Written for educators of all levels and disciplines who want to understand the new Internet tools and learn how to use them effectively in the classroom, this third edition of Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms provides actual examples from K-12 teachers from around the world who are at the forefront of bringing these tools into their schools and to their students. The book is filled with practical advice on how teachers and students can start using the Web to learn more, create more, and communicate better.This fully updated resource opens up an entirely new toolbox and gives educators clear explanations of specific teaching applications with both benefits and how-to steps for: Weblogs: Easily created, easily updateable Web sites and currently the most widely adopted tool of the Read/Write Web Wiki: A collaborative Web space where anyone can add content or edit content that has already been published Rich Site Summary (RSS): Technology that allows readers to subscribe to feeds of the content that is created on the Internet-content that comes to the teacher instead of the teacher or student searching for the content Aggregators: A means for collecting and organizing the content generated via the RSS feed Social Bookmarking: Sites the give users the option to save the Web addresses of interesting content or to save and archive an entire page, thus producing a form of a searchable classroom Internet Online Photo Galleries: Publishing digital photos to the Web means adding another dimension to working with digital images in the classroom Facebook/MySpace: Important social networks that provide teachers and students with new ways to communicate with one another Second Life: A view of how virtual worlds might be used in the classroom.This invaluable handbook helps both students and teachers understand the wide world of new, easy to use, and low-cost Web publishing and information gathering