Summer Term Week 5: Prezi

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

Week 3: Social Bookmarking Tools

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

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?

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?

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?

Week 6: Prezi

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

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?

Week 4: Creative Commons

1. How do you attribute image/video copyright in your lessons, professional presentations, and research/writing?
2. What do you require of your students when they use images they find on the internet for posters, presentations, etc?  What should you require that you don't already do?

Week 3: Social Bookmarking

How can educators make best use of social bookmarking tools such as Diigo?

Week 2: Wikis, Blogs, & Writing (Oh, my!)

1. My first impression about using wikis in education, specifically Wikipedia, is...
2. What can a blog do for me both in my personal and professional life?

Spring 2012 Class: 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?