BP4_2009121_Discovering_Web_2.0_tools

Research Web 2.0 Tools beginning with the resource listed below and choose one that is of interest to you in your teaching/learning environment. Learn how to use the tool through the site or tutorials and use it to create an assignment you might use in a learning situation or use it to create some product. Next evaluate what you have done and think about all the possible educational uses. Post a blog at least 250 words long describing how you would use it in your classroom and the educational benefits the tool provides. Be specific and thorough in your discussion.

I approached this blog with more zeal and curiosity after my first research in blogs used in education. What is out there to promote and engage students in art education? I found that the assets that we are presently using for this class apply very nicely to the art classroom. I have been awe struck by the amount of free applications that are out there. Even though that the free introductions are limited in scope, they still offer a lot for the beginner or those who have a small need.

Blogger is a very versatile web community platform to be a free service. I can see students using this to collaborate between each other on their evaluations and thoughts on a given piece of art or even their own work. One thing that I understand

is the far-reaching implications for learning outside the classroom as I continue in this degree program. Just as my classmates can work with each other across far distances so can the students in a high school classroom. I think it would be quite engaging for students to be able to interact with students in another high school art class, perhaps even in another state or country. Not only student-to-student but they could research artist and find one whom blogs and be able to gain real world information from a working artist. I also appreciate this in another way in that I live in a very rural area where there is little access to art venues. With the blog students can communicate with museums and curators that would not other wise be available to them.Producteev https://www.producteev.com/ is for team collaboration but mostly for team organization. In this application the teams can organize duties and responsibilities among team members. They are able to set deadlines and schedule activates to reach their goals. This combined with other application could make long distance group work very workable.Wiki is an application that allows more than one person to work on a document. There are many wikis out there that do basically the same thing but I would recommend to chose one that records not only the changes that are made but the one who makes the change. This will help keep conflict and misunderstandings to a minimum. Each person has to take ownership for his or her own actions.
Delicious has a great use for research. First it can be accessed from any computer. This means that a teacher can move from classroom to library and still have students be able to add to and gain access to their banks of research. The feature that is called tag allows student to place materials into categories to help with organization. These tagged sites then become available to all teachers, students and parents. Students can arrange their ideas around key concepts almost like brainstorming.Garageband, Flickr, and Myfolio I felt all would work together to help art students in keeping their work together, analyzing and sharing it. Garageband gives the student a way of using stills of their work or another artist and give a verbal critique. Flickr allows not only the easy capture of images but also to have discussions that can be posted to a class account. The program allows the teacher to make notes right on the image. Myfolio then allows the student to make a collection of his or her work to publish it and make it available to other students, teachers and parents alike.



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