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This web 2.0 tool is a great tool to use to communicate with parents and students via text messaging.  We continually talk of the need to meet students/parents where they are at with today's most commonly used forms of communication. I think this is perfect tool to use to connect with them. 

Great site for outside the box learning experience for students

I like this idea. I think that there are some great things I could do with this site, when I get some extra time!!! This is a great site and could really go outside the box of our classroom.

Father creates app to help his young child living with Pitt Hopkins Syndrome (delay in motor skills and speech) communicate. The app is available on Apple's iTune's store and there is a link to the app in the article.

App allows user to push buttons that come in the form of pictures. By pushing buttons the students needs will be verbalized. Parents, teachers, friends, and etc. voices can be recorded so the verbalized needs are personalized and familiar.

This website is the home base for College Community Digital Learning Professional Development for Train the Trainer Sessions in October 2012. Provides ideas, tools, and examples for integrating technology into content areas in authentic ways.

Really interesting study from Pepperdine on the effectiveness of iPads in a school setting.  There are some awesome nuggets of information to pull out here for everyone involved with the 1:1 movement.

A great study that actually looked at the realistic results of putting iPads in a college setting. This was a scientific study that yielded some interesting results.

Collaborize Classroom is an online Web2.0 tool that allows teachers to facilitate and create distributed learning communities for their classes.  This is a forum for students to blog on questions from class and extend their learning beyond the classroom.

Hmmm, have never heard of this before, but I like the look of it! I think it's great that a site like this can offer a UDL twist to online work for students, while also cutting down on grading time for the teacher. As a TA this semester, I have finally seen firsthand the incredible amount of time that goes into grading! I never understood why teachers hated it so much, but...I do now! I'm sure most web 2.0 classroom discussion tools have this sort of tracking feature for grading purposes (like ELearning here at UNI, for example). I love that this is a free tool! I do wonder how successfully students would utilize threaded discussion or other online learning environments such as this one in K-6 environments. I think it would be fun to experiment with and perhaps do some serious research and publishing on the results of such an experiment. All about being a teacher-researcher, and this is certainly something I could see myself trying to bring into my own classroom, especially if I was ever teaching in a flipped classroom environment...

I like the setup of Collaborize Classroom and definitely see the advantages of using it in the classroom. Unfortunately, I think our students are overwhelmed with new LMS systems, web 2.0 tools, and websites that they would probably not be very receptive to this site. If CC was easily integrated into a LMS interface, then I would consider using it, but at this point I will keep it on my radar for future use.

This is something I have been looking into for our communications director - how does she "work" from home, but still access and work on FCP at school? This may be the solution.

Absolutely amazing Web 2.0 tool.  I used this all the time in my class and is exactly what you want for back channel communication in your room!

PLN's and resources to expand your community online

Great list of educational resources and collaboration amongst educators.

Giant resource for Web 2.0 tools, blogs, special interest groups, and more

I think this resource is strictly for teachers who are interested in communicative technologies in the classroom, however, it could also be used for students of the college level because they can get on and have discussions and share ideas about different uses for these technologies in the classroom. This could be used in my future classroom with sharing ideas with other teachers to use them with my students! This kind of reminds me of the Facebook of communicative technologies.

This website allows classes to connect and collaborate with each other.  Students and educators are able to access their homework, share content, and check their grades on this site.  I would use this for all subjects in order to keep in touch with students whenever they need me.

I really enjoyed exploring this website. I really like the fact that it is a secure website. We sometimes find websites in which can lead us to false information or unwanted information so I feel that this one is one that I would feel safe about including in my own classroom. Thank you for sharing.

Edmodo provides teachers and students a secure place to connect and collaborate.

This is an article discussing a new Ipad App called "Spin" which allows students to hold a online, collaborative discussion while viewing multiple videos at once. This is said to be the new "Skype" allowing communication and interactive discussion to occur throughout the world with one application. Something for teachers to look into for their own classrooms one day! This application seems like it might have a future in our schools.

This looks like it has some great potential. I am going to have to check it out further.

This is a really cool App that will be very useful in Problem Based Learning environments because it is a great collaborative tool. Great Post Hannah!

This blog post is from a woman who decided to make her own list of the most useful web 2.0 tools in the Elementary School Setting. If you want to see a list made from a teacher herself, this will give you better insight on which tools work the best!

As an Elementary Ed major I am grateful for this list of Web 2.0 applications that has the elementary classroom in mind. The tools are fitting for both teachers and students-teachers can modernize their teaching by integrating and including technology in every day lessons and communication, and students use the tools to complete assignments. I was excited to see that I only recognize 3 of the 10 resources on the list; it reminds me that there are so many apps and tools out there! Thanks for a link to great tools.

In need of some new web 2.0 tools? Check out this site! Plus, the website has even more than just that--check out the resources they have for administrators, teachers, parents, and students.

I have came across this resource before as well and seemed to really enjoy it. I really enjoyed how it incorporated mobile tools, community tools, as well as presentation tools. I feel this is a very beneficial tool in which I could use in my future classroom. Another thing that I really enjoyed about this resource was the fact that it not only targeted teachers, but also included admins, parents, and students as you mentioned. Great find!

I have explored this site before. It is a good one, in my opinion! It has many great resources for teachers and students. I really like how it has specific links to all Web 2.0 tools. This would be very efficient for busy teachers who need resources about technology and how to incorporate it into lessons. I have not come across any other site that highlights all the major components of Web 2.0 tools.

This blog suggest multiple ways in which a wiki can effectively be used within the classroom. The author goes in depth about each and really gives you insight on the tool. Teachers can view this blog to gain ideas or spark new ones.

This is a great blog. I am not very familiar with wikis and I often wonder why I would use one in education. This blog lists some great ways to incorporate a school wiki. This is something that I could see myself using with my community college students and instructors.

May be review information for most of us in this group, but still a way to affirm why using social media can be extremely beneficial. 

As said above, it may be review information for us, but I think it's a great article, especially to those who you may talk to about social media and think it's not worth their time, it's something you should show them. Social media is definitely a great way to progress professional development.