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)

Wikis

RSS Feeds

• After you create your blog or wiki, people can then subscribe to it.
• Bloglines

Personal Web Portals

• Pageflakes
• iGoogle
• Netvibes

Networking

• Delicious
• Diigo
• Ning
• Google Wave

Digital Storytelling

• Scholastic Video Booktalks & Trailers

• Booktalks Uploaded to Destiny
• David Jakes' Digital Storytelling Collection
• Photostory 3
• Digital Booktalk
• Book Trailers
• Digital Storytelling downloadable pdf files by Silvia Tolisano
• Visual Literacy resources from David Jakes and his framework for visual literacy
• Cueprompter is a free teleprompter to use for all different reasons

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

                    
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.

• Bubbleshare  create a photo album that can include clipart, text, audio captions, or video captions

• Glogster
  • an interactive poster
  • Glogster for Education website
  • Read Like A Rock Star
  • PreK - all about me example
  • 1st grade websites example
  • How to make a Glog for beginners

Podcasting Tools

• Vocaroo

  • Simple way to record a podcast

• 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

• Soundzabound
  • Royalty Free Music for a subscription
• Podcasting Resources

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

• Poll Everywhere
  • live audience polling via a text message from a cell phone, or on the web from a smartphone or computer
• Google Earth
  • Bring lessons to life - one example Google Lit Trips
• Doodle
  • easy scheduling or choices
• Bubbl.us
  • brainstorming tool
• Timetoast
  • Visual interactive timelines
• Tiny URL
  • simplify your url by creating a shorter link
• Big Huge Labs
  • Photo Editing Website
• Cue Prompter
  • a teleprompter in a web browser
• WallWisher
  • a message board
• Piknik
  • online photo editing

• BeFunky
  • online photo editing
• Zoho
  • suite of tools like Google
• Slideshare
  • Share your PowerPoints online
• Webnote
  • Online notetaking and collaboration
• Drop.io
  • Online drop box for sharing, collaboration and presentations
• Coveritlive
  • Live blogging
• Dabbleboard
  • Shared online whiteboard
• Jogtheweb
  • Record and then share/show your own web browsing experience
• Flicker
  • Photosharing site
• Tuxpaint
  • free drawing program
• GoAnimate
  • Create animated stories
• Your Fonts
  • Add a personal touch by creating your own font based on your own handwriting
• Voycabulary 
  • Make every webpage a vocabulary exercise
• Visual Thesaurus 
  • A thesaurus that is visual and interactive
•  iSpeech
  • Text to speech converter
• Readthewords.com 
  • Write with your ears.

• ZamZar
  • File Conversion Tool
• Online Timer
  • Free online timer that works easily in any web browser.

• Pandora
  • internet radio that only plays music that you love. Create your own radio stations.
• AASL Top 25 Web sites for Teaching and Learning

Copyright and Ethical Use

• Creative Commons
• Overview of Creative Commons Licensing
• Videos to help you understand it

• Flickr Creative Commons
  • How to use Creative Commons handout by David Jakes
• LIFE Photo Archive - powered by Google
  • Add "source:life" to any Google image search and search only the LIFE photo archive
  • example:   computer source:life

Other Web2.0 Resource Links

If I haven't talked about it here, you can find it here Go2Web20.net

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