Web+2.0+Collaboration+Tools


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**__CLASS__ __INFORMATION__**__:__
To provide participants with an overview of Web 2.0 technologies and give them the opportunity to create a blog, a wiki, and an RSS homepage enabling them to build an online learning community. Participants will learn to use the three Web 2.0 tools that the NYCDOE OIT has standardized: Participants will be able to create an RSS homepage, create a blog and post their first entry, and set up a wiki for instructional use.
 * Class Name:** Web 2.0 Collaboration Tools
 * Class Coordinator:** Crystal Lindsay
 * Class Developer/Creator:** Jim McDermott
 * Class Facilitator(s):** Jim McDermott
 * Class Days/Dates:** Thursday, Oct 4
 * Class Time:** 9am - 12pm
 * Class Objective:**
 * Class Description:**
 * Blogs - Blogger
 * Wiki's - Wikispaces
 * RSS - iGoogle
 * Practical Application:**
 * Comments/Notes:**

**__CLASS__ __OUTLINE__:**

 * **30 minutes: Introduction to Web 2.0 tools**
 * What is Web 2.0 and how can it be the engine for a 21st century school?
 * **60 minutes: Aggregators: Create our own RSS homepage to be a portal to news sites, blogs, and other syndicated material**
 * Creating an account on a web-based RSS Aggregator: iGoogle
 * Moving content and deleting content
 * Adding content: from the catalogue, through the search, and by URL
 * Finding RSS feeds for blog sites
 * **10 minutes: Break / Individual assistance**
 * **60 minutes: Blogs: Create our own weblog to communicate to our learning communities**
 * Best Practices: Principal blogs, specialist blogs, teacher blogs
 * Understanding the importance of knowing your audience, posting with consistency, developing blog writing tone, and wrapping the blog in its purpose
 * Creating a blog account for ourselves on Blogger.com
 * Writing our first post: audience, tone, purpose
 * Types of blog entries: article spotlights, interviews, professional thoughts, opinions, investigative
 * Dealing with security: settings, comment moderation, permissions and levels
 * Things you should change: blog description, time zone, who can comment
 * Email assitance: enabling comment notification, enabling posting via email
 * **20 minutes: Evaluation**

**__RESOURCES__:**

 * [|Definition: Web 2.0]
 * [|5 Web 2.0 Time Savers for educators]
 * [|Partnership for 21st Century Skills]
 * [|Online communities transform teacher development]
 * [|Blogger]
 * [|iGoogle]
 * [|Technorati]
 * [|Delicious]
 * [|Skype]
 * [|From the Principal]
 * [|Principal's Blog]
 * [|Puxi High School Principal Blog]
 * [|Pudong Elementary Principal Blog]
 * [|Region 4 Blogs]
 * [|Region 7 Blogs]
 * [|Will Richardson]
 * [|Learn Me Good]
 * [|Teacher Magazine: Best Blogs:]