Web+2.0+Tools

Web 2.0 Tools

Since I am not in a classroom at this time, I do not have a specific content area or units of study that I can focus on concerning the Web 2.0 Tools. However, I am very interested in Assistive Technology. Therefore, I am going to concentrate on the tools that can help me further my knowledge and understanding of the technology available to students and adults with special needs.

__**BLOGS**__ __**WIKIS**__ __**SOCIAL/LEARNING NETWORKS (EX: EDMODO, FACEBOOK, ETC**__.) __**SOCIAL BOOKMARKING APPLICATIONS (EX: DELICIOUS, DIIGO)**__ __**MULTIMEDIA TOOLS (EX: PODCASTING, SCREENCASTING, VIDEO, LIVE STREAM)**__
 * __**Title**__ || __**Content**__ || __**How it Will Help Me**__ ||
 * [|assistivetek.blogspot.com] || Topics include AT, eLearning, mind mapping, project management, visual learning, collaborative tools, and educational tools || Provide me with info about relevant topics, devices, technology, etc,... in working with SWD ||
 * [|bdmtech.blogspot.com] || Topics include AT for SWD with reading disabilities, low vision, blindness, and other disabilities that make reading and writing and other tasks difficult || Same as above ||
 * __**Title**__ || __**Content**__ || __**How it Will Help Me**__ ||
 * [|Teaching Every Student] || Consideration Guide, Resources, Products, Training || Great info source ||
 * __**Title**__ || __**Content**__ || __**How it Will Help Me**__ ||
 * Edmodo || Provides a safe, easy way for students & teachers to connect, collaborate, and share, on content, access HW, grades, and school notices || Not sure this will be useful to me as I am not a classroom teacher ||
 * Facebook || Social network that connects people with friends and others who study and live around them || This can be helpful to me as far making contact with ATPs ||
 * __**Title**__ || __**Content**__ || __**How it Will Help Me**__ ||
 * Delicious || Enables users to keep, share, & discover the best websites || This enables me to bookmark and add organizational tags to hundreds of outstanding sites and share them as well as be sent bookmarked items as well ||
 * Diigo || Powerful research tool & knowledgeable sharing community || Another bookmarking tool with some added features ||
 * __**Title**__ || __**Content**__ || __**How it Will Help Me**__ ||
 * Jing || Enables screen captures, recording, and screencasting || Students could use this to create screencast for project versus traditional writing task ||
 * Animoto || Video slideshow maker with music turns your photos and video clips into professional video slideshows || Students could use this to create video slideshows versus traditional writing task ||
 * __RSS FEEDS__**
 * **__Title__** || **__Content__** || **__How it Will Help Me__** ||
 * Google Reader || Web based aggregator capable of reading Atom and RSS feeds || This would help bring to me relevant information on AT ||
 * __OTHER WEB HOSTED TOOLS__**
 * **__Title__** || **__Content__** || **__How it Will Help Me__** ||
 * Flickr || An image hosting website || Students could use this to create screencasts and slideshows versus traditional writing tasks ||
 * Flickr || An image hosting website || Students could use this to create screencasts and slideshows versus traditional writing tasks ||

Linda,

Great list of resources. I know you mentioned how social networks may not be useful to you. It may be a great resource to pass on to the teachers or even students who use certain assistive technology devices. They can connect with other teachers/students who use those devices and maybe find out about the newest devices available. Just a suggestion.

Also, remember [|Wall Wisher] which we used in a previous class. That is another Web Based Tool that students can use as an online bulletin board of what they know instead of doing traditional writing. I love using [|Kerpoof] now too so students have a different medium for completing writing tasks.

Great Work!

-Erin

Linda, This is a great list of information to find on Assistive Technology like the ones you subscribed to your RSS Feed in google reader. I remember that when I first starting going to school, I would use journals like "American Annals of the Deaf" as an example of how to teacher to students with the specific disability of being deaf. Now there is a wealth of information, just like the list of Web 2.0 sources that you have, you can find information based on Assistive Technology. As for social networks, I just joined Edmodo. I already have joined two teaching groups on the site. It is a great feed to find up-to-date information from other teachers and administrators. You should also look at Classroom 2.0. It is another great social network site to find the up-to-date information with the latest conversations in Education. Enjoy, Tim