Greensboro+Middle+School+Web+2.0

**Collaboration**

 * Who is your learning community (personal, professional, classroom)?**


 * How do you collaborate with your learning community?**

**Can you define Web 2.0?**
Tim O'Reilly, on defining web 2:


 * //Web 2.0 is the network as platform, spanning all connected devices; Web 2.0 applications are those that **make the most of the intrinsic advantages** of that platform: delivering software as a continually-updated service that **gets better the more people use it, consuming and remixing data from multiple sources**, including individual users, while providing their own data and services in a form that allows remixing by others, creating network effects through an **"architecture of participation,"** and **going beyond the page metaphor of Web 1.0 to deliver rich user experiences**.//

Web 2.0 articles and resources
 * [|Teacher 2.0: The Evidence]
 * [|Coming of Age] is a free booklet that describes the use of some of the newer emerging web technologies such as blogs, podcasts, wikis, RSS and social tagging in Education.

**Blogs**
A Daily Dose of Design (HGTV)--http://blogs.hgtv.com/hgtv/design/ Parents Blog--http://parenting.families.com/blog/ Welcome, Parents--http://community.scholastic.com/blog?blog.id=middleschool Hockey Trade Rumors--http://www.spectorshockey.net/rumors.html Deer Hunting Blog--http://www.blogcatalog.com/post-tag/deer%20hunting Autotopia--http://blog.wired.com/cars/ NASCAR Napper--http://www.monkeyouttanowhere.com/nascar/archives/2006/09/insider_nascar.html Consumer Reports (Safety)--http://blogs.consumerreports.org/safety/ Knitnation-- http://yarnnation.blogspot.com/ TravelBlogs--http://www.travelblogs.com/ ACC Now--http://blogs.newsobserver.com/accnow/index.php
 * How can blogs be used personally?**


 * How can blogs be used professionally?**

Frances Bradburn’s From the Director’s Desk http://itdivision.blogspot.com/ David Warlick’s 2 cents worth http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/ Cool Cat Teacher Blog http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/ [|Joyce Valenza's NeverEndingSearch Blog] [|Doug Johnson's Blue Skunk Blog]

[| Educational Blogging with Will Richardson (School 2.0, Part 2)] This interview was intended to help someone new to educational blogging to hear candid advice from Will Richardson, author of Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms. However, as you will see, it turned into much more, with Will strongly expressing his feelings about the need for schools to change.

[|Professional Development to Go--A Summer Time Treat, Infinite Thinking Blog Entry]

[|A Difference:] High School Mathematics Teacher Darren Kuropatwa's Blog for Educators. It includes links to his current and previous Math Class Blog for students. Great Stuff! [| Springfield Township High Schools Grammar Video Blogs] Elementary 3, 4, 5 grade Weblog http://itc.blogs.com/thewriteweblog/ Blogical Minds--elementary http://itc.blogs.com/minds/ A Duck with a Blog [|http://duckdiaries.edublogs.org] A blog about a duck who decided to build her nest on the playground of a K-8 school. Techsavvy Blog http://www.techsavvyed.net/?cat=8 Maysville Elementary, Maysville, NC, http://mesmustangs.net/ First Grade Blog Sample, http://eduspaces.net/dyerkr/weblog/
 * How can blogs be used in the classroom?**

Additional Blog Resources Episode 76: the NCETC EduBloggerCon http://davidwarlick.com/connectlearning/?p=88 A podcast from David Warlick which gets to the heart of using blogs in the classroom. Discussion includes pedagogy, audience and depth of writing. [|http://weblogg-ed.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/RSSFAQ4.pdf-]-Information for setting up your RSS Feed Google Blog Search http://blogsearch.google.com/ Looking for a blog on a specific topic? Google can help you find it.

**Wikis**

 * How can wikis be used personally?**
 * How can wikis be used personally?**
 * How can wikis be used personally?**

[|What is a Wiki In Plain English] (TeacherTube.com video)

http://jpoletti.wikispaces.com/ http://katiechristo.pbwiki.com/ http://www.teachinghacks.com/wiki/ Curriculum GlossaWiki Technology GlossaWiki [| Collaboration Wiki]
 * How can wikis be used professionally?**

Lenoir County Summer Camp Flat Classroom Project http://flatclassroomproject.wikispaces.com/ The Flat Classroom project is a genuine assessment project between Julie Lindsay'sgrade 11 ITGS class at International School Dhaka(ISD) in Bangladesh and Vicki Davis' 10th grade Computer Science class at Westwood Schools in Camilla, Georgia.
 * How can wikis be used in the classroom?**

[|Wikipedia] [|Peanut Butter Wiki]

**Shared Applications**
Photo Sharing Family Info Spreadsheet Recipes Mapping Campgrounds
 * How can shared applications be used personally?**

[| August Workshop Maps] Document Creation Handout Ouida's [|Listening to Pocasts On a PC with iTunes] was created using Google Docs online. [|LEA TCO]
 * How can shared applications be used professionally?**

Flickr Math http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2006/12/fascinating-flickr-assignment-and.html A summation of Darren Kuropatwa’s Flickr math project http://flickr.com/photos/tags/pc40sf06/
 * How can shared applications be used in the classrom?**

Student Collaboration

Shared Applicaiton Resources http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/ http://zoho.com/ [|Flickr.com] [|Smugmug.com]

**Advocating for Web 2.0**
http://itdivision.blogspot.com/2007_03_01_archive.html

--Know the tool you are asking to use --Determine the curriculum application first --Communicate with your Technology Department --Be open to compromise with regard to similar application

Additional Print Resources:
Richardson, Will. Blogs, Wikis, Podacasts and other Powerful Web Tools for the Classroom. ISBN 1-4129-2767-6