Another broad view and food for thought regarding Web 2.0 in the classroom

Another place to start in getting familiar with Web 2.0

Maybe this can help all of you out to explore tools that can be used in your revisions and your classrooms.

One teacher goes with PBL.

This is an awesome utility that stores your favorites/bookmarks on a server and is constantly syncing what's on the server to what's in your browser. But more importantly you have access to all of your bookmarks wherever you are, you just have to log in. And when you get a new computer or try out a new browser you can download them into your new browser. And you can create bookmark profiles to keep personal computer bookmarks separate from Tablet PC bookmarks, etc. Not so much Web 2.0 but it's a Godsend! And your students can snyc their existing bookmarks onto their new netbooks!

This looks pretty cool!

This was sent by a colleague a few years back. It's a repository of digital media for classroom use and instruction.

This can be an excellent resource for American history, and even an outline text or summary text.

Teaching history through blogging from Teaching History through Technology.

This site is awesome! The New York Public Library has digitized some of their holdings and put them up. They're arranged thematically and can provide great primary sources for many different classes and disciplines.

In the '09 cohort someone came across this open source resources page. It's a listing of free webtools (like Joyce Valenza's) that you may find useful for your classroom. They're organized by use/purpose and they're all free to use unlimited in your courses.

For this creative projects you have you may want to direct students to this site. It has a suite of free software that can enhance presentations and even pave the way toward digital storytelling (if that's where you're looking to go).

This is a best practices example of Wikispaces for an English course or a reading club. This looks like the 21st Century skills and project based learning we have been toying around with

For those using Wikispaces.com this came as an email update to me, and I thought it would be very useful to our cohort.