TECHNOLOGY AT LAWFIELD
"Teachers must become comfortable as co-learners with their students and with colleagues around the world. Today it is less about staying ahead and more about moving ahead as members of dynamic learning communities. The digital-age teaching professional must demonstrate a vision of technology infusion and develop the technology skills of others. These are the hallmarks of the new education leader."
—Don Knezek, ISTE CEO, 2008
ISTE's National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) have served as a roadmap since 1998 for improved teaching and learning by educators. ISTE standards for students, teachers, and administrators help to measure proficiency and set aspirational goals for the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to succeed in today’s Digital Age. Our proven leadership in developing these benchmarks and providing guidance in implementing them has resulted in broad adoption of the ISTE standards in the U.S. and in several countries.
EXPLORE RESOURCES FOR WEB 2.0
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html?page=1
So what is Web 2.0? Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly Media, the company that claims to have coined the term, explains.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2
Wikipedia, an online collaborative encyclopedia and Web 2.0 phenomenon, provides a definition of Web 2.0, its characteristics, its applications and criticism of the term.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/e-learning_20.php
Technology journalist and educator Steve O'Hear explores how Web technologies are being used in education on the tech news blog "Read/WriteWeb." He also provides excellent examples of educators who are using Web 2.0 applications with their students in creative and innovative ways.
http://cdn2.libsyn.com/iste/coweb2intro.mp3?nvb=20080522223913&nva=20080523223913&t=0df7ede81827281603e7d
Chris O'Neal offers a short podcast designed to provide an overview of Web 2.0 for educators who aren’t yet familiar with web 2.0 tools or concepts.
Blogging
*Blogger
A really easy-to-use site that allows even non-technical types to start a blog in just three basic steps using a range of templates. Most first-time bloggers use this platform. The site was started in the dotcom boom of 1999 and is now part of Google.
*Class Blogmeister
http://classblogmeister.com
David Warlick created this site specifically for classroom educators who want full control over the blogs created by, read by, and used by students. Teachers can evaluate, comment on, and publish students' blogs in a controlled environment.
*Edublogs
http://edublogs.org
An easy-to-use blog-creation site with customizable templates (themes) for educators, K–12 and college students. Blogs created with it will include links to Chalkface, an assessment tool; to IncSub, dedicated to online projects; and to BlogSavvy, which helps bloggers become better bloggers.