Will Richardson is an educator that has share his experiences in the classroom using Web 2.o tools - Will's blog. For the past couple years I have read this publications and his speaking at conferences and on podcasts. I am glad to be in a workshop with him all day today. Will's focus is finding, "How do these technology change teaching and learning?" We were given Will's book, Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms, an excellent read.

It is amazing how quickly the world and students are changing. An eleven year old student created the online blogging project 25 Days to Make a Difference. It went on for another eleven months and she has communicated with students across the globe that would like to be part of a project like this.

Learn based on what we need to know. Teachers need to have students look at news from around the globe rather than just USA sources so they will have a global perspective. If we are having students use paper and pencil without technology we are not preparing them for their future life. What are we doing as educators to use these tools. 95% of things on Web 2.0 are just taking the same things from pencil paper and making it digital... do not utilize the interactivity that could be incorporated. Don't ask students what you know but what you can do with information you find.

Web 2.0 Tools

• Students are creating groups - fanfiction.net - students create additional chapters to books
• Twitter - mini blogging
• Ask question from cellphone - 46645 - text Google question for answer - rethink memory work when you can Google anything from a phone or computer
• All MIT courses are online - no cost and no credit from MIT but free
• Wikipedia - Bogus Websites
• Fylp - Multimedia magazines online that flip from page to page with audio, text, and movies
• Yugma - desktop sharing
• Creating Avatars - Scratch - Doppelme.com - With DoppelMe you can create a cool graphical likeness of yourself, your friends, family or any group of people for use as an avatar in forums, instant messenger, blogs and almost anywhere else on the web.
• Teachers come from anywhere in the world - any age and person - Skype and Yugma
• Consider phone technology
• RSS - Google Reader - Must learn to scan with so much information - click on Add Subscription to search for RSS information that interest you. You can also paste any URL into the text box.
• Social Bookmarking - Delicious

Podcasting, vodcasting, and screencasting

• Gcast - Use your phone to create an audio file to download to your computer.
• Copyright and Sharing Content
• Creative Commons - share audio - ccmixer - Creative Commons mix site - check license
  Brazil is leading the world in learning to remix
• Posting Podcast - Podomatic
• iTunes Store - Click on Podcast then Submit Podcasts
• livemoca.com - Learn foreign language
• jumpcut.com - can upload, edit, and share online
• Cloud computing - having everything on the Internet
• There is a lot of stuff on the YouTube - http://schooltube.com/ http://teachertube.com/ http://studenttube.net/ - just about anything can be learned by watching a YouTube video
• Screen Cast - jing to create and then upload to Screencast.com
• Webcam max (pc) Cam Twist - Mac
• Stickam
• ubiquity - from Mozilla Labs
• Technorati - http://www.technorati.com/ - blogs
• Bloggers - Educational Technology - Howard Rheingold Danah Boyd Clarence Fisher Darren Kuropatwa Karl Fisch Ann Smith Classroom 20 Dean Shareski George Seimens Janni Black Stephens Downs Tom Hoffman

FYI - Surfthechannel.com - can find all tv shows (links to pirated video) in Sweden