Practical strategies for engaging students using Web 2.0 technology
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The document discusses practical strategies for engaging struggling or reluctant high school readers and writers using Web 2.0 technologies. It emphasizes the importance of meeting students where they are online and utilizing familiar platforms for collaboration, such as blogs and social networks. Resources and specific tools for teachers are provided to facilitate this engagement while ensuring student safety online.
Practical strategies for engaging students using Web 2.0 technology
- 1. Practical Strategies for Using Web 2.0 Technology to Engage Struggling or Reluctant High School Readers and Writers Elona Hartjes cc/2009
- 3. To engage struggling or reluctant readers and writers
- 4. - do some struggle? - are some reluctant?
- 5. -learning disabilities -competition from other activities -lack of interest
- 6. Sometimes reading and writing just isn't valued.
- 7. Stop reading. Go do something!
- 8. - think they don’t read and write outside the classroom
- 9. But they text message email visit Facebook
- 10. Need to make a paradigm shift.
- 11. Good pedagogy says start where students are.
- 12. Where are they? - on line 44.5 hours a week
- 13. - very comfortable on line - used to collaborating
- 14. Let's use that to our advantage .
- 15. Web 2.0 R'US - Anyone with access can read/write on the web now. - No need to know programming languages.
- 16. What's the difference ? Web 1.0 Web 2.0
- 17. Web 2.0 Toolkit Blogs Slideshare Anamoto Voicethread PBwiki Social networks- Delicious Creative commons Wordle Cartoons Voki
- 19. My Blog www.teachersatrisk.com
- 20. Blog tool and platform www.wordpress.com
- 21. Class Blog www.mrshartjes2.wordpress.com
- 22. Blog tool and publishing platform http://edublogs.org
- 23. Protecting students online is easy.
- 24. Choose settings so that - only students invited by the teacher can contribute to blog - all comments are moderated by teacher - blog is invisible to search engines
- 25. Decisions ??? -write in comment box -write in own page -write in body of blog
- 35. Web 2.0 Tool kit Blog tools and publishing platforms - www.wordpress.com and http://edublogs.org Slideshare - www.slideshare.net Anamoto - http://animoto.com/business/education Voicethread - http://voicethread.com Pbwiki - http://pbwiki.com/academic.wiki Delicious - http://delicious.com Creative Commons- Flickr http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons Wordle - http://www.wordle.net/ Cartoons - www.makebeliefscomix.com Voki - http://www.voki.com Personal Blog - www.teachersatrisk.com Class Blog - www.mrshartjes2.wordpress.com Email - emhartjes@gmail.com
- 36. Have fun!!!
- 37. Remember, you don't need to know everything. Invite your students to help with any technical glitches. I just thank my students with a big smile. They love that.
Editor's Notes
- #2: Workshop Supporting Striving Readers of All Ages Conference, April 18, 2009 sponsored by Toronto Reading Council