The Read/ Write Web

The Read/ Write is changing our relationship to technology and rewriting the age-old paradigms of how things work.

So, Education has been slow to adapt to these new tools and potentials. In order areas of our lives, however, we can see some of these trnasformations happening right now, right in front of our eyes.

Technology has become "an indispensable tool in the education of today's students ". The survey showed that 81 perent of students in Grades 7-12 have e-mail accounts, 75 percent have at least one instant Menssenger (IM) screen name, and that 97 percent believe strongly that technology use is important in education.

Toolbox

1.Weblogs or blogs are easily created, easily updateable Web sites taht allow an author (or authors) to publish instantly to teh internet from anny internet connection.

2. Wikis. A wiki is a collaborative Web space where anyone can add content and anyone can edit content that has alrady been published.

3.Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a technology that alows educators to subscribe to "feeds" of the content that is created on the internet, whether it's written in a Weblog or in a more traditional space such a a newspaper or magazine.

4.Aggregators.An aggregator collects and organizes the content generated via the RSS feed.

5.Social Bookmarking. Social bookmarking sites like Diigo.com and Delicious.com allow tachers and students to build subject-specific resource lists that they can easily share when using RSS.

6.Online Photo Galleries.It means adding another dimension to what teachers and students can do with digital images in the classroom.



             

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