Blog Post #5

      Web 2.0 sound like amazing resources to use in the classroom, I would mosts likely be using them regardless of the ELA standards. I think using twitter in the classroom is a great tool! A teacher can have    the students follow specific people or organization that they are learning about that week. I think this is a great opportunity for students to get involved with social media while at the same time is be very educational. They can actually have fun while learning, and this saddens me but it is actually true because students complaint that they are not having as much fun as we think they are. For the different types of equipment necessary for this Web 2.0 technology one would obviously need a system unit. As the textbook talks about all of these different processing ports and speeds and access memory, it would be very vital for you to get in contact with you media specialist or technology specialist because they usually know what you will need.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.twitter.android

      There are so many different interesting web 2.0 tools that i would love to use while teaching, I obviously talked about twitter a little above, but twitter has so many other unique tools to offer. You can reply to someone in your class about a topic that you may be discussing. It is such a unique way to use social media for its primary purpose is to keep the class learning. However, there are many other interesting tools of technology that we can use in our classroom another being wiki.

      Wiki is primarily used in the classroom for group projects. The difference between this and a blog there are many different factors. Although blogs can be used for communicating as well as Wiki, Wiki is used for collaborating with other students. They can share with their classmates all the different types of information or even have their friends give them feedback. Their is an option for them to invite other students to work on the specific project as well. The podcast also mentioned Diiago, I know that we touched on this in class quite a bit but I really do encourage teachers to use this tool in their classroom. It has a great social media aspect to it and also allows students to ask their teachers questions online or even their friends. There are many online resources to this website and it will ultimately further the child's education in the long run.

https://www.atlassian.com/why-wiki-collaboration-software?_mid=b82168370eae855026afa6af891c2d8a&gclid=Cj0KEQiArou2BRDcoN_c6NDI3oMBEiQANeix5j1RfXqIPodksKGcTXUOhTIkCguAYkCogPidQDzJOGEaAjk98P8HAQ

     Using this software Webspiration Classroom really helped me to see that it is extremely difficult to use technology. I did like how many different options there was to making a simple concept map, however it was challenging figuring all that out since we did go in basically blind about everything. Not having clear instructions on how to actually use this website was a extremely difficult but after I played around a lot I kind of got the hang of it and just making it look pretty was the only difficult part. I can see my self using this in the future with my students not necessarily for concept mapping a review study guide but for fun things that I was my students to be excited to learn about.