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Natasha Woodall Quezada 12/04/11 Chapter 11 Summary  This chapter breaks down all the web 2.0 tools discussed in the book. The tools are broken down into sections.  ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
 * Annotation and note taking
 * Audio and Podcast tools
 * Blogs
 * Calendars
 * Collaborative writing tools
 * Idea or Mind mapping
 * Educator and Student communities
 * Communication and online discussion tools
 * Content management systems and learning spaces
 * Online whiteboards
 *  Maps
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.99px;">Microblogging and microblog readers
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.99px;">Photo editing and photo sharing
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.99px;">Presentation and video editing tools
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.99px;">Publishing and drawing tools
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.99px;">Portals and social bookmarking
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.99px;">Quiz and activities generators
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.99px;">Timelines
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.99px;">Video conferencing
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.99px;">Video sharing
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.99px;">Virtual worlds
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.99px;">Wikis
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.99px;">Other tools
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.99px;">Each section different in length depending on what each web tool provides and each tool is briefly explained with their website to go to. This makes it an easy reference tool for teachers and anyone looking for web 2.0 information.

Natasha Woodall Quezada

11-30-11 Chapter 10 Summary

__Audacity__- multitrack audio editor and recorder, an easy to teach in the class. Record audio and store on computer as digital audio. Edit, fade, mix, effects, convert, and change speed. Used as a podcast students accomplish authentic learning. Students become more responsible for their work because others can hear their podcast products. [] __Delicious-__ Tagging of websites that become accessable from any computer and a build in network to share your tagged sites. Also a search engine. In a classroom students can see what websites the teacher has tagged and may have a note attached telling what each site is for. [] __Diigo-__ Similar to Delicious but you can also highlight, comment, skickynote, share on twitter, blog, or other social media. Teacher can create profile-less files for those students under 13 years old. [|www.diigo.com] __Drupal-__ Allows groups/ individuals to manage their online content. School districts can use for their homepages, parent/student interactive website. [|www.skyline.org] While using a hosting company such as [|www.site5.com] you can automatically have Drupal installed. __Evernote-__ You can clip text, images, audio, PDF files and save them to one location. This helps students organize notes and info for research, text, photo, video that students can use on their phone, PC, or IPod. [|www.evernote.com] __Google Earth-__ You can view the world, 3-D buildings, and students can view where they live and other places they may be researching. In the new ocean layer, you can plunge all the way to the floor of the sea. [] __Google Forms (Surveys)-__ To make an online survey form. When respondents submit results, it is automatically populates a Google spreadsheet. To sign in you need a Google account. __Google Reader and custom RSS feeds-__ Enables users to subscribe to a news source, blog, or webpage that is continually updated. [] __Issuu-__ A digital publishing platform for student’s work. Students can publish their work such as poetry booklets, comic books, and other creative works. [] __Moodle-__ A course management system that is a safe online learning center for teachers and students to work in. [] __Netvibes-__ Content aggregator site that pulls information from different sites and displays the information onto one site. You can create a new website for free without ads. Teachers can keep track of student’s blogs through this site. [|www.netvibes.com] __Skype-__ Is videoconferencing system that allows you to see and talk to another person. You can also transfer files, call a landline phone, and text. [|www.skype.com/download] __Timetoast-__ An online timeline creation tool. A timeline allows for students to understand, organize, and remember information. [|www.timetoast.com] __Today’s meet-__ A teacher can create a private chatroom for students and the teacher gains instant feedback about student comprehension. [] __Voice thread-__ Students can setup presentations that include voice, video, text, or images, while allowing others to add to the presentation. [] __Voki__- Students can personalize speaking avatars that can be embedded into any online space, such as websites, blogs, or wikis. [|www.voki.com] __WizIQ-__ Is a virtual classroom environment that teachers and students communicate through videoconferencing. [|www.wiziq.com] __Wordle-__ Creates word clouds from text- the most frequently used words creating a picture. [|www.wordle.net] I found that each one of these would be useful to use in the classroom. Some more than others. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __Natasha Woodall Quezada__ __11-16-11__ __Chapter 9 Summary__ __Web 2.0 allows persons to write blogs, post images and videos, collaborate on documents, socialize, and others write comment on them. Web 3.0 is the semantic web where machines can read web pages much as humans can read them. Web 4.0 is deliverable and is based on who you are and what you do and what you need, it’s about activity.__ __It is ideal to provide schools and students with web access and customizable personal devices for every student. Teachers will be able to teach the students in a learning style they are most comfortable with. All the tools will be easy to access: images, voice, video, and more.__ __Technology plays an important role in communication from the presidential election to our own personal use. The ability to use emails, websites, blogs, and other resources to let others know what you want to say allow you to have a voice and have it heard. When students have outside access to worldly news they are kept up to date with current news and have the ability to access people who know about the subject they are researching, and many other possibilities. Through wikis and other online processing tools students and teachers conduct collaboration to each other and students within the networks.__ __Schools can also take advantage of the web through textbooks online. Not only will students have up to date materials but the schools will save money as well. By having lower cost technologies more children will have educational opportunities. Net-books and cell phones are the new laptops. They are small and convenient and encourage anytime, anywhere learning. I Pad, IPod, and cell phones allow students to blog, make comments, and discuss what the teacher has posted at an 24/7 convenience. Students who use the I Pad, IPod, or any other device they can use apps that the teacher has provided and also personalize the device with their own educational apps.__ __When students personalize their web pages, home pages, or anything to do with the web, they are not only personalizing it to meet their needs they are also learning from their experience. Students can pull information from sites to find information. Technology is the present and is more so the future. The teachers also learn how the students learn by reading their posts and observing how they utilize the web system. The teacher can make assessments through the past work that is posted online by each individual student.__ __Cloud service allows for all the information to be stored online and available to anyone who needs it and has access to it. Technology is different than it was when it first began. The web is more accessible through many resources and they are being used to teach, communicate, and collaborate.__ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __Natasha Woodall Quezada__ __11-10-11__ __Chapter 8 summary__ __A wiki is a program to create projects that involve writing, editing, adding elements like images and videos. When students as ourselves are asked to produce assignments as a group, like our group or class wiki. We are writing what we learn. Wikipedia is a public wiki.__ __The benefits of a wiki in a classroom include group collaboration, problem solving, peer editing during writing process and electronic portfolios. Students have 24/7 access to the wiki. Each member can build upon what another member wrote and peer editing makes the work clearer. This encourages each writer to take responsibility of their actions and accountability. Teachers can also use to track the work that each student has done.__ __Teachers use wikis to foster collaborative learning. Along with group work the teacher sets expectations, due dates, and constant flow of feedback throughout the development of the project. The teacher also tracks the students work progress. The editing is basic so the students focus on the message and not the format. As students use the wiki they can learn to respect the contributions and thinking of others and take pride in the results.__ __When teachers use wikis in the professional environment to share with their teaching community they begin to develop professional development. They obtain this goal by providing their post of new found information, sharing the information, their strategies, thoughts, lessons, and to build on one another’s work. Also students of all ages are using wikis, ranging from elementary school to college and international schools.__ __When starting a wiki, you need to know what kind you want to use. [|www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers] is where you would go to set up a wiki. Once you have made a wiki, then you can visit: [|www.educause.edu/eli/7thingsyoushouldknowaboutwikis/156807] for more information.__ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Natasha Woodall Quezada <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">11-02-11  <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Chapter 7  <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">What are virtual environments? “They are online interactive systems in which multiple people sometimes millions of people share in the development of an interactive narrative.” One who uses those gains development of creativity, collaboration, and communication. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Why are they useful? Virtual environments focus on social interaction such as Second Life- 3D. The user gets to meet others, join groups, socialize, participate in activities and professional development, and buy and sell property. Second Life if for those 18 years and older. Teen Second Life if for those 13-17 years old. Http://secondclassroom.ning.com is for teachers to support and collaborate, with others using Second Life. One group of social studies educators said, “They learn, collaborate, and share information to enhance their professional development and professional network. One study showed that students using virtual environments like MUVE found larger gains in understanding and achievement then students who didn’t use virtual environments. These resources engage minds, promote learning, encourage creative thinking, support inquiry based learning, conceptual understanding, encourage divergent and exploratory thinking. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">When are virtual environments used? If teachers want students to think and act like “journalists, artists, business managers, or engineers by using digital learning technologies to solve realistic complex performance task they will have students use epistemic games. These require students to work in teams, study materials presented, and develop a hypothesis regarding the cause of the disease. [] is for students 9-12 years old. When students are working on these virtual environments they still need feedback from the teacher, reflection time, and an on-going instruction system. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">What about professional development? Teachers that are members of Second Life hold meetings and social events on site. They plan projects, share ideas, develop close friendships and all while communicating in real time. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Who is using virtual environments? Preteens- [|www.webkins.com], children- [|www.clubpenguin.com], Second Life 18 years and up, Teen Second Life 13-17 years. Students learn by doing. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">How do you get started with a virtual environment? Before starting anything with your students you should become familiar with the program first. If in Second Life use [] and start at the orientation Island Public center. The International Society for Technology in Education for weekly meetings and discussions are found. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Where can you find more information? [], [|www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=second_life:_educators_working_with_teens], and [|www.holymeatballs.org/pdfs/bestpractices.pdf]. _ <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Natasha Woodall Quezada 10-26-11 Chapter 6 Summary Many students are visual learners. Students use cell phones, computers, TV, and hand held devices to communicate. Students must develop the skills to process and analyze information delivered through images as well as understand the impact images have on a viewer. Students must also develop the ability to think critically about the image presented and decode its meaning. Web delivered tools, videos, and presentations are also tools that the students use. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Teachers can encourage students to create presentation that develop skills of inquiry, creative, and higher order thinking. When students create presentations these skill are developed as well as many others, which include: <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Teachers use digital storytelling as a video and photo tool. This helps students to improve thinking skills by encouraging them to write creatively and express themselves visually. [|www.flickr.com] allows students to take, edit, post, and include their own photos. When students are encouraged to make video documentaries they engage themselves with the subject, learn, understand, and remember the information. Teachers use these documentaries as an assessment tool. These tools can evaluate student learning from the perspective of applying skills rather than from remembering facts for tests. [|www.teachertube.com] students can post their videos for teacher, parents, and everyone to see. [] show how the entire process of creating video documentaries worked in her classroom. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Teachers and students use video and photo tools for many different subjects some of these include: <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">There are many ways to get started. Some of the resources are outlined in this summary, Picasa, and windows live moviemaker is also a good way to start. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Natasha Woodall Quezada <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">10-19-11  <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Chapter 5 Summary  <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">“The point of communicating with others is to learn, develop, and expand all that we know; to share ideas and information; or just to enjoy social interaction.” Social networking allows users to create links to web pages or collection of photos. Web based in turn means interaction over the internet. People can affiliate themselves with others with the same interest or ideas. Some communities such as teachers- discussing curriculum, assessments, or pedagogy, game players, and many others. [|www.whatissocialnetworking.com] is an explanatory web site to how to use social networking. Tagging is another form of social networking. There are collaborative tagging, social classification, social tagging, and social indexing. Comments or artifacts, such as pictures are tagged as a way to categorize content. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Social networking is a useful tool because humans are social creatures and we want to communicate with others. Some forms of social networks include: My Space, Facebook, Linkedin, ning, Nexopia, and many others. 60% of students reported that one of the most common topics of conversation on the social networking scene was education and 50% was of school work. You can also create your own social network. Ning is one for teachers and for teachers to use with students. This website allows for students to catch up on work, post questions and concerns, collaborate on projects, and many other reasons. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Within the classroom teachers use social networking to enhance behaviorism, constructivism, and enhance social cultural perspectives. Most students already use social networks and teachers can use this as one of the abilities the students have already acquired. Teachers also benefit from social networks through the learning communities that they are connected to and having access to other teacher’s favorite websites. Twitter is another form of social network. It allows for a question to be sent out and others can answer the question to help. Some websites that have been integrated into the classrooms are [], [] and many more to benefit further education. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Getting started with social networking, most websites walk you through the process when you log onto the website. Some that might seem useful maybe: [|www.ning.com], [|www.teachingforchange.org], or [|www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_kf7tykvc] _ <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Natasha Woodall Quezada <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">10-12-11 <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Chapter 4 Summary <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Productivity applications are typical tools that the computer has, such as word processing and presentation tools, except they are free and stored on company’s servers. These are reachable by those who have access from any connection to the web. These programs store information securely while remaining online. The files you compose can also be downloaded to your computer. The web site [] is a helpful website. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Productivity applications such as Google doc not only have the same programs that the computer has it also allows you to create 3-D models and publish websites. [], [] , [|www.zoho.com] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">There are many reasons why teachers and students use these tools. One is to have information whenever it is needed. No need to worry about which flash drive has the information. Two when teachers use Web 2.0 tools there are no upgrade expenses. These programs automatically upgrade without charging. Three the information stored with these tools online are private and only those who have access can see the information. Four the information can be shared publically for discussions or feedback. One note is that the Web 2.0 tools are not as easy to use as the programs on the computers. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Teacher’s goals and purposes have been to make public the types of development, creativity, and other activities that their students do. Many teachers write blogs on what they use these tools for. The activities range from collaborative writing assignments, to students taking quizzes on line, and posting the syllabus for class. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Professional development happens in universities as well as in the regular school setting. They use these programs to communicate with authors and participate in cooperative learning groups. School officials prepare workshop outlines for info to teach the teachers and many other useful techniques. Teachers and students use the Web 2.0 tools. Teachers communicate to each other. Teachers and students can interact with other teachers and students from different countries. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">How to get started with productivity tools. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> v Review Google docs at [] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> v Create an account- this is free for individually or a fee for classroom accounts (students will need an email and be 13 years of age) <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> v Once you have your own account you can now create a word processing file, spreadsheet, or a presentation. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> v To share your work, Click on the share tab <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Other websites to visit are: [|www.google.com/educators/learning_materials/we_cribsheet.pdf] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">[|www.youtube.com/watch?v=typjJK6LZdm] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">[]
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Discover relationships among ideas
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Develop new concepts and insights
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Collaborate with others
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Feed back on their ideas
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Relationship with others
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Communicate with real audiences
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Gain ownership of their work
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Commitment to learning
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Voice thread- this has helped with narration of family photos.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">[|www.toondoo.com] this is to create cartoons that express information and opinion.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">[|www.voki.com] this is to create an avatar with dialog.

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Natasha Woodall Quezada <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">10-05-11  <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Chapter 3 Summary  <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">A podcast is an audio or video net-cast file and a vodcast is a video podcast and can be delivered live as it happens. Special software known as a pod-catcher (such as ITunes) is used for access, updates, and downloads. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Once you have downloaded these files you can use them offline and keep them as long as you like. Podcast are useful for classes because if the class is following an event you as a teacher can have instant up to date information about that topic. Teachers use podcasts because they are user friendly and convenient even preschool students have been able to use them. Educators have integrated podcasts and vodcasts in the classroom by having the students create their own. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> [] written by 5th graders <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> [] written by 9-11 year olds. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> [|www.dreamextreme.us/podcast] written by 6th graders and won national radio award for the podcast in 2009 <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">  [|www.myteacherpages.com/webpages/sdue/podcasts.cfm] written by 7th graders <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">When students write their own podcasts they are more committed to their activity, more engaged, practice their writing skills, presentation skills, collaborative writing skills and team work. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">On podcasts educators can find prepared lesson that can support lessons with stories, musical instruments, and many more. Safety is always an issue when students are on the internet. There are “kid friendly” websites such as: kid-cast.com or kids.podcast.com. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Teachers are always finding new areas to learn about and these websites can help find the topics: [|www.digitalpodcast.com] and [|www.apple.com/itunes/]. Podcast not only help teacher and students but it also allows for parent engagement. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">To get started with a cast you can go to [] this web site will walk you through the steps to making a cast. If you are an educator you should complete your own cast before teaching students how to create their own casts. More web sites that are available are [|www.poducateme.com/guide] and [|www.ehow.com/how_2029095_plan-podcast-class-lecture.html]. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">I like how the author has included websites to go in order to find the information. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Natasha Woodall Quezada Chapter 2 summary 09/28/11 What is a microblog? A microblog is a program that allows you as a writer to send short messages in a fast amount of time to multiple readers. Twitter is an example of a microblog. Twitter is a mixture of blogging and text messaging that has a character limitation. This is a social network that motivates the writer to be clear and to the point. Writers can follow other writer's tweets, limit their audiences, or make their tweets available to the public. Twitter has excelled because of the convience to communicate from many sources such as cell phones at any given time. Twitter has also branched out into other online applications. Why is twitter a useful tool? Along with the general public educators also use twitter. The teachers use this as a source to gain information or advice quickly. There is also twitters for specially for teachers where they can search for each other. Most benefit from twitting by gaining communication with other professionals and finding dates of professional development courses. When do teacher use twitter? Teacher integrate twitter into the classroom for many reasons. When students use twitter they gain a voice an an audience from not only classmates but possibly peers in different grades within the same school. Students also gain communication and writing skills through writing tweets. Who is using microblogging for teaching? Teachers from all areas of study use twitter in science class to math classes. Teachers use this time to have students post their predictions about discussions related to class. Teachers have also gone through tweets and prepared questions for the students to answer. Teachers can also have choice options for students choose. Once chosen the students continue the stories that were started by the teacher by tweeting. How do you get started with twitter? <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">*Send a tweet by typing "What are you doing?" To add people: <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Where can you find more information about microblogging? <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Natasha Woodall Quezada <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">09-21-11 <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Summary of Chapter 1  <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">What is a blog? An easy to use internet source that invites others to provide feedback on comments or questions made. Anyone respond to the blogs and students are included. If students follow a blog they are pushed to think carefully about what they write and how they write it because the blog is public. A blog has the most resent info posted first. This makes it easier to follow. Blog tools are useful because it helps learners get to the point. Blogs help “develop thinking, analytical, and communication skills.” Blogs can also include videos and links to other web sites, these can be the starter of the blog topic or back up for the responder. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Teachers are also among those who blog. Teachers use blogs in the classroom setting. When students are asked to blog instead of writing just for the teacher, they write more thoughtfully and have a feeling of accomplishment because the post is instantaneous. Teachers can direct the students to be creative with the blogs by including multimedia. Teachers can pull current information from a blog that is from another teacher of school official. Teachers can discuss the new information together and also have a “time to process literature that might otherwise be overlooked.” <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Students need to know how to collaborate with others and the blog allows for them “accept constructive criticism in their learning community.” Communication between students is a given with blogs. Students will gain the skills to communicate effectively through their carful thinking and the helpful comments from the other students. Through blogs students can gain connections from the wider world and understand that what they say can impact the world. When posting or responding to a blog the student needs to think critically which includes “a logical set of facts, ideas, and persuasive arguments.” The blogs add to the information literacy for the responder. A blog can become a digital portfolio because the writers skills are kept in the blog and the teacher can see the growth of the skills over time. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Who is using blogging for teaching and learning? High risk 11th grade learners showed that they learned and felt comfortable at the same time. A Teacher in middle school saw the motivation that came with the blogging of the books they read and discussed with team mates. In Spanish and humanities classes the middle school teacher found that the students were “continuously writing their comments.” An 11th grade child development class was asked to blog about their experiences they had when they visited a Head start class. The “students took ownership of their own learning.” A high school teacher found that when the students blogged the “impacts on learning included, engagement, community building, accountability, and ethical researching.” An elementary teacher had the students explain their position of why their animal should be saved. In an elementary school the school mascot can be taken to places with students and staff and write a blog about where the mascot has been. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">How do you get started with blogs? First log into [|www.blogger.com/start]. Second fill out form with contact information. Third name your blog. Fourth enter a blog address. Fifth choose a template. Sixth write your first blog. There are five rules to blogging. First read carefully. Second consider the blogs strengths and weaknesses. Third start with the strengths. Forth give specifics to the nice things you say. And the fifth is to give constructive criticism. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">To assess students for blogs, first “ask what the student did well, second think of how well reasoned the writing of the student was, third how well developed was the writing, fourth to what extent was their writing analytical about the topic, fifth how well did they communicate their thinking, and sixth to what extent did their blog generate real discussion?” <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">You can find more information about blogging on the web. Also if you don’t like your blog you can delete it and start over. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Natasha Woodall Quezada <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Summary of Introduction  <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">09-19-11  <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">The students in our classes have been introduced to digital tools and how to use those most of their lives. Students need guidance to use these tools instead of playing with them. As a teacher I need to know how, when, and which digital tool to use when the opportunity arises. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Students use online resources in their everyday lives. This is the future. Teachers that use technology in their classrooms were asked how it helped and “38% said that it helped with project based learning, 29% said that it helped increase critical thinking skills, and 24 % reported that it resulted in a strong ability to communicate. The main focus in technology is for teachers to obtain professional development to distinguish which particular tool to use at any given time. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">For the communication aspect students may work harder because their work can be viewed by other students. The students can communicate to each other by commenting on their work and giving positive feedback. Students can collaborate together by posting ideas and getting feedback from each other. This allows for the teacher to track changes and watch the students’ progress. Students learn interactively. The best way for students to learn is to learn connectedness. This is taking the knowledge they have and building upon it. Creating an electronic community of learners will combine tools, work, peers, and audiences together to help students find groups of those who share common interests. We as teachers want to help students learn how to elevate the “distractions between basic and higher order thinking skills. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Contextualization is the tagging and metadata that can help students take understood knowledge and apply it to new and different situations. Web 2.0 applications help students “use applications online, store documents online, and find lessons and other students online”. Thus, helping schools “provide and immediate picture of student learning”. New tools that are available online are at no cost to use. There may be training needed but as far as the cost of those online tools there is no cost. Students will be able to learn in new ways and widen their horizon. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">There are some things to watch out for since the students “know” more about the web and technology than teachers do. Students need to be guided as to how to use the web properly and abide by the copyright laws and plagiarism. Also when students collaborate together as a community, some student may reiterate what they read from the other students instead of thinking on their own. Teachers and principals “understand the significance of Web 2.0” however some schools don’t allow the technologies to be accessed as much as needed. Teachers that use and try then adapt their classrooms to the latest technological Web 2.0 find that they understand which ones work for certain situations. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">The purpose of this book is to help teachers integrate the Web 2.0 into the classroom. The chapters will “explain the most common tools and their uses”. The book will continue with “Google Earth, Wordle, Skype, Delicious, and more”. The chapters are broken down to what Web 2.0 is, why we use them, when to use them, how to use them, who is using it, and where to find them. The future is within our students’ hands. We are now at Web 2.0 and who knows how far it will go. We as teachers need to guide the students to use the Web for uses that they will learn from and gain “achievement in learning and advanced skills”.
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