How-to video: Integrating a Wallwisher lesson into other Web 2.0 Apps
Brief synopsis: Web 2.0 applications and social media are powerful 21st century tools that digital classroom teachers are using more and more. With new Web 2.0 applications cropping up daily, though, integrating them into today's digital classroom can be difficult. One of the biggest problems is getting students to the social media lessons you've worked so hard to design. Some come with lengthy web addresses that students can struggle to type or forget, if they are working outside of school. Wallwisher.com, for example, is a Web 2.0 application that allows students to post content, graphics and video to one place, commenting on each other's work at the same time. A digital classroom teacher can create powerful Web 2.0 lessons, using Wallwisher, only to have them lost in cyberspace with students never finding the lesson.
The answer is to integrate the Wallwisher lesson with another easy-to-reach place, like a classroom blog or wiki-hosted web site. A classroom site, with an easy-to-remember URL, like Barnesclass.com, can lead students to any Web 2.0 application that a teacher wants students to find. The blog or wiki may house other useful applications like message boards or embedded media that can help present the directions for the off-site lesson.
Conclusion: The how-to video above demonstrates how to create a Wallwisher class activity and seamlessly integrate it into a classroom blog or wiki, using a message board for instructions.
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