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Introducing Web 2.0
=== Are you into Social Networking and a regular user of [|Facebook] Twitter or perhaps Ning networks? Perhaps you share photos on Flickr the world's largest photo sharing site or regularly browse You Tube? Maybe you have your own blog or wiki or use Social Bookmarking tools such as Delicious to access your favourite websites anywhere anytime on any computer.===

=== New web 2.0 tools appearing every day and adventurous classroom teachers have been quick to recognize their potential for creating engaging and productive learning for students. Among the most popular classroom applications of the fabulous Web 2.0 wave of applications are Blogs, Wikis and Podcasts **.** They are popular because they allow students to be creators as well as consumers of digital content and to collaborate with others and communicate their learning beyond the classroom. As such are engaging and motivating for teachers, students and their parents. In addition they can have restricted membership and moderation features which provide safe online environments for your students to use. And ===

===Wikis are collaborative, editable web pages. Multiple people can edit your pages, and each change is recorded so you can collaborate with everyone in your organization. Your wiki saves every version of each page so that if a mistake is made, you can just revert back to a previous version. The following You tube Clip explains the concept of a wiki in Plain English===

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What will we do?
=== In our workshop we will create our own class wiki and explore some free Web 2.0 tools which your students can use to incorporate engaging and dynamic content to support their learning. With these tools you will learn how to incorporate online bookshelves, trailers, Youtube Clips and slideshows into your wiki pages. ===