Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms
By Will Richardson

Discover how to harness Web tools to motivate and update student reading, research, and communication!

This book bring teachers a bold vision and on-the-ground Monday morning practicality.  It will move educators to think differently about technology's potential for strengthening students' critical thinking, writing, reflection, and interactive learning.  Will Richardson demystifies words like "blog," "wiki," and "aggregator," making classroom technology and easily accessible component of classroom research, writing, and learning.
This guide demonstrates how Web tools can generate exciting new learning formats, and explains how to apply these tools in the classroom to engage all students in a new world of synchronous information feeds and interactive learning.  With detailed, simple explanations, definitions and how-tos, critical information on Internet safety, and helpful links, this exciting book opens an immense toolbox, with specific teaching applications for

• Web logs, the most widely adopted tool of the Read/Write Web
• Wikis, a collaborative Webspace for sharing published content
• Rich Site Summary (RSS), feeding specific content into the classroom
• Aggregators, collecting content generated via the RSS feed
• Social bookmarking, archiving specific Web addresses
• Online photo galleries

 This book makes it possible for anyone, no matter how inexperience, to harness this amazing technology for the classroom today!

"We need a solid book explaining and illustration and letting teachers know about these powerful tools.  This book meets the need in an awesome way!" - Mike Muir, Director, Main Center for Meaningful Engaged Learning

 "This author is a gem!  It startles me to be 'pulled' so happily through a text about these new Web tools in the context of good literacy instruction." - Gary Graves, Senior Research and Evaluation Advisor, Technology in Education, Northwest Regional Education Laboratory

CMUO Course:
(CMU 224) Advanced Web Communications

This book is recommended by Children's Ministries University Online. CMUO is an internet-based children's ministry training program sponsored by Valley Forge Christian College, an Assemblies of God institution. For more information visit www.cmuo.com.