Lisa’s Weblog

I found this awesome site http://www.solutionwatch.com/512/back-to-school-with-the-class-of-web-20-part-1/ 

it has tools for great web2.0 sites. Such as a student version of delicious.

Stu.dicio.us: Student organizer and social notetaking tool where students can create a schedule, track their grades, manage a to do list, store files for classes, and write public notes in an outline-like format. Stu.dicio.us also allows students to connect with friends and soon will include Facebook integration. More on Stu.dicio.us.

Ther are many other great ones and i think they are awesome for using in the classroom and will allow the students to become more interactive and share information amongst each other.

  WHAT ARE TAG CLOUDS?? This is some information I found about tag clouds.From wikipedia.com  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_cloud  A tag cloud (or weighted list in visual design) is a visual depiction of content tags used on a website. A tag cloud is a set of related tags with corresponding weights. Typical tag clouds have between 30 and 150 tags. The weights are represented using font sizes or other visual clues. Meanwhile, histograms or pie charts are most commonly used to represent approximately a dozen different weights. Hence, tag clouds can represent many more weights, though less accurately so. Also, frequently, tag clouds are interactive: tags are hyperlinks typically allowing the user to drill down on the data. I also found a tag cloud for flickrr which is great instead of having pages of information to sift through.

All time most popular tags africa   amsterdam   animals   april   architecture   art   asia   august   australia   baby   barcelona   beach   berlin   birthday   black   blackandwhite   blue   boston   bw   california   cameraphone   camping   canada   canon   car   cat   cats   chicago   china   christmas   church   city   clouds   color   concert   day   dc   de   dog   england   europe   family   festival   film   florida   flower   flowers   food   france   friends   fun   garden   geotagged   germany   girl   graffiti   green   halloween   hawaii   hiking   holiday   home   honeymoon   house   india   ireland   island   italy   japan   july   june   kids   la   lake   landscape   light   live   london   losangeles   macro   march   may   me   mexico   mountain   mountains   museum   music   nature   new   newyork   newyorkcity   newzealand   night   nikon   nyc   ocean   paris   park   party   people   portrait   red   river   roadtrip   rock   rome   san   sanfrancisco   scotland   sea   seattle   show   sky   snow   spain   spring   street   summer   sun   sunset   sydney   taiwan   texas   thailand   tokyo   toronto   tour   travel   tree   trees   trip   uk   urban   usa   vacation   vancouver   washington   water   wedding   white   winter   yellow   york   zoo 

DIGITAL CHALKIES

An article that I found on the internet about what is web2.0 http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html  

Here is table showing the difference between web1.0 and web2.0. Another article I found is ‘using wiki in the classroom’ http://www.digitalchalkie.com/category/emerging-technology/ It has become evident that many teachers are starting to show interest in using some sort of web2.0 in their classroom. Using wiki in the classroom may be hard for some to master. This site has video tutorials on how to use wiki and you can go through it at your own pace. Teachers in the classroom could assign homework for their students to go onto the site and learn how to use a wiki at their own pace. The article also mentions then fact that many educators are questioning if the industrial age institutions we work in are ready for the kids of the digital communication revolution.