Download - 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
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
Screenshots and Screencastingwith just a few clicks
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
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
est
• 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:
Presentation Resourceshttp://tinyurl.com/velizpresent
Blogging @ www.StephenVeliz.net
Twitter - @stephenveliz
