Web+2.0+Applications

Web 2.0 Applications & Class Products
One example of the capability that **Microsoft Word** has is the ability to change the readability of a passage. Here is an example:

This is the //**original**// passage.

Here is the document after Word has //**adjusted**// the readability to a //**lower**// reading level.

And here is the document after Word has //**enhanced**// the readability to cover a **//higher//** level of reading.

This is all done very easily through the very same Microsoft Word that you have probably used many times!!!

Interested in determing **what** the **readability level** is on a passage that you may be assigning? Click here --->



**__Why is Skype So important for Long Distance Education__**
Skype is a software develoved by Niklas Zenstrom and a group of software developers, which allows you to make phone calls over the phone at not cost, by the use of an internet connection, it also support video conferensing, instant messanging and file tranfers.


 * This helpful software allow students and teachers to meet despiting the distance and gives them the upportunity to participate as if they were phisically part of the class, even thought the students and the teacher are in different continets.


 * Is a very helpful tool for those people interested in learning a new language, it allows to have native speaker teachers world wide, helping students to have a better pronuciation, learn more about the language and the culture, which expand student's mind to the rest fo the world.


 * Tecnology is changing the world which means that teachers need to innovate their class tecnicques,and get to know what other teachers are doing to improve their students minds, Skipe take teachers worldwide to a confortable spot where they can interchange ideas, learn, help other teachers and also learn from their collegues world wide.

**Podcasting**


"Podcasting, a portmanteau of Apple's "iPod" and "broadcasting", is a method of publishing files to the Internet, allowing users to subscribe to a feed and receive new files automatically by subscription, usually at no cost. It first became popular in late 2004, used largely for audio files." --[|en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast]

A podcast is basically amateur radio that is published to the Internet for anyone to download for listening at the computer or for transferring to a portable player for later consumption. The number of podcasts literally exploded over the last couple of years, on September 28, 2004, Google's search engine turned up only 24 hits for "podcast." Just eight months later on May 25, 2005, that same search retrieved 4,450,000 hits.

No special equipment is required to listen to podcasts, and only a digital microphone is necessary for recording content in its purest incarnations. Podcasts run the gamut, from those recorded at the microphone on the fly, to those where voice and music and sound effects are integrated via audio engineering. Open-source and free software can lend the work of novice podcasters a surprising degree of polish.

So why is it called a podcast?
iPod has 76% of market share for digital players iTunes: 84% market share of digital music sales online

...can be amateur or professional ...can involve audio, video or screen capture, or combinations ...can be published tot he Internet or used locally ...can be synchronous or asynchronous -- now or later ...can require only a digital microphone for creating podcasts ...can be syndicated via RSS feeds ...can be transfered automatically to a portable player
 * Podcasting...**

Listening to podcasts...
...is ideal for auditory and English-language learners. ...allows learners to navigate content at their own pace ...can catch absentees up to speed ...can provide enrichment for students who finish early ...can be used by students without geographic limitation, across class sections and even years

Creating podcasts... ...is publishing ...is affordable ...engages student beyond the physical space of the classroom

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Web 2.0 How we got here and Where we're going!
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