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Web 2.0 is about users and content instead of surfing on the Internet. It's more like what can the Internet do for me as a creator, a collaborator, an active participant, rather than a passive viewer of what is out there on the web

Suzie Boss and Jane Krauss's book Reinventing Project Based Learning is a wealth of information about digital tools, the internet and Web 2.0 and how these tools can be used to meet the essential learning needs of 21st century students.  Here are some ideas taken from Chapter 3 of the book, all of which I've used with primary students and which I have tried to align with the new ICT in the PYP strands.

An internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion website where you and your visitors can hold conversations in the form of posted messages. These messages can then be viewed at any future time, even if you were not online when they were posted. Forums are a great way to foster interaction, discussion, and improve customer loyalty.

This blog is about teaching Digital Literacy at Journey School, a progressive public charter school in Aliso Viejo, CA, that utilizes Waldorf teaching methods. The administrator and teacher at Journey agreed to turn a weekly civics class into CyberCivics, so that students enter cyberspace as well-prepared digital citizens. This is their journey!

Living as we do in a sea of digital information, we all need to set and manage clever "information traps." The reason is simple: Every day we encounter useful, digital "stuff" we want to save for later and in many cases share with others. In this post, I'll describe how to use Zoo Tool, Posterous, ifttt (if this then that) and email to create an information trap which takes a link and simultaneously: