1. Using Web 2.0 Technologies to Enhance Student Learning

2. Stanley Avenue is a co-educational , decile 5 full primary school catering for approximately 240-260 year 0-8 students. Students attending our school come from within the Te Aroha township and neighbouring rural communities. Our school is staffed with 11 full-time teachers, support staff, an office administrator, caretaker, 2 cleaners and principal. Ten classrooms operate within the syndicate structure with 5 classes in the junior school led by an assistant principal and 5 classes in the middle/senior school led by the deputy principal. The Board of Trustees values and is very supportive of it’s staff.

4. Wix

5. Wordle

6. Moodle – LMS

7. Interactive Websites3. Creating a class wikispace 4. Questions

9. Allows for teaching of other groups

10. Relevant to their generation

11. Work output increased

12. Enjoyment

13. Has more meaning to them

15. With their parents e.g at home and at PACT conferences

16. With others in the school e.g management, other classes, school assemblies

18. “The mini laptops have been really cool because we can go on our wiki spaces and set goals and do our homework on it. Wix has also been a good site for us to play around and make cover pages for our Wikispaces. Moodle has also been a good web site because we can get our homework off moodle. “ “I have really enjoyed the laptops because we can go on our Wikispaces and show people what we have done and we can show people our goals we are going to achieved this year and we can show all the our things that we have put on our Wikispaces we have learnt. It also has been really great because we can use the laptops in the classroom which helps a lot because we don't have to keep going to the computer suite when we need to use the computer and we can learn lots of things in the classroom with the laptops. “ “Its a lot of fun going on all the different websites using the mini laptops. Its a privilege that we get to use the internet in the classroom to go on our Wikispaces, Moodles, Ultranet and other websites that also involve learning. The websites are good for sharing what we have been doing and what we have been learning in class.”

20. Its free and advert free for educators

21. It has a web page look about it rather than a linear layout like blogs

22. Web page look allows for creation of different pages

23. Easy to upload into

25. Links to Educational Games

26. Share some whole class / syndicate work

27. Links to Homework and Spelling

28. A place to put class instructions

29. Good place to demonstrate what you can do

31. Lets students show individuality

32. Easy for parents to get to their child's work

33. Students can show pride in their own work

34. Easy for the teacher to identify strengths and weaknesses

35. Easy to track work output and achievement

37. Teacher Student Feedback and Feedforward

38. Sharing with parents

39. Presenting Homework

40. Goal Setting and Reflection

41. Wix

43. Looks effective

44. Create professional looking pages with little effort

45. Engages students as they are drawn to the impressiveness

46. Easy to update – don’t have to keep uploading

47. Free!

48. Can create multiple pages

49. Easy to upload onto

50. Easy to adapt to meet your needs e.g size of page for wikispaces

52. Homepage on class wikispace

54. Presents information in a very effective was with the touch of a button

55. Brainstorming devices / graphic organizer

56. Free!

57. Allows students to share their thoughts and ideas

59. Wordles about their environment

66. More potential to be school wide

69. Engaged students don’t disrupt group teaching

70. Meaningful independent follow up

71. New Zealand Curriculum related

72. Great for use as a teaching tool on Interactive Whiteboards

73. Range of activities across a range of curriculum areas

75. Practicing grammar, punctuation, spelling etc

76. Basic Facts

77. Follow up for maths that is targeted to learning objectives