Web 2.0 Educators I & II

This is my third time posting this entry!! So, the more I post the shorter it becomes! Sorry for the very long delay! Here are the links to check out.

Will Richardson and seventh grade students on Lulu

Developing Expert Voices the concept – Check out this blog post where Mr. Kuropatwa develops his idea for “Expert Voices”

Developing Expert Voices – The results, Here Mr. Kuropatwa has his students develop their own question and answer

AP Calculus AB – the entire class uses one blog

All three of these links have excellent examples of students using web 2.0 technology.  Check them out and see which  one you would like to post about.  Just react/respond in your blog and link out to the examples. Thank you for taking the course. Unfortunately I did not receive the survey in enough time so Purchase may need you to evaluate the course.  (I did not recieve it until last friday when I arrived home!)

Hello all, sorry for just getting this in, okay you need student examples of blogging:

1.Here is the Science Leadership Academy in my hometown of Philly. The great thing about this school is it is as close to Web 2.0 as a school could get! Chris Lehmann does an excellent job leading his school and also on his blog.

2. Check out what happened here with the “Secret Life of Bees“The author participated in the discussion of the book with the students.

3. Here is a third grade class that uses blogging but in a structured way (like we discussed yesterday).

4. Here is another book called Monkey Bridge which does the same thing as the Secret Life of Bees (inviting the author to participate).

Take a look in  your netvibes and see if you can find more. I spent some time looking at Jeff Utecht’s blog trying to find the passage Jess and I were talking about yesterday in class. I should have it by tomorrow.

In your blogs I want youto discuss some of the examples, Do you think they are good examples of student uses of blogs and web 2.0 technology? Why? Or, do you think they may lack in some areas?

What is your idea scenerio with student use of web 2.0 technology. I have mine but I will share that with you tomorrow. Please remember to “link out” to the blogs you refer to, and brownie points to anyone who sends trackbacks!  Also another great example of student blogging is TeenTek  don’t miss this one! Why is it so significant?

See you tomorrow bloggers. Please have your post done by class tomorrow.

Jennifer

Due to the school district closing there will be no Web Educator class today Monday, April 16th! See you tomorrow!

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Well you lucky people, due to the snow we will have to use Web 2.0 technology to make up a class! The subject I planned on covering in this class is Flickr.

Flickr-Is a dynamic image management site that is of course social (you can see, share and comment on images). You can also geo-tag your photos, so if you are looking for pictures of Greece they have probably already been placed there by another user and they are yours to look at, annotate and share. You can also filter your results by color which is great when you want to compose larger picture from smaller ones.

The webcast I was going to base this off of is:http://k12online.wm.edu/usingflickr/usingflickr.html
Again Jeff Utecht provides a great demonstration, please keep reading his blog and the others in the blogroll of our class blog if you want to continue to learn. The presentation is about 20 minutes long and is paced well. I would suggest that you establish a flickr account before you start the presentation.

Another presentation that I liked and would be a good review for you would be “I didn’t know you could do THAT with free web tools!” This is not a required presentation but reccomended. It is designed for beginners and it may present things in a clearer way than I have in class. Alan Levine is the Director of Member & Technology Resources for the New Media Consortium, and I loved his presentation.

Please remember to finish your second blog post, and then make a third blog post based on the excerises you did today in Flickr and what you learned over the course of the week. Also, please check the blogroll in the class and respond (commnent) on three other blogs from our class. (this can include the class blog as well)

Stay warm and be safe!

Jennifer

Congratulations! You are almost there! Yesterday you all learned about and used Del.icio.us, you all did a great job tagging and adding links to people in your network. Today we are going to learn about the uses of Furl and Diigo. Here are the basics in a very short form.

Furl-Furl.net is a web site that solves this compelling personal information management problem for you. By bookmarking any site you find of interest on Furl, you can easily annotate, find it later, refer to it, and share it with others. All on a system with practically unlimited storage, accessible to you from anywhere on the web, at no cost to you. (copied from furl.net)

Diigo-With a virtual highlighter and digital sticky notes, now you can highlight & jot down your comments directly on any part of a webpage and scan through all your research findings quickly.  Keep your annotations private, share them with groups you belong to, or make them public for everyone to view.

Obviously one of the biggest assets to both of these tools is that you can archive any site. That means no more fear of dissapearing websites!

Well yesterday we got into the mechanics of blogging. It is my hope that most of  you realized how easy posting can be.  Essentially all you are doing is using a text editor and creating hyperlinks out to other sources. The important part of blogging is reading and thinking. It is that simple. For example on my blog last night I posted about reading David Warlick’s post on observing Will Richardson.  I loved how Dave discussed Will being a “learner” and how he used his blog for learning.

For a long time I wanted to just learn for a living, I would come away from inservices and conferences inspired and I just wanted to hang on to that motiviation.  It was that first workshop and keynote with Will that gave me the tools to educate myself.  The first few months were very intimidating, I was launching my self into a well established network of people and felt inadequate and like there was nothing for me to contribute.  Then I realized there were others just like me, back in September I posted about
“it” happening to me: Read the rest of this entry »

This is your class blog that will echo what has taken place in class.

Today you learned about:

1. The consumer Web
2. The Read Write Web (Web 2.0)
3. The orginal vision of Tim Berner’s Lee

After you have set up your aggregator’s and commented on several blogs I would like you to comment on the reaction you have to all the information that was presented to you today.  Realize that this course will not even scratch the surface of the impact Web 2.0 could have on you and your teaching.