Discover Web 2.0 and how it can be used with today's youngest learners to enhance creativity, communication, and collaboration. Explore student work and watch tiny techies in action!
"Learning Tools Smackdown ~ Teacher-librarian and technology educator practitioners will share their ideas relating to effective practice in use of 2.0 tools to deliver the mission that resonates well with ISTE's NETS*S."
Global collaboration project headed by Vickie Davis and Julie Lindsay. Connect your classroom locally and globally to create meaningful and authentic learning communities using Web 2.0 tools and emerging technologies.
SecretBuilders is a virtual world for children 5 to 14 years old powered by a web 2.0 community of children, parents, educators, writers, artists and game developers. On SecretBuilders, children will explore virtual lands, undertake quests, play games, maintain a home, nurture a pet, and interact with their friends. Three features which form the backdrop for SecretBuilders distinguish it from other online worlds:
* Children learn through immersing themselves in the stories, themes, and concepts from the best in literature, arts and humanities. They will interact with famous historical and fictional figures and be introduced to content and characters from world civilization and the great thoughts and ideas of human creativity.
* Children will create this site, not just consume it. They are directly involved in creating this world with their ideas, critiques and contributions on virtually every aspect of the site and many of their ideas will be implemented!
* Children publish their works - writings, art, videos - making SecretBuilders their own personal store of creativity. They can invite friends and family to view their works, and comment upon them. Seeing their works published and enjoyed by others instills tremendous for self-confidence as well as motivation to do more.
One of the hottest sessions at ISTE 2010 this year was the annual free tools smack-down hosted by SIGMS. This site lists some of the free tools that were particularly interesting. You can also find the video for the smackdown session here: http://www.istevision.org/viewsession.php?id=149
Resources shared by Gail Lovely. For this session the focus was on two literacies: "traditional language-based" literacies, especially reading and writing AND technology-based literacies.
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