Note:  This is a working document for gathering information and ideas (the great potential of a wiki) but it is not organized as a presentation agenda or real reference page.

Web 2.0 is defined as...Basics for Beginners: What is Web 2.0?

Key Jargon:  "User-generated content," "Consumer to Contributor,"

Web 2.0 Glossary

Larry Ferlazzo's list of "Best Places to Learn About Web2.0"

Google

Google Labs

Google Apps

Google Documents

Google Templates (article on using the template features)

Getting Started (video and list of features)

Shortcuts Cheat Sheet

Google Docs Community

Web 2.0 and Student Writing

Linktribution "Digital texts have the potential to make a big, juicy mess of a linear experience." BudtheTeacher

Read this paragraphy by Bud while running your mouse over the hyperlinks and looking at the bottom of your browser to see where they go. 

Tonight, I’m sitting in a local cafe, enjoying a cup of wicked sweet coffee and some tunes. As I wrote that last sentence, and added the links in, I wondered how you would read it. Are you someone who clicks on any link you see in a blog post? Or are you more like me? I use a browser that shows me the URL of the link I’m pointing to, saving me the trouble of traveling here if, after reading the URL, I see that I don’t need to follow the link, perhaps because I already know the site, or I don’t want to go to the site, because I’m worried about pop-ups, or a virus, or something that I don’t actually want to see. I love that browser, except when it leaks memory.

This is how hyperlinked writing can expand and enrich a student's writing.  They are referencing research and providing the reader with a much more well-rounded experience.  The reader can chose to follow the link or just note that if they want to follow that interest, the author has already found a good source.

Ideas for Teaching Hyperlinking to kids (Wes Fryer)

From a logistical point of view, we need to teach the mechanics of creating/inserting a link. How to link in a blog post? How to insert a link in a comment section where only HTML code is accepted and no visual editor? How do you follow a link without loosing the original text you are reading? How to you backtrack on links?

From a curriculum point of view, I want to catch their attention with examples. They have to see the difference between a hyperlinked text vs. a linear text.

• Maybe a game such as a commenter on Bud’s post suggest in the style of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.
• Maybe play three links out- write about something on a webpage and make it relate to another webpage that you arrived on after clicking yourself through three times.
• Let your elementary school students become “Link Detectives”. Allow them to go through a pre-created wiki or blog and challenge them to make the links/connections for you. What kind of links can they come up with? Do these links/connections show their understanding of the content?

From a kinesthetic point of view ( since I AM talking about elementary school children here), give students each an index card with information about a subject that they are studying. Have them arrange each other in groups, so that they connect the information from one point that is being made on a card to another. Have them pass yarn of different colors from one person to another, when they are “linking” to them. Point out that several facts/opinions can be “linked” to more than one info card. The end should be a “juicy mess of a linear experience”.  From Wes Fryer on Langwitches Blog

Kids using 2.0

Youtube tutorials by a 16 year old, Nick Danforth

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O'Reilly - web2.0