Web 2.0 course

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bosch on November 24, 2009 at 6:54am

me again, some of the neatest stuff I've seen has to do with social studies or history projects. Checkout museumbox and you can see some others on my primary source blog A Very Old Place

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Permalink Reply by Michael Zimmer on November 24, 2009 at 7:01am

You might also try Awesome Stories

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Permalink Reply by Mel J. Janousek on November 24, 2009 at 7:21am

Mark,

I teach a class at Central Community College in Columbus, NE titled, "Instructional Technology for Teachers." I have students work in many of the areas you listed. I have the class next semester at the college. I would really like to have my students communicate with your students about technology items, educational topics, or just topics about being college students. Please let me know if we could connect our classes in some way. Thanks for your time. My email address is: mjanousek@cccneb.edu

Mel J. Janousek

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Permalink Reply by Earnest Shinault, Sr. on November 24, 2009 at 11:00am

Please tell me more about this class and the requirements for it.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Barnes on November 25, 2009 at 5:36am

Thanks to all for these excellent comments, and Happy Thanksgiving to you. I teach Ning community use in the classroom, podcasting, VoiceThread, Jing, blogging and TeacherTube. So far, it's going great and the teachers in the initial offering love the course. What I have found is that some of them already have experience with TeacherTube, YouTube and VoiceThread. Although I intend to keep them in this survey course, I was thinking of adding something new. So, I'm looking for similar apps that engage students and are easy for teachers to implement in class. By the way, I do not teach wikis, because I teach two separate courses that show teachers how to set up a wiki classroom, including individual web pages for students. Thanks again, I look forward to your replies. Oh, by the way, for anyone interested in this or any of my courses, you can learn more at www.thepaperlessclassroom.com. Everything I teach is a 3 semester course at an accredited college.

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Permalink Reply by suehellman on November 25, 2009 at 8:30am

HI Mark -- you're welcome to direct your classes to my Small Changes; BIG RETURNS tools wiki at http://small-changes-big-returns.wikispaces.com/. I'm the virtual grad assistant for the online Wilkes/Discovery Master's in Instructional Media program and maintain the blog at http://wilkesinstructionalmedia.blogspot.com/. Finally k12 Online (http://k12onlineconference.org/)starts next week and your students will find sessions there on all kinds of classroom applications of tools and technology.

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Permalink Reply by Aaron Smith on November 25, 2009 at 9:00am

Cool to hear that you are involved with teaching online classes -- as far as other Web 2.0 tools that you could teach, I'd recommend teaching about online collaboration software like Google Docs or Google Wave.

Good luck!

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Permalink Reply by Mark Barnes on November 25, 2009 at 10:31am

I don't find the need for Google Docs because my classroom website, www.barnesclass.com, is a wiki that contains student pages, embedded presentations and a student message board. I'm very interested in Wave, but it's not ready for everyone yet.

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Permalink Reply by Dr. Rita Oates on November 26, 2009 at 9:39am

Hi, Mark,
Do you include ePals in the class? It's the largest K12 community of online learners, with 600K classrooms in 200 countries and territories.
ePals got a nice mention by ZDNet blogger Chris Dawson last week in a talk to Florida independent schools, and you can see his slides here:
How to add value, not just more tech, with Web 2.0+
http://education.zdnet.com/?p=3376

I'm doing several one-hour webinars on this on Dec. 2, 9 and 10 in the late afternoon, if this would be of interest.
You can find Dec. 2 on the events posted here.
Best,
Rita

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Permalink Reply by Mark Barnes on November 27, 2009 at 5:57am

Hi Rita, thanks for the reply. I do not use ePals, only because I find that the registration process is cumbersome. I have used it in class for blogging in the past, but there are other education blogs that I prefer. I've never used the e-mail project piece, though it looks cool. I'm on hold with it because I think Google Wave might make it obsolete.

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Permalink Reply by Dr. Rita Oates on November 29, 2009 at 10:50pm

Hi, Mark, I'd appreciate more detail on the "cumbersome" part of the registration process. One thing ePals wants to do is ensure that people who are in the Global Community are in fact K12 students, teachers and belong there. So we don't let everyone in....and in fact deny admission to about 10% of those who try to get in each day. (When we do district licenses, the work is done by the district IT folks and our staff, not others...making it quick and easy.)
Your "cumbersome" might be called "peace of mind because of student safety" by classroom teachers. But I am open to suggestions of how we could make it less cumbersome, if you have some thoughts that you would be willing to share! Isn't it fascinating how these online sites encourage discussions so widely?
Best, Rita

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bosch on November 30, 2009 at 6:30am

Rita, My concern with using epals for student email was that it was SO safe we couldn't get the emails were were wanting. One of the uses for student email is to receive authentication codes used to activate online applications--we tried getting our authentication codes for several applications and the students never received the mail--we went with another email setup. N

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