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Web 2.0 Tools
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Kay Teehan
Web 2.0
• The next generation of the Internet
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• What is Web 2.0?
Web 2.0
• It is a new way to connect with other
people using new tools on the Internet
Web 2.0
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43% of Internet users are online Web 2.0
community members
• 56% of this group log into their
communities at least once a day
• If MySpace were a real physical
community it would
be the 8th largest country in
Web 2.0
the world
• Who are these social networkers?
• OUR STUDENTS!
Web 2.0
A New Look at Learning
• If teachers are going to relate to this new
set of learners, we must know what they
know, think the way they think, and learn
using the tools they learn with.
Web 2.0 tools
Google
Docs
Social
Bookmarking
Blogs
Web 2.0
Podcasting
Photo
Sharing
Digital
Storytelling
Wikis
BLOGS
• Web + log = Blog
• It is a reflection journal that
organized by date
• Easy to write, save, and share with
others
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Types of Blogs
• Text-based (the one we will be
using)
It can also include images & other
media)
• Audio Blogs (also called podcasts)
• Video Blogs ( also called vblogs or
vodblogs)
How can we use blogs
in the classroom?
Examples:
• Learning in Greece
• Monkey Bridge
• Student journals
• Boys Blogging Books
Blogs
• Blogs promote selfexpression, a place where
the author can develop
highly personalized content.
Writing in a Blog
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You can write in Word (copy paste
into Blog
• You can write directly to the Blog
• Using the Edit Toolbar
• Inserting Hyperlinks, images, audio
Writing in a Blog
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Don’t be afraid to experiment!
• http://www.edublogs.org
• Alternative to Blogging: TWITTER
Twitter is a service for friends, family, and
co–workers to communicate and stay
connected through the exchange of quick,
frequent answers to one simple
question: What are you doing?
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Wiki
Twitter
Wikis
• It is a online workspace
for sharing with others in
your workgroup
• Wikis are becoming
important in many
workplaces because they
allow for group planning
and sharing of ideas
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Make a free workspace easily as
Peanut butter sandwich.
PBworks is an
easy-to-use free
web page that
multiple people
can edit, it’s
based on wiki
technology.
Wiki means Quick
in Hawaiian
In the classroom,
Pbworks is a free
tool that
empowers every
student to
participate in
group projects.
James has assigned a team research project.
What can he do to encourage the students to work
together, share resources and create high quality work?
Three great ways to communicate
with students
Blog
Write
Publish
Comment
PBworks
Forum
Create
Publish
Comment
Converse
Post Ideas
Respond
Share
Edit
Collaborate
Engage
Converse
Post ideas
Respond
“It's so easy to create a site
to help guide students along
with projects. I have found
that it's a good way to make
handouts available to
students - I just point them
at the web address. I post
links to my PBworks
Rockford's site so that
parents can access project
guidelines as well.”
Justin Wylie
Rockford High School
Mary wants to be sure her
students are
protected from the wider
internet.
How can she make certain
her online site is off
limits to child
predators?
How can she be sure that
her students won’t be
drawn onto the web?
YOU control who sees your workspace
You invite your students
Each student has a unique login and
password
PBworks for
Educator are free
and never display
advertisements
NO ADS
Jamie wants to make
certain her students act
appropriately on line.
Will her students write
offensive comments?
How can she monitor her
students activity?
You have a history of every
edit
You are notified of every
change
No more “dog ate my homework”
Edits are time stamped. You know who made
changes and when they were made.
PBworks is Free and Easy to set up
No IT department is needed!
Simply create a
password and
begin
Set it up and it works
just like typing in Microsoft Word
Just like
creating a
Word
document
Just click
and begin
Easily insert
Images and
Video
Post a picture or a video
Teachers can make
coursework and
homework information
easily available to both
students and parents.
With easy to use plugins
you can create a
calendar.
Quickly create new pages
Templates designed with teachers in
mind
Join the more than 400,000 teachers who
have used PBworks for their classrooms,
from elementary schools to Stanford and
Harvard.
http://cougarpedia.pbworks.com/
http://mrsangelacunningham.pbworks.com
http://missb.pbworks.com
https://andreclass.pbworks.com/
Examples of Wikis in the
Classroom
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Research Wiki
Physics Wiki
Presidential Research Wiki
Booktalking Wiki
Using Wikis in the Classroom
• A Thousand and One Flat World Tales
• Constructing a Lasting Peace in India and
Pakistan
• PBWorks
wiki
PBworks is free, fast and easy to use.
Create one now at
www.PBworks.com
Social Bookmarking
• Websites that allows you to save your
bookmarks online so that you can access
them from any computer with an internet
connection.
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Social Bookmarking
• My Delicious site
• Logon to delicious at:
http://www.delicious.com
Web 2.0 tools
Google
Docs
Social
Bookmarking
Blogs
Web 2.0
Podcasting
Photo
Sharing
Digital
Storytelling
Wikis
Web 2.0 Tools for
Educators
A collection of web tools
are now available online
for educators.
Some of the best can be
found on the wiki.
Sample of tools
• Library Thing: social book
club tool
• Shelfari: online book review
program
• Remember the Milk task
management tool
• Jott voice-to-text application
• Dropbox: cloud computing
for the rest of us!
• What Should I Read Next?
Sample of tools
• Certificate Street
• Educator Templates
• PDF Form Filler
• Life magazine online
• Web 2.0 for Teachers
In summary…
• The use of Web 2.0 tools requires
teachers to have:
• Comfort in using the new techniques
• Confidence that their use will lead to
higher-level thinking for their students
• Creativity to integrate into all facets of the
curriculum
In education, as in society, we are seeing
computer work moving from technical to
communicative and essential to our way of
life.
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• Web 2.0 has developed in the past 5
years. This rapid development has
created a situation where the those in
control of the educational machine have
no idea what possibilities exist for our
students.
• Teacher must be proactive– our students
already are!
Times are changing!
• Constantly connected to information and each other,
students no longer consume information. They create —
and re-create — it. With a do-it-yourself, open-source
approach to material, students often take existing
material, add their own touches, and republish it
Bypassing traditional authority channels, self-publishing
— in print, image, video, or audio — is common.
• George Lorenzo, Diana Oblinger and Charles Dziuban
(2007
http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/eqm07/eqm0711.asp
?bhcp=1
Thanks 
• Kay Teehan, Media Specialist
Bartow Middle School
[email protected]