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**Introduction** Web 2.0 is the name given to all tools that create a more interactive web experience for users. These tools include podcasts, wikis, and blogs just to name a few. Just because it is called Web 2.0 does not mean there was a Web 1.0! It is not an upgrade but a completely new method of interacting. On this site, there is a brief overview of podcasts, wikis, and blogs as well as how one can use these in the classroom.

Our group has devised a way to utilize Web 2.0 to link all five of our classrooms together so students can easily view one site to access each of our classrooms and important information such as: introductions to our classes, our individual class websites, and brief biographies on each of the teachers in our group. Our Wiki is a fun, interactive way for students to get the information they need to further their success in each of our classrooms by visiting one site.

@Blog A blog is a site where one can write entries and have them be available in chronological order. Blogs are perfect for the classroom (for teachers, students, and parents). All posts are automatically "archived" on the blog for easy access at a later date. They can be kept private (for personal notes) or shared. Blogs are only limited by one's imagination!

@Podcast Podcast is the one of the most latest innovative Web 2.0 Tools that can be used in the classroom by both teachers and students. The equipment is relatively inexpensive. Teachers can podcast lectures in which student can review if they were sick or just to hear the lecture again. As a tool for student-directed learning, there is a variety of assignments for students to create audio production with or without still pictures or video production podcasting as a class assignment. Hence, today students because of their exposure to technology, video games, MP3 Players, and IPods will be much more receptive using podcasting as tool to obtain knowledge.

@Wiki A wiki is a site that makes it easy to edit and collaborate on interlinked webpages. You do not even need to know HTML code! A group of people can easily work on the same wiki (at the same or different times) from anywhere in the world. All they need is access to the wiki page. Images, videos, documents, polls, maps, spreadsheets, slideshows, etc can be added to a wiki. All you have to do it edit, type and save! It is that simple! This simplicity makes wikis a perfect tool for everything from working on group projects inside and outside of the classroom to planning a vacation with family from another state!

"My vision of school/classroom 2.0 is, more than anything else, about conversations. Traditional schools involved teachers and textbooks delivering information to students, and students reflecting that information back. To better serve their future, today’s classrooms should facilitate teaching and learning as a conversation — two-way conversations between teachers and learners, conversations between learners and other learners, conversations among teachers, and new conversations between the classroom and the home and between the school and its community."- David Warlick
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