Showcasing Informational Literacies: New Dimensions 2008

Debra Dennis-East Hanover Middle School

October 22, 2008

New Jersey Center for the Book

Web 2.0 Sites

Session Objectives

• What is Web 2.0?

• Educational Uses

• Top Educational Uses And Sites

• More Sites

• Problems/Issues

• Great Teacher Web 2.0 Sites

• Link to Slide Show for this session

A short Video Introduction

• A Vision of K-12 Students Today

• A Vision of Students Today

• 3 Steps

What is Web 2.0?

• Collaboration

• Communication

• Creativity

Web 1.0• Consuming• Expert• Access to Information• Presentation• Publication• Learning About• Formal Schooling

• Producing• Facilitator• Access to People• Participation • Conversation • Learning to Be• Life Long Learning

Web 2.0

From Steve Hargadon Blog @ http://www.stevehargadon.com/2008/03/web-20-is-future-of-education.html

Another Way of Saying It…

Web 1.0 Web 2.0

Why Use in Education?

1. Publishing Revolution

2. The New Pro-Sumers

3. The Age of the Collaborator

4. Explosion of Innovation

5. Social Learning is Moving to Center Stage

6. Social Networking Really Opens Up the Party

From Steve Hargadon Blog @ http://www.stevehargadon.com/2008/03/web-20-is-future-of-education.html

What Can Teachers Do?

• Learn About Web 2.0

• Lurk

• Participate

• Teach Content Production

• Help Build the New Playbook

From Steve Hargadon Blog @ http://www.stevehargadon.com/2008/03/web-20-is-future-of-education.html

Blogs (Short for Web Log)

• Uses– E-portfolio - Report Alternative– Online Book Club - Class Information– Journal Entries– Link Class with Others in the World – Authentic Audiences for Student Writing

• Where to find them

– Blogger http://www.blogger.com

– Wordpress http://www.wordpress.com

Wikis

• If you can type, you can create a wiki

• Uses– Student Notes-collective benefit– Class Encyclopedia– Creative Writing– Meeting Notes– Curriculum Resources

• Where to Find Them– PBWiki http://www.pbwiki.com– Wikispaces http://www.wikispaces.com

Podcasting• Podcasts are audio files posted on the Internet. • No fancy equipment needed-headset, microphone,

software like Audacity or GarageBand

• Uses– Classroom News -Missed Classes– Interviews -School Events– Book Reviews -School Tours

• Where to Find– My Podcast http://www.mypodcast.com– Gabcast http://www.gabcast.com

Bookmarking• Web-based Favorites that are shared• Tagged with keywords• Uses

– Teacher Collected Resources– Student Research Tagged to Keep Track of Work– Sharing of Collected Resources among

Colleagues• Where to Find Them

– Del.icio.us http://del.icio.us– Diggit http://digg.com/register/– Furl http://www.furl.net/– I Keep Bookmarks

http://www.ikeepbookmarks.com/

PhotoSharing

• Sharing Photos easily. Viewers can leave comments. Use of Tags (keywords)

• Uses– Photo Field Trip– Story Starters– Collages– Class Badges

• Where to Find– Flickr http://www.flickr.com– Picasa http://picasa.google.com

Google Apps

• Docs– Word Processing– Spreadsheets– Presentations

• Calendar• Google Earth (Check Out Google Lit Trips @

http://www.googlelittrips.org/ Thanks Patricia Glave)

• Gmail• Web-based Free (at this time)• http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/collaboration.html• http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/

Slide Show Sharing

• Uses– Let your ideas reach a broad audience.– Share publicly or privately.

• Where to Find – SlideShare http://www.slideshare.net/– SlideBoom http://www.slideboom.com

Graphic Drawing

• Bubbl.us Mind Maps, Story Webs– http://bubbl.us/

• Gliffy Flowcharts, Diagrams, Floor Plans, etc– http://www.gliffy.com/

• Google SketchUp 3-D Diagrams – http://sketchup.google.com/

Video Sharing

• Uses– Teachers teaching teachers– Students teaching students– Videos to teach students

• Where to Find– You Tube http://www.youtube.com– Teacher Tube http://www.teachertube.com

• ConvertTube allows you to download to HD– http://converttube.com/

Screencasting

• Share Instructions from computer screen and add voice

• Where to Find– Screencast-O-Matic

• http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/– Jing Project http://www.jingproject.com/– CamStudio http://camstudio.org/

NB-These programs often require downloads to your computer.

More Sites1. Twitter http://twitter.com/home2. Fleck http://fleck.com/3. Remember The Milk http://

www.rememberthemilk.com/4. Skype http://www.skype.com/5. Writeboard http://www.writeboard.com/6. Skrbl http://www.skrbl.com/7. Zoho Creator http://www.zoho.com/

8. Librarything http://www.librarything.com/9. Pageflakes http://www.pageflakes.com/

11.Pageflakes

Problems & Issues

• Acceptable Use Policy

• Filters

• Registration

• Time

• To Pay or Not To Pay

• Use of Sites is Out of the Control of the School

Disruptive Technology (Schrock)

• Disruption is essential for innovation to occur

• Disruption is seen as evil by some administrators and teachers

Adoption Cycle1. Tools become available

2. Students Use Them at Home

3. Schools Responds with Bans

4. Use of Tools Spreads

5. Education Responds With Their Own Version

Great Teacher Web 2.0 Sites

• Richard Byrne– Free Technology 4 Teachers – http://freetech4teachers.blogspot.com/

• Kathy Schrock– Sites of the School Days 07-08-This year they are

all Web 2.0 Receive in e-mail– http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguid

e/sos.html

• Web 2.0 for the Classroom Teacher– http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/li

stweb20s.html

Names to Know• Will Richardson

– http://weblogg-ed.com/

• Kathy Schrock– http://kathyschrock.net/blog/

• David Warlick– http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/

• Steven Hargadon– http://wiki.classroom20.com/

• Doug Johnson– http://doug-johnson.squarespace.com/

• Annette Lamb– http://eduscapes.com/

• Meredith Farkas – http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/

• Joyce Valenza– http://www.sdst.org/shs/library/jvweb.html

• Presentation Available At SlideShare @http://www.slideshare.net/dedennis/njcf-bweb2-presentation

• Contact Info– Debra Dennis

• ddennis@easthanoverschools.org

Don’t Fear Failure.

Failure in This Case is Not Even Trying!

Above quote from Web 2.0 Primer for Newbies @http://web20primer.wetpaint.com/