Beverley Crane
| ISBN: 9781555706531 Published: 2009 6 x 9 | 200 pp. | $59.95 Request an Exam Copy |  WorldCat record
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From blogs to wikis, invite Web 2.0 tools into the classroom.
In this invaluable resource you’ll find a host of Web 2.0 tools available on the Internet today, plus teaching and learning strategies to use them in the K-12 classroom. Language arts, science, and social studies unit lesson plans included in each chapter exemplify topics at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. Each chapter focuses on a specific Web 2.0 tool:
• Blogs--high school science study
• Podcasts--immigrant topic for the elementary classroom
• Wikis--learning about novels in high school
• Video/digital storytelling about energy
• Google tools (e.g., Google Earth, Maps, Docs)--current events in social studies
• VoiceThread--language learning for non-native speakers
• Social bookmarking--Earth Day projects
Each chapter incorporates a glossary; a description of the particular tool; examples of its use in the K-12 curriculum; how to get started, and a unit plan focused on learning strategies. Exercises in each chapter reinforce the concepts. Readers get a complete listing of all Web sites mentioned plus access to a Web site for exercises, new URLs, and more. Teachers will want to check this out of your library too!
• Blogs--high school science study
• Podcasts--immigrant topic for the elementary classroom
• Wikis--learning about novels in high school
• Video/digital storytelling about energy
• Google tools (e.g., Google Earth, Maps, Docs)--current events in social studies
• VoiceThread--language learning for non-native speakers
• Social bookmarking--Earth Day projects
Each chapter incorporates a glossary; a description of the particular tool; examples of its use in the K-12 curriculum; how to get started, and a unit plan focused on learning strategies. Exercises in each chapter reinforce the concepts. Readers get a complete listing of all Web sites mentioned plus access to a Web site for exercises, new URLs, and more. Teachers will want to check this out of your library too!
"Recommended."
-- CHOICE, June 2009, Vol. 46, No. 10
"A wealth of suggestions, ideas, unit plans, and answers to questions ... to how to integrate and use Web 2.0 tools throughout the curriculum. The book will also prove useful to school media specialists for library implementation and to collaborate with teachers on the development and utilization of these exciting tools."
-- School Library Journal, June 2009
"We recommend this book for its usefulness....Highly Recommended."
-- Teacher Librarian, Volume 36, No. 4
"A "how-to" and "why should I?" manual all rolled into one easy-to-understand text....widely appealing to teachers, librarians and school media specialists."
-- VOYA, June 2009
"Crane...has conducted workshops for educators on literacy and the mentoring of teachers for many years, and her guide on using Web 2.0 technology for K-12 classrooms uses this wealth of experience to describe the proper use of these learning tools for teachers, librarians and technology coordinators."
-- SciTech Book News, February 2009
-- CHOICE, June 2009, Vol. 46, No. 10
"A wealth of suggestions, ideas, unit plans, and answers to questions ... to how to integrate and use Web 2.0 tools throughout the curriculum. The book will also prove useful to school media specialists for library implementation and to collaborate with teachers on the development and utilization of these exciting tools."
-- School Library Journal, June 2009
"We recommend this book for its usefulness....Highly Recommended."
-- Teacher Librarian, Volume 36, No. 4
"A "how-to" and "why should I?" manual all rolled into one easy-to-understand text....widely appealing to teachers, librarians and school media specialists."
-- VOYA, June 2009
"Crane...has conducted workshops for educators on literacy and the mentoring of teachers for many years, and her guide on using Web 2.0 technology for K-12 classrooms uses this wealth of experience to describe the proper use of these learning tools for teachers, librarians and technology coordinators."
-- SciTech Book News, February 2009
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