The age of Web2.0 allowed this amazing basketball shot to be seen around the world. This buzzer-beater shot was uploaded to the Internet and made this player and high school famous because it was watched from all around the world and even made an appearance on SportsCenter.
The Unicef Tap Project has gone to Web2.0's new technologies to gain attention and followers worldwide. Celebrities participating in the project, which sends water to people in thrid-world countries, can go on social networking sites and tell people to help out. This effectively gets attention to the project.
Got a link to this wiki from Estie Cuellar, amazing teacher who has joined in Flat Classroom this year. She says:
"I would like to share something with you guys. I teach a Sports Marketing Class. I'm always looking for new and fun ways to reach the kids. Yesterday, I started my class on a comprehensive project that I'm calling, "Rock On." The goal of the project is for the students teams (all of my classes work in teams) to synthesize what they've learned in class so far (they've learned the marketing mix, target marketing, positioning, segmenting, and the 7-key functions of marketing) and plan a 20 city tour for their band. I found the project from a "Best Practices" book that Jeff McCauley of The Marketing Teacher compiled from marketing teachers and sent out as a PDF a couple of years ago. I have modified the original project to utilize Web2.0 technologies."
Interesting ideas - wish I could teach marketing!
How history teachers are using the web to teach history - some great examples and tools that you may want to use on your wiki - dipity is a GREAT tool as is the bitty browser. This may actually affect HOW you do your web page.
Fascinating link for social studies and some samples. I LOVE how some web pages were inserted using bitty browser. What a cool tool. This site also features several dipity timelines. This is a GREAT site for history teachers to see.
A list of tools that may be used in the classroom. Most would be considered as Web2.0 tools. This list may provoke an idea or two for a Flat Classroom video.
Article written in India newspaper about the Flat Classroom and Flat Classroom conference held in Mumbai.
I loved this quote:
"To become what the project aspires won't actualise without delivering on imperatives of access and inclusion. Consequently, the idea 'How can I include those who are not like me' underlined most discussions at the conference. There, says Davis, Web2.0, far from being a cultural flattener, is "a culture enhancing tool. It lets students who don't travel, travel virtually, and makes them see where cultural disconnects are happening." For a first-hand experience of these gaps, participants visited Akanksha and Aseema schools that reach out to the underprivileged. One Australian participant came back and told her remote virtual classmates: "Today I stepped through the gaps between the rich and the poor, from Aseema to ASB.""
The term “web 2.0” refers to the growing focus on collaborative, interconnected, user-generated content that distinctly altered the way Internet users spent time on the World Wide Web
which allowed users to create individualized profiles as a part of a network of friends and contacts, also effectively became file-sharing outlets. Videos uploaded to the file-sharing site youtube.com could be easily posted on Facebook or Myspace and shared among friends.
Anyone can create video, you don't have to be some big shot anymore. You can put videos up onto social networking sites suchs as facebook, twiter, and youtube. People can watch these videos for any reason.
New technology at the Vail Mountain skiing lodge allows for people to share almost everything they do onto the Internet. Equipped with Wi-Fi access, Vail photographers ready to take pictures, and a tiny camera attached to helmets, people skiing or snowboarding at Vail can upload nearly all the activities they do during the day.