Course Overview and Objectives

Internet, especially interactive Web tools/applications (Web 2.0), has been changing and growing very rapidly. This course provides an introduction and guide to preservice and inservice teachers to current and emerging Web 2.0 technologies. It is intended to help PK-12 educators not only use interactive Web resources and tools in their own education but also to integrate them into their work as teachers. The course has objectives as follows:   

• Understand the trends, and introductory knowledge, skills and facts related to Web 2.0 tools.
  
• Explore Web 2.0 tools that we’ve identified as currently predominant, and which we think might help educators with their research, teaching and organizational needs. Such as: blogs, wikis, social bookmarking, media sharing (photo and movie sharing sites), social networking sites, etc.   
• Design and develop educational projects via Web 2.0 tools.