Introduction to set the stage for a professional development session on Web 2.0 technologies as content creating environments in education.

1. Cindy Kendall
Kendall Consulting
Williamston, MI

2. Face to face, theater, museums, books, newspapers, magazines,
telegraph, morse code, TV, radio, mail
Communication has evolved.
A myriad of interpersonal, interpretive, presentational
Time, networks (people and hardware), access,
ability to create content
Chat, instant messaging, multimedia messaging,
videoconferencing, email, online videos, online encyclopedias,
facebook, myspace, club penguin, webkins, photosharing, blogs,
wikis, mashups, web-based multimedia creation, websites,
podcasts, vodcasts, tags, keywords, iTunes, multi-player
synchronous games, blackberries, 24/7, iTunesU, BitTorrent file
sharing, GPS, Linked-In, micro-blogging, Google

3. In what world are our children living?

4. Literacy
“Literacy has always been about using the most
powerful cultural tools available to make and
communicate meaning. At the present, those tools
happen to be multimedia tools that use video, graphics,
sound, and traditional text in a hypermedia format. If
we or our students don't know how to critically use
these tools to their fullest meaning-constructive
potential, then we—and they—are illiterate.”
-Jeff Wilhelm

5. Creating new content
is a key to
understanding.
Everybody creates.
So find opportunities
to create with content!

6. And the theorists and research
support creating meaningful
content…
 Seymour Papert – Constructivism
 George Siemens – Connectivism
 Ivan Illich – Deschooling
 Lev Vygotsky – Zone of Proximal Development
 Rand Spiro – Cognitive Flexibility

7. If we want kids to buy
in to what we are
selling them, we have
to ….
 Make it engaging and
allow creativity
 Go to where the kids
are
 Create a relationship
and a community

8. Today we are going to explore ways to