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Using Web 2.0 technology (wikis) to support the integration of Web 2.0 into teaching and professional development. Click on your favorite Web 2.0 technology - or even better, one that you don't know much about - on the left side of the page to find out more information about that technology, and how to use it in the classroom.

Here's a great site, hosted by Discovery Education, that summarizes and provides links to many of the Web 2.0 tools we discussed and/or used in the Summer Institute. Just click on the various categories (e.g., Presentation Tools, Video Tools, etc.) to see listings/links of those types of tools.

Well done video on the use of Web 2.0 in classrooms. (Give it time to load. This is streaming video and is of higher quality than YouTube videos.)

In your Classroom Encourage student-centered learning.  Even young students can build web pages, embed images & video, and post documents.    For your Library Provide access to information sources, book lists, and links to good articles.  Have the resources stored for future use.   Throughout your District Host and share information between students, faculty and staff. Encourage staff development and shared resources across schools.   

xtranormal's mission is to bring movie-making to the people. Everyone watches movies and we believe everyone can make movies. Movie-making, short and long, online and on-screen, private and public, will be the most important communications process of the 21st century. Our revolutionary approach to movie-making builds on an almost universally held skill-typing. You type something; we turn it into a movie. On the web and on the desktop.

Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. Scratch is developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab

Interactive Q&A game for students, regarding copyright issues on the Web.

The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives (NLVM) is an NSF supported project that began in 1999 to develop a library of uniquely interactive, web-based virtual manipulatives or concept tutorials, mostly in the form of Java applets, for mathematics instruction (K-12 emphasis).

Podcasting 101

Primary sources are original records created at the time historical events occurred or well after events in the form of memoirs and oral histories.

"This was one of the best presentations at the #140conf! The reason it resonated with everyone there is not only because of Chris' passion and drive, but because the points he brings up are right on target! Our education system is so badly broken and our kids are not getting the education they deserve. They are also not given the tools they need to make it out in the real world. Our schools are stuck in the dark ages, while we are living in a time of great enlightenment. Watch this video! Get inspired! Create change! "

Great site for all things Wiki - in education.