Enhancing Online Learning with Web 2.0 Tools

Presenter: Laura McGrath, lmcgrat2@kennesaw.edu

 

Examples of Learning Activities Paired with Tools

 

All of the tools listed below can be used in ways that facilitate participatory learning and collaborative work. Starred items were highlighted in the presentation.

 

Discussion

 

MySpace*
Facebook

Blogs

Flickr

Media Creation & Sharing

 

Flickr*

Tumblr

YouTube

Google Video

Photobucket

Research

 

Diigo*

Del.icio.us

Digg

Furl

Blogs

Writing and Responding

 

Blogs (Blogger, LiveJournal)

Wikis (JotSpot—acquired by Google)

Google Docs

 

 

References/Resources

 

Andrews, Robert. “Don’t Tell Your Parents: Schools Embrace MySpace.” Wired. April 2007.
http://www.wired.com/culture/education/news/2007/04/myspaceforschool

 

Alexander, Bryan. “Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning?” EDUCAUSE Review. 41.2 (2006): 32–44. http://connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSE+Review/

Web20ANewWaveofInnovation/40615

 

Benzinger, Brian. “Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0: Part I.” Solution Watch. 2006.
http://www.solutionwatch.com/512/back-to-school-with-the-class-of-web-20-part-1/

 

Bollier, David. “The Rise of Collective Intelligence: Decentralized Co-Creation of Value as a New Paradigm of Commerce and Culture.” Report of the Sixteenth Annual Aspen Institute Roundtable on Information Technology. 2007.

 

Clark, Kim. “New Answers for E-Learning.” U.S. News & World Report Jan. 21 (2008): 46-49.

 

EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative. 7 Things You Should Know About . . .
http://www.educause.edu/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutSeries/7495

 

Hart-Davidson, William. “Web 2.0: What Technical Communicators Should Know.Intercom. Sept/Oct (2007): 8-12.

 

Johnson-Lenz, Trudy and Peter. “Groupware: The Emerging Art of Orchestrating Collective Intelligence.” World Future Society's First Global Conference on the Future, Toronto, Canada. 1980.

 

New Media Consortium. The Horizon Report 2008.
http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2008-Horizon-Report.pdf

 

New Media Consortium. The Horizon Report 2007.
http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2007_Horizon_Report.pdf

 

Solomon, Gwen, and Lynne Schrum. Web 2.0: New Tools, New Schools. ISTE: 2007.

 

WIDE Research Center. Grassroots.
 
http://grassroots.wide.msu.edu/