transform your classroom with web 2.0 tools

Digitally Transform Your Classroom

with Web 2.0 Tools

Florida EducationalTechnology Conference2013

Stephen C. VelizSwift Creek Middle School

Tallahassee, FL

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Put absent students back in your class

Establish a BackChannel

The Basics

What do we mean by Web 2.0?

Web 1.0 Web 2.0

Classroom 1.0 Classroom 2.0

Content Consumers Content Producers

It's not about the Technology.

It's about the Content!

The Basics

Why should we use Web 2.0 tools

with our students?

No generation in history has ever been so thoroughly prepared for the industrial age.

David Warlick

http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/?p=298 dangerouslyirrelevant.org

Why Web 2.0?

Motivate Students

Why Web 2.0?

Easy to Monitor

Why Web 2.0?

Students Create Content

Why Web 2.0?

Encourages Participation

Why Web 2.0?

Open Lines of Communication

In 2013, is it possible to be a good teacher and not integrate these tools into your teaching?

Getting Started

We can't meet students there,

unless we get there ourselves.

Establishing an Online Presence“The Digital Footprint”

➔ Teacher Website

➔ Blogging

➔ Micro-Blogging

➔ Social Networking

➔ Social Bookmarking

➔ Social Media

Do you have a “home” online?

… and many more!!

Put your head in the CLOUDS

Collaborate

Create

Share

Store

Social Bookmarking in Plain English

Screenshots and Screencastingwith just a few clicks

What’s my sentence? – Dan Pink

The Power of the PLN

What is a PLN?

Personal Learning Network

Professional Learning Network

Passionate Learning Network

The Power of the PLN

My PLN helps me be a better educator and prepare my students daily. They feed me experience, knowledge, and support 24 hours a day / 7 days a week.

Shelly Sanchez Terrell@ShellTerrell

Connect

What’s it all about?

•Follow and Be Followed

• The power of #hashtags

• Give and Take

• Watch it Grow

• Reap the Benefits

Your weekly meeting with the World

• #edchat• edchat.pbworks.com• Tuesdays at 12 and 7

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• Subject-Area Chats– #sschat Mondays 7pm– Cybrary Man

Managing a Twitter Stream

Read and Write

●A good place to start . . .

● Richard Byrne

freetech4teachers.com

● Shelly Terrell

teacherbootcamp.edublogs.org

● Steven Anderson

blog.web20classroom.org

● Wesley Fryer

speedofcreativity.org

● Learning with ‘e’s

steve-wheeler.blogspot.com

● Vicki Davis

coolcatteacher.blogspot.com

Annual “Unofficial”

FETC Tweet & Greet

Tomorrow Evening7:00pm - ?

TGI Friday’s8955 International Drive

Complete Session Evaluations atwww.edmodo.com/fetcevals

or on the FETC Mobile App

Edmodo Group CodeWMP032

Need additional help?

Just contact me:

stephenveliz@gmail.com

Presentation Resourceshttp://tinyurl.com/velizpresent

Blogging @ www.StephenVeliz.net

Twitter - @stephenveliz