Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms 3/e

A parent of two middle-school-aged children, Will Richardson has been writing about the intersection of social online learning networks and education for the past 10 years at Weblogg-ed.com and in numerous journals and magazines such as Ed Leadership, Education Week, and English Journal. Recently, he shifted his blogging emphasis to willrichardson.com. Formerly a public school educator for 22 years, he is a co-founder of Powerful Learning Practice (plpnetwork.com), a unique professional development program that has mentored over 3,000 teachers worldwide in the last three years. His first book, Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms (Corwin, 3rd Edition 2010) has sold over 80,000 copies and has impacted classroom practice around the world. His second book, Personal Learning Networks: Using the Power of Connections to Transform Education, was released in May, 2011. His articles have appeared in Educational Leadership, EdWeek, English Journal, Edutopia, and Principal Leadership, among others, and over the past six years, he has spoken to tens of thousands of educators in more than a dozen countries about the merits of learning networks for personal and professional growth. He is a national advisory board member of the George Lucas Education Foundation and a regular columnist for District Administration Magazine. Will lives in rural New Jersey with his wife, Wendy, and his children Tess and Tucker.

Preface 1. The Read/Write Web 2. Weblogs: Pedagogy and Practice 3. Weblogs: Get Started! 4. Wikis: Easy Collaboration for All 5. RSS: A New Killer App for Educators 6. The Social Web: Learning Together 7. Fun With Flickr: Creating, Publishing, and Using Images Online 8. Podcasting, Video and Screencasting, Live Streaming: Multimedia Publishing for the Masses 9. What It All Means 10. Social Networks: Facebook, Ning, Connections, and Communities Epilogue: The Classroom of the Read/Write Web References Index

"This book is loaded with insightful and honest advice about the Web 2.0 in education. Will Richardson has amassed decades of technology integration experience as a teacher, consultant, blogger, and educational leader. There are few like him and few books like this." -- Curtis J. Bonk, Professor, Indiana University "Richardson's book was a touchstone for me when I started trying to figure out how to integrate participatory media into my teaching. I recommend this book to any teacher at any level who is interested in the learner-centric pedagogy that social media enables." -- Howard Rheingold, Lecturer, Stanford University "The best guide you can find to using the power of the Internet in your classroom." -- Jeff Jarvis, Author of What Would Google Do?