Classroom 2.0

Yet one other site we have had the privilege of investigating this week is Classroom 2.0

This is a brief description that is posted on their homepage
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WELCOME!

Welcome to Classroom20.com, the social network for those interested in Web 2.0 and Social Media in education. We encourage you to sign up to participate in the great discussions here, to receive event notifications, and to find and connect with colleagues.

Classroom 2.0 is a free, community-supported network. We especially hope that those who are "beginners" will find this a supportive comfortable place to start being part of the digital dialog. Because of spammers, we have to approve all memberships here. While your membership is pending you are still welcome to peruse the site or attend any events!

Once your membership is approved, you can introduce yourself to the whole network by going to the introductory forum message. Please also feel free to explore! Here are some starting tips and a "Tour of Classroom 2.0" Elluminate recording, or you can ask help of a "host."  Thanks so much for being here!" 

This website appears to be just what it says it it, basically a social media website for teachers. Once your membership is accepted you are allowed to join various groups and gain information that way. 

Through digging around I found the group "Google Apps for Education" This group posted a link about how to use google apps, seeing that we are going to be using them in class next week I found this really appropriate so I looked into it a bit more the site is here. It provides detailed information on getting your school set up and how to use various google apps in your school, which I find to be really beneficial. 

I also found that this site does direct broadcasting/shows on Saturdays, here is the info about that 

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Classroom 2.0 LIVE! - Saturday Shows

The topic for Saturday, March 5th will be Top 10 Free Discovery Education Resources with Porter Palmer. Porter will share innovative ways to use the many free resources offered by Discovery Education.

More information and session details are athttp://live.classroom20.com. If you're new to the Classroom 2.0 LIVE! show you might want to spend a few minutes viewing the screencast on the homepage to learn how we use Elluminate and navigate the site. Each show begins at 12pm Eastern (GMT-5) and may be accessed in Elluminate directly using the following Classroom 2.0 LIVE! link athttp://tinyurl.com/cr20live.


On the Classroom 2.0 LIVE! site (http://live.classroom20.com) you'll find the recordings from our recent "Livebinders withTina Schneider and Barbara Tallent. Click on theArchives and Resources and recordings tab." 

To me this sounds like attending a professional development conference, but from within the comfort of your own home! How cool is that!?!?!

Overall, I found that this website has multiple ways to get involved in groups and to get connected with other teachers and share knowledge about the vast number of resources out there. I would have to say the coolest thing is the "live" shows that they do, as a future educator I think i'll be able to watch some of these and get ideas, inspiration, wisdom for the future. So, as a whole, this website is pretty neat...