What are your experiences as to Web 2.0 tools?

Using Web 2.0 tools in the classroom is very important. Which one do you use most and what can you recommend to the group?

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Permalink Reply by Patrick Higgins on May 20, 2007 at 5:53am

More than anything else, I use my aggregator (right now Google Reader) to stay current. Everything flows through that; it's where Iearn about new tools to help me become more productive, ideas that push me and pull me in several directions, and where I learn about where to connect to people that I will need to make me better at what I love to do, which is teach!

Del.icio.us and Notebook would be in the discussion as well.

Permalink Reply by suziea on June 24, 2007 at 9:39pm

I have also just settled on Google Reader and plan to get a little more systematic about reading blog updates :-) I am also loving Google Notebook as a Firefox extension that helps me easily take notes, images etc from websites.

Permalink Reply by Hans Feldmeier on May 20, 2007 at 10:56am

Hi Claude,
many thanks to your comment!
Personally I use wikispaces of course. Very helpfull. As to a LMS or CMS platform we are using Fronter. Keep in touch, let me know and participate in your knowledge.
Cheers
Hans

Permalink Reply by Alix E. Peshette on August 22, 2008 at 4:29pm

Hi,
My favorite Web 2.0 tools are:

Delicious - love being able to annotate web sites and reach them from any computer in the world

Google Sites - great quick way to build a collaborative web site quickly.

iGoogle Home Page - I've been using it to aggregate all the resources I read and use. Because it is also my browser home page, it's easy to scan the latest headlines and decide what to read. It keeps everything important right in my face! LOL!

K12HSN-EdZone - a new online community with a suite of collaborative tools. Just for K12 California educators.

Ning Network - I belong to five different groups that are niche interests of mine. Most times I just read and lurk, sometimes I post.

-Alix

Permalink Reply by Ursula Schmack on May 21, 2007 at 9:27am

I think Del.icio.us is a wonderful tool in the classroom. You ask your students to sign into Del.icio.us and then create links in the feed 'bookmarks' you want them to use for a research in the Internet. This saves a lot of time and is practical, too, because each student can have access to this site from any computer.
What do you think?

Permalink Reply by Mobbsey on August 15, 2008 at 6:22am

I love this idea. I'm actually planning on using this as part of a homework task for a media unit my English class will be doing later this year. I like that they can help build a network of shared bookmarks too.

Permalink Reply by mauriel on May 23, 2007 at 8:41am

I use VoiceThread very often and it's really useful to help my students speak English . Thanks to this tool, they can see a picture, describe it and record themselves at the same time. The pictures chosen are related to a topic studied in class so they can describe them by using the vocabulary we have already learnt. Then they can listen to their production and correct their "speaking" mistakes. If they are not satisfied with their work, they can improve it as many times as they want. They love this way of working!

Permalink Reply by Peggy Soong Yaplee on June 21, 2007 at 6:23pm

Wow, this is a great tool and is saving me tons of money because now I don't have to invest into any recording devices. It starts added up. I can see some great projects using this tool.
I was trying to figure out how to get kids to read out-load to hear themselves. What a great tool for having kids work on their verbal skills.

Permalink Reply by SusanTsairi on June 27, 2007 at 2:44pm

The even nicer feature is that children can hear other children and get a very basic "conversation" going using the vocabulary targeted.

Permalink Reply by Ginny Tori on May 6, 2008 at 7:46pm

Hola Mauriel! What grades do you work with and use this tool?
Ginny

Permalink Reply by Jeri Hurd on May 26, 2007 at 2:02pm

I use Nicenet.org A LOT! It combines a place to create hotlists of web links, a discussion board, and a place to upload assignments. All for free (and no annoying ads!). Not sure if that really counts as Web 2.0 or not, but it's a great resource

Permalink Reply by TeachingSagittarian on May 26, 2007 at 4:17pm

My students and I have 3 favourite web2.0 tools in the classroom at the moment.

Wikispaces has opened up a whole new direction in our learning and is so student-teacher-friendly.

VoiceThread is an amazing tool that has motivated each and every student in the class. It's particularly beneficial to those students who are not strong writers.

And last but not least is YackPack. YackPack allows us to keep in voice contact with students around the world that we are doing collaborative projects with. Because timezones don't always allow us to skype at suitable times, YackPack solves the problem for us by letting us leave private messages for one another in our yackpacks.