Blogs, Wikis and Podcasts and other Powerful WebTools for Classrooms, Will Richardson
- Citizen Journalist-participatory journalism
- example: Northwest Voice
- Greensboro 101
- Read/Write Web - contrast with early web which was one way - read only
- Education Impacts
- worldwide public communication both by students and teacher
- how do we think about literacy under that condition?
- what are risks and opportunities?
- Digital Natives who (Mathew Bischoff , Dylan Verdi) have gotten national recognition for the innovative ways they use the web.
- Teachers: digital immigrants - did not grow up with technology.
- Tools are easy to use and should help close the gap
- 21st century tool box
- Weblogs - easy to use, can handle pictures, video, text with comments
- Wikis online collaborative webspace
- Rich Site Summary - allow you to subscribe to feeds of content created on the Internet
- Aggregators- collects and organizes content generated by RSS feeds
- Social Bookmarking -0 saves addresses as well as entire pages and allow subject specific resources lists which then can be shared via RSS
- Online photo galleries Flickr - my site
- Audio/Video-casting publish and distribute digital and video files (Claxton Food video )
How will this change the way you teach? What do you hope to accomplish with the first Blog you do?
What do you consider when teaching with technology
- Student Safety
- commonsense
- policy/law - federal, state and local
- Gov't regulation CIPA
- monitors and filters content at school
- privacy of students
- Make your own web tours/webquests, use class blog to identify safe content to support your curriculum
- Know how to use permissions and settings to protect children
- Notify parents of the Internet use
- Be ready to set guidelines and stick to them with students
- Be sure students are aware that information posted to the web is there permanently and that they have no control once it's posted
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