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© Copyright 2009 by The Source for Learning, Inc.

All rights reserved.

A Safe Journey to the Edge:

Intro to Web 2.0 Tools

Finding your way:

1. Find the CHAT and type a hello.

2. Find where to raise your hand- try it!

3. Make sure you can hear – turn up speakers!

Welcome!



CHAT

Participants

Talk button(headsets

only,raise hand)

White

board



“Wide” layout makes chat area larger, in the middle!



Tools we are using

• Audio “out” to you• Chat from you• Webcam “out” for intros• Web tours (you watch/guided help)• Web “push” to you (you DO)• Full session recording, including chat



Getting Started

• Chat for HELP!• Professional Development Certificate

info• Ok2Ask coming soon• If you learn $omething…• Bookmark the Session Start page

(“pushed” to you here in a separate window)

You should hear me talking now. If not, enter

HELP! In the chat.



Please introduce yourself…

• In the chat area, please type in where you are and what you teach/do

• Your presenters and moderators…



Today’s goals• Identify features of web 2.0 tools

• Locate resources to provide real-world, collaborative, creative learning experiences

• Name ways… students active participants in their own learning.

• Possible applications of specific web 2.0 tools in your current teaching situation and within policies of their school.

• Find solutions to individual questions or practical problems

• (follow up) Locate and ask specific school policy questions relevant to using chosen web 2.0 tools in their school/teaching situation.

• (follow up) Experiment with at least one web 2.0 tool, collaborating with students, parents, or others within or outside the school community.

NETS-T emphasis: 1a, 1b, 1c, 2a, 2b, 3b, 3c, 3d Student Learning and CreativityDigital-Age Learning Experiences /Assessments, Digital-Age Learning



Features: What defines web 2.0?

• user-authorship vs authoritative source “creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness”

• collaboration vs one-way No more we tell- you learn

• public interaction • membership

profiles

• social features• commenting• “rating”• tagging• (some) integration

with other tools: “widgets”

• many are adding web 2.0 features

Those who bought this product also purchased… If you like this, may we suggest…Comment on this product… Add to my Friends…



Locate: Where to look on TeachersFirst

• TF Edge- See “Hot Tech” menu• Edge Tips• Sifting Through the Filters• Tutorials: Wiki Walk-Through and

Blog Basics • Edge reviews…



Active Participants

Providing students withreal-world,

collaborative, creative learning experiences



Active Participants: a BIG question

Do we…Protect kids from seeing “bad” things

orGradually model and teach them HOW to navigate safely?



Active Participants

Must knows for teachers (and students):

• Your schools’ policies • What makes the ideal web 2.0 tool



Apply… tool #1

You asked for…



YOU try it… • Questions welcome!

Apply… tool #1



• Raise your hand if you found or formed an idea you could use

• Enter it in chat

Apply… YOUR examples for tool #1

real-world, collaborative,

creative learning experiences?



OK2Ask…

Q/A time



Apply… tool #2

You asked for…



YOU try it… • Questions welcome!

Apply… tool #2



• Raise your hand if you found or formed an idea you could use

• Enter it in chat

Apply… YOUR examples #2





OK2Ask…

Q/A time



Quick Demo… applying tool #3

You asked for…



YOU try it… Enter into chat:• QUESTIONS• safety/security concerns• ideas for YOUR use

Apply… tool #3





Apply… a possible action plan

1. choose a tool to try 2. make a sample on

your own or with one or two kids (techie-gifted kids?)

3. share it with students for response

4. plan a lesson using it (whole class or student groups)

5. admit your novice status and learn together

6. compare with lessons and results done before

7. do it AGAIN- so students get past tool mastery to a new level of thinking/learning

8. stick with the same tool to gain confidence and expertise for you and for students

9. try a new one when ready



• What circumstance or feature caused the ACTUAL PROBLEM?

• Does TF Edge have a TIP for that?

Apply … If you “fail,” look closely…



Wrapping up… Goals met?• Identify features of web 2.0 tools

• Locate resources to provide real-world, collaborative, creative learning experiences

• Name ways… students active participants in their own learning.

• Possible applications of specific web 2.0 tools in your current teaching situation and within policies of their school.

• Find solutions to individual questions or practical problems

• (follow up) Locate and ask specific school policy questions relevant to using chosen web 2.0 tools in their school/teaching situation.

• (follow up) Experiment with at least one web 2.0 tool, collaborating with students, parents, or others within or outside the school community.



• Feedback Survey • Professional Development Certificate

info*provide screen name!

• Links and handouts• Session recording (in a few days)• A chance to donate

Wrapping up:return to Session Start for



Chat and go…

• at least one web 2.0 tool or teaching idea that you learned about today AND

• a possible curriculum topic where you might use it

• PLEASE EXIT the session – do not simply close your window.

Before you say File> EXIT,

please enter in chat:



Thanks for coming!

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