Hey Jude’s blog is a perfect example of an interactive and creative blog. Thwe numerous hyperlinks and pictures create an effective and enjoybale blog while still being full of intersting information. From her side bars there are access to Jude’s Videos, her flickr account and photosand jude’s delicious. Overall Jude’s site makes the most of web 2.0 the resources avalibale and all the information are worthwile in lerarning the best ways to use web 2.0 for learning and education.

- must be highly structured activities

- all students must be included

- students must understand all facets of technology

- to keep it interesting hyperlinks, pictures and a more interactive site is crucial

About Facebook

Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.

Anyone can join Facebook

All that’s needed to join Facebook is a valid email address. To connect with coworkers or classmates, use your school or work email address to register. Once you register, join a regional network to connect with the people in your area.

Discover the people around you

Facebook is made up of many networks, each based around a company, region, or school. Join the networks that reflect your real-life communities to learn more about the people who work, live, or study around you.

Do more

Facebook’s Platform enables anyone, anywhere, to build complete applications that you can choose to use. The possibilities are endless. Define your experience on Facebook by choosing applications that are useful and relevant to your world.

Keep it private

At Facebook, we believe that people should have control over how they share their information and who can see it. People can only see the profiles of confirmed friends and the people in their networks. You can use our privacy settings at any time to control who can see what on Facebook.

http://www.facebook.com/about.php

The following site is just a wordpress opinion post but it does make some interesting points regarding facebook in terms of social networking

http://bigmarketing.wordpress.com/2007/05/23/facebook-the-right-way-to-design-a-social-networking-site/

Flickr is a photo sharing website and web services suite, and an online community platform, which is generally considered an early example of a Web 2.0 application.

In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository. Its popularity has been fueled by its innovative online community tools that allow photos to be tagged and browsed by folksonomic means. Flickr has a repository that is quickly approaching 1 billion images (as of August 2007).

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flickr

When I first went to delicious I was so confused. The reason I was confused was because of the simplicity of the site. With only a few tabs and links I was confused on where to go. Post will actually lead you directly to where you need to go. You simply put in the url of one of your favourite sites add tags, and a little information and you done. It is that simple. Considering I have only added a few websites and haven’t jumped into the full swing of the social book marking world of delicious that I haven’t felt the potential of what delicious can really do. Although I have heard about it and seen it in the video I added in a previous post I think for me to be able to gain a proper understanding of delicious it will take some time for me to be able to search, browse and share properly in Delicious. The concept of it sounds fantastic and the video discussing the linkrolls sounds like an amazing technique to use in the classroom. Now I can only say what I believe it delicious will be able to do. The one thing I am looking forward to most is the students being able to find information useful to the topic and post it up there for everyone to use. No longer is a competitive nature driven through our students to gain the number one rank instead the students will encourage each other and help each other to do their best, to use the information available and to participate collaboratively with their peers not only in the physical classroom but also in the world of web 2.0. It seems that web 2.0 is not only for helping the students in the classroom it is also helping their relationships, friendships, confidence and trust grow outside the boundaries of the classroom. Besides for teaching content matter what could be more important than nurturing personal human qualities in our students all believe it or not can help be obtained through web 2.0 and its platforms.

this is my delicious account. a working progress http://del.icio.us/sezzy

Kristy, Jane and myself have organised a PBwiki for a group collaboartive assessment. the link to our wiki is

http://peanutbutterandjelly3.pbwiki.com

in this wiki the three of us will be working together to construct an assessment this is a perfect example of how you can use pbwiki in the classroom.

 In fact I have to do a group assessment for my psychology of work course. Unfortunately there are four of us in the group and our timetables clash quiet considerably so I put forward the idea “who knows what a pbwiki is?” they all looked at me with quizzical faces. I explained the process and was welcomed with happy and surprised faces and the comment “so it is like a virtual classroom for our little group and just us” they seemed very happy and excited about this idea. This was the perfect way to put it.

It is a collaborative environment in which only the members can add information. Students can build upon each others information extending the knowledge network and they are easily accessible to each other without having to be physically together, homework, discussions and major assessments can now be easily done together, with help of students and teacher combined to create a high standard of work. The teacher can also keep track of who is contributing as well as easily integrating activities for different learning styles as the students can compensate for their own learning styles and add the information, video, picture, pod cast etc to the Wiki themselves enabling students of the same learning style to be helped as well. The Pbwiki allows for a collaborative environment inside the world of web 2.0, it ensures the students safety, builds class moral as the students are working together, the students are taking responsibility for their own learning. They learn about themselves and their own learning styles and they are also learning through a student centred approach. With the Pbwiki a whole new class environment is accessible, another way in which web 2.0 and its platforms are enabling teachers to move into the digital world.

there are aspects of PBwiki “create a classroom” and “create a syllabus” the terms teachers love to hear. it seems that PBwiki is directly for teacher of a digital nature. Unfortunately i have not explored these areas yet but hopefully there will be a post on what they are soon.

For further information about PBwiki in the classroom go to the official pbwiki site at http://pbwiki.com/edu.pb

How to Use Delicious:

1. Create a Delicious Account
In order to create a Delicious account, you will need to provide a valid e-mail address, login name and password.

2. Verify an Account
An e-mail will be sent to the e-mail address provided when the Delicious account was created. You will need to click the link in the e-mail in order to fully activate the Delicious account.

3. Login
Login in to the Delicious account in order to begin bookmarking and tagging content.

4. Post URL
Enter the URL of a webpage or website that you find to be particularly valuable or useful.

5. Describe & Tag
Enter a descriptive page title and description that relates to the contents of the bookmarked webpage. In the final field enter single word keywords that relate to the webpages content, these will be the “tags”.

Why Use Delicious?
Delicious can be used by professionals to share industry resources that are particularly useful. Delicious users store their favorite websites or resources online and other users can easily access bookmarks. Often websurfers will use Delicious to find resources that they consider to be relevant and qualified.

 http://www.small-business-software.net/using-delicious.htm

The following video is a quick tutorial and run through of delicious. the video is actually telling the audience how a class made and used delicious and the effects of the web 2.0 program. It runs through tagging and a technique called linkrolls which can help students ‘flow’ into other related websites.

Download Video: Posted by gtoews at TeacherTube.com.

To gain further information like the following access www.start-learning.ca and go to the links section.

This links section is amazing, restricted on time i only browsed through the site but it is full of vital and interesting information on using web 2.0 programs in the classroom, issues dealing with different programs, portfolios, new programs from the apple website, classroom blogs, copyright issues. in other areas of the website it breaks down programs into categories of multi-media types including photos, videos, platforms and even software dealing with managing a computer system. It seems that if you want to excel in the world of technology this would be a good place to start.

Delicious is a web 2.0 service, which enables users to social bookmark.

 What is social bookmaking (this can be clearly summarised by S. Housely)

“Delicious is a social bookmarking system, that is notable, not only for its unusual web address http://del.icio.us, but for its unusual approach to content building that is becoming increasingly popular. In order to ease the burden of producing consistent stream of fresh content, publishers are turning to users to build, categorize and qualify content. While this is said to be part of the web 2.0 phenomenon, publishers realize the value of collaboration. Social bookmarking allows users to qualify content. With Delicious, each “bookmark” of a specific webpage is seen as a vote of confidence.

The more people who bookmark a specific webpage, the more credible the webpage is viewed. In addition to bookmarking a webpage, users “tag” the webpage. The tags are simply single word keywords that relate to the contents of the webpage. The tagging associates keywords with the webpage’s content, making it easier to categorize and classify the content of the webpage. If everyone bookmarking a page uses similar keyword tags, the webpage will be classified as a credible resource in a specific category.

As a webpage receives more and more bookmarks from different Delicious users, the listing for the webpage becomes more prominent in the Delicious listings. Delicious users can bookmark and tag multiple pages within a website. Content can be tagged with multiple terms. As more users tag the content, it becomes easier to find similar topics.”

http://www.small-business-software.net/using-delicious.htm

Lets start at the beginning.

Students make a facebook. they group collaborate and work together. Not only will trust eachother, friendships and high morale can be built and it is also a place in which teaching subject matter can be passed on effectively.

One way to use facebook would be to comprise groups, students can contribute and access the information from any internet resource. Grouping the students can lead to groups such as the Virginia Woolf book group. This allows the students to enter and comprise any pieces and thoughts they would like. The teacher can be the moderator and superviser, assistant to the students ensuring they are getting the most of their facebook experience.

This can help further develop the student centered appraoch to classroom managment.

 From adopting the use of facebook in the classroom students can easily see and track their progress. Where they have come from, where they are at and they can visualise where they are heading. By facebook being a place fro the students to build upon each others ideas it perpetuates the ideas of higher order thinking asking them to analyse and evaluate not only the information they obtain but to do the same on each others pages and in the group context.

The fact that facebook is so secure only the people who are invited to the group can see inside the book protecting the students from predators.

Facebook is basically like having a classroom. A real advantage for the teacher is to be able to monitor. The teacher will be able to see which students are reguallry participating and contributing, allowing the teacher to make sure that students continue to contribute, do their work and do not fall behind.

Facebook can also help enable lower ability students in completing work in which they may feel overwhelmed. These students can observe fellow students blogs obtain ideas and further information and adopt the infromation into their own learning socurce.

Facebook seems a very effective resource to use in the classroom, it enables students to take responsibility for their own leanring, helps students at all learning levels and is accountable for deeper leanring, not to mention the fact that being a web 2.0 resource it also can be attributed to covering different learning styles. What resource could be as effective in the classroom?