Web+2.0

 WEB 2.0 or DSL: Digital as a Second Language =In a nutshell:=

Part I: Why Web 2.0?

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 //** To begin with, scan these two articles: **// [|Digital Natives]vs. Digital Immigrants [|Digital Natives Article]

//** Be ready for a quick discussion of your thoughts so far. **//

 Part II: Where do you stand? **We will take some of these Online Surveys together to see where you are. Think of it as a pre-test so that we can focus on what you know already and where you need to go.** [|Web 2.0 or Star Wars?]

[|More tests to assess your Internet Knowledge from About.com]

 Part III: Web Tools Web Tools--some of which you may already be using. For certain, the students you teach are already familiar with much of this and how awesome would it be to implement your content within the context of their technological repertoires?**
 * We will go section by section explaining and showing examples of the following most popular

//** [|Personal Portal Tools] **// - [|iGoogle] - [|My Yahoo!] - [|Pageflakes - Get it Together] - [|Protopage] - [|Netvibes]

//** [|Social Bookmarking] **// - [|del.icio.us] - [|Diigo] - [|Furl] - [|StumbleUpon]

- [|Blogspot] - [|Easy Journal] - [|WordPress]
 * // [|Blogging] //**

//** [|Podcasts] **// ( [|More on Educational Uses of Podcasts] ) - [|iTunes] - [|Example of Student Podcasts] - [|Audacity] - [|Switchpod]

//** [|Social Networking] **// - [|Ning] ( [|Educational Use of Ning] ) - [|Twitter] - [|MySpace] -[| Facebook] - [|ePals Global Community], a social learning network designed for K12 students, with almost 13 million K12 students and teachers and built with security features with K12 students in mind - [|CollectiveX] - [|Courses on Facebook Application] - [|FlashcardFriends] A free social network for teachers & students to create, share, learn and self-test with online flashcards. - [|Imbee] - [|Mosoto] With Mosoto you can easily share files, chat with friends and discover people and media in your social network. Mosoto is built on top of facebook. - Safety - Things to consider ( [|Social Networks.ppt])

- [|Wikipedia] - [|Wetpaint] - [|PB Wiki] - Wiki Spaces - [|Seed Wiki] - [|Wikis in Education] - Wikispaces in Education - [|Wikis in Plain English]
 * // [|Wikis] //** ( [|More Academic Usage Information for Wikis] )

- http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/
 * // Google Tools //**

- Digital Storytelling Tools - [|Clif Mim's Teaching and Learning with Web 2.0] - http://www.wiziq.com/
 * // Other Tools and Software //**

//** Multimedia - There's tons of it out there! **// - [|Thinkbright.org] - [|YouTube.com] (You can use [|Converttube] to grab YouTube videos for classroom use.) - [|TeacherTube.com] - [|Glumbert.com] - [|Vidipedia.org] - [|VITAL] (WNET, NYC) - [|Open Vault] (WGBH, Boston)

- [|Linux] - [|Open Office] - [|Cute PDF] - [|Audacity] - [|Skype] - [|Itunes]
 * // Open Source Software - It's FREE! //**

Part IV: Playtime - Explore the Universe of Web 2.0 Applications classroom application, then share it with the group. The remainder of our time together will be used to continue to explore and become familiar with the preceding web tools and any others you find in the Web 2.0 directories to make it easier to implement their usage as you begin to plan for the coming year's lessons.**
 * We will begin by clicking on the first link in this section and finding something that has

http://www.go2web20.net/ (find educational value...use tags.) [|Another Web Directory] [|All Things Web 2.0] [|SimpleSpark] [|Ziipa] [|Top 100 Tools for Learning 2008]
 * // Web 2.0 Websites and Hubs //**

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Web 3.0: The Future of the Internet **// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_3.0 http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=68 http://computer.howstuffworks.com/web-30.htm http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article2726190.ece

[|23 Things - A Step by Step Plan for exploring Web 2.0]

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