Web 2.0 Project Book

The website The Amazing Web 2.0 Projects Book by Terry Freedman is a compilation of different technology lesson plans and activities. This website makes it so easy to find everything that you would want to do in your classroom. Every thing is all in one place and very easy to find. All you have to do is click on the link in the table of contents that you want to read about and it takes you directly to the page that it is on. There is information about the lesson that the teacher used. Different teachers contribute different lessons, so the  lesson plans are not all by Freedman, but he puts it all together in an easy to find place.

One of the links that I clicked on was a lesson called Live Blogging this allowed students to converse with eachother so that they could all be involoved in the conversation. The great thing about this blogging website is that the teacher was able to selectively publish only the blogs that were relevant. Anything that was not part of the discussion was not published. I think that this is a great way to make sure that students are not getting sidetracked from the origional point of the discussion. They give ideas about using this for guest speakers or video group discussions and I agree that that is a great way to use this technology. I would even be great if the guest speaker was involved in the discussion as well in order to answer any potential questions or clarify anything. I think that live blogging is a great tool to use in the classroom if all students have access to a computer.

Another link that I clicked on was the e-Mentoring. This is a website that allows students the ability to get help on their school work. Anyone can help them inclupding other students, teachers, or support staff. This is helpful for the students because when they are at home working on homework and get stuck on something they have a place to go to get help. I can foresee that there could be many different ways that this technology could be used and it would make me nervous to allow younger students on to this website that anybody can access. However, every conversation is archived, but I still think that the origional purpose of this website could be easily bypassed.

Freedman, T. (2010). The Amazing Web 2.0 Projects Book. In The Amazing Web 2.0 Projects Book.  Retrieved October 31, 2011, from http://www.terry-freedman.org.uk/