Thanks to all who participate in this seminar! I hope it was helpful.
Some great ideas and links were shared today as we discussed the components that make up Web2.0. Here are the presentation slides. Also, here is a link to my class website (wiki) for preservice elementary school teachers: http://lab-inst.usu.edu/groups/inst4010/. Another great place to learn more about Web2.0 in learning is David Wiley’s Blogs, Wikis, and New Media for Learning OpenCourseWare course.
And here are links to some of the most interesting sites that were shared:
http://chinswing.com/ (A versatile audio sharing site — love it!)
http://livemocha.com (A social language learning site — where was this when I was a French teacher?!)
http://zamzar.com/ (Online file conversion tool — very cool)
http://www.edu20.org/ (An interesting Learning Management System, or LMS)
http://www.toondoo.com/ (Reminds me of ComicLife on the mac)
http://edublogs.org (A blogging platform just for educators. Sue Watter’s blog is particularly good)
http://teachertube.com (Similar to YouTube, but focused on education)
http://merlot.org (A peer reviewed learning content repository)
An example of embedding/reusing content:
We also talked a bit about OpenCourseWare. Here are a few examples, and links to learn more:
http://ocw.mit.edu (MIT’s OCW)
http://ocw.nd.edu (Notre Dame’s OCW)
http://ocw.usu.edu (Utah State’s OCW)
Start an OCW Interested in starting an OpenCourseWare at your institution? Start Here!
eduCommons A Free OpenCourseWare Management System