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__Chapter 1__: The Read/Write Web 1. A New World Wide Web - "We are no longer limited to being independent readerrs or consumers of information; as we'll see, we can be collaborators in the creation of large storehouses of information." - "The people who'll understand this best are probably just being born." (Gillmor, 2005)

2. Extraordinary Changes - "You Tube Campaign": blogs. videos, podcast,Myspace (social networking) - "Blogosphere": allow first person accounts with digital videos and photos - Wikipedia: collaborative online encyclopedia built on a Wiki that anyone can edit - created amateur reporters and editors - Businesses: advertising, customer service, internal communication - "Society of Authorship" (Douglas Rushkoff)

3. The Read/Write Web in Education - Need to consider "What needs to change about our currriculum when our students have the ability to reach audiences far beyond our classroom walls?" "What changes must we make in our teaching as it becomes easier to bring primary sources to our students?" "How do we need to rethink our ideas of literacy when we must prepare our students to become not only readers and writers, but editors and collaborators and publishers as well?"

4. Social Learning - "All around us, kids are creating content in ways that most adults haven't yet tried." - "... years of computer use creates children that think diffferently from us. They develop hypertext minds. They leap around. It's as though their cognitive structures were parallel, not sequential." - these new teaching resources are FREE
 * Webkinz, Club Penguin, Flickr.com, podcasts, blogs

5. Learners as Teachers - "Before you attempt to bring these technologies to your students, frist be selfish about their use in your own learning practice."

6. The Toolbox - Weblogs (Blogs): : ... easily created, easily updated Websites that allow an author (or authors) to publish instantly to the Internet from any Internet connecction." - Wikis: " ... collaborative Webspace where anyone can add content and anyone can edit content that has already been published." - Real Simple Syndication (RSS): subsribe to feeds of the content that is created on the Internet." - Aggregators: " ...collects and organizes the content generrated via the RSS feed." - Social Bookmarking: ..."save Web addresses (ex. del.icio.us) - Online Photo Galleries: digital images - Audio/video-casting (Podcasting): publish and distribute digital voice and audio files

7. Keeping Students Safe - it's our obligation to teach students was is acceptalbe and safe and what isn't - district blocking and filtering