Session 6 Podcasts, Video and Downloadable Audio and Evaluation

I see many applications for educational use of these Web 2.0 tools. Blogging would be a fantastic way to communicate with teachers in our school, our district and surrounding school districts. Information sharing is vital in today's world.

Importing images and photos is a fantastic way for students to use their creativity and higher thinking skills for final products in classroom assignments and research projects.

RSS feeds will be a valuable tool to both teachers and students. Especially those teachers who are interested in reading professional journals and students who are researching at a higher level. What a time saver when information comes to the student rather than the student searching for that same information.

Wikis open a whole world of possibilities. I can see a teacher whose classes are all researching the same topics using a wiki to compare and enhance information. PLCs could use a wiki to communicate and plan future meetings.

Podcasts and video and downloadable audio would be fantastic to introduce new books and encourage literature. It would also be great for those students who have difficulty writing down their ideas but can communicate verbally.

Most of all, these tools are what our students are using on a daily basis and we need to move our educational methods in that direction. It is very frustrating for our students to have access to these tools at home but return to "paper and pencil" products in school.

Session 5 Wikis and Online Production

I can see lots of uses for a wiki in the educational setting both for teachers and students. I can see that there will need to be some specific guidelines but what a powerful collaboration tool.

Google docs is interesting. I can see this as an educational solution to the cost of upgrading software. I like that your documents save automatically and that you can save your documents to the Google server.

Session 4 Photos and Images

This is our new porch. I have uploaded it to Flickr, created a digital scrapbook picture, and I will add tags.

This has a great day of learning.

Session 3 Delicious and Technorati

I think Delicious will be a fantastic tool for me to use at school and at home. It will be great to share this with teachers and be able to share websites I find and those they find. Since these websites will reside on the Delicious server, it will make Klein updates less worrisome.

I heard an interesting use for blogs and math. A teacher posted math problems and the students blogged about the solution to the problem.

RSS and Newsreaders Session 2

Ants Houston

I think this will be a great tool to share with teachers.

Session 1 blogging

I am learning more about Web 2.0 tools. I hope to share what I have learned with students and teachers at Doerre. Hopefully, we can use these tools for research and student products to make them more exciting and meaningful.