Web 2.0

This blog is my PLE (personal learning environment). It is to document my learning journey through Web 2.0 as it pertains to educational applications.

What is Web 2.0? This slide show provides a good idea of what Web 2.o is.

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Web 2.0 has many applications for educators. Several of the services I have been investigating have been WiZiQ and Yugma. Use WiZiQ's virtual classroom
equipped with live audio-video communication, chat, content sharing, and session recording
capabilities. No download is required since it works with any web browser and on any operating system. It is also free!
http://www.wiziq.com/

Yugma is also similar to WiZiQ, but it can also been used for business purposes. It also had a whiteboard, chat, audio-video communication and session recording capabilities. It was easy to use for the participants, but the session moderators had a little more difficulty getting their sessions up and running.

There are also many tools for educators to use in the classroom. Some of my favorite are webquests http://webquest.org/search/
altec tools at http://www.4teachers.org
This site has great tools to assist educators such as a rubric creator, a poster template, casa notes and a site to assist with notetaking for report writing.
For literacy you cannot beat http://www.readwritethink.org/

Some great professional development sites for teachers are Classroom 2.0, Tapped In, SCoPe, and the BC Ministry of Education sites.