Web 2.0 Tools for Teaching

This page contains a number of useful links to the Web 2.0 tools and social media tools that can be ‎used in teaching, presentations, collaboration and communication activities.‎

Links to tools ‎1.Common Craft ‎ Common Craft is a small company building a library of ‎educational videos that can be licensed for use in classrooms, on Learning Management Systems, ‎Intranets and on websites. The Common Craft website contains short and simple ‎‎videos in plain English that explain social media and web 2.0 tools ‎in an interesting way.‎ ‎2.OpenOffice.org OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite ‎for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in ‎many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all the data in an international open ‎standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It ‎can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose. This is an interesting tool ‎for a wide variety of usage in education.‎ ‎3.Kathy Schrock guide page The Kathy Schrock guide page ‎contains an extensive list of Web 2.0 tools with brief descriptions of use. Her Diigo list of Web 2.0 ‎tools is also very useful to know and ‎understand hundreds of free and easy to use tools.‎ ‎4.Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies (C4LPT)‎ C4LPT is one of the most visited learning sites on social ‎media and technology. It contains a number of free resources on social media tools for ‎working and learning. The Directory Of Learning Tools has over 2,000 Tools For Learning - for schools, ‎colleges, universities and the workplace. The Top 100 tools for learning provides descriptions of the ‎tools and ranks them based on voting by professionals.

Case studies/ Articles/ Books In this section you can find links to articles, publications and books related to social media tools and ‎their various applications ‎ ‎1.Blogs in teaching – Monash University Monash University page on blogs tells everything about ‎using blogs in teaching. This is an excellent page with links to popular blogging services, educational ‎blogs and case studies on the use of blogs in teaching different subjects.‎ ‎

Links to online interest groups on Web 2.0 and Social Media tools ‎1. Social Media group in Cloudworks This cloudworks link connects to exemplary groups collaborating to learn and share ideas and ‎experiences in using the Web2.0 tools, social media tools and e-learning technologies. A must see ‎site for educators interested in Web 2.0 tools for ‎teaching. ‎2. Educator 2.0‎ Educator 2.0 is a free social knowledge network for ‎everyone who uses the web to educate people. In this group innovative educators share their ‎knowledge with one another. Classes are held in live online classrooms and can be created by ‎everyone in the community. This is an excellent group to teach and study about the newest ‎technologies and techniques in online education.‎

Case examples for using Social Media/Web 2.0 tools for teaching Innovation & Entrepreneurship ‎1. Second Life to teach Entrepreneurship An interesting article on using Second Life to teach entrepreneurship can ‎be found in this link . The article is by Howard Van ‎Auken, Iowa State University .‎

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