cengage2009 frydenberg
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Presentation at Conference 2009.TRANSCRIPT
Web 2.0
“While the first wave of the Web was closely tied to the browser, the second wave extends applications across the web and enables a new generation of services and business opportunities.”
Tim O’Reilly (2004)
Web 2.0
Social
Applications
Technology
Today’s Students
“Digital” Students:
Continuously multi-taskingWork in teamsCreate and consume
contentHandle lots of informationGoogle everythingAre always connected
Learning?
Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.”
Mark Prensky
http://www.markprensky.com/writing
Learning with Web 2.0 Tools
Web 2.0
Learning in a Web 2.0 World
What do you want to learn? Where does the data /information come from? How can it be shared? What do we know? What connections can we make?
Learning Today
Happens Anywhere Experiential Relevant /
Real World Engaging, Active Problem Solving Critical thinking Collaborative Produce, Consume, and Organize Knowledge “Figure it out” attitude
Memorize
Analyze,Synthesize
Tools for Engaging Today’s Students
Whose class is it?
Whose class is it now?
Wikis
Google Sites
Surveys Made Simple:Google Forms
Live Polling
Embed on Blog or Web Site
Include in PowerPoint
Some offer Cell Phone Polling
Home | Prices | Developers | Blog | Wiki beta
Create Web Video:viddler.comVideo for your Blog or Web Site
Live Blogging: coveritlive.comCreate a “backchannel”
Ask students to take notes
Post questions
Slide Sharing:slideshare.net
CollaborativeBrowsing:twiddla.com
Live Video Streaming:ustream.tv
Turn your PC into a TV Studio
Chat with your viewers.
Desktop Sharing:crossloop.com
Download the Crossloop client.
Yuuguu.com is another browser based desktop sharing tool
Micro-blogging:TwitterFind people like you to follow
Twhirl client on your PC
Build a social network!
Twitter Educators to follow
