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the web 2.0 world

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Verde Valley Welcome
8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast & Refreshments
9:00 - 9:45 Demo & Introduction to Web 2.0
9:45 - 10:30 Blogs
break
10:45 - 11:30 Google Documents
11:30 - 12:00 Photosharing
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 1:30 Twitter
1:30 - 2:00 Facebook
2:00 - 2:45 YouTube
break
3:00 - 3:15 Google Hangout with Ben Rimes
3:15 - 3:30 Google Hangouts & Your Classroom
3:30 - 4:00 Recap & Homework

WHAT IS WEB 2.0?
Web 2.0 is a term that is
tossed around everywhere
right now. It is not a specific
technology, but a set of
concepts and functionalities
that power the internet
differently than in the past. The first generation internet (web 1.0) was mostly
information presented in a static form. Web 2.0 is dynamic, participatory and
collaborative in nature, where everyone is invited to create as well as consume
internet content.
While the flood of new technology can seem overwhelming, everything covered in
this Teacher Academy have these basic core concepts and functions in common.
CORE CONCEPTS
Read/write: 1. the ability for anyone to create content quickly and easily, and 2. the ability to
comment and respond to create dialogue.
Sharing: The ability for people to collaborate across the web on documents, websites, etc.
Embedding: The ability to place content, such as a streaming video, from one website into
another website by copying and pasting a bit of code (the embed code).
Free: Basic tools are free. Upgrades to basic services are available, but usually unnecessary.
TERMS TO KNOW
Tag - A term associated with a piece of information, such as a web page, image, or computer
file, that describes it, and assists in the classification and search-ability of that information.
syn: keyword.
Post - User-generated content that is added to a website. Used as a verb and a noun.
PLN A Personal Learning Network. A group of resources collected around the interests and
needs of an individual learner.
Avatar the photo or graphic users associate with their online identity

Keep in mind that all these things are evolving daily.


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WORDPRESS
Wordpress is a free blogging/website creation tool that is very popular with
educators and business owners. The tool allows you to create and share
content easily and quickly. Other blogging platforms include Googles
Blogger and Tumblr.

Set up your Wordpress account by going to www.wordpress.com and enter a site
address. Remember, it must be unique. There cannot be two websites with the same address.
- Blogs are just websites that are usually made of words and images and the content is
presented in a chronological order.
- But, you can add pages and they can have static content on them! No doubt you
have seen many websites with pages and pursued the content on them.
There are many professional websites that are made with Wordpress tools.
Wordpress has both a free site and a version that is used when you host a domain. The free
one is wordpress.com and the other is wordpress.org.
Wordpress can help you create a class website, a personal website, a business
website, or a website that your family might use to share current events. Whatever
the reason, Wordpress is a fast way to create content on the web.
Wordpress allows you a great deal of flexibility in how you share the content you want and
allows for interaction via commenting. Or not. You control how and what you share and who
can comment.
Sharable. Safe. Personalized Options: Wordpress has been around for many years
and there are many useful support materials online. To get started you can go directly
to the Wordpress.com help site at http://en.support.wordpress.com/

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GOOGLE SITES
You know about Wikipedia, the wiki that changed the way knowledge is
collected and shared. You can harness that same power for your courses.
A wiki is a website that can be modified by any number of people or the
public, making it an ideal way to collaborate in a shared space online.
Google Sites is a wiki platform that allows you to create webpages.

Set up your Google Site by going to https://sites.google.com and signing into your
Google account. If your school uses Google Apps, make sure that Google Sites is one of the
available Apps in your district. If not, youll have to create the sites logged into your personal
Google account. Once logged in you can create a new site, customize the look of it and begin to
add pages and content.
Make as many pages as needed: the New Page creates a new page for
your website and adds it to the site navigation.
Privacy Settings are available in the Manage Site options. Many of the
basic features can be accessed from there.
Edit your page by adding text, images, video, Google Docs, or links to
anywhere on the web.
Managing your site
- Add Content: hundreds of modular tools to add snippets of information, calendars,
feeds, videos, and so on to your wiki.
- Permissions: set up your wiki to be public, protected from editing by non-members, or
make custom permissions.
- Customize the appearance: themes, fonts and colors, images, and much more can be
customized.
- Discussion Board: make forums on unlimited topics.
- Page History: see who edited pages, what they did, and when.

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TWITTER
Twitter is a social learning and networking site that allows professionals
and friends to share information across the web. Twitter allows users to
follow people who share the same profession, interests, or needs. Twitter
is also referred to as a micro-blogging tool as tweets are limited to 140
characters.

Set up your Twitter account by going to https://www.twitter.com and fill in the SIGN
UP FOR TWITTER information. Twitter is both a way to communicate, similar to instant
messaging and it is also a way to gather information. To start using twitter try the two steps
below.
- Think of a professional in your field that you admire and search for their name. See if
they are using Twitter. Then see who they follow and see if those are folks who have
information you might benefit from.
- If you know of local educators using Twitter, find them and see who they follow. By
seeing who other educators follow, you can often find great resources for teaching.
Find Educators to Follow on Twitter, and follow some in your subject area or
anyone you think is saying valuable things.
There are many lists out on the internet of who to follow, and this is just one of many.
http://edudemic.com/2010/04/the-60-best-teachers-on-twitter/. Remember, when you
search for people, you use the @ symbol before their name. For example, @greatteacher is a
Twitter username.
Using Hashtags by using the # before a few characters you can find information about
specific topics. For example, if you search for #edchat you will see many educators discussing
and sharing information related to education. Here is a decent list of hashtags you can search
for: http://www.cybraryman.com/edhashtags.html
Add hashtags to Tweets: When you compose a tweet, by adding a hashtag or
someones user name, you will allow others to find your information and you make sure
the person, or group, sees the information you are sharing.

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FLICKR
Flickr is a photo sharing site that allows users to share images with anyone.
It allows users to organize photos and participate in or create groups. The
groups can be private or open to anyone to join. It is a very organized
environment that uses tags to structure the content.

Set up your Flickr account by going to http://www.flickr.com/ and fill in the SIGN UP
NOW button. You can select an avatar, make your profile visible publically or private, and
there are a number of groups you can search for and join.
- Share images of field trips or projects that students have completed and share them
with parents and classmates.
- Find images that relate to specific lessons and map them to specific locations easily
because Flickr is a very organized space and allows you to place images on a map.
There are many professional photographers who use Flickr to showcase and the
work they create. Flickr is a great resource for teachers looking for images of anything from
animals to architecture.
Highly organized and available anywhere you have an internet connection or mobile
phone. Flickr is very integrated into smartphones and has exceptional location services.
Flickr Groups allow you to create topic focused groups that can be made public or private
depending on the sensitivity of the content being shared. They also allow you to have threaded
discussions and to comment on group member images. Here is an example of a group devoted
to dance photography: http://www.flickr.com/groups/pro-dance-photos/ and here is a group of
professional photographers: http://www.flickr.com/groups/professionalphotography/
Sharable High Quality Images: Sometimes when searching for images in Googles
Image Search you get some good and some pretty bad stuff. In Flickr, you will
usually find a higher quality image that you can use. Flickr has various levels of
Creative Commons licensing. These license types allow you to use the images in various ways
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GOOGLE HANGOUTS
Google Hangouts allow up to nine people to video
conference with excellent video and audio
quality. Like Skype, it is a free tool that can be
used to contact colleagues, bring in speakers for
a class, parents, or groups of students. While the
use of video conferencing in the K12 environment
is limited now, it is likely that is will be more
prevalent in the not too distant future.
Google Hangouts is part of the Google world and as such is a free tool that is
easy to access once you are logged into your Google account. Google Hangouts is only about a
year old and recently made the tool able to record your conversations and place them on you
YouTube channel. They can also be viewed live online during the Hangout.
- Bringing the outside in and the inside out is one thing that a Hangout might do for your
class. By making it possible to bring in outside resources, you can connect real world
people to the content of your class.
- Sharing successes with parents and others is another way that you might use a Hangout
in class. By having student presentations available for parents to see, or even participate
in, you can connect the school to the home.
An Example: We need to ask a zookeeper questions, as part of a science
assignment or lesson and there is no zoo nearby. You can bring the zookeeper into your
classroom by using video conferencing tools and have live interactions with them.
Google Hangouts and the Google+ environment will have some great
opportunities for the K12 communities. Currently, they are not available to the
Google Apps users but it is available to personal Google customers.
Professional Development Opportunities exist all over the web. Google
Hangouts allows groups of people to share ideas with other professionals in a face to face
environment. Authors are using the Hangouts as a way to broadcast information to readers and
educators are using it to host informal gatherings to discuss various topics. Even the President
has held a Hangout as a way to communicate with others.
Now Live and Recorded: Google recently made it possible to have live
events and record the Hangouts so they are stored on a users YouTube
channel. These can be viewed later or added to any web space for archiving.

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