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This week’s reading was from Chapter 4 in Web 2.0: “New tools, new schools”. This chapter was filled with tons of ideas on how to incorporate Web 2.0 tools into the classroom. Here’s just a tiny sliver of what they mentioned.

            Blog Ideas:

·        Journals

·        Daily log of activities

·        Way to brainstorm and get feedback

Wiki Ideas:

·        Collaborative projects

·        Literature circles

Podcasting Ideas:

·        Verbal thought processing

·        Response to essay type questions

 Digital Storytelling:

·        Interdisciplinary projects

·        Public service announcements

These are just a few ideas given on how to implement the new tools into your classroom. There are hundreds of more ways and all you have to do to find them is search the internet!

This chapter also breaks ideas into subject areas. By doing this is gives you more specific websites that you can go to for more ideas. For instance, since I’m a science person, I might want to check out http://www.twis.org for some current event podcasting. Or for a broader category of subjects a great place to check out is http://www.thinkquest.org .

 Not only are there already a ton of ideas for implementing out there in books and on the internet, but every one of us is probably come up with some way to creatively incorporate the tools into our classroom. We live in the digital age; it’s time to “think out of the box”!