Week 4
Ahhhh Del.icio.us. I tried using this tool last year, but found it easier to go to my favorites in Explorer than log-in to Del.icio.us. I could see how it would be helpful if you do not have a laptop that you use at work and at home. I haven’t gotten use to creating tags. I like the tags set up on the Academy2020things’s bookmarks. Once the tags are set up, I could see this being very useful for teachers and students, if it was unblocked. A teacher could set up a list of pages for students to research. This would assure teachers that students have access to viable sites.
TagCrowd and Wordle are both great tools. I enjoyed playing with both of them. I upload my mid year eval to each word cloud generator. You can see the results below. I like Wordle a little more than TagCrowd. Wordle gives you more freedom to edit and change your word cloud. The one aspect of TagCrowd I wish Wordle had is the word count. Either one of these tools would be great in the classroom. It doesn’t matter what level or subject your teach. Kindergartners could use it to learn the alphabet. High school students could use it to analyze any piece of writing.
TagCrowd:
Wordle:
Steve Hargadon’s Classroom 2.0 social network is pretty amazing. There is a wealth of information on this site. I would love to sit are read all of the posts in the forum, but that would be a never ending task. I liked cursing through the discussions about philosophy/pedagogy. There are a ton of ideas out there on the use of Web 2.0. I also like the fact you can leave a comment and the poster will get back to you.
Web 2.o means so many things to me. I think it is a bridge from Web 1.o to the next phase of the interactive web world. The changes that have taken place in the last 5 years are mind-blowing. It is hard to keep up with all of the advances. Once you learn a new technology and comfortable to teach it to someone else, it has changed. Anyway, since I said Web 2.o is a bridge, I going to run with that idea. It could be a bridge to nowhere without an end. However, there are many tools on this bridge we can use as we journey across it. These tools make the web interactive and help increase student participation.
