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e-Learning for Educators - Learning and Teaching with Web 2.0 Tools

This course is offered as a part of the e-Learning for Educators project, a partnership between LEARN NC, The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University College of Education, UNC-TV, DPI, and the North Carolina Virtual Public School. This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Education under Grant No. U286A050018.

This course is part of LEARN NC's catalog of online courses for teachers and administrators. Please see the current offerings at the bottom of this page for information about when it may next be taught.

About this course

Disability Statement

If you have a learning or other disability and you want to request special accommodations to ensure equal access to education through LEARN NC, then please contact your instructor. The information that you provide will be kept confidential.

In this workshop, participants will be exposed to many of the tools of the read/write web and will get the chance to experiment with new tools each week. Discussions will focus on how educators can integrate these tools into their classroom to enhance student learning, as well as how to help students use these new tools safely.

What is Web 2.0?

The internet as we know it has been constantly changing and improving over the past several years. These changes have been so numerous and so dramatic as to inspire people to refer to this "new" internet as the read/write web or Web 2.0.

The content of Web 2.0 is characterized by open communication, freedom to share and re-use content, and dynamic interactivity among users of varying technical abilities around the globe. There are now a multitude of web-based tools available that can allow people to organize their favorite bookmarks, write online documents, and share information with others through social software like blogs and wikis. These tools can positively affect teaching and learning.

Teachers can empower students to share easily with the world, and students around the globe can easily collaborate and communicate with each other to build knowledge communities that are not dependent on time and place.

Audience

This course is appropriate for teachers of all subjects and grade levels that teach in 1:1 computing environments.

Time commitment

Approximately 2-5 hours per week





Prerequisites

This course is intended for North Carolina teachers who are in 1:1 computing environments, i.e. an environment in which every student and teacher has a laptop computer, wireless internet access is provided throughout the school, and teaching and learning is enhanced through the use of technology.

Current offerings

Begins January 26.

This course is open for enrollment. Enroll in this course