1. The document discusses how educators can engage students using Web 2.0 tools by entertaining them, exposing them to entrepreneurship, and encouraging them to create and share information. 2. Examples of Web 2.0 tools that can make students' lives easier and richer include websites for getting movie recommendations, managing communications, planning meetings, creating avatars, and getting music recommendations. 3. The document advocates having students start blogs, use wikis for collaboration, and create their own social networks to get them involved in collaborating online.

1. Sound Check Here Comes Another Bubble http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IQ_FOCE6I

2. The Only URL You Need To Write Down http://technologyinstruction.blogspot.com

3. S*&T Happens Engaging Students Via Web 2.0 Tools Presented by Alan Evans Montgomery County Community College Shift Happens Shift Happened “ Rumor is the world's oldest mass media.” -- Jean-François Revel (1924-2006, French politician and author)

4. What happened? Memorizing facts is no longer education Information availability Just look it up on Google A week of the NY Times contains more information than a 19 th century citizen was exposed to in a lifetime Education is now about analyzing information or creating information

5. “ We must educate the student we have, not the student we used to have nor the student we wished we had.” David Thornburg

6. How do we engage students? Entertain them? Expose them to entrepreneurship Educate them about tools to make their lives easier Encourage them to create and share information

7. What is Web 2.0? Shift to facilitation of communication, collaboration and information sharing Web-based communities (social networks) Video sharing sites (YouTube) Wikis Blogs Folksonomy (social tagging)

8. Web 2.0 Support Groups

9. Entertainment Before class starts, show videos Encourages on time attendance Focuses student attention to the front of the room Let students find the videos Can even relate to the topic! Dead iPod Song

10. Expose Them To Entrepreneurship Use examples of companies using Web 2.0 tools Use companies students relate to (food, t-shirts, etc.) Read Inc. and Fast Company for ideas

11. Entrepreneur Examples Markus Frind Company had one employee (Markus) until recently Works 1 hour per day Company makes $10 million per year www.plentyoffish.com

12. Entrepreneur Examples Jake Nickell and Jeffrey Kalmikoff College dropouts Estimated $30 million a year in sales…from t-shirts! Developed a social network of prospective customers Customers decide what products will be sold www.threadless.com

13. Web 2.0 Tools to Make Life Easier or Richer Get Movie Recommendations www.clerkdogs.com Manage e-mail, instant messages and social networks from a single application www.digsby.com Meeting planning www.doodle.com

14. Web 2.0 Tools to Make Life Easier or Richer Create Speaking Avatars www.voki.com Music Recommendations Based on Music You Like www.pandora.com Put PowerPoint Slides Online www.slideshare.net

15. Create/Share Information Why I like Student Blog Projects Blogger.com Free and owned by Google Makes blogging as simple as writing e-mail Letting students select a topic they are comfortable with gets them going quickly Forces them to think, write, and research Its entrepreneurial!

16. Current Semester Student Blogs Boneyard Body Art the f-stops here Shoegasm

17. Wikis A web page with an edit button (like Wikipedia) Great for collaboration and group projects Pbwiki and Wikispaces are good free choices

18. Wikis Curriculum ideas Have students create or update Wikipedia entries Group project collaboration Group Collaboration at Manor College Conveying information (could be edited by students) Teaching Students How to Blog

19. Social Networks The future is smaller, more focused networks Classroom 2.0 25 Tools Have students start their own social network www.ning.com http://studentcomputerliteracy.ning.com/

20. In Conclusion Nike was right...Just Do It! Students love this stuff! Students pay more attention Get students involved in collaborating via the web...they are doing it anyway “ Don't tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.” George Patton

21. Questions or Comments? Alan Evans Montgomery County Community College, Blue Bell, PA E-mail: aevans@mc3.edu