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Making the Most of the Web in Your Classroom: A Teacher's Guide to Blogs, Podcasts, Wikis, Pages, and Sites |
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Published: 2007-11-28 |
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 Should be a mainstay of any serious teacher's library
Timothy G. Green, Abbie Brown and LeAnne Robinson's MAKING THE MOST OF THE WEB IN YOUR CLASSROOM should be a mainstay of any serious teacher's library: it tells how to translate internet technology into classroom applications, from designing web sites to helping students develop their own internet-based projects, whether it be a blog, locating web activities, or assessing information.
Easy to Follow and Useful
As a novice technology using teacher, this book was just what I needed. It has given me a solid overview to help me start building my knowledge and skill. I appreciated the various examples on how to use the Web in my classroom. I have recommended this book to others I work with who are trying to ramp up their skills for using the web in their teaching.
 Utter Disappointment - very superficial treatment of the issues
The title of this book should have been the "Superficial Guide to Making the most of the Web..."
br /This book promises so much on the cover (blogs, podcasts, wikis) and delivers nearly nothing substantial. Much of the coverage deals with Web 1.0 technology.
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br /It HAS ABOUT ONE PAGE EACH on Podcasts (pg 21 - 22), Blogging (pg. 16 - 17) and Wikis (pg 24 - 25).
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br /It dedicates Chapter 2 to the whole area of teaching students to be responsible and safe on the web and how to search effectively. This is so pre-2000!!! If you are going to write a book at the end of 2007 and boasts Web 2.0 related stuff on your cover (blogs, wikis and podcasts), that should be focus of the book (though I will admit that you did not say Web 2.0 on the cover - but it was certainly implied).
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br /Chapter 3 was SHOCKING. The book ACTUALLY tries to teach you how to hard code HTML pages! I could not believe my eyes! HTML is so so very yesterday. With all the web applications today, who needs to create web pages???
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br /I don't even want to waste my time reading chapter 4.
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br /If there was a way, I want my money back - what a rip off! This was an utterly disappointing book! I would have given NO stars... but that is not an option.
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