It's a means of sending an email to various other people at once. For example, you might send an email addressed to a parent concerning a manner but you'd CC the same email to your year level co-ordinator so they know exactly what you're communicating to said parent.
c Set
up your own collection of RSS feeds
Once RSS is demonstrated to staff through sites such as Pageflakes staff may see how the benefit of the web working for the user rather than trawling through google.
Yes, what about great online presentation tools? How much (if at all?) do we still have to play by the "Everyone needs to know MS suite so schools need to do this as 'Job Prep?'" Do you feel this as a need in your schools?
ito
Juxtapose
other stimulus prompts ito challenge thinking
Edit a word processed document by: using find and replace, checking word
counts, inserting page breaks, accessing the spellcheck and thesaurus
functions
Is this more of a "basic" skill that we assume that all educators already know? If this section is regarding posting documents, we are talking about a different set of skills.
I assume this is a somewhat mandatory skill that users of Word Processing applications should have. How unprofessional to read a doc that has spelling errors etc!!
Yes, any means - Moodle, Wordpress, Sharepoint, etc. - the idea is that we have a professional responsibility to make core documents available. Do you agree?
Consider
taking an active role in an online community.
That's why setting up an in-house system where you can create a large number of individual student accounts at the start of the year (such as VBulletin) comes in very handy.
Any ideas about the best way to do this? Should it be a WEB 2.0 application, such as Dropbox? Or is bandwith use a concern, so a LAN setup should be used?
Just to save on costs, you'd probably have to do it over a LAN. It would also create a more reliable system, since an intranet/local network is less likely to fail than the connection to outside resources.
Create
opportunities for students to synthesise their learning through projects that
call for a creative, problem-solving or innovative response.
Join
a professional learning community and follow
posts for several weeks
c Join
a
professional learning community and follow
posts
for several weeks
c Join
an online chat, webinar or presentation as an observer
c
Choose one aspect of the learning framework to research
Twitter is excellent for following like minded people and sharing thoughts, opinions and ideas about education and web 2.0 technologies.
Choose
at least one work that you are willing to publish to the Web and do so. This may be in any format: visual,
written, video, audio, presentation, etc. The forum may be a wiki,
professional journal, educators’ social network, iTunes, etc.
How do you ensure appropriate content, privacy of other students, etc, in an environment where students can publish content for the world to see? Can you effectively?
This is GREAT. Now we just need an online database so we can take a good long hard look at our own skills and those of other staff. I don't think this should be threatening to anyone, but guide them through some essential skills.
Explore a new Web application and use it yourself for a
lesson
Common sense tells us that learning is enhanced by social activity, which is the basic idea underlying the use of Web 2.0 tools. But is there educational theory to support it? Of the three dominant theories, one strongly emphasises the importance of social interaction.
The theory of Social Constructivism is well established. Vygotsky is considered the father of the concept. As the Wikipedia says in its excellent entry,
“Where Piaget argued that people should create their own version of the truth, Vygotsky added the importance of discussing this version of truth with others, in order to, through the process of mediation, get to a higher order of truth that has also been socially tested (Derry 1999)”
"I know it works, but is the theory valid?
Common sense tells us that learning is enhanced by social activity, which is the basic idea underlying the use of Web 2.0 tools. But is there educational theory to support it? Of the three dominant theories, one strongly emphasises the importance of social interaction.
The theory of Social Constructivism is well established. Vygotsky is considered the father of the concept. As the Wikipedia says in its excellent entry,
"Where Piaget argued that people should create their own version of the truth, Vygotsky added the importance of discussing this version of truth with others, in order to, through the process of mediation, get to a higher order of truth that has also been socially tested (Derry 1999)""
This report focuses on identifying and overcoming the barriers associated with current site blocking
practices in schools with regards to Web 2.0 services such as social networking, video sharing, blogs
and wikis and popular sites such as YouTube, Facebook and wikipedia.