Teaching With Web 2.0

Creativity, Collaboration, & Community.

teaching with lweb 2.0 Web 2.0 tools enable users to contribute content easily to the Internet and communicate with others. Blogs and wiki are frequenly mentioned tools with educational applications in the Read/Write Web, though many other tools and platforms fall into this category.

"Group audio blogging" and VoiceThread. New technologies enable multiple users to record audio to the same Web page to accompany graphics.

voicethread example

Podcasting in the classroom.

GarageBand is a great tool for recording and editing audio for a podcast. iTunes is a convenient means of collecting and distributing podcasts.

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Mobile Podcasting or "mobcasting."

New applications are beginning to make cell phones powerful tools for education. Podcasting on the go is just one way to take advantage of the mobility of mobile phones.

Collaborative graphic organizers and mind-mapping tools

Inspiration and Freemind are wonderful applications, but for free, anytime-anywhere collaborative mind-mapping at try Gliffy or bubble.us. Students can collaborate from anywhere using these tools and can print their mind-maps, or embed them in Web pages. read more

Mashups of feeds and aggregators.

"Mashups" can combine RSS feeds and small applications, commonly called "widgets," on a single Web page. Both Pageflakes or netvibes are excellent free tools, as is Google's iGoogle. You can use these tools to collect and display updated Internet content and they are especially usefully for current-events projects.

"Mashups" of RSS feeds and widgets.

"Mashups" typically combine RSS feeds and small applications, commonly called "widgets," on a single Web page. Both Pageflakes or netvibes are excellent free tools, as is Google's iGoogle. You can use these tools to collect and display updated Internet content and they are especially usefully for current-events projects.

Online Social Networks

Classroom 2.0 is social networking for educators using collaborative technologies. Join in discussions and share ideas and lessons. Share your web bookmarks with delicious. Upload bookmarks; tag and search other's bookmarks and join a network!