Web 2.0 around our schools

06/12/2006 -

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Patrician Brothers College, Blacktown

As well as Book Bites (http://bookbite.blogspot .com), I have run a blog for quick links for the last two years. It is linked from the library home page and can be updated at short notice or (hopefully) be part of a more formal backup to programmed work. It has been very useful – I can get to it even when the school web page is down. It is also easy to update topics that recur. It is pretty plain but I have lately started adding pics from Flickr.

www.patslib.blogspot.com/

Jan Radford, Teacher Librarian

Delany College, Granville

'Del.icio.us is a resource sharing time saver! I don’t know how we ever did without it. Teachers and staff are working collaboratively here providing students with annotated bookmarks for their tasks. Tom Callan (Year 8 Science teacher) and I use del.icio.us to provide the students with information needed for their assessment on the Sydney water shortage.'

'Tom said that all the students actively engaged in learning and found the structured tags easy to use. He was particularly pleased because the class, which includes students with a wide range of abilities, were all very positive in using the del.icio.us links and produced sound and thoughtful work.'

Delany library
www.delanylibrary.com

Del.icio.us library
http://del.icio.us/delany

Blog
http://delanylibrary.blogspot.com/

Many of the teachers within the Catholic Diocese of Parramatta have hit the ground running making full use of the new web technologies to enhance the learning of students. Here is a brief look at how some teachers are integrating Web 2.0 technologies into the classroom.