Web 2.0 Tools

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Web 2.0 Tools

• Margie Aguilar / Anita Brady
• Diocese of Orlando
• Office of Catholic Schools

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Objectives

• Report on the new ISTE Technology Standards and
  how they impact PK-5 teaching
• Identify Web 2.0 Tools and discuss how they can
  be used to enhance todays classrooms
• Discuss how to keep students safe online

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Technology Standards

• International Society for Technology in
• Education (ISTE) announced the new
• edition of the National Educational
• Technology Standards for Students
• (NETSS). They focus more on skills and
• expertise and less on the technology tools
• themselves.

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• The revised standards address
• Creativity and Innovation
• Communication and Collaboration
• Research and Information Fluency
• Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and
  Decision-Making
• Digital Citizenship
• Technology Operations and Concepts

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Web 2.0 Tools

• Wikis
• Weblogs
• RSS
• Social Bookmarking, Folksonomy
• Online photo galleries
• Podcasting

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Wikis

• A wiki is a collaborative Webspace where anyone
  can add content and anyone can edit content that
  has already been published.
• Teachers and students have begun using password
  protected wikis to create their own textbooks and
  resources sites
• The word wiki is a short form of the Hawaiian
  wiki-wiki, which means quick.

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Challenges of Wikipedia

• Teachers should spend some time checking
  Wikipedias accuracy on their own.
• Consensus among educators seems to be to tell
  students to use Wikipedia as a starting point for
  their work but not as a sole resource.

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Free Wikis

• PBWiki www.pbwiki.com
• WikiSpaces www.wikispaces.com

http//orlandodiocese.pbwiki.com/
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Weblogs

• Blogs are easily created, easily updateable
  websites that allow an author to publish
  instantly to the internet, can also be
  interactive allowing for teachers and students
  conversations.
• Fernette and Brock Eides research shows that
  blogs can
• Promote powerful and analytical thinking
• Be a powerful promoter of creative, intuitive,
  and associational thinking
• Promote analogical thinking
• Be a powerful medium for increasing access and
  exposure to quality information
• Combine the best of solidarity reflection and
  social interaction.

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Uses of Weblogs

• Class portal
• Online filing cabinet
• E-portfolio
• Collaborative space
• Knowledge Management and Articulation
• School website

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Blog Software

• David Warlick The Landmark Project -
  classblogmeister.com
• Gaggle.net - www.gaggle.net
• Blogger www.blogger.com
• WordPress www.wordpress.com
• TeacherHosting www.teacherhosting.com Starts
  at 5 a month
• 21Classes.com Free and for a fee

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RSS Real Simple Syndication

• RSS is a technology that allows educators to
  subscribe to feeds of the content that is
  created on the internet. Content comes to the
  reader instead of the reader retrieving the
  content.
• RSS feeds are collected by using a type of
  aggregator or feed collector. The aggregator
  checks the feeds you subscribe to, and collects
  and organizes the content generated via the RSS
  feed.

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• Suggested aggregators are web-based services from
  Bloglines.com, PageFlakes, iGoogle
• RSS feeds can be used with student weblogs, for
  search feeds like news, websites newsgroups and
  weblogs.
• Google News and Yahoo News have added RSS feeds.
• From 21classes.com - A Grade 8 Blogging
  Community
• http//fhsblogs.21classes.com/mrg

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Page Flakes
iGoogle
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Social Bookmarking

• Bookmarking sites allow users to not just save
  the web address of interesting content but allows
  readers to save and archive entire pages
  producing a form of a searchable personal
  internet.
• It allows teachers and students to build subject
  specific resource lists that they can easily
  share when using RSS.
• del.icio.us
• Furl.net

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http//del.icio.us/teachab http//del.icio.us/
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Podcasting

• Education Podcast Network epnweb.org
• Steps
• Record with microphone
• Capture use Audacity to clean and export MP3
  files.
• Share your podcast OurMedia.org
• Through blog software Classblogmeister or
  Wordpress
• Subscribe with Feedburner.com

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ourmedia.org
wordpress.com
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Keeping Students Safe

• Safety is about responsibility, appropriateness
  and common sense.
• Even if they are publishing outside of the
  classroom it is the teachers obligation to teach
  them what is acceptable and safe and what isnt.
• http//www.cybersmart.org/home/
• http//www.safekids.com/

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• Schools and Libraries are required by the Child
  Internet Protection Act (CIPA) to filter content
  that is accessible via the Internet and monitor
  the online activities of minors. Internet filters
  are having a hard time blocking obscure weblogs
  and sites.
• Teaching the students the skills they need to
  navigate the darker sides of the Web safely and
  effectively is very important.

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• Teachers working with younger children have more
  to be concerned about. They need a great deal of
  planning and testing before going online. Create
  your Web tours beforehand and limit the amount of
  freedom students have to surf.
• Even in early grades, teaching appropriate use is
  critical to prepare them for life online.

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TIPS

• Protect the privacy of the student, personal
  information.
• Make sure to get parental approval by sending a
  letter home explaining the technology, how it
  will be used, security measures and expectations
  of your students.
• Discuss with supervisors and administrators.

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• Students should never reveal information about
  where they live, where they go to school or work,
  or anything that might identify them.
• Any content the students create online will
  become part of their Web portfolio. What if
  someone finds this piece five or ten years from
  now?

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• EXAMPLE OF A WEB 2.0 LESSON
• Fourth Grade Level Endangered Species
• Groups are assigned topics, then are put together
  into a podcast some ideas
• Vocabulary, could include endangered, extinct,
  species
• Interesting facts A Did You Know? - could
  include the numbers of animals in FL on the
  endangered list, name some animals with some
  interesting facts
• Poetry about animals students could write poems
  about a favorite animal to read aloud
• Action Tell what is being done to help a
  particular animal to survive
• Success story Tell about what was done that
  helped to raise the numbers of an animal
• Interview Report on a real interview with an
  expert or a pretend interview with an animal on
  the endangered list

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• EXAMPLE OF A WEB 2.0 LESSON
• Fifth Grade Level Revolutionary War
• Groups are assigned topics to blog about
• Major Battles student write a first person
  account as if they were there
• Heroes A Did You Know? - could include facts
  the writing of the declaration of Independence
• Biographies of notable people during this time
• Events Write about what events such as the stamp
  act, the Boston Tea Party
• Interview Write questions and answers as if you
  were interviewing a famous person of this time

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• EXAMPLE OF A WEB 2.0 LESSON
• Wiki Study Guide
• Students are assigned a topic studied in during a
  unit.
• Each student writes in a class wiki about their
  topic.
• Other students add to the content to create a
  study guide for a test.
• The class reads the wiki to be sure that it is
  accurate.

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http//readwritethink.org/