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Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms
Blogs Wikis Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms
Author: Will Richardson
"We need a solid book explaining and illustrating and letting teachers know about these powerful tools. This book meets the need in an awesome way!" — -Mike Muir, Director — Maine Center for Meaningful Engaged Learning — "This author is a gem! It startles me to be 'pulled' so happily through a text about these new Web tools in the cont...  more »

-Gary Graves, Senior Research and Evaluation Advisor, Technology in Education

Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory  

Discover how to harness Web tools to motivate and update student reading, research and communication!

This book brings teachers a bold vision and on-the-ground Monday morning practicality. It will move educators to think differently about technology’s potential for strengthening students' critical thinking, writing, reflection, and interactive learning. Will Richardson demystifies words like "blog," "wiki," and "aggregator" making classroom technology an easily accessible component of classroom research, writing, and learning.

This guide demonstrates how Web tools can generate exciting new learning formats, and explains how to apply these tools in the classroom to engage all students in a new world of synchronous information feeds and interactive learning. With detailed, simple explanations, definitions and how-tos, critical information on Internet safety, and helpful links, this exciting book opens an immense toolbox, with specific teaching applications for
  • Web logs, the most widely adopted tool of the read/write Web
  • Wikis, a collaborative Webspace for sharing published content
  • Rich Site Summary (RSS), feeding specific content into the classroom
  • Aggregators, collecting content generated via the RSS feed
  • Social bookmarking, archiving specific Web addresses
  • Online photo galleries


This book makes it possible for anyone, no matter how inexperienced, to harness this amazing technology for the classroom today!
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ISBN-13: 9781412927673
ISBN-10: 1412927676
Publication Date: 3/6/2006
Pages: 168
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Publisher: Corwin Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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