Don’t Miss the Point…

…and don’t let Web

2.0 stand in your
way…
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Web 2.0 – Is for all of us…
 Web 2.0 is cross-platform, in fact it is
platform-less.
 Web 2.0 is two way communications at its
most powerful
 Web 2.0 is not just for your kids and your
students

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 A lot of smart
people have
missed the point…

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 Chester Carlson (1906-
1968)
 Ever heard of “Carbon Paper?”
 It is because of Chester that your students
haven’t.
 He invented photocopying.
 He combined the existing techniques of
electrostatic printing and photography.
 In 1938

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1938!!!
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 Not Needed in Industry!
 IBM, RCA, GE, the US Army – Not
interested!
 In 1948 one company, Haloid, was.
 Carlson received about $150,000,000 from
his invention, donating more than 2/3 to
United Negro College Fund and other civil
rights and Buddhist organizations1

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Haloid Changed
Their Name To
XeroX in 1961

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 Almost all laser
printer and
copiers today use

Chester’s
process…
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 The Wright Brothers…
 Could not get leading industrialists to
accept their invention.
 The military thought it was a needless
expense.
 If the lord meant us to fly…. Well, you
know the rest.

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Western
Union
The Telegraph Company

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Had a chance to by
Bell’s Patent for
$100,000 but they
considered it a toy!
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Two years later it
was worth over
$25 Million

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Didn’t Western Union
Understand The
Communications
Business?

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Lessons For
Educators
Seek to understand new
technologies. Don’t be afraid to try
things.
Use new technology…

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 Just How Have Things
Changed?
 Information has made people more
powerful.
 Collaboration is not just a buzz word but
the way people work.
 Students and their parents know how to
connect.

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 Why do we
need Web 2.0?

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Because we are
now teaching
Student 2.0!
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…students have been stuck in classrooms, behind
desks, being told how and what to learn. …when
students were expected to become widgets for the
vast machine of industry, this model of education
was highly effective. …we have now entered a new
age: an age where thinking is more important than
knowing, where thoughts out-do the facts. Borders
are melting away; project teams collaborate
across the globe and intelligence is being
continually redefined.

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The world’s information is at
our fingertips and anybody
can publish their thoughts
for virtually no cost.
From: Sean “The Bass
Player”
http://students2oh.org/

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 Everywhere, we see changes: with how
business operates, how people interact
and how success is accomplished. There is
unfortunately one place that remains
unchanged, the place that could benefit
most from the changes we see today... the
classroom.

More from Sean2

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 Sean Says…
 We are seeing the birth of a new kind
of student
 He calls this Student 2.0
 Parallels the transitions of the web
 Web 1.0 – Web 2.0 – Web 3.0

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 Web 1.0 – Static
Web 2.0 – Interactive
Web 3.0 – Database
Driven

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 We can do new
and better
things with Web
2.0
technology….
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 We can do tnew
J u s
andt better
N o l d
things e O Web
with
h
T 2.0uff
S t … .
technology….
t e r
F as
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 So How Should
one Use Web 2.0
in Teaching?

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Research of
Course…
Will Never Be The Same….

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 The WEB is Not The Only
Source…
 So much information… so poorly organized
 Hard to judge the quality of the
information or who it came from
 Teachers need to know how the internet
and web work so that they can more
accurately supervise students using these
online resources.

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 Google NoteBook
 Google Notebook is a free service from Google
that is an interactive scratch pad for any visited
web pages, offering to collect web findings within
the browser window. Your clips are stored online
with sharing and collaboration available.

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 Share Your Google
NoteBook
 Sharing functions permit a teacher to make public
notebooks visible to students based on a list of
users.
 You can make your notebook collaborative or not,
depending on the lesson you are teaching.

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 Other Google Stuff
 Word Processing
 Presentation Software

 Full collaboration of

documents with students you

select.

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 Online Forms For Free
 Google Spreadsheets offer free forms.
 You create the form, mail it to your people.
 When they use the form the results are
stored in a spreadsheet that you can
access privately or share with a selected
group or anyone.

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 Calendars to Share
 Google Calendars can also be shared or
not.
 Google has a sync feature that is
automated.
 Mine syncs with my Outlook calendar. That
means anywhere I can get on the web I
can read and update my calendar…
 I can also share due dates, special dates
etc with my students.
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 Backup your pictures online
 Buy prints
 Or let you friends download full resolution
pictures for free
 Really share your photos. Including maps
of where they are taken.

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 STOP!
 You need to stop and examine those old
assignments.
 How long does it take with Google?
 Are you asking students to do something
that for them is trivial?
 We can easily move to HOTS!

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Collaboration
…
Is truly more than a buzz word….

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Because Social
Networking is
Here to Stay!
Get With It!

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I’m not on myspace… but
your students are.
They use the social
networking to make
connections, share
assignments and answers
…
You should too!
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 So How Should
Teachers Take
Advantage of WEB
2.0?

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 First Get A Google
Account
 Gmail is free as are all the Google apps,
but you need a unifying account and Gmail
is perfect.
 Free storage and smart kids coming up
with new stuff all the time.
 Worth the price… Wait… its free.

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Use A BLOG to
Communicate…
Students, and parents, expect to
find information online that is up to
date and easy to use.

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 BTW:
 Wisconsin’s “New Model Academic
Standards” Social Studies was published in
1998.
 Wisconsin’s “Instructional Technology
Literacy Standards” Published in 1998.
 Obviously developed before then 1998.

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Web Logs or
Blogs Were
Invented in
1999
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 Blogs Are Free and Easy
 http://www.blogger.com

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 Create a Free Blog
 I suggest you use Blogger,
www.blogger.com
 Easy to set up. Get a gmail account
gmail.google.com so you can use Google
Docs too.
 There are dozens of free blog sites that
probably work just as well as blogger.

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Clic
k he
re t
o go
on…
.

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The
re’s
a bu
tton
belo
w to
clic
k

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Clic
k he
re t
o go
on…
.

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You did
it!

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 You did
it!
Clic
k he
re t
o go
on…
.

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 56
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….
o on
to g
here
Click
 See what it looks like?
 http://teachingtheblog.blogspot.com/
 It won’t be permanent, I’ll leave it there
for a few days. Then I’ll delete it.
 Even free resources should be conserved!

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 Do It Every Day!
 A blog is a great start at Web 2.0 – it is
the web page for the rest of us.
 Do it right away, and tell the your students
and their parents about it.
 Keep it current so they will read it and
know what is going on in your class.

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 Blogs are designed for
one to many
communication. You
create content, others
read it and marvel at
your brilliance.
Readers may comment
but the content is yours.
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 Blogs are designed for
one to many
communication. You
create content, others
read it and marvel at
your brilliance.
Readers may comment
but the content is yours.
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 Blogs are designed for
one to many
communication. You
create content, others
read it and marvel at
your brilliance.
Readers may comment
but the content is yours.
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 My Blog
 http://johnsklarsoffice.blogspot.com
 There are links there to all that I am
talking about….
 You will also find a copy of this
presentation.
 I use this blog for everything so scroll
down and see what else I’m doing.

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Now is the Time
to Collaborate!
…and teach our
students how to
collaborate.
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 Imagine a WebSite…
 at which all users could contribute.
 available simultaneously in dozens of
languages.
 No control of the accuracy of the
information.
 where thousands go each day for
information.

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 Imagine a WebSite…
 About 2.5 million articles organized and
cross referenced.
 Over 75,000 active contributors.
 Where “Visitors do not need specialized
qualifications to contribute, since their
primary role is to write articles that cover
existing knowledge;” 3

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WIKI
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WIKI
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The Site is
Wikipedia
Have you
used it?
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The Site is
Your
Wikipedia
students
Have you
have!
used it?
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 You should create a WIKI
if you…
 are tired of asking for help with web sites?
are tired of asking for help with web sites?
 want to increase student engagement ?
 are you tired of web solutions that are
complicated and hard to use?
 want to make homework easier to collect?
 want to see your students collaborate?
 Want to work in any place with an internet
connection?

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Making a WIKI
takes
minutes…
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 I Suggest
www.pbWIKI.com
 Free
 Secure
 Password protected
 Mostly ad free
 Costs nothing

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 I Suggest
www.pbWIKI.com
 Free Skip paying for the
 Secure premium version of
 this
Password product. It is not
protected
 Mostlydifferent
ad free enough to be
 worth the added price.
Costs nothing
 I say, use the free
Has no charge
one.

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 Other Free WIKIS
 There are other free sites, just do a Google
Search for “Free WIKI”
 I’ve used this one and it works. Others
work too I’m sure, but life is too short to
search for the perfect WIKI.

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What Should You Do With
a WIKI?
 Allow students to write, revise and submit
assignments in the wiki.
 A WIKI allows for group authoring and
revising.
 Allows students to brainstorm online.
 Students can read and comment on their
peer’s work.

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 Other Web 2.0 Tools

Google Docs
SoHo

ThinkFree

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 With Online Tools….
 You can use them anywhere you can get
online.
 You can share them with anyone else
online.
 They are protected against loss or
destruction.
 The cost of the software and storage is
zero!

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 Students and Teachers
 Can access documents, lessons,
presentations etc from anywhere there is a
connection.
 No access at home? Use a pen drive to
take the documents home and use a free
office suite at home.
 Or they can do their homework at
McDonalds.

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 WriteBoard
 I created a WriteBoard for you. These are
free and easy to use. Please try it.
 http://writeboard.com/026f352e5be14ca0d
 The password is WCSS.
 Why not keep me informed as to how you
are using these tools.

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 Cut your load by 20%
 No job Harder than teaching.
 No job more rewarding.
 Devote one day a week to a content – rich,
standards based lesson from “Thinkfinity”.
 Try their student interactive lessons. From
the home page click on Lesson Plan Index.

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Take a Look At Virtual
Earth
Bird’s eye view is a bit freaky…
Try http://maps.live.com

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 You are here!

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 John’s House!

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Jim’s House!

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 Websites
 http://21stcenturyskillsandweb2.pbwiki.com
 http://johnsklarsoffice.blogspot.com
 http://writeboard.com/026f352e5be14ca0d
 http://www.thinkfinity.com
 http://www.blogger.com
 http://www.pbwiki.com
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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 Bibliography (End Notes)
 http://www.nndb.com/ - NNDB is an intelligence aggregator
that tracks the activities of people we have determined to be
noteworthy, both living and dead.
 http://students2oh.org/ - Students 2.0 (blog)
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About -- spelling error on
the page if from the original, creative, Wikipedia page.
 Personalized graphics from www.imagchef.com

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Collaborating Online with Web 2.0 Tools
 
Brief Description/Abstract of the Presentation or
Session
The tools available now, through the Internet, are
removing barriers and limitations of computer
platforms. Through Web 2.0 technologies we can
now share text, audio, video and more with our
students and colleagues across the globe. This
session will concentrate on showing you how these
simple and free tools can be integrated into your
teaching. Included will be Blogs, WIKI's, Google
Docs, VoiceThread and more.

The presentation is for the Wisconsin Council for the Social

Studies and International Education Conference.
http://
www.education.wisc.edu/elpa/conferences/iec/Programs.shtm

According to the Tuesday Matrix the workshop is from 8-9 am88

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and 9:10 – 10:10