Welcome to the first installment of Taking Learning to the Cloud! This is the first in a series of posts that highlights web 2.0 tools. Today I am highlighting websites that have some type of online sticky notes. The webslide show below features these sites. The sticky note and the webslide show seen below are both examples of things that can be done using two of the featured sites.
This webslide was created in Diigo. To see my annotated notes of each website, click here. My notes highlight key features of each of the websites in the slide show.
I hope you enjoy these sites. I will make future posts highlightingmath activities that can be done with specific sites.
In a recent TED talk, Rachel Botsman discusses the move of society towards collaborative consumption. Even though this talk is not directly related to education, it does speak about the increasing need for teachers to provide collaborative educational experiences for students.
Today's 21st Century learners are living in world where collaborative sharing is the norm outside of the school setting. It is beginning to become the norm in some classrooms. Many teachers are currently using Skype, Wikis, Blogs, Social Networks, and other collaborative tools with students. The potential for providing students with rich, relevant learning experiences has never been greater than it is today. There are so many useful collaborative tools online that will enrich teaching and learning.
I'm planning on sharing some online collaborative learning and tools in a future blog series titled "Taking Learning to the Cloud". This series of posts will contain descriptions, links, and math lesson ideas for using various online tools that allow learning to take place in the Cloud. We'll also discuss the advantages of going to the Cloud with students, parents, and other educators.
