MORNING SESSION DAY 1

Web 2.0...The Machine is US/ing Us

Getting our feet wet....with BLOGS

Common Craft Blog Videos  Three minute video of "Blogs in Plain English"

Do you already have a blog?  What is it about?

Visit our blog dedicated to Web 2.0 tools:Hudson23Things

SPEND 30 MINUTES SEARCHING AND COMMENTING IN THE BLOGOSPHERE

• FOR FUN:
  -Look at some popular blogs. Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs. 

• FOR EDUCATION:
  -Specific to us, look at some teacher blogs to find inspiration, advice and shared experiences.

        -Examplary K-12 Classroom Blogs 

        -Lesson to Introduce Blogging in the Classroom

LESSON IDEA: Choose a unit you cover during the school year that has frequent news and in which you want student comments and input.

***While many sites offer free web-based blogs, we recommend our blog through SchoolWorld teachersites for use in the classroom.  This Web 2.0 workshop was created within the SchoolWorld blog.***

GOOGLE TOOLS:  I love my igoogle page!  My igoogle page is a personalized homepage that allows me to quickly view some of my favorite things: local weather, news, local movies, recipes.

Earlier we looked at and discussed lesson ideas for blogs.  Take a couple of minutes to jot down some notes and ideas for using igoogle/google tools. 

LUNCH

AFTERNOON SESSION DAY 1

WORK! WORK! WORK! FUN! FUN! FUN! 

 MORNING SESSION DAY 2

Wading in the water....with WIKIS

The difference between a Wiki and a Blog

Common Craft Video: Wikis in Plain English

So...Blogs are about communicating, Wikis are about getting the work done!

Take Ten: read the Technology Teacher's blogpost:
                10 Best Practices for Using Wikis in Education

***Examples of educational wikis

***Collaborationnation A wiki that got us thinking of all the different and interesting ways wikis can be used.

***Curriki is a searchable wiki that educators collaborate on and share for free

DAY TWO LESSON IDEA: Create a wiki for your classroom to extend the connections between each other or perhaps the entire school.  Stay tuned! SchoolWorld will be introducing a wiki feature this coming school year. Some other popular educational wikis include, PBworks , Wikispaces , Wetpaint.

What's the POD in PODcasting?:  The Education Podcast Network
      (Personal on Demand)

Podcasting is a way to create audio content much the same way that we create, edit and publish text to the Internet through a blog or wiki.  When you subscribe to a podcast, through an RSS feed it goes into your "library" (I use itunes)  From your "library", you can then listen to and/or download them to your ipod or mp3 player.  Podcasting allows you to both create and share content as well as listen to others' broadcasts that might be of interest to you.  Podcasts are a great educational tool for the musical and visual/spatial thinkers.

RSS- Really Simple???  Streaming

Rather than go one by one to the news sources and blogs that I follow, I subscribe to my favorites using RSS. While bookmarks bring you to a static webpage, RSS (readers) will bring you to the latest updates from these dynamic sites.

Demonstrate RSS with NYTimes

iTunes downloads

DAY TWO LESSON IDEA: Brainstorm educational uses for podcasts and/or RSS in the classroom.  Spend 30 minutes with online exploration. 

 LUNCH

AFTERNOON SESSION DAY 2

Photos, Videos, Music and More!

 Voicethread

Here's a Voicethread example

Animoto 

Scrapblog

Wordle

What next?

By now you realize that there's more to know of Web 2.0 than any of us can fully comprehend.  Whenever you wish to explore the collaborative features available on the Web, check out the Web 2.0 Applications Index.  Go2Web2.0  Add it to you favorites!  Or maybe your igoogle page.

Another well-organized wiki for school-related resources is  Cool For School Tools

Time for Twitter?

Flickr: Big Huge Toys

JUST FOR YOU MATH TEACHERS! WEB 2.0MathTools

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