Creating a Personal Learning Network with Web 2.0 Tools

Presenters: Michelle Bourgeois with Colleen Glaude and Katie Morrow

Description: how do educators keep current with the ever-changing world of technology? How can Web 2.0 tools be used to communicate and collaborate with peers across the hall and around the world? This session will focus on some of the newest tools teachers are using to support their own professioal learning goals.

My Notes:
The presenters have everything that they presented at this session on a website. They made a great analogy where they compared grouping the Web 2.0 tools into different courses of a meal. For example, the "Appetizer" is a microblog like Twitter and Plurk, where you communicate in 140 characters or less. Next comes the main dish or entree, which would be a Blog, or Del.icio.us, or iChat. For a side dish, help yourself to some podcasts or webinars, wiki's or nings. Finally, for dessert, enjoy some Flickr, or Second Life.

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