This document discusses how Web 2.0 tools can be used in the classroom to engage today's students. It notes that today's students are constantly connected digitally and multi-tasking. Some highlighted Web 2.0 tools include live blogging sites for backchannels, wikis for collaboration, polling tools, social bookmarking with Delicious, slide sharing with SlideShare, video creation and sharing, Google tools, live streaming, desktop sharing, and microblogging with Twitter. The document advocates using these tools to make learning experiential, relevant, engaging, collaborative, and focused on problem solving and critical thinking.

1. Web 2.0 Tools in the ClassroomMark FrydenbergBentley University, Waltham, MATwitter: @checkmark

2. “kids back then didn’t expect to be engagedby everything they did”

5. Today’s Students

8. Live Blogging: coveritlive.comCreate a “backchannel” Ask students to take notesPost questions

9. “Digital” Students:Continuously multi-taskingWork in teamsCreate and consume contentHandle lots of informationGoogle everythingAre always connected

10. Learning?

11. Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.” Mark Prensky http://www.markprensky.com/writing

12. Learning with Web 2.0 ToolsWeb 2.0

13. Learning TodayHappens AnywhereExperientialRelevant / Real WorldEngaging, ActiveProblem SolvingCritical thinkingCollaborativeProduce, Consume, and Organize Knowledge“Figure it out” attitude

14. Learning in a Web 2.0 WorldWhat do you want to learn?Where does the data /information come from?How can it be shared?What do we know?What connections can we make? What can we create?

15. Memorize

16. Analyze,Synthesize

17. Tools for Engaging Today’s Students

18. Whose class is it?

19. Whose class is it now?WikisGoogle Sites

20. Hint: Use Your Google Site as a Course Entry Point in BlackboardTo change your landing page in Blackboard, go to Control Panel Course Options  Manage Course Menu  External Link. Create an external link to your Google site.Then go to Control Panel  Settings -> Course Entry Point and select the Google site as the entry point.

21. Live PollingEmbed on Blog or Web Site Include in PowerPointSome offer Cell Phone or Twitter Polling

22. Scheduling EventsPolls

23. Delicious with RSS

24. Create Web Video:viddler.comVideo for yourBlog or Web Site

25. Slide Sharing:slideshare.net

26. CollaborativeBrowsing:Dimdim.comtwiddla.com

27. GOOGLE411ScholarBloggerDocsSpreadsheetPresentationsSitesReaderEmailWave

28. Live Video Streaming:ustream.tvTurn your PC into a TV StudioChat with your viewers.

29. Desktop Sharing:crossloop.comDownload the Crossloop client.Yuuguu.com is another browser based cross—platform desktop sharing tool

30. Micro-blogging:TwitterFind people like you to followTwhirlclient on your PCBuild a social network!Twitter Educators to follow

31. How cool was that?Mark FrydenbergTwitter: @checkmarkEmail: mfrydenberg@bentley.edu