Developed by Susan Gaer with credit to John Thompson, Ph.D., 2009

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Bridging the Digital Divide

Teaching with Technology as a Tool.Developed by Susan Gaer

June 8, 2009

susangaer@gmail.com

Instituto Cultural Dominico Americano

Annual Conference for Teachers of English 2009

Developed by Susan Gaer with credit to John Thompson, Ph.D., 2009

With a partner, you will have 1 min. • What is Web 2.0?

• How many Web 2.0 tools can you name?

Developed by Susan Gaer with credit to John Thompson, Ph.D., 2009

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What is Web 2.0?

How many Web 2.0 tools can you name?

Developed by Susan Gaer with credit to John Thompson, Ph.D., 2009

How many of these 2.0 Tools did you know?

Developed by Susan Gaer with credit to John Thompson, Ph.D., 2009

human-computer interaction

personal connections--from words, pictures, video, and audio

authentic, peer-to-peer channel of communication

open, flexible collaboration

data and applications opened to creative use by the public

harnessing collective intelligence

collaboration/participation/collective intelligence

second generation of services

Web as a platform

the wisdom of crowds

creative amateur is cherished

“democratizes” media

amoral

authentic, peer-to-peer channel of communication

collective judgments

user-generated content

safety in numbers

participative Web collective power community

Web changing from “medium” to “platform”

user actions provide valuearchitecture of participation

bookmarking >>> social bookmarking

transparent selves…transparent Web

interactive, community-based Internet applications

What is Web 2.0?

Developed by Susan Gaer with credit to John Thompson, Ph.D., 2009

Photo Sharing

Digital Photo Stories

Scrapbooking

School/Class Events

Class Roster

Blogs/Wikis Writing Prompts

Descriptions Albums

Collages

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Cool Sites to Use With Photos

•Flickr Tag Site

•Cool Things you can Do with Picasa

•Verb Project

•Online Photo Sharing in Plain English

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Sharing Videos

List of video sharing sites

ViewPoint: Embedable videos

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What can you do with Video Sharing?

Video Dictionary

Video Ring tones for your phone

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Spend One Minute. Share with a partner what you learned.

• What did you learn about photo sharing?

• What did you learn about video sharing?

• While you are sharing, let’s see if I can get the pictures off the cameras.

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Sharing Documents

24/7 anytime, anywhere access to projects or assignments – extends school day

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Blogs and Wikis

Larry Ferlazzo

Developed by Susan Gaer with credit to John Thompson, Ph.D., 2009

Spend One Minute. Share with a partner what you learned.

• What did you learn about sharing documents?

• What is the difference between a Blog and a Wiki?

• What did you learn about using Wikis and Blogs in the classroom?

Developed by Susan Gaer with credit to John Thompson, Ph.D., 2009

“Record your podcast via a toll-free call from any phone. Never even touch a computer!”

Pix2fone

Start your cellphones

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Socializing• Twitter

• Share bookmarks

• Social browser

• Calendar

• Diagrams

• Social Networking

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Miscellaneous

“online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) - and share them with anyone they wish. A VoiceThread allows group conversations to be collected and shared in one place, from anywhere in the world.” -- group audio blogging to enhance group communication and reflection

“captures and shares images and video…from your computer to anywhere”

“Enables users to express themselves on the web in their own voice using a talking character. Customize your Voki to look like you…Your Voki can speak with your own voice which is added via microphone, upload, or phone.”

Developed by Susan Gaer with credit to John Thompson, Ph.D., 2009

Miscellaneous

create surveys and polls for your Web site, blog and social network profiles

Fleck.com allows you to add notes or bullets to Web sites. Share these annotated pages with others.

one-to-many live interactive video broadcast platform enabling anyone with a camera and an Internet connection to broadcast to a unlimited global audience

• Beyond just driving directions…

• 100 Things to do

Directory of web 2.0 apps & services –