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25th September 2006

Great web 2.0 tools for students

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Sindya Bhanoo has posted a nice top 10 list of read/write web tools students can use for educational purposes. Although the post is ostensibly for college students, most of these tools can be used powerfully in the K-12 space as well. Tools on the list I had not heard of before include:

  • Soundslides - Storytelling management made easy. Allows you to easily merge sound and audio to create and audio slideshow presentations. Requires a small registration fee.
  • Blue.Us - A great social bookmarking/networking service. With the click of a button, you can “Dot” a Web site / page that you find interesting and instantly share it with all of your friends. Perfect for groups of students who have similar interests - it’s an easy way to share information.
  • mynoteIT - mynoteIT is a free service built for students to help keep school information organized and have it easily accessible whenever, wherever.

We are still living in a day when many, if not most professors in classrooms where students are using laptops are VERY concerned that the students will use them to be off-task, doing things like instant messaging. Marc Prensky stated the digital native response to this sort of worry very succinctly several years ago: “Engage Me or Enrage Me!” (PDF) Rather than banning laptops or tools like Skype, teachers as well as professors (but especially professors) need to get over “The Synchronous Non-interactive Fallacy” and engage students with these digital tools! More educators need to teach digital! :-)

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  1. 1 On September 26th, 2006, Brett Moller said:

    This is great Wes. May I use this in a presentaiton I am doing next week? I have posted a series of my presentations on web 2.0 to a site we just launced for my programs here at work. http://newscentre.bose.com.au

    Have a look and let me know what you think

  2. 2 On September 29th, 2006, Web 2.0 » Blog Archives » 2.0 CommerceNet News CommerceNet News link0 webmaster@commerce.net … said:

    [...] Allows you to easily merge sound and audio to create and audio slideshow … I have posted a series of my presentations on web 2.0 to a site we just launced … Read [...]