1. The document discusses incorporating user-generated content and Web 2.0 technologies like wikis, blogs, and social bookmarking into classroom lessons. 2. It defines key concepts like user-generated content and social bookmarking and provides examples of how students can create wikis and use social bookmarking tools. 3. The document recommends using wikis to create collaborative workspaces for student projects and outlines additional Web 2.0 resources for teachers.

1. Mountain Lakes Institute Classroom 2.0 October 2008

3. TODAY’S GOALS 1. Define “2.0” & discuss rationale for curricular implementation 2. Explore how we can INCORPORATE USER-GENERATED CONTENT into our classes tomorrow ! http://www.nydailynews.com/img/2007/08/27/amd_hotz.jpg

4. So What is “2.0” Technology?

5. Remember 1.0?

6. Politics 2.0?

7. 2.0 Institute Topics

8. WHY 2.0? Web 2.0 enhances creativity while fostering collaboration and functionality of the web. Web 2.0 concepts, such as social-networking sites, video sharing sites, wikis, blogs and folksonomies, bridge connections between students & content

9. Is this why?

10. No “Digital Divide” War

15. User-Generated Content *Extended Learning*Wikis*BLOGGING *Personal Broadcasting*GrassRoots Video*

16. User-Generated Content User generated content (AKA Consumer Generated Media/User created Content) refers to various kinds of media content, publicly available, that are produced by end-users All digital media technologies are included, such as question-answer databases, digital video, blogging, podcasting, mobile phone photography and wikis. In addition to these technologies, user generated content may also employ a combination of open source , free software, and flexible licensing or related agreements to further reduce the barriers to collaboration, skill-building and discovery. -Wikipedia, “UGC”

17. social bookmarking

18. social bookmarking in plain english

19. Social Bookmarking Samples/Examples Method for Internet users to store, organize, search & manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet (as opposed to one machine) Users save links to web pages that they want to remember/share. These bookmarks are usually public, and can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, and/or shared only inside certain networks. These bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine.

20. Other Tags From chir.ag , his “tag clouds” show the popularity, frequency, and trends in the usages of words within speeches, official documents, declarations, and letters written by US Presidents between 1776 - 2007 Play “Wordle” on the Many Faces website.

23. Wikis REAL Department workspaces

24. Incorporating WIKI s A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. Sample Wikis by Wikispaces

25. Horizon wikis The Horizon Tech Reports are must-reads! But in the spirit of their work, they have created wikis to keep the material updated & improved

26. Oct 2008 Bibliography Introduction Web 2.0 image http://en. wikipedia .org/wiki/Web_2.0 Web 2.0 video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g&feature=channel 21st-Century Skills video http://www.21stcenturyskills.org / Growing Up Online image from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/ http://www. slideshare .net/ , http://www. edutopia .org/ & http://www.thejournal.com/

27. Oct 2008 Bibliography Social Bookmarking Text from Horizon Report http://www.nmc.org/horizon/ & wikipedia (UCC 2007) In Plain English video from http://www.commoncraft.com/store Samples include http://delicious.com/mrsanchez , http://www.zotero.org / , http://chir.ag/phernalia/preztags/ , & Many Eyes http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/app Images from wikicommons & flickr

28. Oct 2008 Bibliography Wikis Text from Horizon Report http://www.nmc.org/horizon/ & wikipedia (UCC 2007) In Plain English video from http://www.commoncraft.com/store Sample wikis from Wikispaces http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com/Examples+of+educational+wikis Horizon Tech wikis http://horizon.nmc.org/wiki/Main_Page