Also review the Student Profiles
Explain how student use of communication, collaboration, and publishing Web 2.0 applications can help students to meet the NETS-S.
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My Student's Profile
The following experiences with technology and digital resources are examples of learning activities students might engage in during grades 6–8 (ages 11–14):
- Describe and illustrate a content-related concept or process using a model, simulation, or concept-mapping software. (1,2)
- Create original animations or videos documenting school, community, or local events. (1,2,6)
- Gather data, examine patterns, and apply information for decision making using digital tools and resources. (1,4)
- Participate in a cooperative learning project in an online learning community. (2)
- Evaluate digital resources to determine the credibility of the author and publisher and the timeliness and accuracy of the content. (3)
- Employ data-collection technology, such as probes, handheld devices, and geographic mapping systems, to gather, view, analyze, and report results for content-related problems. (3,4,6)
- Select and use the appropriate tools and digital resources to accomplish a variety of tasks and to solve problems. (3,4,6)
- Use collaborative electronic authoring tools to explore common curriculum content from multicultural perspectives with other learners. (2,3,4,5)
- Integrate a variety of file types to create and illustrate a document or presentation. (1,6)
- Independently develop and apply strategies for identifying and solving routine hardware and software problems. (4,6) ("Iste nets for," 2012).
Standards:
1. Creativity and Innovation
There are a tremendous amount of Web 2.0 sources that can help fulfill this NETS-S standard. This standard is about creating and innovating. Taking information and creating something unique. Prezi is a great outlet for innovation and creativity. It is very easy to create great online presentations that are far from cookie cutter and boring. Students can take any topic, theme or information and create a creative presentation. Another Web 2.0 site that would be great for this standard is Glogster. I absolutely love glogster. It takes the normal 'Create a poster' project and turns it digital. On Glogster you can create an interactive and dynamic poster on any topic chosen. The sky is the limit with glogster. Another great website that would fulfill this topi could be yodio. Yodio is a site where you can create your own podcast/voice recording. This also adds a more creative touch to the typical presentation. The students can pretend they are a talk show host or give their own spin on famous historical speeches. Web 2.0 sites can take typical, boring projects and allow more creative juices to start flowing.
2. Communication and Collaboration
Web 2.0 opens up a whole new avenue to communication and collaboration between students and students and teachers. Edmodo is probably my favorite communication and collaboration tool that I use in my classroom. I love it. I introduced it this past year in my classes. Students simply loved it. Students today are very fluent on online communications. They saw edmodo as the 'Facebook for School." For the project, I created groups within my class periods on edmodo. These groups were to be the communication and collaborating venue for the project. Not only did students use edmodo to communicate with each other during the project (at school, and away from school), they also used edmodo to communicate with me. They asked questions, they answered poll questions and they even can submit their work online via edmodo. Another great Web 2.0 site is the suite of google apps. This includes google hangouts and google docs. These are some of the best apps out there... and they are FREE! It is amazing. Google hangouts provides an avenue for students, no matter where their location to communicate and work together. Within google hangouts, students can share documents, can collaborate on a single document within google docs. It really is a fantastic group of applications.
3. Research and Information Fluency
Students can use diigo to organize their information they find on the internet. Diigo is a great Web 2.0 site that allows students to bookmark sites, categorize the sits, and organize them. Padlet is also a great site that allows students to brainstorm and organize information. Google docs can also help fulfil this standard by allowing students to analyze, synthesize and use information from various sources collaboratively. They can organize informations in google spreadsheets, and google docs can store research. Wikispaces can also be a great Web 2.0 to help organize research and organize information. On the wiki, the students an separate information on different pages, they can also link information and videos right to the website. It is a great way to organize information digitally.
4. Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making
Web 2.0 sites also help promote critical thinking, problem solving and decision making. Google Forms can be used to actually collect data from individuals and google spreadsheets can be used to organize the data and google docs or presentation can illustrate a solution to a problem or defend a decision. Prezi is also a great Web 2.0 site that can be used to map out a solution visually. Diigo can be used to organize documents to defend or support a decision or solution to a problem.
5. Digital Citizenship
The best wan to practice digital citizenship is being familiar with various Web 2.0 websites. Any collaborative website can teach proper use of technology. It is the job of the teacher to inform and educate the students on the proper and respectful use of technology and how to effectively communicate with other students. Wikispaces can be used to respectively discuss topics and work together. Google docs can be used for the teacher to communicate the proper way to use technology and to foster positive attitudes. Edmodo has a great feature where they can moderate the student's message boards while they are using them. This is a great tool to use for teachers to communicate the practice of responsible use of technology.
6. Technology Operations and Concepts
One of the time consuming aspects of introducing a new technology is teaching the use of the Web 2.0 sites. A teacher can not simply just introduce a new technology without going through tutorials on how to use it! May of these Web 2.0 websites have tutorials and have lengthy 'how to' websites. I believe that these should be linked for the students easy access and also gone over in front of the class. Edmodo has an extensive 'how to' documents. Prezi does as well. It was very easy for me to go to a new website, read up on how to do it, and try it. The only way to really truly learn now to use a technology is to use it. The more you use a technology, the better you will be at it. Diigo can be used to link tutorials and google docs can also be used to communicate proper instructions. Using a website like Chatterous, Today's Meet or Google Chat can also help communicate instructions and answer questions.
Works Cited:
Chatterous. (2008). Retrieved from http://www.chaterous.com
Diigo. (2012). Retrieved from http://www.diigo.com
Edmodo. (2013) Retrieved from http://www.edmodo.com
Glogster. (2012). Retrieved from http://www.glogster.com
Google. (2013) Retrieved from http://www.google.com
Iste nets for students 2007 profiles. (2012). Retrieved from http://www.iste.org/standards/nets-for-students/nets-for-students-2007-profiles
Iste nets standards 2007. (2012). Retrieved from http://www.iste.org/standards/nets-for-students/nets-student-standards-2007
Padlet. (2013) Retrieved from http://www.padlet.com
Prezi. (2013). Retrieved from http://www.prezi.com
Today's Meet. (2013). Retrieved from http://www.todaysmeet.com
Wikispaces. (2013). Retrieved from http://www.wikispaces.com
Yodio. (2008). Retrieved from http://www.yodio.com
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