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Click the Edit tab, add a sentence or two about Web 2.0, and then save this page.  It is easy!

 

The term Web 2.0 is associated with web applications that facilitate participatory information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design,[1] and collaboration on the World Wide Web. These new applications have shifted the paradigm from Web 1.0 tools and are helping to prepare students for the 21st century job market and life-long learning.  Students who understand 2.0 will be able learn what they want, when they want, and how they want. Understanding 2.0 platforms and concepts allows everyone to be a learner.   Creating  Web 2.0 technologies allow teachers to help their students to build their visual literacy skills as well as, share, contribute, collaborate, create, and communicate with peers whether known or unknown, in their town or from across the globe. Web 2.0 technologies includes, but is not limited to blogs, wikis, podcasts, RSS, and other cool tools. One of the most impressive yet controversial wikis is www.wikipedia.org, whose tagline is "The free encyclopedia that anyone can edit." So, how can we trust wikpedia if anyone can edit it?  Simple.  According to a test done by Alex Halavais, he created thirteen errors and within a couple of hours the problems were fixed.  This helps to prove that there are many more people wanting the information to be correct than those who want to make it wrong. However, we still need to inform students of the dangers of believing everything they read on the internet.  Here's a link to a nifty tool that is now not operating: http://www.bubbleply.com/default.htm.  By using Web 2.0 tools in education, teachers can create a student-centered environment for learning since the tools are user driven. Student learning using Web 2.0 can occur in a classroom, library, home, coffeeshop, or anywhere where students have internet access.  Web 2.0 has come a long way to provide the ability to not only share, but collaborate online!  Many people worry about student security on these sites, but many sites allow for teachers to control who views and edits information.  This is especially useful for younger students.  One of these tools is called Edmodo.  Edmodo is called the "Facebook" for classrooms.  It is completely safe tool with endless possibilites for classroom sue. www.edmodo.com  

Drop Box https://www.dropbox.com/ is an innovative Web 2.0 tool that you can use anywhere as a storage unit for pictures, documents and videos. It is free and is great tool to use for traveling or researching.  Wikis as a tool for teaching foreign language can serve as a centralized teacher and student-based hub where valuable language-learning websites can be accessed. 

 

Evernote http://evernote.com/ is one of my favorite Web 2.0 tools. It is a free, cloud-based note taking and organizational tool. It runs on multiple devices and platforms. Evernote includes the capability to record and store voice notes, images, text and documents in organized, tagged notebooks that can be accessed from the web, iPad, iPod Touch, Windows, Mac, and Android smartphones.

 

Evernote is a great way for students to accomplish independent and collaborative projects as well as a way for teachers to share instructional information with students. Notes and notebooks can be shared via public or private links. Draft your notes on one device and they automatically appear and update in your account on any device. With Evernote---you are working in the cloud. Your data is not dependent on a particular computer or software application---the application and your data are both stored and delivered to and from servers via the Internet.

 

The Evernote Trunk is a great place to find other cloud based products that integrate with Evernote. http://trunk.evernote.com/ Skitch http://evernote.com/skitch/ is one of the cloud services that works independently but also integrates with Evernote. This app allows you to capture, edit and markup your screen captures and images with shapes and comments. You can send information from Skitch directly to your Evernote account.

 

You can even send tweets straight to notes in Evernote. Here’s how: http://blog.evernote.com/2009/04/14/evernote_twitter/

 

I am curious if there is a movement for anything concerning "Apps 2.0".  The big thing about the internet that has changed in the last 10 years is the transition from the 'dot com' revolution to the 'app revolution'.  Web tools are awesome and there are 1001 possibilities, but I'd love to explore how Apps for smart phones can also enhance the learning process.  There are many platforms that are beginning to allow integration between the web tool and Apps for smart phones, tablets, and iPads.  One such tool that has seen many improvements across the mobile platform as well as the web platform is Google Drive www.drive.google.com.  This is a storage tool that can be used to store both Google documents as well as other documents that can be uploaded.  All files uploaded and stored can be accessed across multiple devices.

 

I couldn't agree more!  We're getting iPads for use in our classroom this year, and I'm so excited to learn about how they can be used.  I've heard about Apps for practicing specific skills such as multiplication facts, but I'm wondering what kind of Apps there are to promote deeper understanding of concepts.

 

One App I like to use with my students is Educreations. Educreations is like a virtual, recording whiteboard. The presentation, or explanation can be uploaded on to the web. I use it to have students show understanding of concepts. I find that this is great for promoting deeper understanding. One drawback is that the App is tied to an online account. This can become cumbersome with several classes using the same iPads. Currently, the App is tied to my online account. When the student are done, they upload it to my account.

 

I am strong believer in review review and review. There is online program called Castle Learning creates activities and practice exams for students to do at home and classroom. Last time I checked, students can do it on their computes, ipads and smartphones. I think it would be great for students to has increase access to review questions. They have online questions for all subjects. 

 

Open Bible Geocoding (http://www.openbible.info/geo/). Explore Bible locales as they appear on our modern globe, utilizing the power of Google Earth. Click on a Bible book and chapter, and be taken to the places mentioned in that chapter. Many of those places have photos of archaeological sites, sometimes in the spherical.

 

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