Web2.0

=**What is Web 2.0?** =

   ** Read Me! ** From [|Wikipedia]//**Web 2.0**//, a phrase coined by [|O'Reilly Media] in 2003 and popularized by the first Web 2.0 conference in 2004, refers to a perceived second generation of web-based communities and [|hosted services] — such as [|social-networking sites], [|wikis] and [|folksonomies] — which facilitate collaboration and sharing between users

Hmmm...how does Web1.0 and 2.0 compare?
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 **See Me! ** Watch these short videos for an interesting introduction to Web2.0. media type="custom" key="879213"


    **Teach Me! ** <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">There are literally thousands of Web2.0 tools--tools that allow collaberation, interaction, visual and auditory connections. These dynamic nature of the tools REQUIRE interaction with the user. But in education, that interaction is not sufficient to warrant their use. We must carefully design a framework or scaffold for students to use as they apply th <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">e tool so that the interaction creates the learning experience for the student. This does not mean we limit the use of the tool or place undue restrictions on the student's creative application of the tool, but it is to say that we frame the experience with knowledge of the tools use and how it can be used to create the learning environment that could not be replicated without the use of the tool.

Let's visit some of the sites that list these top tools, just so you can get an idea of "the good stuff". <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> **<span style="COLOR: rgb(180,71,8); BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,234,0)">Try Me! ** <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">PART I: Let's revisit your Unit once more and focus on your specific lessons / projects! Using the links to the documents below, you must choose SIX Web2.0 tools to use in your unit. Now, before you drop this class, let me share with you that you actually have<span style="COLOR: rgb(144,4,4)"> **two weeks** do do this (because there is another week dedidated to Web2.0 tools.

1. Figure out which tools will support a unique and powerful learning lesson for your students that fits into your unit; 2. For each tool (only do <span style="COLOR: rgb(164,30,30)">**three** this week!): a) design a lesson using the tool to include in your unit plan; b) go to the website for the tool, set up an account and create the tool as an EXAMPLE of what you want the students to do; c) Embed your example in your unit plan, along with a description of the lesson (this is in the SAME format as your unit overview you wrote a few weeks ago--this does not need to be more than a paragraph, but it does need to "paint a picture" of what will be happening in the lesson. It also needs to include a brief description (in two sentences or less) of how the tool would change the learning environment (i.e., how doing a on-line presentation would differ from doing a traditional written report). Think about the audience, the use of the tool, the motivation of the learner, the research, reading, writing, etc.

Need to know how to embed a Web2.0 too in your wiki? [|Embed Your Web2.0 Tool]
 * TOOL || CHOICE ||
 * Timeline || [|Dipity] ||
 * Comic Strip Maker || [|Toon Doo] ||
 * Media || [|Blabberize] ||
 * Photos || [|Slide] or [|Bubbleshare] ||
 * Graphic Organizer || [|Gliffy] or [|Mind42] ||
 * Graphing Tool || [|Kid graph] ||
 * Flashcards || [|IQFuse] ||
 * On-line newsletter || [|Letterpop] ||

<span style="COLOR: rgb(180,71,8); BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,234,0)">** Additional Resources **

Web2.0 for the classroom