Teaching and Learning with Web 2.0

Here are my notes after attending Google Teachers Academy in Washington D.C.

Great description of how one school district is using Google Apps for lifelong learning and teaching. Terrific embedded video on advantages to migrating over to Google Email for educational institutions.

Electronic Portfolios: Students, Teachers, and Life Long Learners

An extensive list of video sites for educational uses... Wow, who'd of thought there would be so many!

Create Free Flash websites

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'.

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

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

Great Google resource

Using Google Earth in the Math Curriculum

Nice collection of cases (experimental examples) to use as part of a course on digital media. Includes video with the case text.

'A place to share e-learning and Web 2.0 tools for education. Computers and laptops in education are important only when used with good pedagogy. Digital content and creation is an important part of the process for educators in the 21st century.'