101 Thoughts on Web 2.0 Tools / Try Them Out!

This blog is a way to introduce you to participating in the blogosphere. To participate, choose a post you want to add to, click on the title and then leave a comment in the comments box. Please have students test this out too. I will moderate all comments, so nothing will be published until I read it. Note that while you won’t actually be creating your own blog here, by leaving comments you are participating in a collaborative blogging effort and getting a feel for how WordPress, a popular blogging tool, works.

If you are interested in creating your own blog, click here.

Check out this wiki http://teachers4tech.wikispaces.com/

I created it so you can use it to practice using a wiki or to help you start one of your own. Let us know what you think!

Tell us about your favorite Web 2.0 tool or resource. Check out A Sampling of Web 2.0 Tools to get started.

Tell us stories of ordinary and extraordinary life. Post in poems, prose ….

(with a nod to Chicago Public Radio show, This American Life)

Why should we care about Global Warming? Some information to get you started…

• The Basics:
  • Pew Center on Climate Change: Basic Science
  • Pew Center on Climate Change: Facts and Figures (great images, graphs)
• University of AZ links
  • UA Tree-Ring Lab Director Testifies on Climate Change, Wildfires
  • UA Podcasts on Global Climate Change
    
  • UA Conference on Climate Change and Federalism (e.g. Law).
• Activism
  • Focus the Nation
  • Youth Climate Movement Blog: It’s Getting Hot in Here
  • Sustainable Tucson

What do you think about year’s primary season and the 2008 presidential race?! Click on comments below to add what you think.

To get you started:

• Clinton Campaign Site
• McCain Campaign Site
• Obama Campaign Site
• Commentary: The McLaughlin Group
• Will youth reshape ‘08 presidential race?