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Author: Will Richardson
Publisher: Corwin Press
Published: 2010-03
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 1412977479
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntended for educators of various levels and disciplines who want to understand the Internet tools and learn how to use them effectively in the classroom, this work offers advice on how teachers and students can use the Web to learn more, create more, and communicate better.
Author: Kay Seo
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-12-13
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1136235396
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe rapid expansion of blogs, Twitter, wikis, and virtual worlds has dramatically transformed the landscape of education. Through highly accessible networks, these new media can integrate students into a learning community by enabling them to create, customize, and share content online. Using Social Media Effectively in the Classroom shows educators how to: utilize social media to best support learners resolve potential problems create a powerful sense of community within user-centered Web 2.0 technologies. Moving beyond basic explanations of technologies and how to use them, this book provides research-based, jargon-free, practical examples of what works, what doesn’t, and why when it comes to social media. Organized according to the systematic process of instructional design, contributors describe innovative strategies for incorporating social media into educational settings as well as significant issues to be taken into consideration at each phase of planning, designing, teaching, and evaluation.
Author: Greg Myers
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2010-01-11
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1847064140
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn insightful analysis of the new discourse produced by blogs and wikis.
Author: Richard Beach
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781933760285
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSee how to use various digital tools including blogs, wikis, digital mapping, online chat, digital storytelling, podcasts, e-portfolios, and others to teach writing in the classroom. Packed with examples of teaching activities and student writing, this one-of-its-kind book demonstrates how to use search engines and digital mapping to develop information, online discussion tools and blogs to formulate ideas, Wikis to write collaboratively, digital storytelling and poetry to create multimodal texts, podcasts and vlogs to create audio and video texts, online commenting tools to provide peer feedback, and much more. Included are links to new tools and activities on the authors constantly updated Web site, http: //digitalwriting.pbwiki.com."
Author: John G. Hendron
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLet expert John Hendron show you how to use a news aggregator to harness the power of RSS for a variety of purposes, including classroom projects, professional development, and keeping students and parents informed. Learn how to use free and inexpensive software such as Garage Band and Audacity to manipulate audio files and create podcasts. Explore the pros and cons of various blogging platforms. Have your students blog, and use RSS to deliver their assignments to you automatically. With RSS and the Read/Write Web, the possibilities are endless.
Author: Ulf-Daniel Ehlers
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2010-03-10
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 3642035825
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore and more educational scenarios and learning landscapes are developed using blogs, wikis, podcasts and e-portfolios. Web 2.0 tools give learners more control, by allowing them to easily create, share or reuse their own learning materials, and these tools also enable social learning networks that bridge the border between formal and informal learning. However, practices of strategic innovation of universities, faculty development, assessment, evaluation and quality assurance have not fully accommodated these changes in technology and teaching. Ehlers and Schneckenberg present strategic approaches for innovation in universities. The contributions explore new models for developing and engaging faculty in technology-enhanced education, and they detail underlying reasons for why quality assessment and evaluation in new – and often informal – learning scenarios have to change. Their book is a practical guide for educators, aimed at answering these questions. It describes what E-learning 2.0 is, which basic elements of Web 2.0 it builds on, and how E-learning 2.0 differs from Learning 1.0. The book also details a number of quality methods and examples, such as self-assessment, peer-review, social recommendation, and peer-learning, using illustrative cases and giving practical recommendations. Overall, it offers a step-by-step guide for educators so that they can choose their own quality assurance or assessment methods, or develop their own evaluation methodology for specific learning scenarios. The book addresses everyone involved in higher education – university leaders, chief information officers, change and quality assurance managers, and faculty developers. Pedagogical advisers and consultants will find new insights and practices for the integration and management of novel learning technologies in higher education. The volume fosters in lecturers and teachers a sound understanding of the need and strategy for change, and it provides them with practical recommendations on competence and quality methodologies.
Author: Dana J. Wilber
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe power of Dana Wilber's insight is in its simplicity. Students are texting, networking, and blogging--i.e. writing and reading--all the time, everywhere, just maybe in places we aren't necessarily paying attention to. Build on their authentic interest and motivation using the technologies they are already committed to and you've won half the battle. You won't believe how engaged they are; they won't believe they're learning for school. In iWrite, Dana shows you how to guide students through the complexity of new literacies, including: how to discern between media; how to account for audience and voice; how to choose appropriate genre; and how to harness what they already know to be more successful in school. Dana deftly elucidates the lives of Millennials, those students growing up around the turn of the 21st century, and the technologies embedded into their everyday reading and writing. She shows us how three accessible tools-wikis, blogs, and digital storytelling--can be used to scaffold learning for our students. And she demonstrates how they can help us address 10 key issues in the literacies of today's students: safety; authenticity; practice; relevance; meaning and identity; interest and inquiry; cognitive development; community; process; motivation. Let iWrite show you how to capture students' daily literacy practices and develop them for the kind of writing we want them to learn. --Publisher's description.
Author: Lauren Pressley
Publisher: Neal-Schuman Publishers
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 101
ISBN-13: 9781856047258
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWikis have emerged as powerful platforms for facilitating and improving communication and collaboration between library staff, users, and professional peers. This book gives you the practical tools and easy-to-follow guidance you need to establish an effective wiki in your own library. Author Lauren Pressley walks you through each step, from the first stages of planning to post-evaluation measures. You'll learn how to choose between different types of wikis and software and plan for, create and implement your wiki on the web. Pressley shares advice for marketing and promoting your wiki, as well as tips for measuring success and best practices to follow throughout the start-to-finish process. Whether you are a wiki novice or a seasoned pro, this book will enable you to build wikis to support special events, serve as a library instruction tool, create valuable online resources - to name just a few applications of this popular collaboration tool.
Author: Richard Beach
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2014-10-16
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1442228741
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGiven the increased use of digital reading and writing tools in the classroom, this book provides secondary and college English language arts teachers with activities and classroom examples for using a range of different digital tools—blogs, wikis, websites, annotations, Twitter, mapping, forum discussions, etc.—to engage students in understanding and creating digital texts. It therefore integrates reading and writing instruction through goal-driven activities supported by uses and affordances of digital tools. This book also provides a framework for designing these activities that encourage students to define purpose and audience, make connections between digital texts and people, collaborate with others, employ alternative modes of communication and gain new perspectives, and constructing identities; practices that are linked to addressing the high school English Language Arts Common Core State Standards. The book also describes ways to use digital tools to support these practices—for example, using digital tools to foster students’ collaborative reading and writing. The book also describes use of digital feedback and e-portfolio tools to foster students’ reflection on their uses of these practices.
Author: Don Tapscott
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2008-04-17
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 1440639485
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe acclaimed bestseller that's teaching the world about the power of mass collaboration. Translated into more than twenty languages and named one of the best business books of the year by reviewers around the world, Wikinomics has become essential reading for business people everywhere. It explains how mass collaboration is happening not just at Web sites like Wikipedia and YouTube, but at traditional companies that have embraced technology to breathe new life into their enterprises. This national bestseller reveals the nuances that drive wikinomics, and share fascinating stories of how masses of people (both paid and volunteer) are now creating TV news stories, sequencing the human gnome, remixing their favorite music, designing software, finding cures for diseases, editing school texts, inventing new cosmetics, and even building motorcycles.
