Web+2.0+in+the+Classroom

 media type="custom" key="5944913" Pay Attention!! This video from TeacherTube shows the need for changing the way we teach students due to the changes in the ways students today learn.... Enter Web 2.0

The table on this page contains resources for your own learning and for use with the students in your classroom. The table has been divided into three columns:

Column 1: Resource categories Column 2: Links to resources Column 3: Descriptions of each resource

I hope you will find these resources valuable in your setting.


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Many of the links found on this page were selected from those contained on my Delicious account. Feel free to add me to your network and check out my tags! (mb16bps) || This wiki offers almost every tool you would ever want to use in the world of Web 2.o. Tools here are divided into easy-to-search, specific categories. Most tools featured are free or offer free versions. || || This tool kit offers everything from presentation and survey tools to links to grade-specific web resources. || || This site allows users to create their own diagrams on line. Users can "blog and share" the diagrams they create. || || This site from NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) contains lesson plans and lots of student interactives for reading and writing. On this site students can do anything from use interactive poetry templates to venn diagrams. || || Forget poster boards, these sites allow users to create interactive posters. Students can create colorful and exciting posters about any topic. Posters have the ability to store video, audio and image files. || || EtherPad is a web-based word processor. This tool will allow students to have a threaded discussion in real-time. Teacher's can set up a discussion pad and allow students to pose questions as they arise during a discussion or lecture. || || This feature of Google is great for promoting collaboration in the classroom. With Google Docs multiple users can create and share documents, spreadsheets, presentati ons, etc. online. || -Google Docs -Google Calculator -Google Groups || || This site offers another online word processor which allows for creation and collaboration among multiple users. || || It's a wiki about blogs!!! On this wiki you will find hundreds of links to educational blogs broken up alphabetically. || || On this wiki, you will find examples of professional development and multiple activity types/lesson plans for helping you incorporate web 2.0 and technology into your classroom. || || This page will link you to the all the wikis found in one Michigan school district. Some pages are in the beginning stages of development and others are up and running. Check out all the ways technology and web 2.0 are being incorporated into the classrooms. || || This site allows you to create rubrics online that you can use in your classroom. You can create your own or choose from a library of existing rubrics. || || This site allows you to easily creat your own polls to use with students. Polls can be used for assessing prior knowledge or understanding of content presented. SurveyMonkey polls can be e-mailed or linked right to your website. SurveyMonkey will even automatically organize your data. || || PollDaddy allows users to create short polls that can be embedded directly into websites, blogs or wikis. || || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">This site allows students and teachers to learn about history through a vast collection of videos. The site contains a compare and contrast option where viewers can select videos on a given topic to compare. || || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">Using teacher tube teachers can search for multi-media which they can embed directly into a website, wiki, or blog. || || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">This site offers tutorials for students and instructors that will help you make technology integration in your classroom easy. || || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">This site provides virtual learning experiences/simulations for young learners. Simulations include simple machines and even virtual knee surgery! ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">Category || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">Links || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">Descriptions ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">**Classroom Tools <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">and Tool Kits for teachers and students ** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">Web 2.0: Cool Tools for School[[image:sd2.JPG width="396" height="256" align="center"]]
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|Teacher's Digital Briefcase]
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|Web 2.0 Tool Kit] || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">Users of this site will find links to and explanations of all things web 2.0. Ideas for web 2.0 in pedagogy are included. ||
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|Gliffy]
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|ClassTools] || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">This site contains free flash templates for teachers. Amazing!!! There are multiple interactive templates to choose from. Templates can be saved and embedded directly onto pages, blogs and wikis. Lesson plans to use with the various templates are also available. ||
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|read-write-think]
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">The Connected Classroom || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">This wiki features presentations on ways to use Web 2.o tools for the purposes of constructivisit learning. Videos, links, and tools are available. ||
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|Wordle] [[image:sd24.JPG]] || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">Wordle lets users make word clouds that can be saved as picture files and used anywhere!! Great tool for builiding vocabulary in any subject. ||
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|Tools for the Classroom] || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">This site was created by Dr. Howie DiBlasi and contains video presentations, free file downloads, and lists of multiple Web 2.0 tools to use with students. ||
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|Glogster] and [|Edu.Glogster][[image:sd33.JPG align="center"]]
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|EtherPad]
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|Google Docs]
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|On-line Colleges-100 Tips for Using Google] || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">This site contains 100 tricks for deeper ways to interact with Google features. Topics include:
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|Zoho Writer][[image:sd30.JPG align="center"]]
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">**Blogs and Wikis** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|Tech Soup-Everything You Need to Know about Web 2.0] || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">On this site you will find tips for using and explanations of basic Web 2.o tools like wikis and blogs. ||
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|Classroom 2.0] || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">This blog is intended as a social network for educators who are looking to incorporate web 2.0 tools and social media in their classroom. This space will allow you to have on-line discussions with others who share your interests. ||
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|Support Blogging!]
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|Classroom Blogs and Wikis] || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">This site contains links to free wiki and blog spots, examples of both, and tips for teachers. ||
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|Broz Classroom Wiki] [[image:sd17.JPG]] || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">This is the link to my classroom wiki. Use my site to find ways to incorporate web 2.0 into your classroom. Here you will find use to helpful tools, lesson plans and activity types. ||
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|Ignite Wiki]
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|Birmingham Wikis]
 * **<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">Assessment ** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|That Quiz] [[image:sd19.JPG width="443" height="181"]] || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">This interactive assessment tool allows you to select from hundreds of interactive quizzes. It's free to join and the site will keep track of and organize all student testing data. Results are available for individual students and whole class. ||
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|rubistar]
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|SurveyMonkey]
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|PollDaddy]
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">**Video and Audio** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|EASE History]
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|TeacherTube]
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">**Interactive Games, Simulations, Tutorials and Practice** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|Atomic Learning]
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|EdHeads]
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|WebMath]

|| <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">This site offers interactive math tutorials on hundreds of topics divided into easy to locate categories. || || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">This site has interactive practice activities for hundreds of math skills and concepts. The activities are divided by grade level from PreK-6th. || || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">This site was created by NCTM (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics) and contains 105 online activitied, 550 lesson plans, and a collection of related web links. || || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">This site is always a student favorite. Here students can engage in skill-specific games and general strategy games. || || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">Allows students to input their weekly spelling lists and engage in multiple activities using their assigned words. Paperless spelling homework!!! || || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">Great for emerging readers! This site allows students to practice fundamental reading skills. || || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">This simulation site from the Smithsonian National Zoological Park allows students to design their own Panda habitat. || || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">This site offers interactive games and activities for grades 1-6. Membership is required for most games, but there are free games available at each grade level. || || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">This professional organization is dedicated to expanding and improving technology in education in PreK-12 classroom. || || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">This link will take you to the technology plan for the state of Michigan. Topics on this site include: state technology standards technology plan technology grants ed tech presentations. || || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">This model for technology integration in the classroom was developed by to MSU professors and is very valuable when making choices in your classroom that will make incorporating technology successful. || || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">This site contains links to articles directly related to the use of technology in schools. Article topics include: -Developing a School or District Technology Plan -Using Technology to Improve Student Achievement -Promoting Technology Use in Schools -Providing Professional Development for Effective Technology Use || -Evaluating Websites -Using Blogs in the Classroom -Teaching the "Net" Generation || || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">This page explains one framework for 21st Century learning-The focus of this site is on student outcomes. || || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">Along with NCREL, The Metiri Group has established an addtional framework for 21st Century Learning Skills in the classroom. || [|The National Writing Project (Technology and Writing Instruction)] || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">This article from the National Writing Project shows an example of wikis being integrated sucessfully into a 7th grade classroom. The second link contains multiple articles on the incorporation of technology into writing. ||
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|Interactive] [[image:sd11.JPG]] || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">This site's focus is on mathematics and science. Here you can find activities and tools for students and lesson plans for teachers. ||
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|IXL][[image:sd34.JPG align="center"]]
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|Illuminations]
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|CoolMath]
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|Broz Wiki-Math Links] || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">This page of my wiki contains links to many interactive sites for the practice of various math skills. Sites have been divided into categories by skill. ||
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|Shambles-Simulations] || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">This pages contains links to online simulation activities you can use with your students. Everything from creating a business to peer conflict resolution is contained. ||
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|Spelling City]
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|Broz Wiki-Grammar Links] || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">On this page of my wiki, you and your students can find interactive games and practice on various grammar skills and parts of speech. ||
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|Starfall]
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|Habitat Adventure: Panda Challenge]
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|Toon University]
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">**Articles, Suporting Research, and Professional Organizations** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)]
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|State of Michigan Tech Plan][[image:sd32.JPG align="center"]]
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|T-PACK]
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|Concept to Classroom-Inquiry Based Learning] || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">Inquiry learning is a very effective way to integrate technology in the classroom. This site explains the ins and outs of this model of instruction. ||
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|North Central Regional Education LibraryCritical Issue: Technology in Education]
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|Teaching Today-Education Up Close] || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">This site contains articles on issues of technology in education. Article topics include:
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|Partnership for 21st Century Skills]
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|The Metiri Group]
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|Southern Regional Educational Board-Evalu Tech] || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">Explains the 21st Century Skills for learning and their value in schools and classrooms. ||
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|Wikis Foster Scaffolded Collaboration in an English Language Arts Classroom](Article)
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|The New Writing Pedagogy] || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">This online article discusses the need for and benefits of using social networking tools in writing instruction. ||
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">media type="youtube" key="wRRKiRYzA_o" height="385" width="480" || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">This video, Now You Know (Did You Know 6) was created by Doctor Howie DiBlasi. The video promotes the need for digital technology in the classroom. ||
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">media type="youtube" key="vC928e629iM" height="323" width="483" || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">This video was created by Kristin Hokanson, who is also the creator of The Connected Classroom Wiki. This video supports the need for digital learning in today's classrooms. ||