Web 2.0 Promises and Potentials (LL2007 4D)
| Session Overview | |
| Presenter(s): | Quentin D’Souza
Rob De Lorenzo |
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| Session Time: | May 7, 2007
2:45 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. |
| Session Number: | LL2007 4D |
| Presenter Bio: | Quentin D’Souza is an Elementary Resource Teacher in the Academic Information and Communication Technology Department at the Toronto Catholic District School Board. He helps teachers improve the quality of education they can deliver to their students through the use of technology. You can keep up with Quentin’s activities and writing by visiting his blog at http://www.teachinghacks.com/.
Rob De Lorenzo is an Elementary Resource Teacher in the Academic Information and Communication Technology Department at the Toronto Catholic District School Board. During his time as an educator in the classroom, Rob incorporated many software applications into his teaching to enhance student learning. Now as a resource teacher, Rob works at the local level with teachers delivering numerous in-services, workshops and presentations to teachers within the TCDSB, sharing his expertise in incorporating software and web tools into daily teaching. Rob currently maintains a blog on web resources for the study of Canadian history at http://canuckhistory.wordpress.com |
[edit] Session Description
The shift from the World Wide Web of the past to the Read/Write Web of today has lead to significant changes in how educators and students can interact with each other. Web 2.0 tools such as blogs, wikis, podcasts, social bookmarking and other online collaboration/social networking tools are changing the ways that students are learning and educators are teaching in today’s classroom. The key shift from “Web 1.0” to “Web 2.0” stems from the increased interactivity of new web tools. This increased interactivity provides students and teachers with easier ways to publish to the internet and to collaborate with peers. These tools are helping to connect students within their own classrooms and to a global audience. The presentation will include an overview of Web 2.0 tools and the potential these tools have to change the way students interact with each other and with subject matter. Curricular connections and classroom examples will be discussed in order to demonstrate how Web 2.0 tools are being utilized in the classroom. What are some of the promises and potentials that this will bring to the classroom? What are some controversies around using these tools?
[edit] Links From The Presentation
- Machine is us/ing us (4:31 min)
- Teaching and Learning with the Net Generation by Kassandra Barnes, Raymond C. Marateo, and S. Pixy Ferris
- Virginia Tech Massacre on Wikipedia
- World Association of Newspapers
- Kissing the Book Goodbye: Wikipedia
- ThinkFree
- Zoho
- The Wealth of Networks (2006) By Yochai Benkler (online)
- Social software and learning: An Opening Education report from Futurelab By Martin Owen, Lyndsay Grant, Steve Sayers and Keri Facer
- The Horizon Project - New Media Consortium and Educause
- Twitter - http://www.Twitter.com
- TwitterViz
- iPods in Special Education
- http://www.librivox.org/
- http://www.manybooks.net/
- http://www.mogopop.com/
- http://twitter.com/teachandlearn
- http://twitter.com/timlauer
- This project "Global Village" connects students from around the world, and encourages them to tell their story of life from where they live.http://www.wikiville.org.uk/index.php/Main_Page
- This project is a multilingual vocabulary resource. Mulivo is a non-profit, uncopyrighted, volunteer wiki project for creating a multilingual dictionary.http://mulivo.pbwiki.com/
- The MemoryArchive, as an encyclopedia of memories. There motto "Everyone has a Story. Make Yours History."http://www.memorywiki.org/en/MemoryArchive
- Wikibooks, the open-content textbooks collection. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Education_bookshelf
- http://www.dekita.org - Dekita.org - ESL meeting place for teachers and students
[edit] Session Notes and Reflection
Promises
Possibilities