This document discusses how Web 2.0 tools can empower faculty to move beyond traditional learning management systems (LMS) and outlines various types of Web 2.0 tools classified by their uses such as documentative, communicative, generative, interactive, and collaborative tools. It provides examples of using these different types of tools and notes some challenges and benefits of supplementing LMS with Web 2.0 tools. The document concludes by referencing an upcoming publication on using Web 2.0 for collaboration, communication, and productivity in preparing school technology leaders.

1. Web 2.0 Tools:
Empowering Faculty to Move
Beyond the LMS
Instructional Technology Faculty

3. Right now, we've only swapped the little red schoolhouses for the
little online boxes we call course management systems. ....That
model, pedagogically as well as for all kinds of practical purposes,
is starting to lose its effectiveness.
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Quotation Source: Gary Brown, as quoted in Campus Technology, March 2008

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6. Classifying Web 2.0 Tools by Use
Documentative
Communicative
Generative
Interactive
Collaborative
Source: McGee & Diaz, 2007

7. Documentative
Student feedback
Across sections
Across semesters

8. Communicative
Guest speakers:
Experts
Authentic Voices

9. Generative
Concept mapping

10. IInteractive
Personalization
Interactive personal creations

11. Collaborative
Multimedia introductions
Online maps
Shared reflections

12. Authentic Assessment: Electronic Portfolios
See more examples with process details:
http://frit7737sp10portfolios.pbworks.com/w/page/25252918/FrontPage

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Challenges
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14. Benefits
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15. In press...Supplementing the Learning Management System:
Using Web 2.0 for Collaboration, Communication, and
Productivity in the Preparation of School Technology Leaders
in Polly, D., Mims, C., & Persichitte, K. (Eds.). (in press).
Creating technology-rich teacher education programs: Key
issues. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.