Web 2.0: Enhancing Education Through Technology

This article is looking at how schools can involve parents in schools better. It asks schools to think about how welcoming their school really is to parents.

Parent participation is sooo important to student success. When the parents are involved, students tend to be motivated and engaged. It is our job as educators to keep the parents connected. They have to feel welcomed to participate.

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These sites focus on using ELMO document cameras in the classroom. There are suggested ideas and lesson plans on how to integrate document cameras in classroom activities.

Overview of the process with ideas for use of podcasting in the elementary classroom

tudents have produced a range of podcasts based on the Year 11 and 12 Human Biology Course from 2006-2009. Check out his website to see the assignments set and his students' work.

Document Camera Lesson Plans

Digital Photography in the K-5 Classroom

This site is designed as a reference tool putting educators in touch with creative educational applications for digital cameras in educational settings.

DIGITAL CAMERA Projects

17+ Things to Do with your Online Photos

Social media can be a wonderful way to generate student engagement in learning, but still must be introduced in a way that will excite students to participate.

A scientific study of the educational practicality of online education versus conventional face-to-face, brick and mortar environments. Issues of retention as well as escalated drop-out rates for online education are evaluated.

Many links to Web 2.0 resources are provided on this site: 100 Apps for Tech savvy teachers, Web Tools 4U2Use, Audio, books, File Sharing, and many-many more....

An article as the title implies that is in favor of using projects int he classroom to enhance learning

This article explores the idea that it is more important to teach the thinking behind technology than it is to simply use expensive technology in the classroom. The article supports the idea that technology can be used to get kids communicating in creative ways, and it can help to get them actively engaged in lessons.

Teachers and students using social networks for curricular work.

I use Edmodo as a social media "tool" to use as an extension of my classroom and the students love it.

This article discusses the disagreement between administrators and teachers regarding online safety taught at school.

Survey conducted by the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) and Microsoft revealed that students are not savvy in the area of being safe and ethical in cyberspace. Schools, teachers and administrators need to bridge the divide for students to not only be safe, but skillful digital information users.

Seeing as we "talked" a lot about blogging policy and digital ethics this week, I thought this was a perfect information literacy article.

This article discusses WikiTrust, a tool that students can use to evaluate the trustworthiness of information posted online. As educators, we need to teach kids how to use the Internet wisely and how to gain valid information.

Fun and educational technology to fill in when you have 5 minutes.