Empowering students with Web 2.0 tools.

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

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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?

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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.

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Usernames and passwords

Most Web 2.0 tools expect students to have an
email address, for confirmation of registration
management nightmare!

• Can use system/school email addresses, if
  well-managed
• Can use external email BUT multiple passwords are
  a headache

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Usernames through disposable Gmail addresses

• you create a "master" gmail address. For example
• wombatcreekschool_at_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
• wombatcreekschooljillabell_at_gmail.com
• wombatcreekschoollorenefurmage_at_gmail.com
• etc
• the clever bit - Gmail sees ALL these addresses
  as wombatcreekschool_at_gmail.com, so all the
  confirmation messages (and passwords) are mailed
  to your master email address wombatcreekschool_at_gma
  il.com.
• You hand the passwords to the students and off
  they go.

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Record usernames and passwords somewhere,
accurately
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Tool 1 - Using Google Notebooks as a
public/private note space

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• http//www.google.com/notebook/
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• 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.
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Tool 1 - Using Google Notebooks as a
public/private note space
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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

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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

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Tool 3 a personal blog for every student
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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.

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edublogs in one page

• Log in via www.edublogs.org
• Site Admin takes you to your dashboard (where you
  can control your blog)
• Write -gt Post lets you write an item. Save till
  ready, then Publish
• Manage -gt 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.

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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/edubl
  ogs_05-26a3wp.pdf Edublog guide
• http//docs.google.com/ Google Docs
• http//delicious.com/help Del.icio.us help
• kenjprice.edublogs.org Kens blog.