An Appetizer Plate of Web 2.0to use in your classroom

Alice MercerSCUSD

Spring 2008

License, etc.

This is licensed under a Creative Commons attribution, non-commercial license. I’ll explain more about this later.All materials will be posted at:

http://mercertraining.edublogs.org

Agenda

• What is Web 2.0 and why use it? (5 minutes)• Document Sharing 2.0 (15 minutes)• Sharing information 2.0 (10 minutes)• RSS: Stitching it together (10 minutes)• (re)Creating content (10 minutes)• Copyright issues (15 minutes)• Online professional development (5 minutes)• Make something of this (40 minutes)

What is Web 2.0?

Content creation…

Interactive

AND social

How do we learn?

• Relationships • Social interactions• Lev Vygotsky• Zone of proximal

development– You cross the point

between ignorance of a concept and knowledge with someone helping you

How do we learn?

The Zone

Knowledge

• Learning must be demonstrated

• This has different levels, higher and lower

• Benjamin Bloom’s Taxonomy

• Construction is the highest level.

How do we learn? Part II

Create Content

Document Sharing 2.0

• Create documents you can retrieve anywhere

• No more jump drives

• Share it with others• Share edits with

each other

Sharing info 2.0

• Getting resources• How is it different

than NetTrekker?– It’s free and

portable– Sharing – Annotation

RSS: Stitching it together

• Let’s others share with you

• Let’s you pull different things from different places together

(re)Creating content

•Creating podcasts (audio files)•Share your or your students’ slideshows•Create your own images or get them from FlickrBut when you post it up, you are no longer in the classroom, and copyright applies…

Get to know Copyright

…and let Fair Use be your friend. Some quick guidelines when podcasting:You can use 10% (not to exceed 10 seconds) of a copyrighted song or other audio.

Creative Commons

Creative commons is another great resource.You don’t pay, you attribute, or give credit.You can search for material based on CC licensing (almost everything in Wikipedia is CC licensed).

Why Professional Development 2.0?

Your time or mine?

Casual Dress is a-okay!

It’s all about the community

Follow-up and support