1. Humanities 2.0
Nancy Jones
Katie Lowry
Sacred Heart Schools

2. Created on wordle.net
3. Benefits
Expects students to construct & validate meaning
Makes Learning Public
Purposeful Reflection
Participatory Learning and Peer Teaching
Multimodal Learning
Prosumers Producers of content
A Well Rounded Education for a Flat World Richard Hersh
The Change Agents Cheryl Lemke & Ed Coghlin
ASCDMagazine
4. WIKIS
Can serve a number of purposes
Creates easy one stop shopping
Great tool for collaboration
Did I say it was easy? Just type and enter
Allows for discussion and questions
Gives students an opportunity to share what they learn
Engages learners
5. Start small
6.

Wanted to incorporate elements of our Washington, D.C. trip with a reflective exercise 7. Created a collaborative project between all four 8th grade classes that required discussion and creation entirelyon the wikispace 8. Utilize visuals, primary resources, and create a haiku 9. Present at an all middle school assembly for Memorial Day

Dont forget to save!!
10. Can send email to author
Discussion Tab
Allows a member to see revision history
Can create educator account with no advertising
11. 12. The Apiary
13. Roles:
connect chapter quote and explain
allusions, metaphors. or symbols
research enricher - could be historical info or about bees or even black Madonna
Vocabulary
blog as a character
blog as a character ( this would be to have at least 2 perspectives other than Lily's per chapter, maybe add another as more characters are introduced)
Illustrator ( I am working to have a clear description of this)
Key quotes or concepts and support
Powerful paragraph - choose either because of concepts ,theme, or writing style and explain
10. Motifs or extended metaphors- how they continue and or connect ( i.e. the image of bees per chapter and what they represent) ,
how people handle grief,
Every student has 7 jobs
Every other chapter
14. Students drew and then scanned their images
15. Blogging as a character inresponse to the events of that chapter
From The B-Hive
16. 17. French blog
18. Mrs. Lowrys Math Class
19. 20. Blogmeister
Pros

Teacher review before publishing 21. Student created pages are fun 22. Benefit of recommending changes to students

Cons

Difficult to search for blogs 23. Requires a lot of teacher set up 24. Less design options for teacher/student

Buzzin About Books
25. Edublogs.org
26. Voicethread
27. Humanities 2.0

Writing for a real audience 28. Developing a sense of voice 29. Writing with a purpose 30. Real Life connections 31. Making learning social 32. Multimodal experiences 33. Creating content 34. Peer Teaching 35. Engaging Learners

For more information
Lee LeFevres Common Craft Show This includes short videos on all things 2.0
Free November 16 Webinar-Introduction to Wikispaces
Twelve Essentials for Technology Integration by Richard Byrne
Edublogs.org information and sign up page
Class Blogmeister- examples cited. Also sign up page
Voicethread great tool for digital storytelling
Wordle- How to create
Jeopardy Labs create your own templates or use one already created
36. THANKYOU
Nancy.jones@shschicago.org
Katie.lowry@shschicago.org
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