Paul McMahonLearning Solutions Asia

What the Read/Write Web is doing to all of us

Schools and Learning Keeping kids safe in the online world. Blogs and their uses Setting up personal and class blogs Wikis and their uses Setting up personal and class wikis Review and questions.

2.0 as indicative of a new versionFormerly like TV, now like telephoneHuge explosion in contentEveryone can now be an authorMany mainstream schools have not

yet caught onMany conventional business models

under threat

http://www.go2web20.net/

Some of these allow you to do things you already do but online and maybe using a different purchasing model (quite often free)

Others harness the power of social networking to offer more

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g

US Data June 2007

http://img.scoop.co.nz/media/pdfs/0802/cgm_mr_nzfeb08.pdf

We are supposed to be using Bloom’s Taxonomy as a model

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Building a PLN is a great adjunct to traditional CPD

Schools in my mind are the best places to educate children about using the internet

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I will only use my first name I will never give out my email address I will never give out my home address I will never give out my telephone number I will respect others I will never use rude or threatening words I will not use text talk or chat language I will not copy other people’s work I will be responsible for everything I write I will check my spelling before posting

You need to model to students learning for a knowledge-based job in a flat world

MIT Open Courseware http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm Image copied from Wikipedia under Creative Commons Licensing

You need to model to students learning for a knowledge-based job in a flat world

MIT Open Courseware http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

Do your students know how you learn?

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How to pick the right tools for the job

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Comments from readers extend classroom learning (Can be controlled)

Can make writing authentic Personal learning journal Technorati is a great index/feed for blogs

http://technorati.com/

http://thinkingstick.wikispaces.com/sustained+blogging

Bob Fornal-Accessed via Flickr Creative Commons Attribute Share Alike

Kwikrick-Accessed via Flickr Creative Commons Attribute Share Alike

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bd solis-Accessed via Flickr Creative Commons Share Atribution Share Alike

1. Read 2. Reflect

3. Write about what you know

•Hyperlink•Add Graphics•Tag

4.Repeat!

Grim Reaper with a Lawnmower-Accessed via Flickr Creative Commons Share Alike

HyperlinkUse GraphicsTag

Drewm Accessed via Flickr Creative Commons Some Rights Reserved

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http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2008/10/brave-new-classroom-20-new-blog-forum/

http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/ also http://coolcatkid.blogspot.com/

http://namckeand.blogspot.com/2007/01/getting-my-students-blogging-again.html

http://inpractice.edublogs.org/ http://www.petrterrss.eq.edu.au/home/mc

rid2/67blog/

http://www.giangdaytructuyen.com/

http://www.edublogs.orgDesigned for schools and teachersAd free for educators Easier to link to others edublogsSupportive of school and teacher

policies

Netvibes.com

Google Reader

Offer things of use to your students or other teachers

It needs to be something you enjoy writing about

Spread the word and encourage comments.

Easy to create website/Shared Resource space

Collaborative Knowledge building Easy collaboration beyond classroom Extend discussion beyond the classroom Trackable page edits

New wonders of the World

http://new7wonders.wikispaces.com/

Guidelines for working on a wiki

Voices of the World

http://votw.wikispaces.com/

http://new7wonders.wikispaces.com

Horizon Project

http://horizonproject2008.wikispaces.com/Teams

http://monsonclassroom.wikispaces.com/

Thousands Project

http://monsonclassroom.wikispaces.com/

Wolf River Unit

http://techiewikis.wikispaces.com/ http://priestsicprimaryschool.wikispaces.com/

Developing School Policies

http://collaborativetales.wikispaces.com/

The Hypnotiser

http://terrythetennisball.wikispaces.com/

Choose Your Own Adventure

Hauora - Health and Well-being

http://hauora.pbwiki.com/ http://wilfordmidsyn.wikispaces.com/

Forces

Find ready made webquests at Quest Garden

http://miss-fagaloa.wikispaces.com/Maths

http://mrpollitt.pbwiki.com/

Take a look at the online journals

http://educationalsoftware.wikispaces.com/

Educational Software and Web 2.0

Teacher Portal

http://teacherportal.wikispaces.com/

http://englishplace.wetpaint.comhttp://elt.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page http://wiki.vec.hku.hk/index.php/

Main_Page http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/

view/Main/WebHome http://educators.pbwiki.com/K-

12+example+wikis

Most wikis are set up the same way (concept is most important)

Professional tutorial on PB wiki hereMany blog postings about how to

insert elements into wikis/blogs.http://www.wikispaces.org

Some ideas and slides come from the work of the following to whom I am grateful:

Michael Walker, Kim Cofino and Suzie Vesper

Paul McMahonLearning Solutions Asia Email:

pmc@learningsolutions.com.hk Phone: w81702808 m91705605PowerPoint

http://iclassroom.hkedcity.net/teacher/teacher979