Web+2.0+-+Suzie+Vesper


 * Friday 14 May 2010 - Michael spent the day with 15 other teachers under the guidance of Suzie Vesper, Web 2.0 guru.

Suzie's Web 2.0 Wiki

Suzie is a primary school teacher ** and works as an ICT Facilitator in New Zealand at a national level and within a school.

Presenting using a Wiki. Slideshare is a great website that lets you upload your Powerpoints and your Keynotes to share with others online.

The web used to be the place of a geek because you had to know programming language - mostly "read-only" Web 2.0 is about anyone being able to share on the web and create - wildly "read-write"

[|Brief introduction to Web 2.0]

Examples of Web 2.0:
 * Blogs - a diary, journal, ordered chronologically - can add photos, videos as well as text to add interest.
 * Wiki - can have multiple pages, editable online, great for topics, classes
 * Social Networking Sites

Why use Web 2.0:
 * Make content using feature rich applications that harness the power of the web
 * Increased motivation of students with a wider audience
 * More opportunities to share with community through e-learning
 * Assists in coping with 'InfoWhelm' on the web
 * Many of the applications currently online won't cost a cent
 * Multimedia options to learn and express what has been learned - "Sight, Sound and Motion" (Satchi and Satchi use this principle)
 * Enables collaboration across time and distance
 * Allows you to move away from servers and computer applications to online, 'in the cloud'
 * Puts you in touch with other educators to build your own PLN (Personal Learning Network)

Top Web 2.0 Tools

We should not allow children to do a google image search and just use any image because a lot of them are copyrighted. You can go into advanced image search and tick 'labeled for reuse'. You should also A 'Flickr' image search will allow you to find 'creative commons' images that you can use.

The best site for searching for useable images is: [|A flickr search engine] that allows you to tick 'creative commons' and find copyright free images - you should still acknowledge the source.

Screenshot - "command+shift+4" gives you a tee that you can drag over the area you want a copy of. This is really helpful for adding images to blogs, etc.

Blogs using your gmail or google account [|Blogger] - great for a class blog or teacher blog for a journey Check out these class blogs for ideas on what to use blogs for: [|Muritai School blogs] Check out this blog I just created: [|Michael's Blog]

Everything Google
 * Google Maps: Embed a google map into wiki and add pins with images, youtube videos, links to websites, etc. - good for a study on your local area - use 'My Maps' if you have a google account (or gmail)
 * Google Calendar: Can sync with iCal and school calendar
 * Google Sites
 * Google Alerts: lets you know about new things about a certain topic
 * Google Reader: subscribe to blogs or wikis to read their latest postings within the one place
 * Picasa: editing images
 * Google Earth: Create layers for historical times, etc.
 * Customise search: set up a search that only searches the websites that you have inputed - great for a topic in class
 * iGoogle: a starting page for the web (like a visual bookmark page - a homepage)
 * Google Docs: the most useful so far... documents, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings (create activities, eg. labeling an image), forms (results are automatically turned into a sheet) - the whole reason for having google docs is COLLABORATION! - if children have their own
 * Google Apps account for the whole school allows children to have their own accounts and write online

[|Syncing iCal with Google Calendar instructions]

To animate still photos try: [|Jib Jab Animation] j