1. PML 5
Harnessing the Power of Web 2.0

2. Learning Goals
Discover a variety of platforms students and teachers
can use to become critical consumers and producers
of texts
Play, experiment, make mistakes

3. Agenda
Reminders regarding lesson redesign
Blog feedback
Discuss reading
Defining Web 2.0
Will Richardson
Explore Web 2.0 tools
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4. Lesson Redesign
Due on blog by Feb 6 class
Share original lesson as well as your redesign and any
resources
Credit sources by including hyperlink if possible
Provide a rationale for your redesign. Why did you
change what you changed?

5. Lesson Redesign
For example, you might take a lesson you originally did
on inference-making with a short story and redesign the
lesson for inference-making with a graphic novel
selection.
Or
You might use that same short story but rather than focus
on having students answer questions about plot, and
character, you have them focus on applying their
understanding to a new context by creating a comic in
Bitstrips (or by hand).

6. Lesson Redesign
Please provide a rationale for what you've changed
and why. It doesn't have to be long, but it should be
specific.
Post the original lesson and your redesign.
Make sure you're thinking about the curriculum
expectations you are addressing in your lesson. It will
make it more helpful for your classmates.

7. What is Web 2.0?
http://prezi.com/26a056rap0i6/the-new-media/

8. Why Web 2.0?
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www.willrichardson.com

9. Explore!
For your lesson redesigns, you may wish to use some
web 2.0 technology. Here are some sites/tools you
can explore.
Goals: play, experiment, make mistakes. If you find
one tool/site that really captures your interest feel free
to hang out there the whole time. If you feel like
sampling a number of different sites, that’s fine too.
Be prepared to share what you learned about the site
and possible classroom applications.

10. Bitstrips

11. Bitstrips
Bitstrips: You can either create a free trial account or
join my “class” and see how a student experiences the
site.
If you want to join my class, you need to do the
following:
Step 1: Go to http://www.bitstripsforschools.com/login/
Step 2: Under Student Login on the left, enter the following classroom code:
5452S and click on the Go button
Step 3: Select your name from the name box. If this is the first time you are
logging in, create your password and click Set Password.

12. Ning

13. Ning
Ning is a platform that lets you create your own social
networking site. It can be closed or open. You can
have a free one month trial and apply to have Pearson
sponsor your education site for free.
If you’d like to explore a ning that is already set up,
check out my grade 12 literature circle ning. My
students decided to make it an open site so other
teachers and students could use it.
http://pining.ning.com/

14. PB Works

15. PBWorks
PBWorks is a site that lets you make wikis. Some
teachers use this as a course organizer or their main
website, while others use it for collaborative writing.
The basic education account is free.
My media class’s “New Media” Wiki:
http://pbworks.com/pbworks-basic-edition

16. Edmodo

17. Edmodo
Edmodo is a closed social network site specifically
designed for teachers, students, and parents.
You can also use it to post assignments, have
students submit, and then mark them right on the site.
www.edmodo.com

18. Animoto

19. Animoto
Animoto lets you create slide shows with music. We’ve
used similar programs to create “book trailers” in my
ENG4C class.

20. Prezi

21. Prezi
Prezi is a zooming online presentation maker. It’s non-
linear which can make for interesting planning
possibilities as well as presentations.
Students can collaborate online.
Because it’s online, students don’t need any software
to create it, but they do need internet access.

22. Glogster

23. Glogster
Glogster used to have free education accounts where
you could manage a whole class. You can still create
a free accounts though. My students used glogster to
create interactive multimedia collages on pop culture
for my media class.

24. Today’s Meet

25. Today’s Meet
Today’s Meet can be used to set up a backchannel
during a lecture or lesson. We use it while watching
films to ask questions and comment.
It doesn’t require an account and students don’t have
to register, but you would have to think about
classroom management issues that can result
because of this.

26. Google Docs

27. Google Docs
Students can use this store work “in the cloud” and to
collaborate on projects with peers. It gives them
access to Word, Excel, and Power Point without
having to install any software.
https://docs.google.com/

28. What did you learn?
Features?
How it worked?
What you liked/didn’t like?
Classroom applications?
Cautions?
Consider making this one of your blog posts.

29. Next Week
Blog about the Web 2.0 tools you’ve explored.
Post your lesson redesign and resources.
Readings:
Kirby Ferguson. Everything is a remix (video)
http://www.everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series/
David Silverberg. What is a poetry slam? (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbI-R27VzL8