wsprivatebeta EDW's List: e-Learning2.0

• We've covered this topic extensively on Read/WriteWeb - and so we're pleased to bring you this overview of e-learning 2.0, including the leading web apps and sites in this niche, and predictions for its future
• In August Steve O'Hear (now last100 editor) wrote an introduction to e-learning 2.0. He noted that teachers and students are embracing web technologies such as blogging and podcasting. Although not designed specifically for use in education, these tools are helping to make e-learning far more personal, social, and flexible.

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• A classroom portal that presents automatically updated syndicated resources from the campus library, news sources, student events, weblogs, and podcasts and that was built quickly using free tools. A Web site that takes crime data from the Chicago Police and applies them to Google Maps, without being affiliated with either. Each of these is a product of the stunning growth in online materials available in reusable formats; each is energized by the character of digital culture; and each may be described as a mashup.

• Intel®   Education Initiative
    “Education is critical to each citizen's ability   to thrive in the knowledge economy. Today's students must   develop key 21st century skills such as familiarity with information   and communication technology, problem solving, critical thinking   and collaboration. They must also excel in mathematics, science   and engineering—the building blocks of technical innovation.   Intel currently invests over $100 million per year in over   50 countries to promote education efforts in these areas.”

• Being productive and getting things done both rely on planning and being organized. But with the hustle and bustle of courses, it's sometimes easy to forget what you have to do and when. So here are 25 Web 2.0 applications (mostly free) that should help you on your quest as a student or professor in being productive.
• These Web 2.0 tools were designed specifically for students, educators, and/or parents.

• At Google, we support teachers in their efforts to empower students and expand the frontiers of human knowledge. That’s why we’ve assembled the information and tools you’ll find on this page.
• The Infinite Thinking Machine (ITM) is a Google sponsored blog designed to help teachers and students thrive in the 21st century. Through an active blog,

• Education blogs are becoming a means for educators, students, and education administrators to interact more effectively than ever before. Technorati currently tracks 63.1 million blogs. Over 5,000 of them are about education.

• The following is a compilation of Web 2.0 products that I’ve personally researched and tested. These services are grouped into two main categories: “Tools”; and “Office Applications”. Some more specific services include: organizers, gradebooks, research tools, document managers, diagrams, and more.

• This site and blog   explore elearning, knowledge management, networks, technology, and community.

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  The C·R·E·A·T·E for Mississippi Web site has established a virtual community that provides participants with the opportunity to share ideas, resources, and best practices in technology, and to offer support to others as they embark on their technology journey. >

• The chalkboard is dead: reseachers

   

  Professors say that anti-technology teachers are bad for tech-savvy students
• It's not about using technology for technology's sake. It's allowing students to access the right information because of the information explosion,

• Online Tool 'PrimaryAccess' Lets Youth Make Documentaries; Research Will Examine How Much New Technology Enhances Student Learning in Social Studies
• Middle and high school students are making their own short documentaries, thanks to the University of Virginia’s Curry Center for Technology and Teacher Education. Center co-director Glen Bull, professor of instructional technology, and research scientist Bill Ferster of the Curry School of Education have developed a Web-based application, PrimaryAccess, which allows teachers and students to tap into original materials archived on the Internet through institutions, such as the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
• PrimaryAccess offers teachers another tool to bring history alive,” said Ferster, who pioneered the first digital nonlinear editing system for film and video and has worked with documentary filmmaker Ken Burns.
• “We want to assess the affect of using multimedia to incorporate primary source documents into social studies teaching to see if it influences learning outcomes,” Bull said. The study will look at experimental and control groups in middle and secondary social studies classes.
• PrimaryAccess is the first online tool that allows students to combine their own text, historical images from primary sources, and audio narration to create short online documentary films linked to social studies standards of learning
• Tools that allow students to learn visually as well as verbally can significantly enhance learning when coupled with appropriate pedagogy
• U.Va. Curry center with education professor Joe Garofalo, noted findings from a survey conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project on how much our society, and especially younger members, are using the Internet and will continue to do so. It’s time to figure out how to enlist the technology to work in the classroom and build on students’ attention and engagement, Bull said.

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• Like the web itself, the early promise of e-learning - that of empowerment - has not been fully realized. The experience of e-learning for many has been no more than a hand-out published online, coupled with a simple multiple-choice quiz. Hardly inspiring, let alone empowering. But by using these new web services, e-learning has the potential to become far more personal, social and flexible.

• Enabling a system that has teachers working together in the classroom is another benefit, and one of the nicest things about this program, noted Johnson.

• CAST staff includes specialists in education research and policy, neuropsychology, clinical/school psychology, technology, engineering, curriculum development, K-12 professional development, and more.

• Welcome to the Classroom 2.0 wiki! This site is devoted to building resources for the classroom use of Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies. Hopefully, it provides you with a good overview of the technologies, some ideas for lesson plans, and then points you in the direction of more detailed resources.