STUDENTS+CONNECT


 * Service || Benefits || Examples ||

__Wikis__
|| * New forms of group learning / group dynamics
 * New forms of interaction and collaboration
 * Ability to integrate many other motivating and engaging Web 2.0 tools
 * Embedded Discussion tab to discuss content
 * Easy to use and maintain over time
 * Easy to create and develop skills for usage


 * 1) White's Wiki Kids || * Wikis in Education from Wikispaces
 * [|Wikis in Education from Wetpaint]
 * [|Wikis in Education from PBWorks]
 * [|Kid's Wikis from Paula White]
 * A Deeper Look at Plants
 * Y Not Plants
 * Wiki around ELA and Writing
 * 5th Grade Class Wiki ||
 * ===__Nings [[image:http://www.lexialearning.com/about/ning_logo.jpg height="74" link="http://pbworks.com/"]]__=== || * Facebook-like interface
 * Lots of features such as blogs, forums, and notes for multiple opportunities to interact.
 * Embeddable Functions
 * Chat Enabled for further collaboration/conversation


 * 1) [|The Global Poetry Project] || * [|The Global Poetry Project]
 * [|The Global Education Collaborative]
 * [|The Flat Classroom Project]
 * [|Working Together To Make A Difference]

.. || || * Helps students find a new way to express their voices
 * ===**__Blogs__**===
 * Provides a technology based alternative to traditional writing exercises
 * Provides a brand new audience for students to have a purpose for writing for
 * Helps student respond and reflect, edit and revise
 * Increases initiative, motivation, and engagement
 * Encourages collaboration and conversation || * [|Mr. C's Class Blog]
 * [|Scottish Teen Blogging about Music]
 * [|Write On!] (Check out Student Entries in Left Side Menu)
 * [|Mrs. K's Blog] ||
 * ===**Websites**===

|| * Other Web 2.0 tools offer the opportunity for alternative assessment practices that provide evidence of learning beyond the traditional modes
 * Many of the popular Web 2.0 Tools offer the opportunity for collaboration as well as high levels of engagement.
 * Using these Web 2.0 tools help to personalize the web experience for students and provide them with a new framework for developing textual/traditional products in combination with a visual and/or animated component.


 * 1) [|Weebly on Immigration] (with links to Etherpad Collaborations by students.)
 * 2) Etherpad will soon be shutting down, but other "PAD" sites are popping up, such as [|Primary Pad] (which has a cool interactive collaborative whiteboard feature) and [|Pirate Pad] . Both look and behave exactly like Etherpad. || * [|Weebly on Immigration] (with links to Etherpad Collaborations by students.)
 * [|Teacher Web Page] with Etherpad Links
 * [|Etherpad] on Immigration and Policy Laws
 * [|Etherpad] on Struggles faced by Immigrants
 * [|Voicethread] - about Global Warming from a 4th Grader
 * Voicethread Wiki with Loads of Examples!
 * [|Student Glog] around__LONDON CALLING__ by Edward Bloor
 * [|Student Glog] around Jupiter and the Galilean Moons
 * [|Student Glog] around how to work a multi-step equation
 * [|xTraNormal] example with equations ||