What is Web 2.0?
Web 2.0 is a trend in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to facilitate creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users. These concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities and hosted services, such as social-networking sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0
Free Web Sites
Web sites can be a place to easily access links or documents for students. Please check with your school district policy before creating a web page, however. Some districts allow teachers to create their own for in-class use, and others have their own system for creating a web page or posting links. This type of web page would be authored by one person so many could link to it. Students would not be able to upload documents to the site, nor leave comments. (see wiki's and blogs below)
- Weebly Tips: Open Word and type in Word first and then paste onto Weebly. Have many tabs open at top of web page so you can search without disturbing your editing. (File/New Tab or C+T)
- Protopage Example: Carrie Wozniak Or used as a collaborative tool: Lift Up Through Literacy
Wiki's
A wiki a web page that allows others to help design and add content, thus iit becomes a collaborative tool for use in a classroom. A teacher could set up the framework and assign students to create their own pages of content. Instead of 30 essays on Macbeth, for example,a class may be assigned different themes to research or acts to deconstruct. Students post the content to the wiki and the entire class uses it as a resourse. The web site you are reading currently is a wiki. Here is the official definition from wikipedia: A wiki is a collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language[1][2]. Wikis are often used to create collaborativewebsites and to power community websites. For example, the collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia is one of the best known wikis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
- http://vudat.msu.edu/wikis/ Excellent article on when and why to use wiki's in educational settings An excerpt below:
- Will Wikis Work?
Wikis tend to work best:
If these traits do not match your goals and environment, wikis are probably not the best choice. Perhaps a blog would work better, where less power is granted to fewer. Alternatively, a discussion forum or group web page might work better for the overarching goals set forth by the project.
- In collaborative work
- In situations where roles and expectations are clearly defined
- In a trusting environment
Good Links for Further Review
Blogging
The blog is another collaborative tool successfully used in many classrooms, where many voices can contribute to an ongoing conversation, or assignments posted for the community to view. Here, from wikipedia the official definition:
A blog (an abridgment of the term web log) is a website, usually maintained by an individual, with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (artlog), photographs (photoblog), sketchblog, videos (vlog), music (MP3 blog), audio (podcasting) are part of a wider network of social media. Micro-blogging is another type of blogging which consists of blogs with very short posts. As of December 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 112 million blogs.[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/blog
Some really good blogs to start reading . . .
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