Web 2.0: Enhancing Education Through Technology

Taking notes is an everyday skill in education but often overlooked. Technology -- and more specifically, the Internet -- has rendered paper and pencil passé and allowed educators and students to raise note-taking to the next level. Most of the following sites use some form of the "post-it" or "sticky," but with the integration of Web 2.0 technologies.

I like the idea about incorporating cell phones in the lessons. It is a technology that students are familiar with. They like using it. I like the rules for using cell phones described in the article. I am going to try using cell phones in my classes along with the website www.polleverywhere.com . If it works I may get a prepay phone to do quizzes as described in the article.

A great way to set up flashcards for your students to help them study vocabulary. It has really cheesy games, but the flashcards and matching portions are great.

Type answers directly into webpage for instant evaluation.

Instead of grades, we should use a progress bar. How gaming techniques should b e brought into education.

Awesome look at racial and beauty bias.

This publisher is a subsidiary of the Workman Publishing Group and features a new online book club. The online book club features a new book each month (their first book was Julia Alavarez's "In The Time of the Butterflies") and one of the biggest features of this site is the live webcast interview of the individual authors.

This article struggles with the difficulty of determining whether or not a student has cheated in an online class. It doesn't, however, provide many real-life solutions other than requiring short response answers.

This article focusses primarily on exam taking methods when students take online course. The writer gives a variety of suggestions on how to promote academic honesty when her students take tests. It did give some good suggestions on how to do this but essentially during test taking situations we have to trust our students.

This article provides great tips for incorporating video into your lessons, including helpful technical tips, such as "clipping" the video off a dvd at the beginning and end of the video clip that you need so you don't waste time or lose momentum in class setting up the video.

10 Ways Digital Slowpokes Can Catch Up! By Ann Handley Even though this article was written for owners of small businesses, I think it is worth reading to stay up on what is happening out there in the "real world" of marketing and persuading people to choose their business *(using all those wonderful persuasive writing skills learned in school!) It also addresses anxieties of people all over who are overwhelmed with how fast technology is moving and encourages them to just "do something now."

This article is about the Big6 and how to use it with Web2. They talk about how to use the Big6 with email, online discussions, real-time communications, desktop teleconferencing and collaborative writing. It fits into the Research and Information Fluency Remixed. I liked the format on another site http://www.librarymediaconnection.com/pdf/lmc/reviews_and_articles/featured_articles/Eisenberg_May_June2010.pdf but found I had to put the address into Google in order to access it. The URL did not work.

Before giving students internet access, there must be safety training for teachers and students.

This article provides us with a clear example of the use of a 2.0 Web tool in class to improve students' comprehension of the topics taught. Likewise, it increased students'' concentration and encouraged the use of technology within the content.

Students from small schools with budget cuts are taking AP courses online. Students are being educated as well as being immersed in the technology world.