Web+2.0

Web 2.0 is fast paced, exciting, free, transient, frustrating, amazing, .... and offers a vast array of potential alternatives for learning. If you want a deep overview you can watch this great video by Kathy Schrock. Its about 28min. so be prepared. I have shorter clips further down. The positives of web 2.0 is that most of the tools are free, adding visual, sound, voice and video to projects. The web base allows interactivity between the project and learning options on the web. Add in portablility and wifi and some of these tools have moved into apps for the iPod and iPad. One that gets high marks is Evernote. More on that later. The challenge of Web 2.0 is that the products can change overnight. I had a class using a nice little drop box called drop.io. Right before the last assignments were due it was sold and closed. kind of a headache when you are using it to turn papers in. Included here are some sites I have used. Please feel free to share in the discussion tab finds that you have! The other challenge is that schools often block these sites on their server systems. There are a number of reasons why they do this including advertising that they can't control, inadvertent links to inappropriate sites for school or concerns about the interference with network configuration. Work with your tech supports or tech committee to set up a review process for sites you would like to use. it may take a little time up front but give you access to amazing free tool!

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Cool Tools fro school Nice summary of some of the best web 2.0 sites as of Jan 2011 []

http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/ [] Teacher Web Presence: Think about lost homework, confused students, outside of class connections for understanding Resources: Alternate format resources, Background knowledge builders, interactive learning, creative tool generators
 * 5 WOW RESOURCES: These sites is offer great ideas for using the web 2.0 tools in the classroom.**
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 * Adam Bellow: A great web 2.0 aggregator site that is constantly updated.**
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Collaboration: Students working together digitally in real time

Naomi's List of Web 2.0 tools [] Supports for Information literacy activities that build skill: []
 * Digital Discussion Options:**

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Using Poll Everywhere: []

Screen Casting: []

Great resource for graphic organizers: [] Kid friendly Search Engine: all results are checked by educators []

Web based interactives updated blog []

Nice blog with updated sites catergorized into resource areas, ie math science, english etc. []

Nice link portal: []

A new find: []

List of web friendly sites by category []