Web2.0 at school

Thanks to an amazing list of "The Best Web 2.0 Applications for Education-2007" from Larry Ferlazzo's Website, I decided to create my own list of the applications that have been the most useful or promising in the Elementary School scene. Maybe I even make a meme out of it to encourage other elementary school techies to create their own lists and publish them on their blog. The list does not have to be in any particular order. Great if you write a short sentence about what the tool does.

There's a reason why the Web is called the information superhighway - it's full of seemingly limitless resources for learning and research. And with the advent of Web 2.0, harnessing this information has never been easier. These are some of the best tools for organizing, citing, searching, and more online.

This wiki was created for school library media specialists by Dr. Donna Baumbach and Dr. Judy Lee, University of Central Florida. The purpose is to provide information about some of the new web-based tools (Web 2.0) and how they can be used and are being used by school library media specialists and their students and teachers. Much of the information--including identifying a need for this kind of information--is the result of a survey conducted in 2008 of over 600 school library media specialists about their knowledge and use of web-based tools in library media programs.

My focus has been on evaluating these applications for potential use in education and training. I have indicated with a star () below those which I have been using and seem to have strong potential. Applications are broken down into the following categories: Academic, Audio, Bookmarks, Calendar, Collaboration, Database, Desktop, Documents, Drawing, Feed Reader, File Manager, Forms, Lists, Miscellaneous, News, Organizer, Photos, Polls, Presentation, Project, Spreadsheet, Video, Weblog, Wiki, and Word Processor.

Much of this work began with my Online Portfolio Adventure, where I recreated my presentation portfolio with at least 33 different online services, software and strategies between September 2004 and the present time. In 2006, I began exploring the use of Web 2.0 tools, and constructed portfolios using these tools. One advantage of Web 2.0 tools is that many of them are free, although WikiSpaces may place ads on the page. There is some concern about security in a K-12 school environment, so care should be taken when using these tools with children. In a recent blog entry, I discussed different Online Portfolio Strategies and developed a GoogleDocs page to compare a few of the different choices available

Looking for some mostly free tools to aid in the learning process? Whether you're a student or just learning on your own, there's a rich variety of Web 2.0 applications that you can use in your quest for knowledge, many of which supplement our list of productivity applications quite nicely. Here are 25 of them.

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have documented the educational benefits of social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook. Students observed for the study listed technology skills as the top lesson learned, followed by creativity, being open to new or diverse views and communication skills Data were collected over six months this year from students, ages 16 to 18, in thirteen urban high schools in the Midwest. Beyond the surveyed students, a follow-up, randomly selected subset were asked questions about their Internet activity as they navigated MySpace, an online forum that provides users with e-mail, web communities and audio and video capabilities.

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