This blog (web log) is actually a professional learning community (PLC) book club in which participants will share their thoughts after reading sections of Will Richardson's Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Tools for Classrooms. By reading and sharing our thoughts on what has been forwarded by Richardson, we will grow to understand the ever-expanding Web 2.0 family of collaborative Internet tools (blogs, wikis, podcasts, Facebook, etc) and how we might use these tools to bring added value to our work with classroom teachers and their students.
There is no doubt that collaborative, content production is the state of the art in regards to the Internet. Today's users have more power than ever in the ways they find information but, in addition, young users are eager and prodigious content providers using "killer aps" (extremely useful/popular applications) such as Facebook, Twitter, and chat to share information digitally.
As educators, it's our responsibility to explicitly provide instruction in information literacy, which includes not just reading (decoding for understanding) but content production (through writing, illustrating, animating, filming, etc) of information.
This book club blog provides us with the opportunity to learn about, share our ideas and discuss them (through comments).
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