Work in progress - scholarly teaching techniques in a web 2.0 workshop for educators

The educational technology landscape is changing with Web-based tools emerging for collaborative learning. This paper describes a technology workshop session conducted for public school teachers. The session presented Web 2.0 tools and focused on blogs to enhance classroom learning. The workshop was developed using a course blueprint and Bloom´s revised taxonomy to align content, instruction, and assessments by identifying desired cognitive processes and knowledge dimensions. The workshop demonstrated how to transfer in-class instruction into Web 2.0 contexts for enhanced student engagement. The key goals of the workshop were to teach about blogs, demonstrate pedagogy potential, and engage teachers in a lesson that they could use in their classrooms.