Women of the Web project
The four members of Women of the web met here for the first time four days ago—they started this last fall and do a weekly podcast.
womenofweb2.com
http://wow2necc2007.wikispaces.com/
Wanted to provide a voice for women online, the four of them met and formed a group in 24 hours. And had 200 members within a month.
Jennifer Wagner
Sharon Peters
Cheryl Oakes
Vicki Davis
Sharon is talking about why teachers should be using web 2.0 tools in the classroom. Students are familiar and fluent with the internet. And it’s up to us to make our educational system relevant to them.
Appropriate conduct—Students need to be learning appropriate conduct.
Global connections
Learning gains—In a survey educators were asked if their access to online social network impacted students’ learning gains, 79% said yes
Anchoring Filtering (George Siemens) and theory of Connectivism, Knowing Knowledge book free online; Educators need to address the skill of keeping focused and filtering out what is relevant, critical and appropriate.
Evaluation and Authentication—
Opportunities to Collaborate—allows educators to collaborate with top notch teachers from around the world with other REAL teachers
Transparency and Openness
She’s using a tool called Present embedded into the wiki—slideshow embedded into a wiki.
Online projects help build skill of negotiation
Why are projects easier now?
The web IS the new operating system
It’s about the content, not about the software
These kind of projects do meet the new ISTE standards.
Sheryl Oakes k-4 , now k-12
Advantage is that she knows what the k-4 students are using and now that she’s k-12 she can nudge the 5-12 teachers
Using Bubbleshare—
She took a sabbatical. She took a six week class with Webheads.
Find your purpose. Her purpose was to communicate with her students while she was gone. She used Bubbleshare to share photos. You can embed it, resize it, and can make comments on the slide shows.
For podcasting used to use Podomatic, Gcast,—she now uses Podcast People—you can register your students; a teacher at her school used Nanos to record podcasts.
Tinyurl.com as a tool to shorten long urls.
Skype.com—
Has a text chat, so even if you don’t have a mic, can use that. utechtips.com People were skyping sessions simultaneously, and saved the chat. Utechtips allows you to read along. and can make comments.
Skypecasts—semi-reliable—but can bring many people into a conversation
edtechtalk.com site for tips
jenw2404 skype
technospud at gmail.com
Walden Media—Charlotte’s Web Read-a-thon; part of guiness book of world records, had an excerpt from the book that was read around the world simultaneously
Salute to Seuss
Global Schoolhouse—to find a way to collaborate with other schools, can search for projects by time, day, project, etc.
epals—projects that you can join
Vicki Davis
Pillars of an effective web 2.0 classroom; in Terry Freidman’s book, Coming of Age 2 at Terry’s website, for free
safety/privacy, information literacy, web citizenship, web teamwork, intentional activities, accountability
Toondoo—can make cartoons
Meebo
Newsmap—from google news…can enlarge it—the bigger the headline is the more important the story is
Gliffy for drawing
Twitter—for microblogging. Twittervision—can see all over the world what people are saying or FLickrvision—moves around the world and focuses on pictures that are being posted. Twiku
www.lmeebo.com ” Meebo room” a chat with video
Stumble Upon for cool sites
THey have asked the audience to share:
Social bookmarking with diigo. —notes on your bookmarks and can use it to direct students with sticky notes
Zamzar converts any file to any other thing. now has windows 07.
Terry Friedman—url for book
David Warlick— vixy.net allows you to download videos off of Youtube easily; operates best at 4 a.m.
innertoob
Someone needs to be doing the research to show that we’re affecting positive change
picnik— image tool, clipart
Wow, lots to play with here. And I finally got to MEET the women of web 2.
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