Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms

by Richardson, Will

• ISBN13: 9781412927666
• ISBN10: 1412927668
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-03-13
• Publisher: Corwin Pr

Summary

"We need a solid book explaining and illustrating and letting teachers know about these powerful tools. This book meets the need in an awesome way!" -Mike Muir, Director Maine Center for Meaningful Engaged Learning "This author is a gem! It startles me to be 'pulled' so happily through a text about these new Web tools in the context of good literacy instruction." -Gary Graves, Senior Research and Evaluation Advisor, Technology in Education Northwest Regional Educational LaboratoryA A Discover how to harness Web tools to motivate and update student reading, research, and communication! This book brings teachers a bold vision and on-the-ground Monday morning practicality. It will move educators to think differently about technologya??s potential for strengthening students' critical thinking, writing, reflection, and interactive learning. Will Richardson demystifies words like "blog," "wiki," and "aggregator" making classroom technology an easily accessible component of classroom research, writing, and learning. This guide demonstrates how Web tools can generate exciting new learning formats, and explains how to apply these tools in the classroom to engage all students in a new world of synchronous information feeds and interactive learning. With detailed, simple explanations, definitions and how-tos, critical information on Internet safety, and helpful links, this exciting book opens an immense toolbox, with specific teaching applications for Web logs, the most widely adopted tool of the read/write Web Wikis, a collaborative Webspace for sharing published content Rich Site Summary (RSS), feeding specific content into the classroom Aggregators, collecting content generated via the RSS feed Social bookmarking, archiving specific Web addresses Online photo galleries This book makes it possible for anyone, no matter how inexperienced, to harness this amazing technology for the classroom today!

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
About the Author	p. xiii
The Read/Write Web	p. 1
A New World Wide Web	p. 2
Extraordinary Changes	p. 3
The Read/Write Web in Education	p. 5
Digital Natives	p. 6
The Toolbox	p. 8
Keeping Students Safe	p. 9
Summary	p. 15
Weblogs: Pedagogy and Practice	p. 17
Weblogs in Schools	p. 21
The Pedagogy of Weblogs	p. 27
Blogging Across the Curriculum	p. 34
Blogs as Resources	p. 38
Classroom Uses of Weblogs	p. 40
Standards for the English Language Arts Sponsored by NCTE and IRA	p. 42
Weblogs: Get Started!	p. 45
Start Small	p. 46
Blogging With Students	p. 47
Blog Safety	p. 48
Blog Software	p. 50
Blogging Step-by-Step	p. 50
Making a Blog Roll	p. 55
Wikis: Easy Collaboration for All	p. 59
The Challenge of Wikipedia in Schools	p. 63
Wikis in Schools	p. 64
Examples of Wikis in K-12 Education	p. 67
Wiki Tools for Schools	p. 70
Other Wiki Tools and Resources	p. 73
RSS: The New Killer App for Educators	p. 75
Setting Up an RSS Feed Reader	p. 77
Finding and Adding Feeds	p. 79
Using RSS Feeds in the Classroom	p. 80
Combining RSS Feeds	p. 85
Including RSS Feeds in Your Weblog	p. 85
Reading RSS Feeds	p. 86
The Social Web: Learning Together	p. 89
Social Bookmarking Services	p. 91
Fun With Flickr: Creating, Publishing, and Using Images Online	p. 101
Introducing Flickr	p. 102
Learning With Flickr	p. 103
Flickr in Practice	p. 106
More Flickr Fun	p. 109
Podcasting and Screencasting: Multimedia Publishing for the Masses	p. 111
Podcasting	p. 112
Podcasts and Schools	p. 115
Getting Started With Podcasting	p. 118
Screencasting	p. 122
What It all Means	p. 125
New Literacies	p. 126
The Big Shifts	p. 127
Just the Beginning	p. 133
Epilogue: The Classroom of the Read/Write Web	p. 135
References	p. 139
Further Resources	p. 142
Index	p. 143
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