Web-Enhanced Instruction discusses how ePals enriches K-12 learning with innovative web tools and high-quality digital content. ePals allows learners around the world to connect and collaborate on projects focusing on global issues. Web 2.0 describes a second generation of the web focused on collaboration and sharing information online, including rich internet applications, web-oriented architecture, and social web interactions. Blogs are informational websites with posts displayed from most to least recent, and teachers can use classroom blogs to share information with students and parents or as a CMS for student work. Document sharing applications allow students to create assignments online for other students to view.
2. ePals enriches K-12
learning in the classroom
and at home with
innovative web-based
tools and the highest
standard of children’s
stories, games and digital
media on the Web.
3. Advantages to student
ePals is an online educational community,
where learners all around the world connect and
collaborate on projects that often focus on
issues of global awareness and culture. So
ePals makes it
easy to connect learners locally, nationally or
internationally.
4. How Can we use
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6. Web 2.0 is the term given to
describe a second generation of the
World Wide Web that is focused on
the ability for people to collaborate
and share information online.
7. Web 2.0 can be described in
three parts:
Rich Internet application (RIA)
It is simply an application in the
Internet that uses
Adobe Flash
Java
JavaFX
Microsoft Silverlight
8. Web-oriented architecture
(WOA)
which defines how Web 2.0
applications expose their functionality so
that other applications can leverage and
integrate the functionality providing a set of
much richer applications.
9. Social Web
The social web is a set of social relations
that link people through the World Wide
Web
These online social interactions form the
basis of much online activity including
online shopping, education, gaming and
social networking websites.
10. Usage of web 2.0
is a discussion or informational
site published on the World Wide Web
and consisting of post typically
displayed in the most recent post
appears first.
The term "weblog" was coined by JornBarger on 17
December 1997. he short form, "blog", was coined by
Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog into the
phrase we blog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in
April or May 1999.
11. How can we use Blog as a
teacher
A classroom blog can be maintained
by a teacher and used to dispense
information for students and parents. A
classroom blog can also be used as a
Content Management System, aggregating
the written work of students, who write in
their own blogs, which are maintained in
the classroom or teacher blog.
12. Document sharing
There are many document
sharing applications available
for free to teachers and
students. Document sharing
applications allow students to
create virtually any classroom
assignment and put it in a web-
based application that is
viewable to other students
13. Message board/forum
application that puts students in a web-
based place where they can post a comment
about any subject, and other students on the
same message. board or form can respond to the
comments or post comments of their own.