Web 2.0 Tools in the Classroom 


Many opportunities out there to enhance learning!


Table of Contents 

Pg.3 I-Movie

Pg.4 Skype

Pg.5 Twitter 



-I Movie 

-http://www.apple.com/ca/ilife/imovie/

-I Movie is a Web 2.0 tool that allows individuals to make their own movies. It is so efficent because it allows for text to be put within in the movie as well you can add voice recording's and music to optimize your video. 

-It could be used in education by both the teacher's and the students to do presentations. It could be a mixture of words, pictures, music all mixed in within the video. This makes it so that lots of information can be shared in a way thats engaging for others as well as very efficent and productive. 

- This tool would be extremely effective reducing barriers for multiple different learners. However I think this tool would be effective for those who struggle to learn from auditory. It would really help these kids because they could see the skill which would help them connect to them. Another reason I think it is a very valuable tool is because it will let students become immaginitive which will really open up their true knowledge on the subject instead of just being able to repeat a definition from a text book. 

-I think this could be used from anyone from about grade 6-grade 12. I think because of its multiple options it can be used at a basic level such as the grade 6 level and a more advanced level such as a grade 12 level. 



-Skype 

- www.skype.com/en/

-The purpose of skype is to remove the barriers of geography to make a face to face meeting achieveable. It can be used formally or informally and with just two people of a host of people. 

-It could be used in education in a number of ways. For example it could be used for a guest speaker. If you were learning a certain topic in class such as about the cree indians. You could contact a cree speaker and have him speak to your class which would be very easy for him as well as your class. It can also be used as communication for sharing ideas as a teacher such as having confrence calls with a teacher all the way across the world who teaches the similar subjects as you. 

-I think it would be a good tool to help people connect and make people interested. I feel like alot of studnets lack engagement because they are disinterested because hearing about people or concepts through a textbook is repititive. However if you can get guestspeakers or spice up showing the concepts through skype with other teachers you could help these kids become more interested. 

-I thnk this tool could be used through any level of formal or informal learning because it can be used in so many ways. Depending on how you incorporate it can enhance learning. 



-Twitter 

-twitter.com 

-Twitter is a tool that is great in helping people connect to collaborate about similar fields that they are interested in. 

-Twitter can be used in school systems for a host of different reasons. It can be used a tool for the students to give their opinions and their response to a teacher. It can also be used to search and look at other people's contributions to a specific topic's

-I think this tool would be good to remove barriers for certain learners because it opens up more connections which gives more chances of the specific individual to connect. It gives more opportunites which in turn helps the student learn the concept better and more chances just to understand it. This is helpful because we all learn in such different ways. 

-I think this is one tool that the required age user's would be nice to be from grade 6 to grade 12. It could be used with some security settings for the younger studnets so they didnt get distracted because i still think it could be very effective.