ENHANCING INSTRUCTION WITH WEB 2.0 TOOLSAmy Ballew ([email protected])
Westside Elementary School
What is Web 2.0?
The primary function of Web 2.0 involves applications that facilitate interactive information sharing.
Wikis, blogs, podcasts, video
conferencing, and multimedia presentations are just a few examples of these programs.
Why use Web 2.0?
Supplement Regular Instruction Differentiation Project Based Learning 21st Century Learners Increased Interactivity Increased Home/School Connection
The following slides include actual examples of interaction with Web 2.0 programs in a fifth grade instructional setting. Ideas for classroom use are also provided.
Classroom Applications of Web 2.0
Museum Box (Example 2)
Ideas for Museum Box
Parts of speech Biographies of famous people Events leading to the Civil War Geometry-shape characteristics Regions of the United States Periodic table elements Figurative language
Ideas for Trackstar
Use Trackstar as a project or unit organizer.
Students can work at their own pace at school or at home by following the links you provide to complete the learning process.
Links can include tutorials, videos, quizzes, etc.
Modify your units from year to year based on your ‘who.’
Ideas for Wordle
Use Wordle as a vocabulary tool for your unit
of study in any content area. It can also be used
to motivate writers. Allow them to complete
their writing in a word document and copy/paste the text to create a Wordle to
print.
Ideas for Delicious
Use Delicious to tag your favorite sites and organize them by categories for quick and easy access during instruction.
Create a student Delicious page for easy
access to content specific sites from home or during class.
Edublog http://edublogs.org (http://msballew5.edublogs.org/)
Ideas for Edublogs
Post content specific questions, prompts, links, videos, etc. for students to respond to.
Encourage collaboration by requiring students to respond to one or two peers per post.
Ideas for Classtools
Use premade graphic organizers with the Activboards for prewriting, content review games, diagrams, charts, timelines, etc.
Other Web 2.0 Sites
http://hubpages.com/hub/Education20
http://oedb.org/library/features/101-web-20-teaching-tools
http://glovely09.wetpaint.com/page/TopTen+for+Young+Learners?t=anon
http://teachweb2.wikispaces.com/
http://indispensibletools.pbworks.com/