TIES09_45

Web 2.0 Social Media in the Classroom

 * Instructor:** Jill Burdo, Apple Distinguished Educator, Fergus Falls ISD

It's almost impossible to keep up with all the web sites that appear on a daily basis. Twitter? Evernote? Voicethread? Help! Learn about some of the more popular tools as well as newer student-friendly sites, how to tie these into your standards-based curriculum and help your students think, create and express!
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 * Reaction**

Jennifer Kotsmith Kraus: This was both an affirming presentation, as I left feeling not too far out of the technology loop; as well as an inspiring one. At present, I have no technology in my room besides a computer and a shared LCD projector, but have many ideas to put to use when the technology arrives. (somewhat frustrating for a media arts junkie) I was reminded of sites such as Wordle, Google docs, (will try this with our Fine Arts Review Team)and VoiceThread. Plus some new ones: edmodo, and a fabulous Visual Blooms(think taxonomy). This instructor has all of her links on her wiki for this presentation along with a Delicious link to her favorites. Great resources.

Rosella Pregler 3rd Grade: I totally agree with what Jennifer was saying about the great resources!! This was a very inspiring session. Especially when she showed footage of her 3 year old creating and learning on her i-phone and then asked "Are you ready for my child? Is your school ready for him?" It was just an eye-opening reminder of how fast tecnology is really moving and how smart children are with it. We have to prepare ourselves. She also showed a great utube clip "shift happens" that also reiterates the world we live in and are moving towards. She touched on many great resources that Jennifer mentioned above as well as commenting on how social media can be used in school. One of the examples that she shared that I thought was really cool was she had her students create facebook charcters from the Shakespeare book they were reading., Then as they were reading the book they would interact with each other on facebook as their charcter from the story.