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Web 2.0 Strategies for Education

10/7/2009

Focus

More Challenges with Wikis: 4 Ways To Move Students from Passive to Active
While wikis provide an engaging and accessible tool for collaborative work with students, there can be an easy shift back to regular teacher-driven methods in their use as it is difficult and challenging to continue to facilitate collaboration throughout a wiki project. The technology itself does not develop the skill, nor is it the teacher; the technology is only a tool, and teachers must remain committed to the collaborative process, if students are to engage fully and develop the skills necessary to work collaboratively with their peers.More

News

iNACOL Publishes Standards for K-12 Online Programs
The K-12 research and advocacy association iNACOL has published the first-ever standards for K-12 online education programs, National Standards for Quality Online Programs. More
Adobe Flash CS5 To Let Developers Author Apps for iPhone
Flash Professional CS5 will allow developers to build applications for Apple's iPhone. The forthcoming release of Adobe's multimedia authoring tool was unveiled Monday at the Adobe MAX 2009 conference, underway in Los Angeles this week.More
Chile Turns to Social Media To Expand English Literacy
With the goal of encouraging its population to become fluent in English in order to compete in the industrialized world, the federal government of Chile has chosen social media service Mingoville.com, a free site originating in Denmark, to provide the tools the nation's students will need to achieve that fluency.More
Microsoft Unveils Office Web Apps Preview
Microsoft has commenced an invitation-only public technical preview of Microsoft Office Web Apps.More
Online School Intros Virtual Clubs
Laurel Springs School has introduced virtual clubs for its middle and high school students after running a pilot project used to assess student participation.More
School Town Brings Collaborative Technologies to CORE Program
Interactive education platform developer School Town has joined with supplemental digital resources provider Educational Tools to offer comprehensive, streamlined delivery of the latter company's CORE (Curriculum Online Resources for Educators) program.More
Sheffield City Council Intros Virtual Classroom Network
Classroom interactivity with real world learning opportunities is at the core of a new video technology system recently introduced into secondary schools in Sheffield, UK.More

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