Web 2.0

Web 2.0 Tools

Web 2.0 tools are a great way to give educators and students a different way of accessing and sharing information. There's a good chance you use a web 2.0 tool and don't even know it. Pinterest, Twitter, Youtube are examples of the some of the most popular tools. There's tons of different tools that we have yet to discover, or don't use as often. If you remember the digital space map blog post, then this pyramid below may look a bit familiar. Using Bloom's Taxonomy, these educational web 2.0 tools were organized into learning domains.  

Creating: Putting parts together
Evaluating: Make judgements
Analyzing: Separates materials for better understanding
Applying: Use concept in real world situations
Understanding: Comprehending information
Remembering: Recall or retrieve previous learned information

As you can see, there's many different web 2.0 tools that can be used in the academic setting. This is a great way of integrating technology into the classroom without distraction!

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Diigo

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Diigo stands for digest of internet information, groups and other stuff. In regards to my last post, we talked about how important research is in the academic and education setting. Well, this a great tool for educators and students to use when researching materials. It helps organize, store, manage, and search for bookmarks of resources online. This tool makes it easy to highlight, create sticky notes, and screen shots that gets saved into the cloud, how cool!

In the academic world, it's easy for students and educators to get unorganized from the many tasks they need to accomplish. This is a great tool for students when writing research papers because it helps organize thoughts into one place, and can gets stored in the cloud. Click on my video to see how I'm currently using this tool!