Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms

Op Bol.com vond ik het volgende boek: Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms van Will Richardson
Ik heb dit boek besteld en zal er binnenkort een presentatie over geven of er een verslag van schrijven. Hieronder staat de samenvatting.
New easy to use, low-cost Web publishing and information gathering tools are spawning a revolution in our relationship to the Internet. Now, with Blogs and podcasting, millions of people are creating content for the Internet as well as consuming it. Outside the classroom, students are at the forefront of innovative and collaborative site development, just as they were often ahead of the curve in bringing results from Internet research into the k-12 classroom ten years ago. For educators, the potential changes in the ways our teachers teach and students learn are momentous. The tools of the new Internet give us opportunities for collaboration and for constructivist learning, and allow students to become meaningful contributors to the vast body of knowledge that is the Internet. Will Richardson writes for educators of all levels and disciplines who want to understand the new Internet tools and learn how to use them effectively in the classroom. He provides real-life examples from K-12 teachers who are already using these tools in their schools and with their students, and offers practical advice on how teachers and students can start using the Web to learn more, create more and communicate better. Educators will find a whole new toolbox and a clear explanation of specific teaching applications, with both benefits and how-to steps for: Weblogs: Known as Blogs, these are easily created, easily updateable Websites, and currently the most widely adopted tool of the Read/Write Web; Wikis: A collaborative Web space where visitors and collaborators can add content and edit already published content; Rich Site Summary (RSS): Readers can subscribe to feeds of the content created on the Internet, i.e., content comes to the teacher instead of the teacher or student searching for the content. This work also includes advice for: Aggregators: Used for collecting and organizing the content generated via the RSS feed; Social Bookmarking: Bookmarking sites allow users to not only save the Web addresses of interesting content, but also to archive the entire page, thus producing a form of a searchable, classroom Internet ; Online Photo Galleries: Publishing digital photos to the Web means adding another dimension to working with digital images in the classroom. Many students are dabbling or expert in using these tools. Educators now have an opportunity to harness them for learning.