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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, pod-casts, 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 Wikipedia 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, coffee shop, 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 possibilities 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.

 

The tools available in Google Drive (formerly known as Google Docs) offer some great resources for teachers and students to use.  The live, online accessibility provided by Google Docs allows users to create and share documents with multiple collaborators so they can edit documents simultaneously.  This opens up a wide variety of options for teachers and students to work with colleagues and peers.  Teachers can create assignments for their students that are engaging and collaborative.  They can monitor the progress of student writing assignments, make comments on assignments without destroying the original document, and also minimize classroom disruptions that can be caused by student movement around the room and students sharing computers.

 

One of the incredibly useful tools within Google Drive is the Script Gallery which gives users the ability to add functionality to their documents. 

 

Flubaroo is an example of one of the free tools available in the Script Gallery that teachers can add to a Google Form/Spreadsheet to quickly grade assessments.  The ability to virtually see the grades as students complete their assessments provides teachers with increased opportunities for immediate intervention for students who are struggling.

 

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.

 

We used Animoto for a group of fifth grade students with special needs. We created a resource file of information on the thirteen colonies. Students gathered facts and images and created ads to attract new colonists. We received a second place award from Google at our annual 2012 NJASA, New Jersey Association of School Administrators, conference in Atlantic City, NJ. In addition, we were invited by our local newspaper, The Asbury Park Press, to appear on a special internet broadcast about news in education. Try it! You'll love how easy it is!

 

Since I am a math teacher, I really like using WolframAlpha. It is a program online that allows you to type in math problems and it will produce the answer. However, it will also show you the steps to solving the problem. http://www.wolframalpha.com/

 

Doceri is a great interactive whiteboard app for your iPad.  You can walk around the classroom and present lesson content directly from your iPad.  It not only acts as a whiteboard, but you can also create recordings and screencasts ahead of time.  These can even be mirrored using Apple TV via AirPlay.  One of the biggest reasons I use it in class is to link from my desktop; anything that's on my desktop can be manipulated using Doceri on the iPad--the iPad uses Doceri to act as a remote control.  So whatever presentation I have running on my desktop, using Doceri with the iPad allows me access for presentation control anywhere in the room.  It's a great tool if you want to set your iPad on a student's desk to check understanding.

 

As we integrate more and more of the common core standards and requirements into our curricula, web 2.0 technology is becoming an integral part of this process.  The website Kerpoof is excellent for accomplishing many of the common core standards, especially for storytelling components, on a differentiated platform.  Kerpoof allows the students to create stories, or story elements, and express their ideas through easy to manipulate templates for telling a story, making a picture, making a movie, etc.  They have something for everyone, grades K-8.

 

One new Web 2.0 tool I have just learned about is UTellStory. It is similar to VoiceThread, but easier to use. It allows you to make slideshows with your own images or media that you find online and add audio to it. You can also add text. The finished slide shows can be public or private and can be embedded in blogs, wikis, or other sites. It is free, accessible to ELLs, and is completely browser-based. 

 

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http://www.annefrank.org/en/Subsites/Home/- Awesome interactive site about Anne Frank.  Take a tour of the secret annex!

 

i know it has been mentioned many times... because it's that great. But Google Apps, and Google Drive in particular, is an amazing tool. One cool unplanned use of it last year was when our English 11 class had a debate, and students were updating rebuttal points in real time for each other as the debate went on. It was great for collaboration.

 

I love using http://quizstar.4teachers.org!  With Quizstar, you can set-up your classes by name and times.  The classes can be set-up as public or private.  I choose private so that I restrict access to users (as there are always random users that try to sign-up for my classes which can make retrieving grades a problem).  Then, you can create and assign quizzes/tests to each class.  Those quizzes can have a start/end time and a certain number of attempts.  The quizzes grade themselves automatically (unless you use open ended questions).  Students can see results immediately (as far as a score/percent) upon submitting their quiz/test.  Then, you can assign results with answers to appear immediately or once the quiz expires (which is the option I choose so that students aren't looking over the answer key as others are still completing the quiz/test).  I have been using this site for 10 years, and I can't imagine using anything else.  I love it!  And, best of all...it's FREE!!

 

I like use of the blogspot.com.  I found that it was extremely easy to use and it can be an effective tool for the classroom.  I can blog with my students and I can put assignments, projects, notes, etc. on the page for the students to see.  This is extremely useful if the students is absent from class.  It is also useful for the parents to see if the students have work to complete for my class.  School-notes is a great site that is coincides with this.

 

I read a lot online, and have had trouble keeping track of it all. Bookmarks are OK, but with the sheer volume they're not enough. In addition, there isn't a way to annotate and otherwise take notes about the websites. Until now. Diigo to the rescue! Diigo lets me store all of the URLs I choose, regardless of site or type. I also can annotate, categorize, and sort them. I am creating a Diigo group for the articles I send to my colleagues at school; this way, they only have to subscribe to the site, instead of slog through my emails. Makes my and their lives easier, I'm sure! Diigo to the rescue!

 

One tool I am excited to use with my middle school students this year is Thinglink. It is free, simple to use, and has relevance across the curriculum. Students simply create an account, upload an image, and create tags, which are then linked to any site imaginable by inserting the url to create an interactive experience for the user. Images can then be emibedded and shared to allow for comments, and you can follow users too. Here is a slideshare for more information. 

 

One tool I will be using this year is called Animoto. My students can make professional looking videos with music. Animoto lends itself to any topic. Most parts of it are free and allows students to use 30 second music clips and can add video and pictures. It is a great tool to use in collaboration with novels and the theme of the novel.

 

I'm using many Web 2.0 tools these days. I recently introduced kidblogs to my 7-8 year old students. I had previously tried Wikispaces, with limited success. Once I told them how to create their own blogs, within a few weeks all of the students had started using them . Now they are posting their pictures, projects, and commenting on each others' work. Although a Wiki is good for collaborating on creating content, it is not so good at creating original work spaces. I'm looking forward to seeing what else we'll be creating on kidblogs. http://kidblog.org/home/

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