Samples of Web 2.0 technologies

1. Wiki Software:

http://www.wikispaces.com/

http://pbwiki.com/academic.wiki

http://www.wetpaint.com/

Below  is Kevin Hadley’s example of a wiki used in Chemical Engineering:

http://www.hadleytestwiki.pbwiki.com 
 

2. Educational Wiki Sites:

http://www.wikieducator.org/Content

http://web20ineducation.wikispaces.com/ 
 

3. Blog Software:

https://www.blogger.com/start

http://www.ning.com/

http://wordpress.com/

4. Blogssamples:

http://learningfromsocialworlds.wordpress.com/

[interesting project done on 'Second Life' technology - multi-user virtual environments]

http://network.nature.com/

http://www.classroom20.com/

http://education.ning.com/

http://worldsofwordcraft.wordpress.com/

http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/cftpodcast/

http://edwired.org/

http://msstroutscw.blogspot.com/

Other helpful  re/sources:

http://www.academiccommons.org/issue/january-2009 

The online magazine above contains articles on different aspects regarding teaching web 2.0 technologies – the issue coming in February 2009 will also focus on web technologies….

http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k1985&pageid=icb.page29705

http://web20intheclassroom.blogspot.com/

 

Other interesting software:

http://voicethread.com/ 

http://technorati.com/

http://www.flickr.com/

http://moodle.org/

http://delicious.com/

http://secondlife.com/

 
Videos watched in the workshop:

Wikis in plain English
Blogs in plain English

Web-based Learning

Facilitator: Maria Ebner, Graduate Teaching Fellow

Session 2, 2:30-3:45  
    
Register for this session here!

Nowadays educators ask again: 

What is it like being a student today? And, how does the 21st Century affect learning? Or does it at all?  

My name is Maria Ebner, I am a Graduate Teaching Fellow at the Center for Teaching, and I will be leading a session at gradSTEP in January 2009 which will focus on Web 2.0 technologies in classrooms, and their impact on teaching.

According to the YouTube video by Michael Welsch, a student today will read 2300 web pages, 1281 Facebook profiles this year, and 8 books. They will write 42 pages for class assignments this semester, and over 500 pages of email. Today’s undergraduates are “multi-taskers”, and they have to be, right?  Students of the 21st Century enter our classrooms with different experiences, expectations, and learning styles than previous generations of students.

How can we, as educators, hope to reach this increasingly diverse student body?  Many of today’s web technologies can be powerful tools for creating effective, collaborative web-based learning spaces.

And now I ask again:

What is it like to be a teacher today? How does web-based technology shape your classroom? Or should it at all?

Let me hear from you!

A Vision of Students Today (& What Teachers MUST do)

When I stumbled upon the video below some weeks ago I started seriously thinking about how technology has influenced my own classroom and what the impact was on my student’s learning. Until today, I was convinced that not only does technology advance learning in an exciting and collaborative way but that students would also enjoy the use of it. TODAY though, while I was working on this blog of all things, I listened to an undergraduate student state the exact opposite. The student put it plainly ~ NO Undergrad wants to spend time blogging for some random class on a regular basis nor do they want wikis, or any other online collaborative technology! They only end up being busy work and lack substance… So there you have it. What would Michael Welsch say now? 

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

    
 Michael Wesch - October 21st, 2008 – (Brave New Classroom 2.0)

In spring 2007 I invited the 200 students enrolled in the “small” version of my “Introduction to Cultural Anthropology” class to tell the world what they think of their education by helping me write a script for a video to be posted on YouTube. The result was the disheartening portrayal of disengagement you see below. The video was viewed over one million times in its first month and was the most blogged about video in the blogosphere for several weeks, eliciting thousands of comments. With rare exception, educators around the world expressed the sad sense of profound identification with the scene, sparking a wide-ranging debate about the roles and responsibilities of teachers, students, and technology in the classroom.

http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2008/10/a-vision-of-students-today-what-teachers-must-do/