Wow. I just found this sight that shows so many uses for using Web 2.0 in the education field. Discovery Education has a link where it gives you a variety of Web 2.0 applications to use for education. REALLY guys, you need to look at this and watch the video presentations on the different uses.
I've always wanted to try to figure out some way to get cell phones involved in education. Check out Poll Everywhere. This tool allows the teacher to give the students a question, and then they can text their response and have it sent to a place to be recorded. You can also poll an audience or ask multiple choice questions. It has a variety of uses. And if a student doesn't have a cell, they can respond from a computer the same way.
Dicovery Education has brought an assortment of web 2.0 applications to our fingertips. By adding the video clips and actually showing how the applications can be used definately helps. There are so many great web tools out there waiting to be used, but we just don't know how to apply them. Well, it done here.
Collaboration appears to be the key point Discovery is trying to make when showing these tools. Also the idea that these tools are readily accessible, easy to use, and ready for us to get started. It was very motivating for me. The idea of everyone working together in the same medium, on the same project sounds great..
Very cool website
ReplyDeleteDiscovery Education is a great find!!! Thanks for sharing it!
ReplyDeleteMy school has Discovery Education, but sadly I have not used it very much. I will have to check out their web 2.0 links thank you for sharing this, I know it will be useful.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like a great website. I will check it out. I like the idea that there are videos on there that show you how to use the stuff.
ReplyDeleteKen,the timing was great. I had a professional development day last week, and they let us know that this was available and how for us to log in from our school. Thanks to you, I have spent quite a bit of time this afternoon seeing what is available. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteToo Cool! I agree with the cell phones too. If kid's are going to have them in class we might as well figure out how to use them for our benefit.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing this. It has many useful tools. I like it!
ReplyDeleteUsing cell phones in class is a good idea, as long as we can keep the activities connected to educational topics. I'm sure it will be a struggle to get students, teachers, and administrators on board with this idea.
The site is nice. It's got a great small collection. Thanks for sharing!!
ReplyDeleteI have talked to teachers that use poll everywhere in Middle school to engage their students in a class. They put students who have no phones in groups with students who have phones. The teachers say it gets the kids excited about answering questions. We need that.
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