This document provides an overview of a presentation on using Web 2.0 tools to support classroom innovation and professional learning. The presentation establishes the rationale for educators to use social media and become connected educators in the 21st century. It then introduces several specific Web 2.0 tools like Screencast, Slideshare, Audioboo, Diigo, blogging, RSS feeds, Twitter, Evernote and Dropbox. Attendees are encouraged to try out 1-2 tools during the presentation and select 3 more to try over the summer. The document concludes by providing resources for attendees to continue learning about integrating these tools.

1. Web 2.0 Tools to Support Classroom Innovation
and Professional Learning
NHDOE Statewide Educator Conference * July 24, 2013
Bill Carozza • Principal – Harold Martin School, Hopkinton, NH • wcarozza@mac.com
Twitter: @wcarozza • Blog: billcarozza.com

2. BIG PICTURE GOALS
FOR TODAY
• Leave with a vision on how you can use
Web 2.0 to:
• Transform your instruction for all
learners
• Develop Professionally

3. SPECIFIC goals for
today:
• Establish why the use of social media (SM) and
being a Connected Educator is crucial in the
21st Century.
• Be introduced to many Social Media/Web 2.0
possibilities.
• Be ready to try out 1-2 tools today. Pick at
least 3 tools that you will try this summer.

4. Procedure for today
• After intro to Web 2.0...
• Demo of Specific Tools
• Opportunity to try some tools

5. TodaysMeet

6. Quick Tweet
• Pres. at Statewide Educator Conf. on Web 2.0. Pls
tweet back how Twitter has been powerful 4u.
#edchat #cpchat

7. Looking at the NH
Network

8. ESTABLISHING THE
RATIONALE FOR
BEING A
CONNECTED
EDUCATOR

9. Technology Credo
• Technology
initiatives
have
to
improve
upon
the
instructional,
curricular,
or
assessment
practices
we
already
value.

11. Again…Will Richardson
• The most sweeping change in our
relationship with the Internet may not be as
much with the ability to publish as it is the
ability to share and connect and
create with many, many others of
like minds and interests.

12. You think the world has
changed?
1989 Radio Shack Cell Phone Commercial

13. We have always had
technology:
From a Principal’s publication in 1815:
“Students today depend on paper too much.They
don’t know how to write on a slate without getting
chalk dust all over themselves.What will they do
when they run out of paper?”
From the NationalTeachers Association in 1905:
“Students today depend too much on ink.They don’t
know how to use a pen knife to sharpen a pencil.
Pen and ink will never replace the pencil.”

14. From Rural American Teacher 1928:
“Students today depend upon store bought ink. They don’t
know how to make their own. When they run out of ink they will
be unable to write until their next trip to the settlement. This is a
sad commentary on modern education.”
From PTA Gazette 1941:
“Students today depend on those expensive fountain pens. We
parents must not allow them to wallow in such luxury and to the
detriment of their learning.”

15. From Federal Teachers 1950:
“Ballpoint pens will be the ruin of education in our country.
Students use these devices then throw them away. The values
of thrift and frugality are being discarded. Businesses and
banks will never allow such expensive luxuries.”

16. What is Web 2.0?

17. Web 1.0
• Static web pages
• Using search engines
• Surfing the web

18. Web 2.0
• Web applications (as opposed to client or desktop
based apps.)
• User interaction
• Facebook, Blogs,Twitter,Wikis
• Users focus on ideas, creativity, collaboration
• Technical know how-not as important
• No need to know computer programming, e.g.
HTML

19. In the Pre-Web 2.0 Age

21. TOOLS!
Focus on:
• Web-based Presentation
• Screencasts: Screenr
• Slide Presentation: Slideshare
• Podcasting
• Audioboo
• Social Bookmarking: Diigo
• Blogging
• Blogger

22. • RSS
• Feedly
• Twitter

23. Web Based
Presentation

24. Screencasts
Using Screenr
(Use Firefox)

25. POWER of
screencasts
• Can be used as instruction videos as part
of the “Flipped Classroom”
• Combines your computer screen with
voice.
• Client software and web software
• Easy web example: Screenr

26. Slideshare

27. Podcasting

28. 28
PODCASTING

29. Podcasting can be with software as complex as
Garageband or Audacity...

30. Much simpler on the iOS Garageband app...or...

31. Even simpler with the iOS and Android app:
Audioboo

32. Professional Learning/
Curation

33. RSS Readers

34. RSS through the iPad
Feedly

35. Social Bookmarking

36. The problem
• You have many web sites
that you have love and
have bookmarked. How
do you organize them so
that you can find them
again?
• And...how do you find
good vetted educational
web sites instead of
searching through
thousands on Google?

37. Social Bookmarking Using Diigo

38. Solution-Social
Bookmarking with Diigo
* Organizes all of your web sites
* Can set up vetted web sites groups for students
* Can search for vetted web sites – more reliable than
Google

39. Video Sharing

40. Video Sharing: School Tube

41. Blogging

42. Blogging

43. Why Blog?
• Writing requires reflection and greater
understanding.
• Blogging begins the cycle of collaboration.
• Blogging encourages teachers and students
to do the same.
• A blog helps to build your school’s “brand”.

44. connectedprinicipals.com

45. Collaboration
through Blog
commenting

47. Getting your blog going in one day: BLOGGER

48. Collaborative Writing

49. Google Docs

50. Wikis:Wikispaces

51. Web Sharing: Padlet

52. Your Professional
Development-PLN

53. Social Media Tools

54. Check back on our
Twitter message...

55. Twitter

56. I thought this was
Twitter...

57. A case for Twitter
• Twitter is your window to perhaps the
highest quality content on the web.
• It’s a free Web 2.0 microblogging service,
140 character max., and inspires you to
read and learn.
• It’s all about connections
• Register at http://twitter.com

58. The Language of Twitter
@: Reply sent to a specific person
RT: Retweeting helps to spread great tweets to others
DM: Direct Message is like email-private to one person
#: Hashtag parses Tweets to a single topic

59. Why Use Twitter?
ForYour
School
Rapidly disseminate info
Prof. Growth
Create your Own PLN (Professional
Learning Network)

60. Disseminating Info FromYour School

61. DEVELOPING YOUR PLN (Personal Learning
Network)
Learn from other administrators
Links to blogs, articles
Find collaborative solutions
Backchanneling at conferences

62. HOW TO ACCESS TWITTER?
Multi-Column
-Tweetdeck, Hootsuite
Single Column
-Twitter for Mac,
Echofon
Smartphone

63. It’s all about Hashtags
#cpchat
#edadmin
#edchat
#elemchat
#cmtc12
#ascd
#ascd13

64. ...and Twitter chats too
#SatChat
Sat. 7:30 AM
#21stedchat
Sun. 8 AM
#edchat
Tues. Noon and 7
PM

65. Twitter Conversations
PERMISSION FOR KIDS TO USE SOCIAL MEDIA
WHY USE TWITTER?
Simply connecting

66. Working out ideas Promoting Blog Posts
Connecting

67. http://www.cybraryman.com/edhashtags.html

68. Getting started with
Twitter
• Head to twitter.com and set up an account.
• Follow those who are here at the
conference
• Head to a favorite hashtag and start
following those who write tweets you like.
• You will start getting followers!

69. Cloud Based
Organization

70. Evernote

71. Dropbox

72. Play!
• Set up a TodaysMeet Page
• Create a screencast using Screener and set up account
• Create account on Slideshare and upload a presentation
• Create quick podcast on Audioboo
• open up Diigo account and start putting in sites.
• Set up blog account in Blogger.
• Set up Feedly account.
• Set up Twitter account and start following and Tweeting.
• Or other options.
• Head to NH Network page to grab the
links.

73. DEBRIEF!

74. Resources
I am your life long consultant free of charge.
All resources can be found at billcarozza.com, click tab:
“Workshop Resources”
Email: wcarozza@mac.com
Twitter: @wcarozza