1. Welcome to Web 2.0 Resources for Education
This session will examine the new “Web 2.0” or “Read/Write Web” resources. These FREE online resources promote ideas, creativity and collaboration for teachers and students and can be used in a positive way in education. Many of us will be learning a whole new vocabulary!

2. First Things First…. Time: 8:30-3:30 Introductions
Who am I? Who are you?
Housekeeping
Cell Phones on vibrate, please
Refreshments/Restrooms/Breaks/Lunch 11:30-12:30
Ask Questions/Discuss/Share/Help Neighbor
BE VERY CASUAL AND RELAXED!

3. Let’s Talk About Web 2.0 Sit back and relax for a while.
You’ll work soon enough!

4. Web 2.0 What in the world is Web 2.0? What is RSS?
What is del-icio-us?
Do you have a Wiki?

5. Web 2.0 Quiz
Twenty-six questions
Answers at end of this session

6. What is Web 2.0?
First, Let’s define Web 1.0

7. Web 1.0
The Read Web - static Web pages, the use of search engines, and surfing

8. Web 2.0
The Read/Write Web - Web-only applications, information served to the user, interaction with online information.

9. Web 2.0 “It’s not just for the kids!”
*Simplified online content creation
*Users can focus on
*Ideas
*Creativity
*Collaboration
*Technical know-how unimportant
*Usually publicly accessible

10. Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0
Web 1.0 was about reading, Web 2.0 is about writing
Web 1.0 was about companies, Web 2.0 is about communities
Web 1.0 was about client-server, Web 2.0 is about peer to peer
Web 1.0 was about HTML, Web 2.0 is about XML
Web 1.0 was about home pages, Web 2.0 is about blogs
Web 1.0 was about lectures, Web 2.0 is about conversation
Web 1.0 was about advertising, Web 2.0 is about word of mouth
Web 1.0 was about services sold over the web, Web 2.0 is about web services

11. Kathy Schrock says that educators need:
1. To find each other and mentors
2. To join groups and collaborate
3. To share evaluated resources
4. To have access to information
5. To be able to conference
6. To reflect on the use of information

12. Web 2.0 Satisfies this part of the *ISTE NETS standards:
1. Basic operations and concepts
2. Utilize technology effectively
3. Maximize student learning
4. Use technology for assessments
5. Enhance productivity and professional practice
6. Understand and teach ethical aspects
*International Society for Technology in Education and National Educational Technology Standards

13. “Thirty” Web 2.0 tools today!
Just a “portion” of those out there
New ones almost everyday
Definition or explanation of these thirty
Advantages
Disadvantages
How each can be used in education

14. Blogs
A Website usually maintained by an individual, with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Online diary. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order.

15. Blogs Advantages: Anyone can contribute/comment Quickly created
Quickly updated
Linking
Tagging
Anyone can subscribe (RSS Feed)
Great for students to collaborate

16. Blogs Disadvantages Maybe nothing to say yourself! Blocked at school?
Watch the comments

17. What is RSS anyway?
Compared to TiVo, a service brings you all your want when you want it.
RSS Feeds (Real Simple Syndication)
A format for distributing news and other content on the Web. “Push Technology”
To receive blog feeds, you need an aggregator
Client software that uses web feed to retrieve syndicated web content. It manages your subscriptions.
Ex. Google Reader, Bloglines, Netvibes, etc.

18. Blogs - 10 ways to use a blog to teach
Post materials and resources
Host online discussions
Create a class publication
Replace your teacher/library newsletter
Get your students to Blogging

19. Blogs - 10 ways to use a blog to teach
Share your lesson plans
Integrate multimedia of all descriptions
Organize, organize, organize
Get feedback
Create a fully functional Website

20. Why should your classroom have a blog?
Research Blogs
Literature Blogs
Students can share ideas and favorite books
and review books.
Great example:
Stephanie Labert’s Student Blog for Arkansas Diamond and Charlie Mae Simon Award Books

22. A DOG’S LIFE: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A STRAY by Ann M. Martin

23. MUDBALL by Matt Travares

24. Blog Sources
There are several services and software packages out there that make creating a blog easy. Here are some:

25. #1. Wordpress - http://wordpress.org (Can preview comments)

26. #2. Blogger - (Web service, owned by Google) http://www. blogger
#2. Blogger - (Web service, owned by Google) EASY TO USE!

27. #3. Bloglines - www.bloglines.com

28. #4. Edublogs http://edublogs.org

29. Podcasts
A podcast is a series of digital-media files which are distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and computers.

30. Podcasts Advantages of Podcasting Disadvantages FREE to create
Easy to create
Very mobile, MP3 Player, CD, , Web
Disadvantages
Server space issue

31. Podcasts How to Use in Education
Record basic concepts for students who miss
Great modification tool
Great training tool
Great Podcasts for educators

32. #5. Audacity - FREE download, easy to use

33. #6. Gcast - “Make Your Voice Heard” (create a Podcast with your cell phone!)

34. Gcast Mobile Podcasting by using a phone or your cell phone.
Dial, follow voice prompts and record!
FREE
Easy to set up account
Easy to use
Great tool for field trips

35. #7. Podomatic Create, Watch, Listen, all ONLINE!

36. Wikis
A wiki is software that allows registered users or anyone to collaboratively create, edit, link, and organize the content of a website, usually for reference material.

37. Wikis Advantages: Good for writing down quick ideas
Instantly collaborative without ing documents, keeping the group in sync.･
Accessible from anywhere with a web connection
Your archive, because every page revision is kept.
Exciting, immediate, and empowering--everyone has a say.

38. Wikis Disadvantages: A tendency to get messy, if not protected.
Can be terrible content management system.

39. Wikis How to Use in Education: Science Fair Projects
Collaborative Textbooks
Student Portfolios
Collaboration Between Teachers
*Wiki Pathfinders instead of "pathfinders"
Literature Circles in Elementary School

40. Wikis in Education

41. Wiki Ideas for the classroom

46. #8. PBWiki “It’s as easy as a peanut butter sandwich.”

47. #9. Wikispaces - http://www.wikispaces.com

48. #10. Wetpaint - http://www.wetpaint.com

49. #11. Wikidot - http://www.wikidot.com

50. Diane’s Wikis

51. Diane’s Quick Wiki!

52. Diane’s Newest Wikis http://dawsonweb20.wikispaces.com/

53. #12. Twitter
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send "updates" (or "tweets"; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service (e.g. on a cell phone), instant messaging or a third-party application such as Twitterific or Facebook.

54. My Twitter

55. Twitter Advantages - easy to communicate and collaborate
FREE
Disadvantages: - Blocked at school
How to Use in Education - ?

56. Online Document Sharing Applications
Notetaking
Word Processing
Spreadsheets
Databases
Presentations

57. #13. Google Docs (One of MANY Google Tools)

58. Google Docs - Free web-based word processor and spreadsheet, which allow you share and collaborate online.

59. Word Processing:
Spreadsheet:
Presentation:

60. #14. Zoho Web 2.0 Tools

61. Zoho Creator Database

62. Easy to share online whiteboard
#15. Skrbl
Easy to share online whiteboard

63. Diane’s skrbl pad

64. skrbl Advantages Disadvantages Educational Use
Students can collaborate on a project.
Disadvantages
Internet access
Make a “class password” don’t share YOURS!
Educational Use
Students collaborating
Teachers collaborating

65. Online Document Sharing Applications
Advantages
FREE
Can share documents, presentations
Software “built in”
Students don’t have to have Office products at home
Great collaboration tool
Disadvantages
Blocked by filter?

66. #16. Netvibes
An aggregator……

67. Netvibes

68. Netvibes Advantages Disadvantages Educational Use?
Convenient to keep up
Like having your very own Website
(iGoogle is good, too)
Disadvantages
Blocked
Educational Use?
Teachers can use to subscribe to news, blogs, etc.

69. #17. Slideshare

70. Slideshare
SlideShare is the world's largest community for sharing presentations on the web. You can
a. upload your presentations (ppt, pdf, pps, pot, odp, keynote) and share with others
b. find/download interesting presentations
c. embed them into blogs or websites
d. create a slidecast by linking your slides with audio

72. Slideshare Advantages Disadvantages GREAT resources
Great collaboration
Why reinvent the wheel?
You can download presentations
Easy to post a slideshow
Disadvantages
Blocked
Can’t download all presentations

73. Slideshare
How to Use in Education
Resource for your classes

74. Online Bookmarking sites:
Portaportal
Del-icio-us
Backflip
only2clicks - only2clicks.com (not in handout)
Others:
Furl
Diigo

75. #18. Portaportal

76. Diane’s Portaportal

77. Inside Diane’s

78. #19. Del.icio.us

79. #20. Backflip

80. Backflip Special features:
Your own search engine to find your bookmarks in your personal directory
Has a “my daily routine” feature

81. #21. only2clicks - New!

82. Social Bookmarking Sites
Advantages
Easy to use
Always have access to your bookmarks
Provide links for your students

83. Social Bookmarking Sites
Disadvantages ?
How to Use in Education
Works like a pathfinder
Can share and collaborate with others
Provide links for students
If you don’t have a Website…..

84. Social Networking:
A Web site that provides a virtual community for people interested in a particular subject or just to "hang out" together. Members create their own online "profile" with biographical data, pictures, likes, dislikes and any other information they choose to post. They communicate with each other by voice, chat, instant message, videoconference and blogs, and the service typically provides a way for members to contact friends of other members.

85. #22. Ning - Social network tool to create specific social networks

86. Diane’s Ning

87. #23. Classroom 2.0

88. Diane’s Classroom 2.0 Page

89. #24. Facebook

90. #25. Myspace

91. Diane’s Myspace

92. Social Networking Advantages Disadvantages
Promote your classroom/library
Go where the kids are
Great way to keep up with friends and YOUR children.
FREE
Disadvantages
Blocked
Safety issues
Ethical factors

93. Social Networking How to Use in Education
Be familiar with what the kids are doing
Go where the kids are

94. Diane’s “Friends” in Myspace

95. Online Video and Photo Resources
Videos and photos that are created, produced and posted on the Internet to share with others.

96. #26. You Tube

97. #27. Teacher Tube

98. TeacherTube
TeacherTube is a way to get your educational videos to the people who matter to you.
With TeacherTube you can:
Upload, tag and share videos worldwide.
Upload Support Files to attach your educational Actvities, Assessments, Lesson Plans, Notes, and Other file formats to your video.
Browse hundreds of videos uploaded by community members.
Integrate TeacherTube videos on websites using video embeds or APIs.
Make videos public or private

99. Online Video Resources
Advantages
Great resource
Good examples of videos
Disadvantages
Blocked at School
Can’t always download
Have to have Internet
How to Use In Education
Helps visual learners

100. #28. Flickr

101. Flickr
Almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world - has two main goals:
They want to help people make their content available to the people who matter to them.
They want to enable new ways of organizing photos and video.

102. Diane’s Flickr

103. Flickr Advantages FREE Easy to join Easy to upload
Has an RSS feed to subscribe to other Flickr
accounts

104. Flickr
Disadvantages
Blocked at school?
Have to have Internet access

105. Flickr Educational Use Builds literacy skills in students
Photographs as writing prompts - Called “Flicktion”
Create online stories with photos
Promotes development of community
Create a database of images of school for parents
Use with Google Earth to teach geography
Visual documentation of student artwork

106. #29. Skype

107. Skype
Skype created a little piece of software that makes communicating with people around the world easy and fun. With Skype you can say hello or share a laugh with anyone, anywhere. And if both of you are on Skype, it’s free.
Can use with a Webcam

108. Skype
Skype is available in 28 languages and is used in almost every country around the world. Skype generates revenue through its premium offerings such as making and receiving calls to and from landline and mobile phones, as well as voic and call forwarding.

109. Skype Advantages Disadvantages Educational Use FREE
Have to have a computer & Internet
Educational Use
Communicate with other classes around the world
“Ask an expert”

110. #30. Second Life

111. Second Life
Second Life® is a 3-D virtual world created by its Residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by millions of Residents from around the globe.

112. Second Life
The Marketplace currently supports millions of US dollars in monthly transactions. This commerce is handled with the in-world unit of trade, the Linden™ dollar, which can be converted to US dollars at several thriving online Linden dollar exchanges. 


113. Second Life

114. Diane’s Second Life

115. Second Life Educational Uses
Professional Meetings & Conferences Online
AASL Celebrates NLW in SL!

116. Answers to Web 2.0 quiz R V F L S W M C H X J U 13. I 14. K 15. N
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