Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms

Will Richardson

Corwin Press, Mar 1, 2010 - Education - 184 pages

Explore the wide world of new, easy-to-use Web publishing and information gathering tools!

Written for educators of all disciplines, this third edition of a bestseller provides real examples from K–12 teachers around the world on how Web tools allow students to learn more, create more, and communicate better. Updated with materials on Web publishing and information literacy, this resource opens up a new toolbox for both novice and tech-savvy educators, with how-to steps for teaching with:

• Weblogs
• Wikis
• Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds and aggregators
• Social bookmarking
• Online photo galleries
• Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter

Contents

• Chapter 1 The ReadWrite Web: 1
• Pedagogy and Practice: 17
• Get Started: 43
• Easy Collaboration for All: 55
• The New Killer App for Educators: 71
• Learning Together: 85
• Creating Publishing and Using Images Online: 101
• Multimedia Publishing for the Masses: 111
• Facebook Ning Connections and Communities: 131
• Chapter 10 What It All Means: 147
• Epilogue The Classroom of the ReadWrite Web: 157
• References: 161
• Index: 165

About the author

A parent of two middle-school-aged children, Will Richardson has been writing about the intersection of social online learning networks and education for the past 10 years at Weblogg-ed.com and in numerous journals and magazines such as Ed Leadership, Education Week, and English Journal. Recently, he shifted his blogging emphasis to willrichardson.com. Formerly a public school educator for 22 years, he is a co-founder of Powerful Learning Practice (plpnetwork.com), a unique professional development program that has mentored over 3,000 teachers worldwide in the last three years. His first book, Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms (Corwin, 3rd Edition 2010) has sold over 80,000 copies and has impacted classroom practice around the world. His second book, Personal Learning Networks: Using the Power of Connections to Transform Education, was released in May, 2011. His articles have appeared in Educational Leadership, EdWeek, English Journal, Edutopia, and Principal Leadership, among others, and over the past six years, he has spoken to tens of thousands of educators in more than a dozen countries about the merits of learning networks for personal and professional growth. He is a national advisory board member of the George Lucas Education Foundation and a regular columnist for District Administration Magazine. Will lives in rural New Jersey with his wife, Wendy, and his children Tess and Tucker.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms
• Author: Will Richardson
• Edition: 3
• Publisher: Corwin Press, 2010
• ISBN: 1452231044, 9781452231044
• Length: 184 pages
• Subjects: Education / Computers & Technology; Education / General