Before this class, I had no clue what a Web 2.0 tool was or that they even existed. After learning about them, I can honestly say that this is one form of technology that I plan to use quite frequently in my classroom. I was especially impressed with some of the tools my classmates found! If it wasn't for having to study for other classes, I'm pretty sure I would be playing around on these sites. Some of the sites were so user friendly and even better free! It's nice to know that I have this technology at my fingertips and I don't have to pay a lot of money (or any) to use it. I was surprised by how many options were out there. You can create graphic organizers, slideshows, books, movies, classroom twitter pages, drawings, etc; edit pictures; write a story and have someone from across the room even across the country simultaneously add events to the story; etc....I feel that I barely touched on what is possible. I'm really glad that this class introducted me to this type of technology!
Since I have talked about how much I love Web 2.0 tools, I must talk about how much I love interactive whiteboards! I have always known what they were, but I have never had experience with them nor did I know everything that was available to download for them. I loved that you could download pre-made lesson plans and watch a video of how the lesson played out in the classroom. That was such a neat feature. I loved all of the classroom management downloads that were available. I feel things like that would save the teacher so much time! I really hope that the school district I work for has interactive whiteboards. I think I would spend an entire day playing around with all of the features and downloading lessons!
For those of you who have your own classroom or those who have experience these technologies in the classroom, have you seen Web 2.0 tools used in the classroom? If so, what ones and how were they used? Also if you have an interactive whiteboard, what are some of the ways in wich you use it? I love learning how other teachers incorporate technology!
I do hope some of your peers respond and answer your questions posed!! It is amazing what the Web has brought us now if its new generation - 2.0. Everyone shared really useful sites and it will be a nice collection to refer to in the future. Although we didn't do too much with whiteboards in class this semester - we did do some! Hopefully, that will be motivation for learning more about these tools that are really being used in a lot of classrooms today! Cool stuff!
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