Brittany Cofer's List: ED 529 Social Bookmarking

This site is great for me since I am an elementary teacher. It is a list of 100 free web tools that are useful for elementary teachers. The list of 100 tools is separating into categories, so it is easy to find the type of tool that is needed like organization and collaboration.

This video is a great description of how people are ruling the web now. We can create pages or add to the machine. It is using us as we use it. There are so many new tools that we can use to create anything. Then, we can add the creation to the Internet where anyone can use or see it. The goal of the video is to show how much of an influence we now play in Web 2.0.

Warlick has 30+ years of teaching experience and is a web 2.0 programmer. This article states how a shift has occurred in education. Information is now digital and we should reshape education accordingly. The goal of this source is to introduce people to web 2.0 and its many options.

This site describes The Deeper View, which is a way that parents can stay updated on their children's education online. The whole purpose of The Deeper View is to provide detailed progress of learning. This is a web based application that is easy to use to observe behavior of students with special needs. Having this application is great for the parents to keep up with their child. A parent will feel more involved with their child's education by using this application.

This site describes Apple's work in understanding the 21st century skills and the outcome of these skills. It contains information on making the curriculum relevant to the new skills. It also describes the social and emotional connections students can use in the 21st century. The goal of the site is prevent the drop out rate by the use of technology in the 21st century.

This website shows the different ways to use web 2.0. The tools Web 2.0 offers can help with project management. Blogs, messaging, and wikis are just a few tools that are mentioned on the website that help with project management. Links are also placed to help you get started with using these tools.

Siemens describes how our brains are being altered by the new 21st century technology. With new technology, new information is always being acquired. By using this new information, we can learn more. This site's goal is to describe how we can use connectivism to use the diversity of options to learn more by connections.

This article talks about how students research on the Internet. Two elementary students were given two topics. One that was well-defined and one that was ill-defined. Students were proven to be interactive investigators. The two students did better work on the ill-defined subject. The article shows how even in 1998 we were able to find information on the Internet.

This site has the goal to teach people new presentation tools without scaring them. They want people to realize how easy Web 2.0 makes its tools. There is a YouTube video on the side of the page to better teach the presentation tools. The site is a great way to show people that Web 2.0 has tools that are easy to use for everyone. It also provides great tools to use in making a presentation.

Blogs, wikis, and podcasts is a slideshow that shows web 2.0 tools and describes them. It goes over the different tools, like blogs, and shows who uses them. It always shows how to use them. It also shows what you need to blog and tips for blogging. It also provides websites to free blogs, wikis, and podcasts. This slideshow has everything to get someone started using web 2.0 tools.

Photo sharing allows a place to put all photos in one place. People can organize and place photos where ever they want. People can leave comments on others photos after viewing them. Flickr is one of the most popular photo sharing sites being used now. People can choose from a free or paid website to upload their pictures. The site lists ideas of how to use photo sharing. Photo sharing could be used make a story or tell a new story. This would be great for the classroom. This site is useful for ideas of how to use photo sharing in the classroom. It is something students would enjoy using, and would be entertaining.

This site describes open source and how it started in the 1960's. It states how the open source code is reliable and efficient. I did not know much about open source, but this website helps. Web 2.0 lets us use software however we want. It makes information free to the people to receive or distribute.

According to this site, the Internet could cease to exist. With no net neutrality, we cannot use every site as well as we could be. With net neutrality, we can observe any Internet website without discrimination. Network giants are charging Internet providers and they are taking away the effectiveness of the Internet people are paying for. This is wrong and needs to be stopped. The discrimination needs to stop, and all websites need to be available to people paying for Internet.

This website provides step-by-step ways to provide feedback on students' work. The source seems very reliable because it is from a university. Microsoft Word is one of the most used programs used in school. Being able to provide formatting on the actual document is helpful. It says how to insert comments and provide feedback for students. This website seems very helpful because it is something very useful. It keeps the teacher from having to go back and forth to critique a document.

This site strives for 21st century readiness for every student. This national program's site contains articles to tell others about tools and resources to help children. The 3Rs and 4Cs (Critical thinking and problem solving, Communication, Collaboration, and Creativity and innovation) are used to teach children about 21st century skills.

This site provides a great way to start blogging. Blogging is already very popular. It provides a slide show to show how blogging should be updated often, and is an online journal. It is available to everyone and is usually free. It is very helpful to share information to a large group. The site shows many pros to blogging in the 21st century. There are mostly pros because it is such a great way to connect to everone.

Parents control how their kids act on the Internet. They are the ones that need to teach their children how to behave and use the Internet. This site talks about teens, which are one of the age groups that need the most information on safety on the Internet. Parents have to be involved and teach teens to be safe. Parents can also check their teen's past web history. This site provides many tips on how parents can get involved in their child's safety on the Internet. Since many children use the Internet now, we have to make sure they are using it the right way.

This site describes blogs, delicious, podcasts, and RSS. This is a great site for people discovering web 2.0 tools. The writer of the article is a well-trusted writer on web 2.0 topics. Blogs, delicious, and podcasts produce RSS which is really simple syndication. This site describes tools that help professional development.

This site describes how to prepare citizens to be safe online. There is even a National Cyber Security month that is described on the site. Anyone that works in a business or with children should be aware of how to be safe on the Internet. Children should be taught early on how to be safe when they use the Internet. This site provides information on being safe and how even starting small will help provide Internet safety.

This website was great for me because I did not know what a plc was. This site told me that a plc is a professional learning community. The website helped me see how useful a professional learning community was. It is a great way for teachers to work with other teachers and trade information. A professional learning community can help identify a child that might be struggling. A teacher can talk to the child's past teachers. This site is a great description and reasons for having a professional learning community.