Monday morning I’ll be starting my work day with a meeting with my department manager, who has invited me to talk about Web 2.0. Seems like the most logical place for a working agenda is right here inside the blogosphere.
- So if there is a Web 2.0, there must be a Web 1.0, no?!:
- Let’s start with When Justice Failed – I still like the lesson, but clearly it’s been a while since I last updated it.
- Preparing for last month’s NCTE ACE workshop was a snap thanks to the ACE blog that Rob Rosma created using WordPress.
- Google Docs was a great solution for Kevin Hodgson, Beth Yeager, and me to collaboratively write the agenda for our NWP Workshop on Equity and Access.
- Better yet, I could show rather than tell by sharing a fewQuickTimes from last year’s CUE Conference (Erica, Phillip, and Bob). Not the best video quality – but the content explains the value of social networking.
- I will also draw a bit from 4 year’s worth of exploring the potential of classroom blogging to engage students in new literacies.
- Students reading and writing beyond the school day – Always Running
- Creating inter-generational communities – Hidden Histories
- Connecting across geographic and socio-economic backgrounds – Youth Voices Coast to Coast
- And maybe throw in a quick look at this year’s projects:
- Focusing on podcasting – Youth Radio
- Using a common text to explore writing from the inside out – The Outsiders
- Examining the power of tagging – Youth Voices
- About time to take a look at news aggregators (RSS). I’m with Paul Allison – I still like Bloglines.
- In addition to news feeds, I use social bookmarking as way to organize my use of the Internet. Even though it’s hard to spell, I like del.icio.us.
Closing thought:
“If teaching is an exchange of ideas, the ways that people convey their thoughts in this day and age — text messages, podcasts, the Internet, instant messaging — must find a place in the modern classroom.
If we don’t do it, who is going to teach our students to leverage the technologies they already use for 24/7/365 learning?” Will Richardson