)

Discovery Channel

Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

Techtopia (all technology tutorials)

Note: You don't have to create a YouTube channel, but you can use it as a resource. YouTube can be a great resource, used wisely.

Inside the Classroom: Podcasting

Podcasting Tools and Resources:

Audacity (audio recording tool)

iTunes

Why Apple in Education

The Education Podcast Network

A Few Cool School Podcasts

Downs FM

Radio Sandaig

Radio WillowWeb

Room 208 Podcast

Room 613 Talk

Jamestown Podcast

Room 613 Talk

Social Bookmarking

Web based service where shared lists of user-created Internet bookmarks are displayed.

Allows user to locate, classify, rank, and share Internet resources by tagging sites.

Diigo, Del.icio.us, Stumbleupon, Digg, etc.

What’s so great about social bookmarking?

Saves links to web pages

Web-based so your bookmarks are available anywhere-not just on one computer in your bookmarks or favorites list.

Share web page links with others

Create “networks” of people with like interests and bookmarks

Organize your favorite web pages with tags

Teachers Using Social Bookmarks Willowdale Elementary School’s Delicious Page (Omaha, Neb.)

EFL Classroom 2.0 on Diigo

Appendix

http://www.ted.com

The Common Craft Show (video how-tos)

Kansas State University's Mediated Cultures Website

Snipshot (edit your photos online/alternative to Photoshop)

A-Z Glossary of Web 2.0 Terms

Google Docs

Slideshare

Classroom Blogging/David Warlick

Westwood Schools Wiki

An Assortment of Cool Things on the Web Blog of the headmaster of the private Summit School

Noteflight -- music making and teaching website

Encyclopedia of Life

Five Freedoms Project

Soshiku , free online homework management tool

BigThink

Ancient Rome at Google Earth

Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms/Will Richardson

School Communications 2.0

MakeUseOf

Common Craft Videos

Weblogg-ed

Teach Digital -- Wes Fryer’s wiki about Tech Leadership in Schools

The Life That Chose Me -- special education blog

SmartBoard Revolution Ning -- 1,061 members

The Never Ending Appendix

PBS Learning Now

Teach Digital -- Wes Fryer’s wiki about Tech Leadership in Schools

Google Docs

Google Earth

Google Mars

Google Sky

Academic Earth

Ning in Education -- 3,387 members. A great way to get your feet wet.

Global Education Collaborative Ning -- 1,300 members

Doodle4Google contest

Google for Educators

The American Storyteller

TeachersFirst

MakeUseOf

Common Craft Videos

Discovery Education

DeafRead (best of deaf blogs and vlogs)

DeafVideoTV (videos downloaded for the deaf)

Jehanne's Vlog

http://www. youngestblogger .com

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