Sunday, February 17, 2008

Week 4 Readings

Rise of the Participation Culture
http://www.alicechristie.com/classes/530/p_culture%20.pdf

Web 2.0 is such a profound connection to the world. In this article, it talks about using Google Gadgets. I had never heard of this until this article. Google Gadgets places your favorite sites on your blog whoever visits your site can see what you are interested in. The one thing that Podcasting, blogging, Google Gadgets, and social networking sites such as MySpace all have in common are they all attract people to them by how they how easy it is to access them.

With blogs:

* Students can create a site that shows who they are and display what they have learned.

* Parents can see what their child is actually learning in school and what really interests them.

* Teachers could use them as an interactive journal or class newsletter.

* Blogging is the new way of socializing with people around the world and from state to state.

* Blogging would be a great way for students to communicate with a pen pal from another state or country.


Media creation and sharing:
This section talks about how Media creation and sharing is a great way to share photos and pod casts. Pod casts is a great way to teach without lecture. A Pod cast could motivate students to share their own works of art such as explaining the process a plant goes through to grow, to giving examples of words that begin with each of the letters of the alphabet to make their own collective ABC movie. It’s a great tool to use to share students work to parents.

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