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=Welcome to Bethlehem Center High School= =Journey to Learn= =October 22, 2010=

media type="youtube" key="6ILQrUrEWe8?fs=1" height="385" width="640" Karl Fisch, Technology Coordinator, Arapahoe High School, Centennial, CO []

**Our Digital Students**

This video is an indication of where we are going with the proliferation of technology in our world today. Our students are "digital natives" because they have never lived without technology in their lives. They use their cellphones, ipods, ipads, laptops, MacBooks, desktops, digital cameras, and other hand-held devices to create, collaborate, and manage information.

We, as their teachers, must transform our teaching strategies and methods to positively engage them to become the best 21st Century Learners they can be to enable them to compete in the global marketplace they will enter.

Web 2.0 Resources to Transform Your Classroom
What are they? Maybe you are already using using some of them?

Wikis, social bookmarking, weblogs, website templates, webquests, podcasting, Google Sites, and Google Docs are all Web 2.0 tools and resources you can utilize to transform an academic lesson into an interactive, collaborate experience for your students.

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 * What is Wiki? A website where multiple users can create, collaborate, and communicate content for a given topic.
 * Examples: [|www.pbwiki.com]www.wikispaces.com [|www.wetpaintcentral.com]
 * What is Social Bookmarking? An open source website that allows a user to "bookmark" and share their favorites online instead of on your home computer.
 * Examples: [|www.diigo.com] [|www.delicious.com] ﻿[|www.squidoo.com]
 * What is a weblog? An online journal that you can create and post content on to share with the world.
 * Examples: [|www.blogger.com] [|www.weebly.com] [|www.squarespace.com]
 * What is a website template? A pre-organized, pre-designed website where users to create content, upload photos, videos, podcasts, etc.
 * Examples: [|www.webs.com] [|www.wix.com] [|www.intuit.com]
 * What is a webquest? An inquiry-based learning activity where learners are assigned specific topics to collect and analyze data to create a report or presentation.
 * Examples: [|www.questgarden.com] [|www.bestwebquest.com] [|www.teach-nology.com]
 * What is a podcast? __**P**__ersonal **__O__**n **__D__**emand audio content that is recorded and stored as a series of digital media files that is delivered through an RSS feed.
 * Examples: [|www.podcastalley.com] [|http://audacity.sourceforge.net] [|www.podbean.com]
 * What are Google Sites? Easy to create, pre-designed website templates that allow a user to create content and upload attachments.
 * Examples: [|http://sites.google.com]
 * What are Google Docs? Create and collaborate content with a word processing tool, a spreadsheet tool, and a presentation tool, plus a variety of other tools.
 * Examples: [|http://docs.google.com]

Repository of Web 2.0 Tools
60 Web 2.0 Tools in 60 Minutes http://60in60.wikispaces.com/Promethean+60+in+60

Tell a Story Digital Storytelling Tools [|http://tellastory.wikispaces.com/DS+Tools]