A collection of Web 2.0 tools with links - screened by CLRN (California Learning Resource Network) with appropriate grade levels. Includes blogs & wikis, bookmark/resource sharing, productivity, collaboration and social networking.
Online social networking
is now so deeply embedded in the
lifestyles of tweens and teens that
it rivals television for their attention,
according to a new study
from Grunwald Associates LLC
conducted in cooperation with
the National School Boards
Association.
Nine- to 17-year-olds report
spending almost as much time
using social networking services
and Web sites as they spend
watching television. Among teens,
that amounts to about 9 hours a
week on social networking activities,
compared to about 10 hours
a week watching TV.
Students are hardly passive
couch potatoes online. Beyond
basic communications, many students
engage in highly creative
activities on social networking
sites - and a sizeable proportion
of them are adventurous nonconformists
who set the pace for their
peers.
Facebook walkthrough - adjust your privacy settings
This guide walks you through Sophos-recommended privacy settings in Facebook, and shows you how to set more secure levels of privacy and reduce the chance of becoming a victim of online identity theft.
Cracking Dante's Inferno is a tough row to hoe for any high school student-but what if the reading assignment was conducted via Twitter?
The exercise "Twitter in Hell" was handed to some lucky seniors at University Laboratory High School at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, after reading the classic tome. Their mission? To write 140-character tweets describing each level in hell as if they were Dante writing to his beloved Beatrice.
UT Dallas History Professor Dr. Monica Rankin wanted to know how she could reach and include more students in the class discussion. She had heard of Twitter.The following is a short video describing her "Twitter Experiment" in the classroom with comments from students about the pros and cons of Twitter in a traditional learning environment.