Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms
- ISBN13: 9781412977470
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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For educators of all disciplines, this third edition of a bestseller provides K–12 examples of how Web tools such as blogs, wikis, Facebook, and Twitter allow students to learn more, create more, and communicate better…. More >>
Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms
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Tags: Blogs, Classrooms, Podcasts, Powerful, Tools, Wikis | 
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Will has written a wonderful book to help you wrap your head around these new tools and how to use them in schools. I have ordered multiple copies for my computer department so we can adopt the tools into our school’s curriculum.
Rating: 5 / 5
Ask your students if they read or write outside the classroom. They’ll say no and roll their eyes at you. Then ask them if they ever browse the Web or maintain a blog. Watch the reaction on their faces–they become interested. Mr. Richardson provides a blueprint for merging students’ need to express themselves with their love for technology. He reminds us that they can blog and wiki with teachers guiding their work toward curricular goals or they’ll simply do it on their own. Finally, I appreciate that this work is refreshingly jargon-free, despite the fact it’s rooted in research-based pedagogy and current technologies. Five Stars! Your students will thank you.
Rating: 5 / 5
Do not waste your money on this book. I was able ro read a friend’s copy (which he paid $3 at a garage sale). This book was obviously done as a self-promotional tool.
Instead of buying this book, Google search the items in the table of contents which are provided for you by Amazon. You will gain a lot more knowledge than what is in this rag. What really gets me, is that he is charging a large amount of money for a book that has readily available information on the Internet.
If you want to waste $27, buy this book. Otherwise, do some basic research on the Internet and gain more knowledge than this book or its author has to offer.
Rating: 1 / 5
This gentleman is a great teacher who clearly and simply explains the topics at hand – blog,wiki, podcast,social bookmarking, aggregators, RSS feeds, etc. A wonderful book for educators and everyone else! I am now using most of his suggestions and I just bought the book in February. If you want to blog, podcast, contribute to wikis, participate in social bookmarking and understand how it can benefit your endeavors, see how you can find the most popular sites for the day, and understand news better than you ever did before and be able to digest 100% more than you did before, then this book is for you.
He uses examples directly from his classroom experience and gives teachers great suggestions in how this can be used to differentiate education for the many students they have. Students can sign up for RSS (real simple syndication) feeds of the teacher’s blog (concerning classroom and assignments) and keep up with all classroom requirements and classroom news(so can their parents). The teacher could sign up for student blogs, just like students can sign up for the teacher’s. Students can sign up for each others. Then all of the students information would be delivered in one place every day for the teacher. Students could use their blogs as portfolios of their work, musings about projects, questions they have, up-to-the-minute thoughts, comments to groups with whom they are working, etc. With social bookmarking (explained in book), you can add a code to your bookmarks and your students can search for those with just that code and create an RSS feed to be sent to their individual aggregators. In this way, if you have six students working on a project for Egypt and you, the teacher, bookmark and save five good Websites the students would find helpful to their project, if you add the code while bookmarking the site, the students will have those delivered to their aggregators automatically and will see your notes that accompany them on a daily basis. The teacher could note in his or her blog what codes would be used for which project, so the appropriate students would sign up for the RSS feed to be sent to their aggregator. This may sound complicated but Will Richardson makes it extremely easy. This book apparently comes in a paperback form as well, which is about half the price of the hardbound copy. I thought it was rather pricey at first (I bought the hardbound copy not knowing about the paperback) but after reading it and using it, it’s worth ten times its price. I think that it would be beneficial for college professors in education to recommend this to their students or use it as one of their required texts. Thanks to Will Richardson for writing such a great and useful book.
Rating: 5 / 5
I had an idea about a variety of the topics presented in this text and these were supported. Additionally the text provided educational references for additional material. Very short and light on content more of an overview of general topics.
1) It was useful for my beginner level.
2) Buy a used copy.
3) It is not a “How to” manual.
Rating: 3 / 5