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Developed by Susan Gaer with credit to John Th ompson, Ph.D., 2009 1 Bridging the Digital Divide Teaching with Technology as a Tool. Developed by Susan Gaer June 8, 2009 [email protected] Instituto Cultural Dominico Americano Annual Conference for Teachers of English 2009
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This is the powerpoint for the Plenary session delivered by Susan Gaer for ADAPTING NEW TOOLS TO YOUR TEACHING STYLEAnnual English TeachingConference2009Centro Cultural Domínico-AmericanoSantiago and Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic
Transcript of Bridging the Digital Divide
Developed by Susan Gaer with credit to John Thompson, Ph.D., 2009
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Bridging the Digital Divide
Teaching with Technology as a Tool.Developed by Susan Gaer
June 8, 2009
Instituto Cultural Dominico Americano
Annual Conference for Teachers of English 2009
Developed by Susan Gaer with credit to John Thompson, Ph.D., 2009
With a partner, you will have 1 min. • What is Web 2.0?
• How many Web 2.0 tools can you name?
Developed by Susan Gaer with credit to John Thompson, Ph.D., 2009
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What is Web 2.0?
How many Web 2.0 tools can you name?
Developed by Susan Gaer with credit to John Thompson, Ph.D., 2009
How many of these 2.0 Tools did you know?
Developed by Susan Gaer with credit to John Thompson, Ph.D., 2009
human-computer interaction
personal connections--from words, pictures, video, and audio
authentic, peer-to-peer channel of communication
open, flexible collaboration
data and applications opened to creative use by the public
harnessing collective intelligence
collaboration/participation/collective intelligence
second generation of services
Web as a platform
the wisdom of crowds
creative amateur is cherished
“democratizes” media
amoral
authentic, peer-to-peer channel of communication
collective judgments
user-generated content
safety in numbers
participative Web collective power community
Web changing from “medium” to “platform”
user actions provide valuearchitecture of participation
bookmarking >>> social bookmarking
transparent selves…transparent Web
interactive, community-based Internet applications
What is Web 2.0?
Developed by Susan Gaer with credit to John Thompson, Ph.D., 2009
Photo Sharing
Digital Photo Stories
Scrapbooking
School/Class Events
Class Roster
Blogs/Wikis Writing Prompts
Descriptions Albums
Collages
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Cool Sites to Use With Photos
•Flickr Tag Site
•Cool Things you can Do with Picasa
•Verb Project
•Online Photo Sharing in Plain English
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Sharing Videos
List of video sharing sites
ViewPoint: Embedable videos
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What can you do with Video Sharing?
Video Dictionary
Video Ring tones for your phone
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Spend One Minute. Share with a partner what you learned.
• What did you learn about photo sharing?
• What did you learn about video sharing?
• While you are sharing, let’s see if I can get the pictures off the cameras.
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Sharing Documents
24/7 anytime, anywhere access to projects or assignments – extends school day
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Blogs and Wikis
Larry Ferlazzo
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Spend One Minute. Share with a partner what you learned.
• What did you learn about sharing documents?
• What is the difference between a Blog and a Wiki?
• What did you learn about using Wikis and Blogs in the classroom?
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“Record your podcast via a toll-free call from any phone. Never even touch a computer!”
Pix2fone
Start your cellphones
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Socializing• Twitter
• Share bookmarks
• Social browser
• Calendar
• Diagrams
• Social Networking
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Miscellaneous
“online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) - and share them with anyone they wish. A VoiceThread allows group conversations to be collected and shared in one place, from anywhere in the world.” -- group audio blogging to enhance group communication and reflection
“captures and shares images and video…from your computer to anywhere”
“Enables users to express themselves on the web in their own voice using a talking character. Customize your Voki to look like you…Your Voki can speak with your own voice which is added via microphone, upload, or phone.”
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Miscellaneous
create surveys and polls for your Web site, blog and social network profiles
Fleck.com allows you to add notes or bullets to Web sites. Share these annotated pages with others.
one-to-many live interactive video broadcast platform enabling anyone with a camera and an Internet connection to broadcast to a unlimited global audience
• Beyond just driving directions…
• 100 Things to do
Directory of web 2.0 apps & services –
