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Web 2.0 Strategies for Education

1/20/2010

Focus

Enhancing Instruction with Web 2.0
As technology professionals for the St. Johns County School District in Florida, David Futch and Charles Moseley understand the value--and scarcity--of instructional dollars. During their session at FETC 2010 last week in Orlando, FL, the pair conceded, "as the belt gets tighter, the need for creative solutions to instructional problems becomes increasingly critical." Enter Web 2.0.More

News

Florida Virtual School Takes Courses Across State Lines
An education organization in Florida has teamed up with a company that develops learning tools to launch a new service that provides online learning for K-12 schools. Florida Virtual School (FLVS), which delivers online instruction to K-12 students in Florida, is working with Agilix Labs in the launch of BrainHoney, announced at FETC 2010 in Orlando. This solution is intended to provide schools, districts, and states a means to deliver accredited online courses to their students.More
Indianapolis Public Schools Replace Textbooks with Digital Content
In a pilot program announced at FETC 2010 in Orlando, 12 schools in the Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) system will replace traditional textbooks with digital content from Discovery Education. The program also includes curriculum alignment services, professional development, and hardware.More
New Educational Network Aims To Connect ELL Students Worldwide
ELL materials provider Heinle ELT and social networking company ePals have announced a partnership to create Heinle Community, a new educational network that provides a virtual workspace for ELL students around the world to interact and collaborate.More
Learn360 3.0 Enhances Digital Media Sharing
AIM Education has introduced Learn360 3.0, a major update to the company's digital media repository and sharing service. The latest release, which was announced at last week's FETC 2010 conference in Florida, gets improved performance and, according to the company, enhanced media sharing capabilities.More
Promethean, Safari Montage Partner on Educational Repository
At the FETC 2010 conference in Florida, education technology developers Promethean and Safari Montage announced a joint effort to provide an integrated tool for creating, storing, and sharing digital lesson plans.More
Web-Based SIS Looks To 'Go Green' with New Communications Features
InformationNow, a Web-based student information system from K-12 technology developer STI, is adding a new suite of features called "Go Green."More
WGBH Offers Free Online Digital Media Collection for Biotechnology Education
WGBH, the Boston PBS affiliate, has announced that its Teachers' Domain resource collection is now offering a collection of digital media specifically for biotechnology education.More
FLVS To Add Texthelp Read Aloud Technology to Online Courses
Florida Virtual School, which provides online classes for K-12 students in Florida, will shortly expand deployment of a text-to-speech function it has been testing for its courses.More

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Collaboration 2.0 focuses on the effective use of Web 2.0 technologies in K-12 education and provides information on the latest technologies and advances in these technologies. It includes case studies of successful implementations, feature articles on trends in collaborative technologies, profiles of champions of Web 2.0 at the district and school levels, pedagogy and tips on the effective use of collaborative technologies by experts, and news on new products and implementations. Published monthly, 3rd Wednesday of each month in HTML format.

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