Bridging the Digital Divide

Bridging the Digital Divide : 

Developed by Susan Gaer with credit to John Thompson, Ph.D., 2009 1 Bridging the Digital Divide Teaching with Technology as a Tool. Developed by Susan Gaer June 8, 2009 susangaer@gmail.com Instituto Cultural Dominico Americano Annual Conference for Teachers of English 2009

With a partner, you will have 1 min. : 

Developed by Susan Gaer with credit to John Thompson, Ph.D., 2009 With a partner, you will have 1 min. What is Web 2.0? How many Web 2.0 tools can you name?

Start Now! : 

Developed by Susan Gaer with credit to John Thompson, Ph.D., 2009 Start Now! What is Web 2.0? How many Web 2.0 tools can you name?

How many of these 2.0 Tools did you know? : 

Developed by Susan Gaer with credit to John Thompson, Ph.D., 2009 How many of these 2.0 Tools did you know?

Slide 5: 

Developed by Susan Gaer with credit to John Thompson, Ph.D., 2009 human-computer interaction personal connections--from words, pictures, video, and audio authentic, peer-to-peer channel of communication open, flexible collaboration data and applications opened to creative use by the public harnessing collective intelligence collaboration/participation/collective intelligence second generation of services Web as a platform the wisdom of crowds creative amateur is cherished “democratizes” media amoral authentic, peer-to-peer channel of communication collective judgments user-generated content safety in numbers participative Web collective power community Web changing from “medium” to “platform” user actions provide value architecture of participation bookmarking >>> social bookmarking transparent selves…transparent Web interactive, community-based Internet applications What is Web 2.0?

Photo Sharing : 

Developed by Susan Gaer with credit to John Thompson, Ph.D., 2009 Photo Sharing

Cool Sites to Use With Photos : 

Developed by Susan Gaer with credit to John Thompson, Ph.D., 2009 Cool Sites to Use With Photos Flickr Tag Site Cool Things you can Do with Picasa Verb Project Online Photo Sharing in Plain English

Sharing Videos : 

Developed by Susan Gaer with credit to John Thompson, Ph.D., 2009 Sharing Videos List of video sharing sites ViewPoint: Embedable videos

What can you do with Video Sharing? : 

Developed by Susan Gaer with credit to John Thompson, Ph.D., 2009 What can you do with Video Sharing? Video Dictionary Video Ring tones for your phone

Spend One Minute. Share with a partner what you learned. : 

Developed by Susan Gaer with credit to John Thompson, Ph.D., 2009 Spend One Minute. Share with a partner what you learned. What did you learn about photo sharing? What did you learn about video sharing? While you are sharing, let’s see if I can get the pictures off the cameras.

Sharing Documents : 

Developed by Susan Gaer with credit to John Thompson, Ph.D., 2009 Sharing Documents 24/7 anytime, anywhere access to projects or assignments – extends school day

Blogs and Wikis : 

Developed by Susan Gaer with credit to John Thompson, Ph.D., 2009 12 Blogs and Wikis Larry Ferlazzo

Spend One Minute. Share with a partner what you learned. : 

Developed by Susan Gaer with credit to John Thompson, Ph.D., 2009 Spend One Minute. Share with a partner what you learned. What did you learn about sharing documents? What is the difference between a Blog and a Wiki? What did you learn about using Wikis and Blogs in the classroom?

Slide 14: 

Developed by Susan Gaer with credit to John Thompson, Ph.D., 2009 Pix2fone

Socializing : 

Developed by Susan Gaer with credit to John Thompson, Ph.D., 2009 Socializing Twitter Share bookmarks Social browser Calendar Diagrams Social Networking

Miscellaneous : 

Developed by Susan Gaer with credit to John Thompson, Ph.D., 2009 Miscellaneous “online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) - and share them with anyone they wish. A VoiceThread allows group conversations to be collected and shared in one place, from anywhere in the world.” -- group audio blogging to enhance group communication and reflection “captures and shares images and video…from your computer to anywhere” “Enables users to express themselves on the web in their own voice using a talking character. Customize your Voki to look like you…Your Voki can speak with your own voice which is added via microphone, upload, or phone.”

Miscellaneous : 

Developed by Susan Gaer with credit to John Thompson, Ph.D., 2009 Miscellaneous create surveys and polls for your Web site, blog and social network profiles Fleck.com allows you to add notes or bullets to Web sites. Share these annotated pages with others. one-to-many live interactive video broadcast platform enabling anyone with a camera and an Internet connection to broadcast to a unlimited global audience Beyond just driving directions… 100 Things to do Directory of web 2.0 apps & services –