flexible learning

SOCIAL SOFTWARE

• http://www.futurelab.org.uk/resources/documents/opening_education/Social_Software_report.pdf
• Ultimate edublog – it has stuff on every aspect of tech and the classroom http://www.pontydysgu.org/2008/03/teaching-and-learning-with-web-20/

WEB 2.0

• Using the Web 2.0 write up in Wikipedia this video is to help teach educators about Web 2.0 tools. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsa5ZTRJQ5w
• It’s one of the biggest buzzwords out there, but what exactly does it mean? Andy Gutmans of Zend defines Web 2.0 and explains how it’s changing the face of the Internet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LzQIUANnHc
• podcast about teachers and technology http://techtalk4teachers.blogspot.com/2008/03/tt4t030-web-20-participatory-technology.html

MASHUP – WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT?

• A great wikipedia article that explains the ins and outs of mashups and how they are working with traditional operating systems. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashup_%28digital%29
• At the whiteboard with David Berlind from ZDNet. Developers are getting creative, taking APIs from multiple Websites and merging them to form new, innovative applications. Frozenbear.com merges Google maps and Singles to let you know where the single people are in your neighborhood. Parkingcarma.com helps you track down parking spaces in the Bay Area. ZDNet Executive Editor David Berlind says mashups are the fastest growing ecosystem on the Web and that by 2007, there will be 10 new mashups per day. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRcP2CZ8DS8

USEFUL IDEAS FOR TEACHERS

• create your own world classroom using this site http://worldclassroom.wikispaces.com/
• Teachers and students collaborating across schools and countries http://flatclassroomproject.wikispaces.com/
• This blog is a collection of web 2.0 tools that a team of teachers use in their classrooms. http://web20forteachers.blogspot.com/
• and more http://teacherswebtwo.blogspot.com/
• Ewan McIntosh’s Edublog – about using 2.0 in the classroom, how kids are already using it etc., the Byron report (see BBC stuff above) http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2008/03/a-sneaky-peak-a.html

STUDENT BLOGING

• http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=be6ec9b852b0a542e2f3&page=1&viewtype=&category=

PARENTAL ISSUES WITH WEB 2.0

• Should parents be involved in the 2.0 classroom? http://livingontheline.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/got-web-20-teachers-and-parents-invited-to-learn/
• Should they be using Facebook to understand what their kids are doing, privacy settings, are students aware of how they are presenting themselves on the internet (eg employers Google applicants) – recent debate about the topic in the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7330748.stm There are links there to further items about the internet, technology, security and so on.

NEW TEACHER MENTORING

• http://thinktime.wordpress.com/2008/04/10/21st-century-mentoring/