How to Drink Water from a Fire Hose

a read/write web presentation-demonstration-recreation hoedown
facilitated by Donna DesRoches and Rob Wall

The ReadWrite Web presentation audio (part 1)∞ is now available online

Introduction - TeachingTheDigitalGeneration (5 minutes)
The SocialWeb (10 minutes)
New Tools (about an hour)

• Blogging
• Podcasting
• Photosharing
• Wikis
• SocialBookmarking
• PullingItAllTogether

Implications for Education/Educators (5 minutes)

• Engage Me or Engrage Me
• Simplicity of tools
  • any of these tools take about 5 - 10 minutes to get started
  • collectively they are extremely powerful
• ePortfolios
• We need to keep talking about this!

Time to Play

• WikiSandbox
• blogs
• social bookmarking
  • School based (shut down due to spammers)
  • Out in the big, bad world at http://del.icio.us∞
• aggregation (at http://www.bloglines.com∞)