Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Summer Term Week 5: Prezi

What do YOU think about this new presentation tool?  How could you use it at school?

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Week 3: Social Bookmarking Tools

1.  How can educators make the best use of social bookmarking tools such as Diigo and Symbaloo?

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Summer Term Week 2 Post

1. After researching the 23 things, what tool are you the most excited to learn? 2. Now that you know more about Wikipedia, what are your thoughts?

Monday, May 21, 2012

Summer Term 2012

Welcome to  our summer Web 2.0 faculty professional development course! If you already have a Google account, you are welcome to sign in with that user id, or simply post anonymously with your initials at the end of your post.


 Our first blog comments are:
  1. Why am I here?
  2. What can learning Web 2.0 mean to me both personally and professionally?

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Week 10: Book Trailers

Book trailers are exciting solutions to the boring book report.  They do require careful planning by the teacher, and most likely group work to handle the varied tasks.  However, "watchers are not always readers."  How do YOU think a book trailer could influence a struggling or nonreader to reach for a good book?

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Week 6: Prezi

What do YOU think about this new presentation tool?  How could you use it at school?

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Week 5: School Safety in a Web 2.0 World

Web 2.0 Safety = Responsibility, Appropriateness, Common Sense, and Copyright! Discuss just one of these elements.
What are the challenges? How would you, as a responsible teacher, monitor your class safety in a Web 2.0 environment?