Sunday, June 10, 2007

Web 2.0

For the past several months I have spent time talking and introducing Web 2.0 applications to teachers and administrators in my district. I began with only a few Google docs, Pageflakes, Boxnet as a starting point and had the opportunity to find teachers willing to try using them in their classrooms. Students must have the opportunity to access the internet find, edit, and manage digital information. They must be given the tools they need to construct new knowledge from digital resources; still images, video, audio, text, learn to access and evaluate information, join online communities and engage in collaborative networks as part of their education. We all know this is how they interact outside of the school day. It is time to bring these valuable collaborative spaces into the classroom. This summer I will be working with teachers to expose them to the possibilities of collaborative classroom projects using wikis, blogs, podcasting.
Has anyone or is anyone using wikis and blogs in their classrooms? If so would you mind sharing the grade and send a link to your classroom site? I would love to have examples to show this summer during the staff development sessions.

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