RSSRSS, really simple syndication, is a key part of Web 2.0

One of the key technologies of Web 2.0

It allows you to “subscribe” to content on the web

http://www.baekdal.com/web2rss/

Platform/Category(what is it/does it do?)

Personal Uses

Professional UsesStudent Opportunities

Tools/Sites/Webware

Online journal or website

A simple straightforward publishing medium

Generates RSS feeds

Most Popular Blogshttp://technorati.com/pop/blogs/

Blog

Blogs(reading and writing them)

Tools•Bb: Learning Objects•Blogger•WordPress

Personal Uses•Writing is thinking•A Blog is a way to hyperlink your thoughts as you read and reflect

Student Uses•Importance of developing a voice•Writing is thinking•Importance of writing for purpose•Real audience

Professional UsesA simple and extremely easy to use and maintainwebpage for teachers to use to communicatewith students and parents

Guided Reading•Keeping track of what students read independently•Student choice is so important (see Scholastic report)•Teacher does need to maintain some contact with studentregarding what is being read•Student blog (with assigned topics or just the student letter could be received as RSS feed)

Blogs(reading and writing them)

•Similar to blog, except designed to manage the input of multiple authors and generally used as more of a repository that can be navigated

•Shared knowledge creation

•Shared learning

Wikis(reading and writing them)

Tools•Learning Objects: Bb•Wetpaint•PBWiki•Wikispaces•Google Sites

PersonalChances are there is a Wiki out there for you and an interest or hobby you have.

Student ExampleA group project in which students are working outside of class (or in class) and each participant needs to contribute.Class record of “learnings” throughout the year…great review toolhttp://biology101.wetpaint.com/http://aquasquad.wetpaint.com/

Wikis(reading and writing them)

Professional•Curriculum Development•Common Planning Activities•Long or Short term collaboration•PLC collaboration (what works!)

http://westwood.wikispaces.com/ http://www.curriki.org http://hufflessons.pbwiki.com/

•A personal broadcast (narrowcast)•Usually distributed as mp3•“Professional” vs. “Prosumer”•Teacher and/or student created as well•RSS allows people to subscribe to the “show”

Podcast/Vodcast/Screencasts

Narrowcasting

(podcasting, etc.)

Audio ToolsAudacityFeedburner

Video ToolsMoviemaker Camtasia v. 3Photostory

Personal Use•Learn more about a topic of interest•YouTube is more than just bloopers and funny commercials, there are also many “how to” videos

Professional Use•Post assignment explanations•Post content heavy lectures (higher ed.)•Screencast of “how to” do something -- solve a math problem with new algorithm

GcastYouTube

TeacherTubeVimeo Smart Notebook

Student useMath TVStudents use their teacher’s tablet PC to create a screencast as a video that is then published to other students (and the world).

http://www.mathtrain.tv/http://www.mathtrain.com/ http://www.mathplayground.com/mathtv.html

Social Bookmarking/Bookmark Manager

•Bookmarks do not exist on local machine

•Bookmarks exist online so they are always available

•Social…the bookmarks are available for others to see

•Organized by tags

Two types of sites

• people vote on sites they like• “interesting” discoveries• Digg, Reddit, Propeller, Fark

• used more to “store” and “share”your links• find similar links• Del.icio.us, Diigo

Social Bookmarking

Personal UsesNo need to separate from professionalunless you have private bookmarks

Professional UsesTeam of teachers couldcreate an account and devisea shared list of tags to useNever go missing a bookmark againEach teacher could have their own accountand then add team teachers to their network

Student UsesCreate an account for your entire classDevise list of TAGS to use and allow students to find content/classroom related sitesEncourage students to use to maintain resources for a resource project

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RvAkTuL02A

Diigo

Growing in popularity because of its unique features

FeedReader/Aggregator

Podcatcher

Tools that allow you “subscribe” to content from websites

Start pages(multipurpose)

•Everything that a feed reader does and more•Information such as:

•social networking tools like Facebook, MySpace•YouTube•Twitter

•RSS/Atom feeds•Calendar•Notes•Web search•Weather forecast

•del.icio.us bookmarks•Flickr photos•Email•User-created modules called widgets (clocks, countdowns, polls, etc.)

Other Interesting Tools

MicrobloggingAudio commenting on photos

Online “Office-like” tools Videostreaming(live event sharing)

Presentation Tools