Exemplary Web 2.0 Uses

Throughout the course of last seven weeks in this technology course I have learned to work with many exemplary Web 2.0 tools.  The tools that come to mind at this time include:  Blogger, Timeline Creation,  Webspiration, and GoogleDocs (just to name a couple).  These are the tools I am going to be using for my final lesson plan for the unit development project.  The students are able to work interactively with online tools.  These four tools alone would allow my students to use Blogger as a collaboration tool with their fellow classmates to discuss ideas of the lesson.  The students could be thinking critically and creatively by solving the problems that were presented within the classroom lesson.  The Webspiration software could be used to help students organize their information that they collected and place it in a well laid out diagram.  The students would also be using inquiry to think about how they were organizing the information in a more in depth process.  The Timeline Creation could be used as an interactive online tool to place information in a timely order in which something took place.  This information could finally be placed in the final presentation form of GoogleDocs in the form of a PowerPoint presentation.  This could also be used in collaboration with other classmates with each completing their own part of the presentation over the web.

In order to receive the support from administrators, technology staff, and other staff members I would present an example as the one above in greater detail and explain the various 21^st century skills that would accompany the Web 2.0 tools.  These skills include students discussing and collaborating with their classmates, thinking critically and creatively, along with incorporating inquiry skills into their thinking process.  Hopefully through my explanation and examples they would see the value that Web 2.0 tools would have for students within the classroom.  My example above shows the students participating in one lesson, and they would be using so many skills that they will need for the future!