The document discusses various web 2.0 technologies that can be used in K-12 classrooms to engage students and connect them to the world. It provides examples of how tools like wikis, blogs, YouTube, Diigo, Google Docs can be used for collaboration, sharing information, and meeting educational standards. Implementing these technologies in classrooms can help address the problem of students feeling bored in traditional classrooms.

1. Kool, Collaborative, Creative Kidz Ryan Lawless, Julie McAndrews, Parth Patel, Amanda Redhouse, Connor Sullivan, & Ariel Weisman

2. “ Even with the best teachers we have, most middle and high school kids say they’re bored 50-70 percent of the time.” -Students power down and turn off the lights of education, so . . . “ Give students the opportunity to use technology in school -like blogs, interactive web pages, or YouTube - and connect them to the world.” Turning Students On!

3. Web 1.0 Taking print media and posting it online in a digital format Web 2.0 Reading, writing, and sharing/collaborating Digital Natives Driving 2

4. A Vision of K-12 Students Today You Tube

7. Wikis in Plain English www.commoncraft.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY

8. Benefits of a Classroom Wiki • Accountability • Approve and check level of activity • Sense of autonomy • Convenient - when you have the time • Embed pics, movies, mashups • Longing for more collaboration

9. to Computers & Collaboration From Cuneiform

10. 8.1.9 B Analyze and interpret historical sources. 8.1.9 D. Analyze and interpret historical research. 8.4.9 B. Analyze historical documents, material artifacts and historic sites important to world history before 1500. 8.4.9 C. Analyze how continuity and change throughout history has impacted belief systems and religions, commerce and industry, innovations, settlement patterns, social organization, transportation and roles of women before 1500 Established Goals: World History – PA Standards

11. 1. Creativity and Innovation 2. Communication and Collaboration 3. Research and Information Fluency 4. Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making 5. Digital Citizenship 6. Technology Operations and Concepts National Educational Technology Standards- NETS•S

13. Wiki Collaboration http://hentz-humanities-wiki.wikispaces.com/

14.  Podcast  History  Literature  Writing  Art Mesopotamia - Assessment

15. http://www.bensalemsd.org/14502065143720693/podcasts/browse.asp?A=399&BMDRN=2000&BCOB=0&C=59895 http: //hentz-humanities-wiki . wikispaces .com/ Podcast

16. Glogster http://hentz-humanities-wiki.wikispaces.com/Glogs • Build collages • Import images • Create a masterpiece • Embed in wiki

17. Glogster Sharing Literature http://hentz-humanities-wiki.wikispaces.com/Glogs

18. Blogging Sharing wisdom about The Odyssey http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2I1pWXjXI Humanities Blog

20. Diigo - Social Bookmarking http://www.diigo.com/learn_more

21. Diigo Benefits • Can build research knowledge • Share similar interests, bookmarks, stickies, annotations • Student accounts maintain privacy • Teacher creates accounts - can limit • Stickies can replace note cards Maggie Tasi Diigo - Co-founder

22. Diigo - Social Bookmarking D igest of I nternet I nformation, G roups and O ther stuff http://www.diigo.com/user/ahentz

23. Diigo - Social Bookmarking D igest of I nternet I nformation, G roups and O ther stuff http://help.diigo.com/Diigo_Educator_Account_-_FAQ

24. Diigo - Social Bookmarking • User names & passwords provided • Teacher ONLY may change

25. Diigo - Social Bookmarking

26. Diigo - Social Bookmarking http://www.diigo.com/user/ahentz

27. Diigo Benefits “ We believe that Web 2.0 technologies will define and be defined by the skill requirements of the 21st century workforce. It is time to understand whether models have emerged for using these tools that are superior to traditional classroom teaching alone and what are the best approaches for the practitioner to implement them.” Bob Wolf, of The Boston Consulting Group, and a researcher on the use of internet in public education recently commented:

28. • Free Web-based application •Documents, spreadsheets, and presentations can be created, shared, edited, and imported •Stored online - published as a web page •Files accessed from any computer with an Internet connection and a full-featured Web browser •10 and simultaneously edit and share with 200 •View or collaborate Shafer Rocks Using Google Docs

30. Google Docs http://www.google.com/notebook/public/04712752710140234617/BDSD6IgoQuP3-3pAj Tricks for getting around email [email_address]

31. Google Docs - Invitation http://docs.google.com/a/bensalemsd.org/?tab=mo#owned-by-me

32. Google Spreadsheet

33. Google Document

34. Google Presentation

35. Google - Publish Document

37. Education Today and Tomorrow 21st Century - Rock the Doc! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnh9q_cQcUE

38. Keep the Lights On!