Levin,+Ed

=Hi all -=

=I'm sitting at my desk at work, trying to match speeds with this moving train so I can jump on. Like all of you I'm very busy, but this looks even more important than most of what grabs at me. I'm trying to build a wedge to open up the time dimension. = = = =Here's how I approach matching speeds with the train. The first obvious question is "What are Joyce's Top Tools?" A look at the New Tools Workshop in the column directly to the right in the view on my screen right now (http://newtoolsworkshop.wikispaces.com/) gives a home page headed "Eight (or so) Easy 2.0 Pieces to Piece Together". I typed up the labels on the links on that page and the "8 or so" turns out to be 25 or so, alphabetized below. So this might be a clue to the range of what Joyce means by "Easy 2.0 Pieces". = = = = = 
 * 1. Backchannel/chat ||
 * 2. Blogs ||
 * 3. Cartoon generators ||
 * 4. Curriculum standards ||
 * 5. Digital storytelling ||
 * 6. Fair use and information ethics ||
 * 7. Feeds and aggregators ||
 * 8. Game generators ||
 * 9. Interactive calendars ||
 * 10. Interactive whiteboards ||
 * 11. Media literacy ||
 * 12. Media parking lots ||
 * 13. Mindmapping, graphing, charting, timelining ||
 * 14. Personal information portals ||
 * 15. Playing with images and avatars ||
 * 16. Podcasting ||
 * 17. Polling tools ||
 * 18. Presentation reform ||
 * 19. Privacy and safety ||
 * 20. Social networking ||
 * 21. Twitter ||
 * 22. Video tools ||
 * 23. Widgets ||
 * 24. Wikis ||
 * 25. Writing tools ||

= What Web 2.0 tool(s) have you used and how has it (have they) impacted student learning? = (complete before, during, and/or after webinar)

I got inspired at the 2007 CSLA Conference []

The first thing that really came out of it was a PBWiki I built and used to coordinate the accreditation effort for WASC. The student learning was indirect, mostly I think as a re-set of the school context from the collaborative experience shared by the faculty.

I also used PBWorks to build a site for developing a Schoolwide Research Curriculum. . []

= How have you implemented any of Dr. Valenza's Top Tools? = (complete during and/or after webinar)

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