Web 2.0 tools and Social Media Resources

Here are tools, videos and ideas to get you started with an RSS feed, Web2.0 tools, flat classroom ideas and Social Media. Enjoy!

RSS Feed:

What is an RSS feed? This video will get you started, and these videos will answer any other questions you may have.

After you set up your feed, begin checking out blogs to follow. Here are 20 top teacher blogs , 25 e-learning blogs, grade level blogs to follow, and blogs listed by content, discipline.

Web2.0 Tools:

The blog Making Teachers Nerdy suggesting these 20 web2.0 websites no teacher should start 2010-11 without. She also offers 45 websites for students to create artwork online

Getting started with Web2.0? Here are links to help you explore.

Play with this web2.0 wiki to learn tons of new and dynamic classroom tools.

Check out Delicious and this video explaining Social Bookmarking.

Here are 50 ways to use wikis to create a more collaborative classroom

Here's a Googledocs tutorial and the Google apps training center. Here's a guide for teachers to use google in the classroom.

Check out Wallwisher to engage students. Here are ways to use Wallwisher in the classroom.

Here are great 2.0 tools from Discovery Education

How to Make an Interactive Lesson Using Youtube
http://edudemic.com/2011/01/google-science-fair/

Edutopia:
Here's a great resource about starting the year right with web2.0 tools in your classroom.
edutopia-back-to-school-guide-2010.pdf

Flat Classroom Ideas:

This is a tremendous site linking flickr with the world.

Here's a wiki of global projects and a site to link classroom teachers from around the world, to collaborative on projects.

Twitter:

Here's a blog post explaining all things twitter and more twitter support resources

Here are teachers to follow on twitter and 100 ideas for using twitter in the classroom

Here are more teachers to follow and administrators to follow.

More twitter resources and hashtags to follow.

Google Tools:

Here's an introduction and tutorials for all google apps.

Here's a Google Earth intro and tutorial

Here's a series of video introducing Google Docs

Articles:

The Creativity Crisis-Newsweek

Teaching in a Socially Networked Classroom

Ten Tips for Personalized Learning With Technology-Edutopia

Personal Learning Networks Are Virtual Lockers For Kids-Edutopia

Integrating Technology With Limited Resources