Empowering students with Web 2.0 tools.

1. Empowering students with Web 2.0 tools. Libraries2L - Learning and Literature Ken Price kenjprice.edublogs.org

2. Before we start! Please start 3 web browsers and open these sites: • your work or home email, so you can read it later. • kenjprice.edublogs.org • www.delicious.com

3. Foundphotoslj http://www.flickr.com/photos/foundphotoslj/ Typical student who ensures that each student is supported in ICT across ALL learning areas?  e.g. who ensures each student can maintain an online collection of notes for their physical education class, the half-written work about the Gold Rush, and the shared notes for the fundraising activity they are organising – accessible from home or school at any time?

4. Ashely Baz http://www.flickr.com/photos/28438417@N08/ / Simple tools • A personal space to store rough notes, works in progress, etc. • A place to keep important URLs – favourites • A more formal tool to create documents, presentations etc. • A showcase site, perhaps a weblog, with customisable appearance Student controls who sees them.

5. Usernames and passwords • Can use system/school email addresses, if well-managed • Can use external email BUT multiple passwords are a headache Most Web 2.0 tools expect students to have an email address, for confirmation of registration – management nightmare!

6. Usernames through disposable Gmail addresses • you create a "master" gmail address. For example wombatcreekschool@gmail.com • your students use a derivative of this username when they set up a Web2.0 tool. This derivative just adds a +sign followed by their name to your master email name eg wombatcreekschool+jillabell@gmail.com wombatcreekschool+lorenefurmage@gmail.com etc • the clever bit - Gmail sees ALL these addresses as wombatcreekschool@gmail.com, so all the confirmation messages (and passwords) are mailed to your master email address wombatcreekschool@gmail.com. • You hand the passwords to the students and off they go.

7. Record usernames and passwords somewhere, accurately

8. Tool 1 - Using Google Notebooks as a public/private note space http://www.google.com/notebook/ • Gives students a place to quickly assemble a set of notes for any given topic, and organise them as required. • No images, etc -simply a note-taking tool, nothing more. Same username and password as the more sophisticated Google Docs - students can move content into that environment if they want. • Every student can have this - now.

9. Tool 1 - Using Google Notebooks as a public/private note space

10. Tool 1 - Using Google Notebooks as a public/private note space • Student can create a notebook for every subject, project, study task, or topic. Each notebook can have sections, each section can have multiple notes (sections of text). These can be moved around as needed.  • Each notebook can be private, shared with a nominated group of colleagues (eg teacher, other students - colleagues can view and edit the notes) or made public

12. Tool 2- del.icio.us as a personal, shareable online favourites tool • www.delicious.com • Click on Join Now • Create an account and WRITE DOWN YOUR USERNAME AND PWD! • Follow creation process, then sign in to your account. Save a New Bookmark lets you add new items, or you can import existing favourites in bulk (see kenjprice.edublogs.org for file - save, unzip, then upload) • student collections can be pre-populated with useful sites

13. Tool 3 – a personal blog for every student

14. Tool 3 – a personal blog for every student www.edublogs.org provides every teacher and student with a free weblog. To set one up  You now have a blog. You could use the disposable Gmail method to set up blogs for every student, or do it yourself.

15. edublogs in one page • Log in via www.edublogs.org • Site Admin takes you to your dashboard (where you can control your blog) • Write -> Post lets you write an item. Save till ready, then Publish • Manage -> Posts lets you edit old posts • Design lets you change the look and feel of the site • Visit Site lets you see what the world sees.

16. Resources • http://edublogs.org/support/ Edublogs support page • http://theedublogger.edublogs.org/ Edublogger, the official support blog for edublogs. • http://blogwalker.edublogs.org/files/2008/05/edublogs_05-26a3wp.pdf Edublog guide • http://docs.google.com/ Google Docs • http://delicious.com/help Del.icio.us help • kenjprice.edublogs.org Ken’s blog.