Web 2.0 for language

Collaborative Technology Web 2.0 in the Language Classroom.
by Jim Kasum, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Web 2.0 is interactive! Wiki means quickly - a quick way of sharing.

We are at the Central States Conference today.

Blogging is an electronic diary. Create web pages with word processors skills - react to things. Read two current articles, and record impressions or thoughts about what they are reading. Maintain the blog. What was I learning and what was I doing with it. Access everywhere. Can be public or private.

Use a spreadsheet to look at everyone's blog. Put the links on the spreadsheet and then look at everyone. Using OpenOffice to store materials. More exciting and individual than a discussion board.

Warn students ahead that it could be public. Instructions for setting up a blog? Go to blogger.com.

The wiki for this presentation is: http://www.csctfl.org/ is somewhere on this site - more later:

http://csctflspring10.wikispaces.com/Example+Wikis

Examples of Wikispaces
Paprocki, Deborah – Spanish, University of Wisconsin-Waukesha
http://spanishwauk.wikispaces.com/

Kasum, Beginning French class wiki – University of Wisconsin-Waukesha
http://uwwfrenchclass.wikispaces.com/

Kasum, Beginning Spanish class wiki - University of Wisconsin-Waukesha
http://uwwspanish101f08.wikispaces.com/Equipo+1+Casa+Tequila
Kasum, Beginning Spanish video posted on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29AnHXNQaYc

Wikis in Plain English – great site to learn how to make a wiki
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY

Brandon Lutz’s Top 50 Web2.0 places:
http://top50.wikispaces.com/web2.0


Wikispaces = www.wikispaces.com