Thriving in a Web 2.0 Classroom presentation delivered by Tom Daccord at National Council of Social Studies Annual Conference, Fall 2008.

1. Thriving in a Web 2.0
Classroom
Tom Daccord

3. “The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very
different kind of mind--creators and empathizers, pattern
recognizers, and meaning makers.”
A Whole New Mind: Moving From the Information Age to the Conceptual
Age
--Daniel Pink

4. “In our modern world, learning seems useless unless it prepares
students to be creative.”
Leonardo’s Laptop: Human Need and the New Human Computing
Technologies
-- Professor Ben Shneiderman

5. 21st Century Skills
• adaptability & inventive thinking (problem-
solving)
• collaboration and communication
(synchronous and asynchronous; cross-
cultural)
• digital age literacy (collect, analyze,
synthesize, distribute, present information)

6. Web 2.0 Empowerment
• interactive, intuitive, accessible
• free or low cost
• engenders collaboration
• security & privacy features
• multimedia rich
• can embed in web pages

7. Innovation Framework

8. Innovation Framework
• Collect -- fact acquisition and research; focus
on user’s activity

9. Innovation Framework
• Collect -- fact acquisition and research; focus
on user’s activity
• Relate -- team efforts that develop
communication, management, social skills;
clarify problems

10. Innovation Framework
• Collect -- fact acquisition and research; focus
on user’s activity
• Relate -- team efforts that develop
communication, management, social skills;
clarify problems
• Create -- individual and team projects;
create to learn and learn to create

11. Innovation Framework
• Collect -- fact acquisition and research; focus
on user’s activity
• Relate -- team efforts that develop
communication, management, social skills;
clarify problems
• Create -- individual and team projects;
create to learn and learn to create
• Donate -- authentic, service-oriented
projects; dissemination to “outside” client

12. Examples

13. “A Day in the Life of a Hobo”
• Guided Research (Web & Print)
• Group and Individual Responsibilities
• Blogging
• Digital Audio Recording (GarageBand)
• Also: Boomer Interview Project

14. U.S. History wiki
• Individual contributions lead to “Collective
Intelligence”
• teacher and student contributions
• course wiki
• Also: workshop wiki

15. “Great Debate of 2008”
• an exploration and discussion of issues and
candidates surrounding the 2008
presidential election connecting 120
students from around the country
• Great Debate of 2008 wiki: http://
greatdebate2008.wikispaces.com/
• Great Debate of 2008 online social
network: http://greatdebate2008.ning.com/
(private)

16. “Social Mobility” Audio Blog
• upload pictures to VoiceThread, record
accompanying audio commentary; invite
others to record commentary
• can embed in blogs, wikis, and other Web
sites; new video feature
• http://www.voicethread.com
• voicethread classroom example

17. VoiceThread in Blog
• can embed in various types of web pages
• can record within the web page
• classroom example

18. Google Web Site
• quickly and easily create web pages
• no html needed
• http://google.com/sites
• U.S. History project
• Also: Google Docs

19. “Mobcasts” & Voice-to-Text
• can record and upload a podcast to the
Web via a cell phone
• easy “mobcasting”
• http://gcast.com
• http://www.garageband.com/user/
tomdaccord/podcast/main
• Also: reQall, Jott (voice-to-text)

20. Brainstorming
• collaborative Mind-Mapping
• anywhere; anytime
• Gliffy, bubbl.us, mywebspiration
• student example

21. Online Annotations
• can add commentary and annotations to
Web pages
• can save and share with others
• Diigo
• example

22. Tom Daccord & Justin Reich
• Best Ideas for Teaching with Technology: A
Practical Guide for Teachers by Teachers
• professional development workshops and
presentations
• tom@edtechteacher.org
• justin@edtechteacher.org