Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms
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Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms

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Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms

About this book

"This book is loaded with insightful and honest advice about using Web 2.0 in education. Will Richardson has amassed decades of technology integration experience as a teacher, consultant, blogger, and educational leader. There are few like him and few books like this."
—Curtis J. Bonk, Professor, Indiana University
Author of The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education

"Richardson?s book was a touchstone for me when I started trying to figure out how to integrate participatory media into my teaching. I recommend this book to any teacher at any level who is interested in the learner-centric pedagogy that social media enables."
—Howard Rheingold, Lecturer, Stanford University
Author of Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution

Explore the wide world of new, easy-to-use Web publishing and information gathering tools!

Written for educators of all levels and disciplines, this third edition of the best-selling book Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms provides real examples from K–12 teachers around the world who are at the forefront of bringing today?s Web tools into their schools and to their students. This book is filled with practical advice on how teachers and students can use the Web to learn more, create more, and communicate better.

This fully updated resource opens up a new technology toolbox for both novice and tech-savvy educators. Will Richardson provides clear explanations of specific teaching applications, with how-to steps for teaching with:

  • Weblogs
  • Wikis
  • Really Simple Syndication(RSS) feeds and aggregators
  • Social bookmarking
  • Online photo galleries
  • Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter

Updated with materials on Web publishing and information literacy, this invaluable handbook helps students and teachers use Web tools within the classroom to enhance student learning and achievement.

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Information

Publisher
Corwin
Year
2010
Print ISBN
9781412977470
eBook ISBN
9781544303086
Edition
3
Topic
Education
Subtopic
Education General

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Preface to the Third Edition
  7. About the Author
  8. 1 The Read/Write Web
  9. 2 Weblogs: Pedagogy and Practice
  10. 3 Weblogs: Get Started!
  11. 4 Wikis: Easy Collaboration for All
  12. 5 RSS: The New Killer App for Educators
  13. 6 The Social Web: Learning Together
  14. 7 Fun with Flickr: Creating, Publishing, and Using Images Online
  15. 8 Podcasting, Video and Screencasting, and Live Streaming: Multimedia Publishing for the Masses
  16. 9 Social Networks: Facebook, Ning, Connections, and Communities
  17. 10 What it All Means
  18. Epilogue: The Classroom of the Read/Write Web
  19. References
  20. Index