Week 12: Web 2.0 Creative Tools Exploration

From the tools you selected, which are you the most interested in and why?  How could you envision using them in your classroom?

Week 11: 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?

Week 10: The Flipped Classroom

After discussing the flipped/inverted classroom approach in class today, preview to the infographic link below.  Then, discuss your opinion on the strengths and weaknesses of the flipped classroom.
The Flipped Classroom

Weeks 6-7 Blog Post:

What do YOU think of the presentation tool Prezi?  Better than PowerPoint?  Worse?  How could you or your students use this?

Week 5 Blog Post: Web 2.0 Safety Considerations

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?

Week 4 Blog Post

When you think about all of the uses of images and sound in an educational setting, you have to also consider the copyright attributes and legal uses.  This includes use by teachers in presentations and lesson planning, and student assignments such as graphic presentations on a computer or simply printing images for a poster board presentation.  After our lesson today about attributes and the value of searching in Creative Commons, carefully answer the following question:

How would you attribute copyright to images and sound you located on the web and used in a lesson?  What would you require of your students (if you teach a grade level that students would create presentations with images, sound, etc).

3rd Blog Posting: Blogs in Education

After this week, we will have covered both wikis and blogs in an academic setting.  Carefully reflect on their possible uses, and then answer the following question:

1. What can a wiki or blog do better than a classroom webpage? The same? No better?

Next, comment on an interesting post this week by another teacher.

Week 2 Blog Posts

Post your comments to the following...
1. The tools listed in "the 23 things" that most interest me are...
2.  My first impression about wikis in education, or spefically Wikipedia, is...
3.  Before our next class meeting, come back and post a comment discussing one of your colleagues' postings.  Please identify that person by their initials at the end of the their blog post. 

Welcome to Web 2.0!

Welcome to Web 2.0! Remember to identify your class blog postings with your initials only. 

 Our first blog comments are:

1. Why am I here?
2. What can learning Web 2.0 mean to me both personally and professionally?