Session 2:
Using Web 2.0 Technologies to
Create Teacher Web Pages
Web Syndication
Really Simple Syndication
Really Serious Stress Relief
Allows you to easily access frequently
updated Internet content
You “subscribe” and updated content is
delivered to your computer
CommonCraft
Many quick video how-to’s
RSS in Plain English
Teacher:
Posts lecture on site
Publishes lecture to Web Server
Newsfeed file
XML file
RSS file
Catalog of all information published
Student
Installs a “news reader” or “news aggregator”
One function: check web server and downloads an
identified RSS newsfeed on a regular basis
Effectively and continually asks the server, “Is
there new content?”
Similar to e-mail – “Is there new e-mail?”
Server reports new content – aggregator
dutifully downloads it
Google Reader
Bloglines
Plurk Question:
n2teaching will rebuild my blog roll. I think
I am over the incident. If you would like to
send me your blog/web url, I would
appreciate it very much.
Link to responses
Describe an item so that it can be found
again by browsing or searching
Conveys meaning about the content
Folksonomies
Groups of tags
K12 Online Conference
Chris Betcher – Sydney, Australia
“I Like Delicious Things”
When students tag –
They are forced to think about themes and the
big idea - metacognition
There becomes value to their writing – global
audience
Displays shared lists of user-created
Internet bookmarks
Allows you to:
Organize
Rank
Display for others to see and use
Content classified by tags
Allow searches for bookmarks using tags
People can connect
Find similar interests
Subscribe to other’s bookmarks
Allow access wherever you are – with
Internet connection