Blogs+Wikis+Nings

Module 2:

“Blogs, Wikis, Nings…Web 2.0 Tools for Schools

 * National Educational Technology Standards** **-** we will meet and/or exceed.

****NETS - National Educational Technology Standards****

// Educational Administrators promote an environment of professional learning // // and innovation that empowers educators to enhance student learning through the infusion of contemporary technologies and // //digital resources.// // Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments. // // Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, // // to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others. //
 * NETS - Administrators**
 * // Excellence in Professional Practice. //**
 * NETS - Teachers**
 * // Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity //**
 * NETS - Students**
 * // Communication and Collaboration //**

You will be able to

 * 1) Identify effective Web 2.0 tools and methods of using new Web 2.0 tools in your classroom.
 * 2) Describe the significance of using new tools for today's digital learners.
 * 3) Select Web 2.0 tools to use with your students and/or other educators.

This is Important Because………
We live in a world in which jobs are changing and requirements for workers are shifting so much that the most important skill for the future is adaptability. Businesses are requiring employees to have new skills and use new tools to run their business. Young people need to be prepared technologically and intellectually. This is a challenging time to be an educator. The world is changing around us, yet our educational system has been very slow to react. Our students' realities in terms of the way they communicate and learn are very different from our own. It seems like they are "out there" using a wide variety of technologies that they do not use at school or they are told they cannot use it when they come to school. Our students our building social networks, texting, e-mailing with little or no guidance form adults. How do we rethink our ideas of literacy when we must prepare our students to become not only readers and writers, but editors and collaborators and publishers as well? How can we as learners begin to take advantage of the opportunities these tools and use them to integrate into our curriculum?

**Edutopia -Welcome to the Digital Generation**
[|**http://www.edutopia.org/**]

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Ice Breaker Activity
What is an Innovator? [|Wikipedia's Definition] How many Innovators can you think of?

** NETS*S- **** Creativity and Innovation ** Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology. ** NETS*T - **** Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity ** Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments ** NETS*A ** - ** Visionary Leadership. ** Educational Administrators inspire and lead development and implementation of a shared vision for comprehensive integration of technology to promote excellence and support transformation throughout the organization. || · Go to the Web 2.0 Tool [|Wordle] · Copy what you typed in your Wiki and paste it in your Wordle. || Wordle [] Why Wordle [] Forty-Three Interesting Ways to use Wordle in the Classroom [] [|Using Wordle to analyze Presidential speeches of the past and present] Forty-Six Interestingg ways to use Wordle in the Classroom [] media type="custom" key="4955799" align="left" media type="custom" key="5682403" media type="custom" key="7460729" media type="custom" key="5703279" width="325" height="264" ||
 * **Components** || **Activities** ||
 * **Standards ****and**
 * Mini Lesson** || ** Comprehension Strategy: Determining Importance Lesson: **
 * Finding Important Information reading Nonfiction Books **
 * ** Response **
 * and Reflection ** || · Read and Review Chapters 1, 2, and 3 from the Web 2.0 Book. Then find 3 important facts from each chapter. Record the facts for each Chapter on your school’s Wiki page. Copy all of your facts.
 * ** Sharing - ** || **Share your Wordle on your wiki page.** [[image:techmodelclassrooms/Technology_Integration_Demonstration_Classroom.jpg align="left" caption="Technology_Integration_Demonstration_Classroom.jpg"]]



=Innovators and Innovation=
 * ** Chets Creek Elementary **
 * [|**Mrs. Susan Phillips -**] Principal
 * [|**Melanie Holtsman**] **-** Instructional Technology Coach
 * **Louis Sheffield Elementary**
 * Art Lauzon - Principal
 * Mrs. Cowan's Class - Classroom Teacher and STC
 * [|3rd Grade Math and Science Blog]Ms. McGarity's Class
 * San Mateo's Blog San Mateo's Technology PLC have discovered some really awesome sites and new things to do with our existing technology. Throughout the year the teachers will be posting websites, Web 2.0 tools, etc. or featuring a blog, wiki, etc. of one of our colleagues so you can see what's going on with technology at our school.

> =Wikis =

Wiki examples: > Book of the Month wiki > First grade teachers' wiki(group) > Book log wiki > Stanton College Prep Faculty Technology > Mt. Herman Wiki > Brookview -Online Technology Inventory > Alimacani-CLC Kindergarten Konnection: The Power of Retelling > Alimacani - CLC Science Articulation: Lesson Development & Writing in Science =Blogs =

> [|Using images to explain content to parents] > [|Sharing classroom pictures with families] > [|Sharing lesson videos] > <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">[|Sharing ways to help students at home through videos and links] > <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Classroom projects with directions and links] > Blog examples: > <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Classroom blog] > <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Coaching blog] > <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Faculty recognition and learning] > <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Sharing professional development] > <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Global collaboration] > <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Mrs. Cowan & Mrs. Blackmar's Page > <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Technology in the Classroom > <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Cowan's Panthers > <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">4th grade math and science classroom > <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Coaching Blog > =<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Reflection** =

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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 81%;">Take Aways:

 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Web 2.0 book
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Begin developing your schools TNT Wiki
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Host your first TNT Team meeting to share what you have learned using your new hardware.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Suggest using the First and Second Meeting Agenda.

Web Resources:
A graduate class project. An alphabetical list of Web 2.0 tools and their applications in the classroom. What a great resource![]


 * Learning and Leading ISTE** March/April 2009 -**Grow Your Personal Learning Network** - New Technologies Can Keep You Connected and Help You Manage Information Overload by David Warlick

Let the Kids Do the Work A great article how a teacher uses Wikis to develop a community of Writers.
 * Learning and Leading ISTE** September/October 2008 - **Web 2.0 Today's Technologies, Tomorrow's Learning**