Welcoming Web 2.0

Scotia-Glenville School District

Inquiry Learning in the Capital Area: A 21st Century SnapshotOctober 3, 2008Jan Tunison, Head of Library Services, Scotia-Glenville School District

Welcoming Web 2.0 Engages and motivates students

Uses real world applications for 21st century

Strengthens the idea of an online presence

Provides a global audience, if you wish

Strengthens collaborative skills, internally and externally, with

digital record of contributions

Empowers metacognition

Blogs for Professional Collaboration

Blogs for Metacognition

Blogs for Metacognition

Blogs … Students respond honestly!

Blogs … It’s elementary!

Blogs: It’s Elementary!

• Plan for filter blocks of blog sites and exemplar models• Plan for select comments - internal and external (manageable)• Plan for the need to have email addresses to create blogs

Wikis for Collaboration

Wikis for Communication

Wikis for Communication

Wikis for Collective Intelligence

• Plan for filter blocks of URLs and exemplar models

• Plan for needing an email address to create

• Plan for backup of data

Works Cited

Florida Center For Instructional Technology. "Presentation Backgrounds: Technology Set #2." ETC Presentations Home. 27 Sep. 2008 <http://etc.usf.edu/presentations/>.

Microsoft Office Online. 2008. 16 Sept. 2008 <www.microsoft.com>.