Back to School with New Media

Looking for suggestions to share with new teachers...Which Web 2.0 tools do you typically introduce to students during the first weeks of school? Any new ones planned for this year? Please share both the tool and the instructional purpose you hope to achieve with it. Thanks for your ideas!

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Permalink Reply by Suzie Boss on August 3, 2009 at 10:17am

Thanks for sharing this, Colette. Great examples here of how to make good use of VoiceThread.

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Permalink Reply by Suzie Boss on September 22, 2009 at 1:42pm

Thanks to all who shared good ideas. Your suggestions helped inform this back-to-school with new media guide, now available as a free download from Edutopia: http://www.edutopia.org/ten-top-tips.
Hope your new year's off to a good start!
--Suzie

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Permalink Reply by Lauriene Tschang on September 22, 2009 at 2:02pm

Wordle - a word cloud tool. There are so many uses of Wordle. Here's one blog from Rodd Lucier about the benefits of Wordle.

But you may want to have your network admin block certain links like the Gallery. Here's the doc that you might want to pass on to your network admin.