Using Web 2.0 in Education
Books talked about:
The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman
Disrupting class by Clayton M. Christiansen
A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink
The Global Achievement Gap by Tony Wagner
21st Century Learner
K-12 Vision
Higher Ed Vision - Michael Wesch
21st century learner.pptx
NETS for Students and Teachers (National Educational Technology Standards)
Blogs
Edublogs
Register
Inserting images into your posts,
Embedding videos , vokis, voicethreads, and other widgets
adding regular webpage links and blog permalinks
managing comments on your own blog
customizing the sidebars
creating student accounts if they don't have an email account
what are the different roles of users
html code for students to use to add hyperlinks in the comments they post
Wikis
RSS Feeds
After you create your blog or wiki, people can then subscribe to it.
Bloglines
Personal Web Portals
Networking
Digital Storytelling
Scholastic Video Booktalks & Trailers
Presentation Tools
Animoto - Animoto for Education
get a free educational code for your students so they can create videos of unlimited size and download them. E-mail Rebecca Brooks at rebecca@animoto.com to set up a code for an all-access pass.
You can create student accounts through your account for those who don't have an email address.
March Madness Basketball example
Booktalk
How to embed an Animoto in PBwiki from PBwikiWebinars on Vimeo .
VoiceThread
a tool for having conversations around media like PDF documents, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (including Office 2007 formats), images, and videos
print tutorial (pdf file)
Digitally Speaking Voicethread resources
VoiceThread 4 Education Wiki
Voki
allow your students the ability to give characters an identity and "voice"
add the voice via a cellphone, mic, or text
Jing
snap a picture of your screen or record a video of onscreen action. You can then save these files or upload them to flickr, youtube, or screencast. From here you can link to the videos/images or embed them into your blog, wiki, or website.
B ubbleshare create a photo album that can include clipart, text, audio captions, or video captions
Podcasting Tools
Evoca
Start up guide to use evoca and ideas on how to empower your voice
Audacity download this free audio editing program and use it to create audio files for your podcasts or multimedia presentations
Communication Tools
Google Tools
Skype
talk to people around the world with FREE video and voice calls. You can also have group chats and conference calls with up to ten people on skype.
send photos or documents to the people you are talking to
getting started with Skype
Brian Crosby - video from K-12 Online Conference
Skypecasts
host a public chat with up to 100 people from anywhere in the world
let your voice be heard by speaking on the virtual microphone
getting started with Skypecasts and FAQ
UStream
broadcast and chat online with a live global audience.
It is free and all you need is a webcam, microphone, and internet connection
you can even save your broadcasts to playback later
password protect your live shows from school
7 things you should know about Ustream
Collaboration Links
epals - Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton and ePals launch "Wisconsin Connects"
Collaboration resource list
Babblestream
create large group voice and text chat areas
Search Strategies
To Google and Beyond.ppt
Other Helpful Tools and Resources
Copyright and Ethical Use
If I haven't talked about it here, you can find it here Go2Web20.net