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These are the new Reference which I plan to use for my semiar

A Little Help from My Friends: Classroom 2.0 Educators Share Their ExperiencesPreview. By: Hargardon, Steve. School Library Journal, v53 n10 p44-48 Oct 2007. (EJ786410)
Based on personal experience of a 4th, 5th and 6th grade teacher, in which she has developed by the help of one the parents, she has created a wikki page for her classes. This social network has become implemented into her class assignments, in which she uses web tools to construct and to inspire her students to write and express themselves with web tools and posting the student’s blogs onto wikki’s. It also adopts the blog concepts for each of their students in the class. By using the bloging experience, she stresses proper grammar in posting and creating blogs.
Specially Made for Science: Researchers Develop Online Tools For CollaborationsPreview . By: Guterman, Lila. Chronicle of Higher Education, v54 n24 pA9 Feb 2008. (EJ788953)

Facebook, blogs and other social-networking sites have gotten much attention and have created a stir. Online tools are now being used by professionals such as Doctors Engineers and other professionals. It looks at past software applications geared for and specifically made for a particular field. Online tools, such wikkis are now becoming part of the norm in specialized fields. In the presentation of Scholarly and professional division of Academia this was the main theme which has now been changed on the wikki platform

Using Focus Groups to Learn about My WikiPreview . By: Davidson, Merrie. Computers in Libraries, v28 n1 p16-19, 47-48 Jan 2008. (EJ782270)

This particular article focuses on how to recruiter people to participate in a wikki forum based on library issues. This librarian wanted more from a blog or a web page, so she constructed a wikki in which she was able to adopt the new changing material into the new wiki page. Although I focused more on upper grade, such grad and undergrad students some of the main focal points of this article can be used in terms of spreading the word on the wikki a teacher might create. The main point is how to attract other people to participate in the wikki based on a central location such as a university library.


Technologies Such as Wikis in the Classroom Preview . By: Steele, Poppy. Online Submission, Paper presented at the Annual Instructional Technology Conference at Middle Tennessee State University (13th, Gallatin, TN, Apr 7, 2008). 2008 21 pp. (ED500701)

This article discusses how new technology has been adopted into the classroom. As is this particular article and with other web tools which have been adopted into classroom activities, the wikki has become a center point for conferencing and has been used as a discussion board not only between teachers but also administrators. Although not all administrators have adapted to the Wikki’s format it still used mostly used by teachers. The article discusses how wikki’s have been used for classroom assignments.


The Executive Wiki: Wikis Can Be a Multitasking Administrators' Best FriendPreview . By: Warlick, David. Technology & Learning, v27 n11 p36 Jun 2007. (EJ773290)
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This article describes the importance on how wikki can be used as a collaborative tool not only for teachers but also for administrators which have not yet been adopted. By
Defining what a wikki is and how contributors can add and delete information. The unique part of the wikki is the ability to and the usefulness of the content which comes forms the users itself. The main point of this article is teachers using wikki in the class for their students on project. This article mostly describes what a wikki is and does go into much detail as far creation or how to edit a particular wikki.


Nussbaum-Beach, S. No Limits. Technology & Learning v. 28 no. 7 (February 2008) p. 14-16, 18

This Article is based on how teachers are using digital environments to open up various new tools for online learning in the classroom. What is like this article it does go a small amount of details to create simple online projects which teachers can use for implementing digital technologies. It gathers various tools created by other teachers and how they are using web tools to enhance the learning experience in the classroom. Not only for reading, but also for math classes with both face to face and online components.
Web tools which are mention are Flickr, blogs and wikis. A very important article which I plan to use in my seminar


Buffington, M. L. What is Web 2.0 and How Can It Further Art Education?. Art Education v. 61 no. 3 (May 2008) p. 36-41

This article explores several technologies associated with Web 2.0 and how applications can be incorporated into an art educational format. It does at times go into specific ideas for classroom use at a variety of levels, the author hopes to continue an ongoing dialog with the art education about how new technologies can be implemented into the classroom learning experience. This article does describe various aspects of Web 2.0 such as, bloging, wikkis, my space and other tools which can be used in the classroom.