Liz Wernig

5-12

K - 4

TOOLSFORYOU

ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALLNot all the resources in these workshops will work for you. Not everyone comes to the workshops with the same classroom experiences or expectations.There isn't one perfect tool or one right way to utilize Web 2.0 tools in the classroom. I think it it is important to look at the usefulness of a Web 2.0 tool for yourself before you can really think about how to bring it to your students.So, my hope is that you learn something new today and want to explore at least one of these resources. If you have any questions or comments, the discussion tab is open and my email is available to you.

Web 2.0

Computer to Computer

'telephone calls' for free.

GOOGLE DOCS• Google Docs is a free, web-based

word processor, spreadsheet and presentation tool that allows you to create and edit documents from anywhere and collaborate with multiple people at the same time.

• Google for Educators site• Google Docs resources- http://

www.google.com/educators

PDF free…at www.pdfforge.org

Google Docs…Elementary school students

collaborate to• read the same book and write a

book report. • share their reflections of field trip. • create a story from a story prompt.Middle school students collaborate to• write a science hypothesis about

an experiment. • recreate an historical event. • develop a word math problem.High school students collaborate to• create articles for the school

newspaper. • write a script for a play. • debate a current event.

Del.icio.us

This site serves a very basic function (online bookmarking), but it connects people to troves of websites that are tagged, described and organized by freshness.

http://delicious.com/lwernig/m-umspodcasts

Flickr

• Flickr - Flickr is photo sharing site

• Spell with Flickr, Memry, and the entire Flickr Toys collection.

Photo Editing Free!

• Picnik• Philter• Gimp – open source

WORDLE (www.wordle.net)

Wordle Lesson Sample: • Pupils were asked to look at

the word clouds, with a dictionary, and try to ascertain the gist of the original articles.

• Half the class then explained to the other half what they thought their article was about while I displayed each word cloud in turn on the interactive whiteboard (see illustrations), highlighting words one at a time and extracting relevant / useful vocabulary.

• I then handed out copies of the original articles in full to my pupils and discussed the vocabulary further

SlideshareUploading your slide show

www.slideshare.net

Samples:http://www.slideshare.net/elemitrt/dolch-3rd-grade-wordshttp://www.slideshare.net/lwernighttp://www.slideshare.net/pauleyler/cells-6th-grade-384278http://www.slideshare.net/Leen267/colleen-murray-web-quest

Jango!

Jango is a free social music service that lets you create your own custom radio stations and listen to them on your computer.

Create Videos (online!)

Jumpcut – When film editing programs are not available

• Schooltube

• Teachertube• Youtube …

http://www.zamzar.com/

Sharing Videos (online!)

ANIMOTO (FREE FOR EDUCATORS)

Intro to Ancient Rome (6th grade)

The Constitution

Global Warming

2nd grade spelling words

Endangered Species

alphabet video

animoto.com http://education.animoto.com/

PODCASTS

Podcasts • 2nd Grade Podcast: Students studied

famous Americans. This podcast shares what they have learned.

• 5th grade podcast: After reading "The Mysteries of Harris Burdick". Students created some of their own mysterious stories .

• 8th grade podcast: This podcast describes an activity centered around teaching to about the Declaration of Independence.

• 11th grade science: 80% of Mrs. Bracht’s students have an iPod and the others that don’t have an iPod, do have access to a computer. Ms. Bracht is having her students podcast to learn, review, and share science information

• High School Book Review podcast.

VOICETHREADhttp://digitallyspeaking.pbwiki.com/Voicethread

Instant messaging from absolutely anywhere, no downloads or installs required, and free!

WikiSpaces • WikiSpaces -. Wikispaces is firmly committed to education and is in

the process of giving away 150,000 ad-free wikis to educators. It has a simple editor.

EEducators

http://fittools.wikispaces.com/

Wikis

• Students actively create knowledge as a team.• Students are held even more responsible for

what they submit due to the nature of a wiki…you know when and what a student posts

• Students keep each other honest…if someone submits wrong information, they’ll correct each other

• Students can not only add text to the wiki but also multimedia: videos, audio and photography..creating a more comprehensive experience.

Wiki Ideas

• Virtual literature circle

• Class note taking

• Collaborate with another class or school

•2nd – 3rd grade class wikis. •5th grade: Students are writing a chain story called Adventure in the Trench, They all have a turn in creating this story, and the author of each chapter is listed on the relevant page

•French Class: There are notes, flashcards, videos, and several online exercises, French I - in high school. •High School Spanish class wiki•Natick High School Chemistry class wiki. •A wiki set up for a chapter by chapter discussion on the book, “Holes”

Blogs!

Class Blog

Brainstorming

• Mindomo • Mindmeister

http://delicious.com/dmcdowell/comiqs-fr

This history teacherused this tool to summarize their understanding of the events of

The French Revolution

www.comiqs.com

Abe Lincoln

www.voki.comEasily create anan avatar with voice What better way to have studentsPractice their foreign language skills. than using a Voki

My Voki on http://fittools.wikispaces.com/

Hot Potatoes!

Each program enables you to create a different type of quiz. The quiz types currently supported are:

1.Multiple-choice2.Short answer3.Jumbled sentence4.Crossword5.Matching6.Gap-fill• http://halfbakedsoftware.com/• Samples: http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/hotpot/wintutor6/index.htm

Online free survey tools

Rubrics

• http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php

• http://www.rubrics4teachers.com/

Math Worksheets

• http://www.math.com/students/worksheet/algebra_sp.htm

Worksheet Generators

• http://www.educationalpress.org/

• http://www.superkids.com/aweb/tools/math/

• http://www.math-worksheets-generator.com/

• http://www.lizardpoint.com/math/mathsheet.html (online or printout)

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Free Tech Tools

• Practice writing (print out worksheets)

• http://tools.atozteacherstuff.com/handwriting/handwriting-practice.html/

• Writing prompts/journals http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/prompts.html

• Powerpoint game templates

• http://www.jc-schools.net/tutorials/vocab/ppt-vocab.html

ONLINE BOOKS

• http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/new.html -This website is home to more than 30,000 free books that you can read online.

• http://freeclassicaudiobooks.com/

More Teacher Tool Sites

• http://www.internet4classrooms.com/teachertools.htm

• http://www.suelebeau.com/freetools.htm

• http://www.toolsforeducators.com/ younger grades

WRITING OUR FUTURE

• Writing Our Future's current project, Letters to the Next President, is an online publishing project that invited students to write to the 2008 U.S. Presidential candidates about the issues they would want a future president to address. Writing Our Future plans to sponsor additional writing and publishing projects to encourage students to write persuasively and informatively for "real world" purposes and audiences.

• http://www.letters2president.org/

Open CoursewareM.I.T. Open courseware for High School

Take Any College Class for Free: 236 Open Courseware Collections,

Podcasts and Videos: Browse this list for more than 200 open classes, resources

and lectures.

SOCIAL NETWORKING

Whyville - 1.7 million users

www.imbee.comTeacher sites available

K-4

5-12