Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers Slide 2 Web 2.0 While the first wave
of the Web was closely tied to the browser, the second wave extends
applications across the web and enables a new generation of
services and business opportunities. Tim OReilly (2004) Slide 3 Web
2.0 Social Applications Technology Slide 4 Slide 5 Todays Students
Slide 6 Digital Students: Continuously multi-tasking Work in teams
Create and consume content Handle lots of information Google
everything Are always connected Slide 7 Learning? Slide 8 Todays
students are no longer the people our educational system was
designed to teach. Mark Prensky http://www.markprensky.com/writing
Slide 9 Learning with Web 2.0 Tools Web 2.0 Slide 10 Learning Today
Happens Anywhere Experiential Relevant / Real World Engaging,
Active Problem Solving Critical thinking Collaborative Produce,
Consume, and Organize Knowledge Figure it out attitude Slide 11
Learning in a Web 2.0 World What do you want to learn? Where does
the data /information come from? How can it be shared? What do we
know? What connections can we make? Slide 12 Memorize Slide 13
Analyze, Synthesize Slide 14 Tools for Engaging Todays Students
Slide 15 Whose class is it? Slide 16 Whose class is it now? Wikis
Google Sites Slide 17 Surveys Made Simple: Google Forms Slide 18
Live Polling Embed on Blog or Web Site Include in PowerPoint Some
offer Cell Phone Polling HomeHome | Prices | Developers | Blog |
WikiPricesDevelopersBlogWiki beta Slide 19 Create Web Video:
viddler.com Video for your Blog or Web Site Slide 20 Live Blogging:
coveritlive.com Create a backchannel Ask students to take notes
Post questions Slide 21 Slide Sharing: slideshare.net Slide 22
Collaborative Browsing: twiddla.com Slide 23 Live Video Streaming:
ustream.tv Turn your PC into a TV Studio Chat with your viewers.
Slide 24 Desktop Sharing: crossloop.com Download the Crossloop
client. Yuuguu.com is another browser based desktop sharing tool
Slide 25 Micro-blogging: Twitter Twitter Find people like you to
follow Twhirl Twhirl client on your PC Build a social network!
Twitter Educators to followEducators Slide 26 How cool was that?
Mark Frydenberg Twitter: @checkmark
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