Nov 29 2007
Web 2.0 – Why and How?
What is Web 2.0 all about? It’s about mastering, creating, and adapting tools in the form of software; It’s about teamwork – collaboration; It’s about communication; It’s about thinking outside the box – being creative, inventive and seeing things a grand sweep and wonderful detail – that one can manage and information to make the world, and each life in it, better. An amazing collection of tools, focusing primarily on students, is located in Josh Catone’s blog entry Web 2.0 Backpack: Web Apps for Students. A tool that is wonderful in and for itself is ‘Filamentality’. I have used primarily to make Hot Lists. Sue Summerford put together a wonderful Hot List called ‘ Web 2.0 for the Classroom Teachers’ located at http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listweb20s.html. I’m giving the raw entry as it appears in the URL to remind you to look over the humungous site that PacBell has here. Brian Benzinger, in his blog entry, Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0, Part 1 gives us an entry with tools for both teachers and students. There is some overlap between the three, but that’s really inconsequential. It is important to compile and use the various free gifts and Website and sift them out. ISTE is good at doing that for us. I have several books that do that for k-12 teachers with various foci and emphases.
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Skip, I found the Benzinger articles very informative, since I am just beginning this whole Web 2.0 thing. I have so much sympathy for those teachers who have no idea that this technology is developing. I would be really interested in borrowing some of your books that pertain to the elementary level.
Ann
Hi Ann-
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I’ll run those books over next week, if you think you’ll have time to check them out so I’m not without them for too long.
-Skip
Skip,
I’ll confess, I’m going to write about Brian Benzingers site, “Back to school with the class of 2.0” only because I found it to be very helpful when comes down to all the tools to use along with all the tutorials to understand them. You scored an awesome site that introduces web 2.0 applications. There is so much information on that site I’ll never get bored.
Thanks, Ron
Hi Ya Ron-
I am really glad that it’s a keeper.
-Skip
Skip,
I SO agree with you! It really is about collaboration and communication.
Barb