Hot New Titles!!

We rarely buy Teacher Reference, but I feel that the TR collection is in desperate need of updating! These two titles should inspire you to start incorporating Web 2.0 into your classrooms. Borrow one of these today.

"Classroom Blogging" by David F. Warlick is a teacher's guide to Web 2.0 tools taht are shaping a new information landscape. Weblogs are about reading and writing. Literacy is about reading and writing. Blogging equals literacy. How rarely does an aspect of how we live and work plug so perfectly into how we teach and learn? Reading this book will give teachers important clues not only in how to become a blogger and to make their students bloggers, but also how this new avenue of expression is revolutionizing the information environment that we live in.

"Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and other powerful tools for classrooms" by Will Richardson is an easy-to-read guide to Web 2.0 tools. This book will move teachers to think differently about technology's potential for strengthening students' critical thinking, writing, reflection, and interactive learning. The book demystifies words like "blog," "wiki," and "aggregator", making classroom technology an easily accessible component of classroom research, writing, and learning.

This guide demonstrates how Web tools can generate exciting new learning formats, and explains how to apply these tools in the classroom to engage all students in a new world of synchronous information feeds and interactive learning. With detailed, simple explanations, definitions and how-to's, critical information on Internet safety, and helpful links, this exciting book opens an immense toolbox, with specific teaching applications for:

• Web logs, the most widely adopted tool of the read/write Web
• Wikis, a collaborative Webspace for sharing published content
• Rich Site Summary (RSS), feeding specific content into the classroom
• Aggregators, collecting content generated via the RSS feed
• Social bookmarking, archiving specific Web addresses
• Online photo galleries