- 1980 Tim Berners-Lee visualised the web as a sharing community
- 1990 Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web - Web 1.0
- 1997 Weblogs appeared - an intermediate step towards web 2.0
- 2005 Web 2.0 Revolution
Are web 2.0 tools leaving a mark on you?
- Researching
- Reading
- Receiving
- Contributing
- Collaborating
- Creating
How are we going to respond to this huge of information?
Democratisation of the internet
http://www.polleverywhere.com/multiple_choice_polls/LTcyNjc4MzE4
Use the tools of Web 2.0 in Engage Learners
Forums
Photo and Video
Creating and Sharing
RSS
Wikis
Podcasts
Social Networking
- "Different kinds of experiences lead to different brain structures, "says Dr. Bruce D. Berry of Baylor College of Medicine. ... it is very likely that our students’ brains have physically changed - and are different from ours - as a result of how they grew up. But whether or not this is literally true, we can say with certainty that their thinking patterns have changed...
... today's teachers have to learn to communicate in the language and style of their students.”
--From Marc Prensky's "Digital Nataves, Digital Immigrants"
- Allow you to perform tasks or create objects without software.
- Often known as “Web 2.0” applications.
- Often have an element of social interaction.
- Accessible from anywhere.
- Usually FREE!
- Applications go up and down.
- Applications get bought out.
- Web applications sometimes allow students to interact with other people online. Most tools have privacy settings to keep minors safe.
- Students’ privacy should be considered. Some tools can be completely private, but others not.
- Applications may create thing that can’t leave the confines of the particular web site (e.g./ can’t be downloaded to a disc/dvd/etc…)
- Students with computers at home may get to spend more time on projects than students without since it’s easily accessible.
Student Blogging
- When facts are free, curiosity becomes a mandate.
- Engaging the important questions
- Creating confidence
- Bringing in new voices and ideas
- Expanding the boundaries of the classroom
- Every student can articulate their thoughts on the essential questions on each unit without regard for space and with nearly limitless resources.
- Students could build on their previous work, expanding on thoughts and exploring multiple paths.
- Students could view and react to the work of their classmates.
- Digital portfolios are easy to sort, present, and assess.
- Tracking progress and engaging students in meaningful dialogue is incredibly easy.
- Reflection became natural within a couple of weeks. Students take pride in their blogs
- A wide audience could interact with the ideas presented by the students.
- Blogging is more than journaling. It’s dynamic. Profound connections with the curriculum can be made. It’s difficult to cheat.
- Students can revise their work.
http://www.bhs.cc/forum/index.php?topic=4338.0
Working Together to Solve Problems
Showcasing Work
http://www.bhs.cc/forum/index.php?topic=7349.0
Getting Help
http://www.bhs.cc/forum/index.php?board=59.0
"It gives students an opportunity to gain further knowledge about things going on in class. If you take a look at the Homework Help board, it is flooded with student drafts with a lot of peer editing going on. Students can get almost immediate feedback on their stories from people who the stories are written for. ... With educational topics on the board, it can get people talking and they can carry those discussions over into the classroom."
-Ashlee
Wikis
Find More information at:
http://bhs.cc/tech
Find This Presentation at:
http://prezi.com/111438
Engage your learners better with Web 2.0.
Why do you find these interesting?
What makes them different from websites?
Inventions leave an impact
What makes these exciting?
Forums
Community
Connection
Sharing and showcasing
Asking questions
Breaking barriers
Technology doesn’t solve problems or make teachers better.
Don’t throw out your curriculum.
Face-to-face is essential
You don't have to rush.
You don't have to do it all at once
Real-time Collaborative
Software
Blogs
Twitter in the Classroom
The Twitter Experiement
http://www.utdallas.edu/~mrankin/usweb/twitterconclusions.htm
How Teachers, Principals and Students are Using
Google Docs
Flickr in the classroom:
http://jakespeak.blogspot.com/2006/03/classroom-uses-of-flickr.html
Blogs as Class Portals
- Archiving and posting information helps with special needs students.
- Students who miss class can be more accountable for the things they missed.
- Students with different learning styles can access information in different ways.
- Help keep the teacher organized and focused.
- Creates an archive of a class.
Our Learners' Changing Brains
Web 2.0 in the classroom
- Mr. McCallum’s online classroom
http://www.bhs.cc
http://www.mgjhscience.net/voight/
- Mrs. Cary’s CIS Writing class
http://bhs.cc/ciswriting/
- Mrs. Larson’s class homepage
http://larsonstma.blogspot.com/
http://bhs.cc/nhs
- Additional examples and explanations can be found at http://bhs.cc/tech
Meeting Learners in their World
1. It’s free.
2. It’s quick.
3. It's simple.
4. It's familiar.
5. It's everywhere.
6. It's saved.
7. It's interactive.
8. You're in control.
9. It’s personalized.
“Our students have changed radically. Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.
- Today’s students - K through college - represent the first generations to grow up with this new technology. They have spent their entire lives surrounded by and using computers, videogames, digital music players, video cams, cell phones, and all the other toys and tools of the digital age. Today's average college grads have spent less than 5,000 hours of their lives reading, but over 10,000 hours playing video games (not to mention 20,000 hours watching TV). Computer games, email, the Internet, cell phones and instant messaging are integral parts of their lives.”
Students certainly
don’t have short
attention spans
for their games,
movies, music, or
Internet surfing.
More and more,
they just don’t
tolerate the old
ways—and they
are enraged we
are not doing
better by them.
Why Web 2.0?
- It’s social and interactive.
- It’s free.
- It’s outside
- It’s about making connections.
- It’s simple…but there’s help.
- It can help make your teaching and assessing more effective.
- It’s a part of your students’ world.
- You don’t need a great computer, and you sometimes don’t need a computer at all.
- It’s ubiquitous.
- It’s yours.
-Prensky
"Engage Me or Enrage Me"
Google Docs
Real-Time Collaboration
in your classroom and beyond.
What is a Wiki?
The definition of Wiki, according to Wikipedia, “is a website that allows the visitors themselves to easily add, remove, and otherwise edit and change available content, typically without the need for registration. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for mass collaborative authoring.”
How can I use a Wiki?
Samples
- Easily create simple websites, including a portal
- Project development with peer review
- Group authoring
- Track a group project
- Data collection
- Archive and build on knowledge
- Describe classes
- Presentations
The Buffalo High School Wiki Project
http://bhs.cc/think
The Knowledge Base
http://www.bhs.cc/think/tiki-index.php?page=The+Knowledge+Base