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Integrating Web 2.0 Technologies
Into the Classroom
By Cindy Wright
Instructional Technology Specialist
Columbus City Schools
Engaging today’s students
means tapping into what is important to them.
We have a responsibility to prepare them for their future,
not our past.
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The traditional classroom is being challenged and must compete with the outside world to be a place of learning
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Technology allows learners get their information
– When they want it– How they want it– Wherever they want it
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Today’s students are Digital Natives
(Marc Prensky)
• Visual learners• Multi-taskers• Short attention spans• Use technology to express
themselves• Information analysts• Content producers• Real-time learners -
instant messages, text messages
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How students live with technologyDifferent kinds of experiences lead to different brain structures. Dr. Bruce D. Perry, Baylor College of Medicine
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Educators must get over the idea that technology will replace them. Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer absolutely deserves to be, because they just do not get it.
Ian Jukes
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Technology is changing
• Impossible to keep up with it
• Skills learned today will be irrelevant in the near future
• Focus less on the technology skill
• Focus more on the 21st century skill
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21st Century Skills
• Communication skills
• Intellectual
• Creative
• Ideas
• Interactive
• Expressive
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Welcome to Web 2.0
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Impacting the Classroom
With Web 2.0 Tools
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Not this type of network
Impacting the Classroom
With Learning Management Systems
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Learning Management Systems
• Web-based
• 2 LMS platforms– Commercial– Open Source
• Many good free sites are available
• Any time, any place, any pace learning
• Tools for teacher productivity
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The “HotChalk” Online Learning Environment
• Add assignments• Attach files• Add comments• Attach video clips• Create messages through a class
message board• Create online quizzes• Utilize an online gradebook
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The HotChalk Mission “Improve the Lives of Teachers”
• Automate repetitive daily classroom tasks like assignments, homework, and grading
• Improve teacher-parent-student communication• Quickly access thousands of ‘teacher-approved’
lesson plans and materials • Deliver valuable digital content directly into the
classroom • Participate in an online community of educators
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www.hotchalk.com
Impacting the Classroom
With Wikis
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Wiki
• A free online writing space that is created and edited by multiple authors
• Encourages collaboration• Student interaction• Easy-to-use interface for creating Web
pages• No software - all you need is Web-based• Public or private, and you can invite
participants
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What can you do with a Wiki?
• Build a classroom/school newspaper online
• Publish student projects and research
• Manage documents
• Use as a presentation tool
• Debate course topics, assigned readings
• Design a student-created “Solutions Manual”
• Support service learning projects (build a website about a challenge in your city)
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Wikis
• www.pbwiki.com
• www.wikispaces.com
• www.wetpaint.com
• www.wikipedia.com
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http://mehs-slockuk.wikispaces.com/Friends
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Wikis
http://rdsc.wikispaces.com/Economics
Http://fpdm.wikispaces.com/FP+cookbook
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www.wikispaces.comNow we're taking the next step - we want to give away 100,000
free K-12 Plus wikis. That includes all the features and benefits that normally cost $50/year - for free. No fine print, no usage limits, no advertising, no catches.
Impacting the classroom
With Blogs
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Blogs
• Edublogs.org• Classblogmeister.com• Blogger.com• An online journal for reflections,
comments, and links to other Internet resources and users provided by the writer. Allows readers to write comments in response to postings, connect with others in the “blogosphere”
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http://www.classblogmeister.com/
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http://www.classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=26813
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Make your own blog!www.edublogs.org
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http://hpenicholas.blogspot.com/
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ePALS SchoolBlog
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http://www.slideshare.net/lwright3768/web20-webinar
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www.slideshare.net
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www.slideshare.net
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Questions
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Thank You!
My contact information:
Cindy WrightColumbus City Schools737 E. Hudson St. Columbus, OH [email protected]
