Web2.0+For+Math+Educators

**What is Web 2.0 or the Read/Write Web**?
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 * Web 2.0 ... [|The Machine is Us/ing Us] (downloadable versions at [])
 * Web 2.0 is collaborative, social, democratic, ubiquitous, searchable, editable
 * separation of form and content
 * content is embeddable, as in [|mashups]
 * e.g., [|Pro-Prop 8 Donors]
 * [|Lawrence Lessig TED talk]
 * content is delivered using [|RSS] (Really Simple Syndication) or Atom feeds
 * new content of interest delivered to you
 * form is determined by CSS ([|Cascading Style Sheets])
 * Do-it-ourselves ethos
 * Users are content producers as well as consumers
 * production is less and less complicated
 * The community decides what is valuable
 * e.g., comments in Youtube, ranking vendors in eBay etc.
 * The community "catalogs" the content
 * [|Folksonomies] (collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging)
 * preference for opensource, free tools, especially [|Rich Internet applications]
 * Firefox and Chrome
 * Google Docs
 * Audacity
 * content is continually improved by community
 * Value placed on sharing, creativity, collaboration
 * is associated with a variety of tools (e.g., blogs, wikis, podcasts, social bookmarking, file sharing)

Some good starting points
[|Web 2.0: What is it and useful tools for educators] - a flogram 

Why should Math Educators care?

 * many students are users of these tools and subscribe to the basic core values - some of which are at odds with school values:
 * knowledge resides in the community rather than among the experts
 * knowledge is unlimited and residing on the Web rather than knowledge being scarce
 * learning is a social endeavor rather than submission to a syllabus
 * multimedia, hyperlinked, mashed up productions preferable to text
 * user interest/passion determines topics not course outline
 * Web 2.0 provides access to useful resources
 * developing a "[|personal learning network]"
 * archive digital content in the "cloud"
 * finding multimedia to support instruction
 * Teachers are experimenting with using Web 2.0 tools with their students
 * wiki textbooks
 * journals using blogs
 * podcasting
 * social bookmarking
 * photo and video sharing
 * Web 2.0 tools provide easy ways to develop a web presence, visible to search engines
 * archiving of content
 * communicate with students, parents colleagues

Some good starting points
[|Using the Internet to Spice Up Your Math Class] - by [|Maria Andersen] [|Eight Weeks to Web 2.0 self-paced course] - by [|Doug Peterson] [|21st Century Networked Student (Video)] - by [|Wendy Drexler] media type="custom" key="3630323"

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