Teaching and Learning with Web 2.0

An example of digital composing.

Create Web Forms & Surveys

Resources on genetics and fossils from the Smithsonian; useful for database-enhanced learning (DEL) projects

Bill Gates thinks the best education will come from the Internet. Should it?

Great use of wikispaces with student-created book trailers! Interesting idea to implement in classroom.

Google Wave just shut down. Does anyone in education really care?

The Social Web is transforming the way students interact with others, and is challenging traditional pedagogies, values and practices. An analysis of students' uses of social networking tools (e.g. Facebook, Myspace) and video/photo sharing sites (e.g. YouTube, Flickr) reveals the emergence of collective digital literacies. These include filtering content, new textual and visual literacies, managing multiple digital identities, representing self in cyberspace and engaging in new modes of interaction. In this presentation I will argue that identification through digitally mediated tools has become the new cultural capital - the set of invisible bonds that ties a community together. It is this 'social glue' - such mutual understandings and exchanges that occur on a daily basis within social media - that build the digital communities, and create new learning spaces, nurturing the habitus of a new 'digital tribe'.

Use Oregon Trail in the Classroom

For tech peer coaching norms - great resource.