Web 2.0 Tools in the Classroom

Mark FrydenbergBentley University, Waltham, MA

Twitter: @checkmark

“kids back then didn’t expect to be engagedby everything they did”

http://afterthe.net/journal/feed/

Today’s Students

Live Blogging: coveritlive.comCreate a “backchannel” Ask students to take notesPost questions

“Digital” Students:

• Continuously multi-tasking• Work in teams• Create and consume content• Handle lots of information• Google everything• Are 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

Appreciate

Participate

Investigate

Communicate

Collaborate

Create

Web 2.0

Learning Today

• Happens Anywhere• Experiential• Relevant /

Real World• Engaging, Active• Problem Solving• Critical thinking• Collaborative• Produce, Consume, and Organize Knowledge• “Figure it out” attitude

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? • What can we create?

Memorize

Analyze,Synthesize

Tools for Engaging Today’s Students

Podcasts Social Networks

Social Bookmarking

Live BloggingCollaboration

ToolsBlogs

Wikis Video Mashups

Whose class is it?

Whose class is it now?

WikisGoogle Sites

Hint: Use Your Google Site as a Course Entry Point in Blackboard

To change your landing page in Blackboard, go to Control Panel Course Options Manage Course Menu External Link. Create an external link to your Google site.

Then go to Control Panel Settings -> Course Entry Point and select the Google site as the entry point.

Live Polling

Embed on Blog or Web Site Include in PowerPointSome offer Cell Phone or Twitter Polling

                            

Scheduling EventsPolls

Delicious with RSS

Create Web Video:viddler.comVideo for your Blog or Web Site

Slide Sharing:slideshare.net

CollaborativeBrowsing:

Dimdim.com

twiddla.com

GOOGLE

• 411• Scholar• Blogger

• Docs• Spreadsheet• Presentations• Sites• Reader• Email• Wave

Live Video Streaming:ustream.tv

Turn your PC into a TV StudioChat with your viewers.

Desktop Sharing:crossloop.com

Download the Crossloop client.

Yuuguu.com is another browser based cross—platform desktop sharing tool

Micro-blogging:TwitterFind people like you to followTwhirl client on your PC

Build a social network!

Twitter Educators to follow

How cool was that?

Mark FrydenbergTwitter: @checkmarkEmail: mfrydenberg@bentley.edu