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February 18, 2008 08:07 AM

Impact Teaching & Learning - Web 2.0

Kathy Schrock comes all the way from Cape Cod to give us a presentation on using collaborative tools.

kathyschrock.net/itsc

Kathy introduces Web 2.0 - simplified content creation, users can focus on ideas creativity and collaboration, technical know-how became less important, made data publicly available. Can combine data from various sources.

Shows the YouTube piece "The Machine is Using Us (Final Version).

RSS - Really Simple Syndication - family of web feed file formats to provide content or summaries

AJAX - Asynchronous Javascript and XML - for creation of interactive web applications

See: go2web20.net

www.43things.com - Site where you can share your goals and find other people with those goals.

del.icio.us - Social bookmarking site. Uses a community based set of tags as metadata for bookmarks.

Introduces the idea of wiki (Hawaiian for quick) to use for collaboration. Jottit is a free wiki on the web.

Wikipedia is a group constructed encyclopedia. Need to have students check the list of revisions and note the revision number if they are going to use Wikipedia. Kathy does not trust it; can't evaluate anything in it.

ning.com - Place where you can make your own social network. Can do this for your class

gliffy - Place where you can share floor diagrams.

bubbl.us - Shared concept mapping site.

Chat Creator - Place to create your own online chat.

twitter.com - Live, shared instant messaging. Handy for professional networking - Short snips only.

Zoho Creator - online database creation tool - can use it for capturing web survey data - easy to export to Excel

slideshare.net - Online slide sharing site

flikr.com - photo sharing site - very good for tagging specific items in a picture

Google Video and YouTube - used in Kathy's district. Can find lots of lesson plan tutorials on Google Video.

mediamax.com - 25 Gb of storage that you can share with others. But, only get 1 Gb of bandwidth per month.

voo2do - Online task keeping for projects

goowy - A webtop application - an online "desktop" - essentially a distributed operating system

zamzar.com - An online file conversion tool. Helps share resources with just about anybody. Get 100 Mb.

Kathy's district used Google Apps for Education. Uses Gaggle to archive e-mail going in and out of Google Mail.

Google Docs keeps all revisions - Can track what your students are adding. Students can't hide.

skrbl.com - Online interactive whiteboard.

Use an Aggregator piece of software to look at your RSS feeds. Examples are Netvibes and Bloglines.

pageflakes.com - Personalized start page through which you can choose what you share. Have a student page that is for teachers to share with students.

iGoogle - another personalized start page. Need to have a gmail account

tumblr.com - used for information posting.

letterpop.com - online publication creation tool integrated with flikr.

What's needed - Andy Carvin thinks ICT Literacy is important. Teachers need technical skills, content generation skills, research skills, information literacy, media literacy and online safety/responsibility.

Web 3.0 - The read/write/execute Web - students executing their own scripts - Things like Second Life, a multi-user virtual environment -
Second Life has a virtual library to take you to other web sites -
All kinds of real professional development going on in Second Life - ISTE has an SL presence - Kathy's district along with 3 others in Massachusetts have purchased an island in SL to do professional training. It's called Lighthouse Learning Island.
See: nausetschools.org/lighthouselearning

Is Web 2.0 a disruptive technology for schools? How can we keep our students safe? How can we keep our data secure? How can these tools or others be used with existing systems?

kathy@kathyschrock.net
http://kathyschrock.net/itsc/
AIM: webqueen3
Twitter: kathyschrock

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