Welcome to the Wiki for Gail Lovely's Conference Session entitled

"Web 2.0 meets Grade 2.0: Harness the Power of Web 2.0"

http://glovely.wetpaint.com/











Challenges

• Balance of freedom and safety
• Control content and comments
• Low cost or free - move to fees or advertising

Tools

• Sharing Images
• Sharing ideas
• Working together
• Creating Resources, Tools and Media

Wikis

student examples

http://middlej.pbwiki.com/Minibeasts
http://kcountingbook.wetpaint.com/page/Home?t=anon
http://primarymath.wetpaint.com/?t=anon
https://monsterproject.wikispaces.com/Mrs.+Valentine%27s+2nd

Collections

http://1000names.wikispaces.com/
http://kcountingbook.wetpaint.com/page/Home?t=anon
http://100thday.wetpaint.com/page/The+Counting+Book?t=anon

Content - like a "wikipedia"

Science: http://room2-wiki6.wikispaces.com/
Language Arts: Choose Your Path Story: http://terrythetennisball.wikispaces.com/
Language Arts: Collaborative Stories: http://room4-wiki.wikispaces.com/
Social Studies: Responsibilities: http://responsibilities.wikispaces.com/

Blogs

Tools

Blogger: www.blogger.com

• Remove the Next Blog Bar: http://lowendmac.com/lab/06/0328.html
• Take the blog navbar off!!

Blogmeister: http://classblogmeister.com/index.php

Examples:

Kathy Cassidy: http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=1337

http://www.moturoa.blogspot.com/
Lots of Content and links: http://www.bayareawritingproject.org/bawp41/
Students and Teacher Interaction: http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=41233
Fourth Grade in NYC: http://blogs.dalton.org/edinger/

Student book on blogging (older now, but still good): http://www2.gsu.edu/~coeapd/abc/index.html
THE Classroom blogger, CoolCat: http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/

Other Tools


Graphic Organizers

• Bubbl.us www.Bubbl.us
• Classtools http://www.classtools.net/
• Webspiration http://www.mywebspiration.com/

Office-like Tools

• Google Docs http://docs.google.com/
• Zoho www.zoho.com

Unusual Tools for Sharing

• TinyUrl http://tinyurl.com/
• Moo URL http://www.moourl.com/

• Tiny Paste http://tinypaste.com

example: http://tinypaste.com/c52a1

• Lulu - Publishing tool http://www.lulu.com

example: http://moourl.com/lulubooks

• Group Cards (Teacher First) http://www.groupcard.com/

Custom Home Pages

• http://www.netvibes.com/
• http://pageflakes.com
• http://igoogle.com

Social Networks

MySpace and Facebook are NOT for this age group. Interactive "communities" such as ClubPenguin (http://www.clubpenguin.com/) may be safe, but the educational value is limited.

Ning: http://ning.com (usually private at the elementary level)

Media Tools

VoiceThread www.voicethread.com

• http://voicethread.com/#u18557
• http://voicethread.com/share/6104/
• http://voicethread.com/share/13646/
• http://voicethread.com/share/46731/

http://www.voicethread.com

Kerpoof


Cartoon and Dialog - (no spoken speech)
http://www.kerpoof.com

• Skype www.skype.com

• Flickr www.Flickr.com

Fun with Flickr (in some cases for teachers to use FOR students)

• http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/
• http://metaatem.net/words
• http://taggalaxy.de/

• Picasa http://picasa.google.com/

• BubbleShare http://www.bubbleshare.com/

• SlideShare http://www.slideshare.net

Podcasting

• itunes is an obvious source: http://www.apple.com/itunes/
• Great source of educational podcasts http://www.edtechtalk.com/
  
• Gcast - make podcasts from your phone: http://www.gcast.com

Resources for Teachers

The CommonCraft Show (videos explaining much of this)
http://www.youtube.com/user/leelefever

Managing a Class Blog
http://alupton.edublogs.org/class-blogs-management-moderation-and-protection/

One Teacher's Story
http://k12online.wm.edu/its_elementary/player.html

Classroom 2.0 (a ning for teachers)
http://classroom20.ning.com/

A HUGE Collection of Web2.0 "stuff" (not all student-appropriate)
http://www.go2web20.net/

Weblogg-ed - a great source of material to think about
http://weblogg-ed.com/

And 50 Ways to Write a Story (more TOOLS)
http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryTools