A presentation on the use of Web 2.0 tools in the classroom.

1. WEB 2.0 TOOLS IN THE
CLASSROOM
A course for teachers
Gerald Ardito
Fall 2007

2. What are we up to?
Be able to use Web 2.0 tools to empower learning in our
classrooms.

3. What are Web 2.0 tools?
Web 2.0 refers to a perceived second generation of web-based
communities and hosted services — such as social-networking
sites, wikis and folksonomies — which aim to facilitate
collaboration and sharing between users1.
1from Wikipedia

4. Why do this?
All of these tools are about giving students a voice.

5. It’s all about authorship

6. Let’s look at some tools...

7. Blogs
An interactive, multimedia journal - instant publishing

8. Wikis
Easy to edit websites; easy to collaborate

9. Podcasts
Audio or video recordings; available by subscription

10. Flickr
Photo sharing.

11. You Tube
Sharing videos

12. Teacher Tube
Videos by teachers

13. Google Docs
Office tools, allowing collaboration

14. Zoho Tools
More collaboration tools

15. Voice Threads

16. Ustream.tv
Live personal video broadcasting

17. Gliffy
Mind-mapping tool

18. Stikkit
Online sticky notes

19. Where do we go from here?