October 3, 2007 03:42 PM
List of all web 2.0 tools used in September....
- bubblr= photo comic
- bubbl.us= flow chart
- thinkature=flow chart
- poll daddy= online polls
- scrapblog= scapbook, share by url
- Scribd= interesting upload files, any file
- sitekreator= web site creator , cost
- spresent= collaborative powerpoint
- squarespace= web, blog cost
- thumbstacks= powerpoint online... like spresent
- triporama= trip planner, advanced (application is a stretch)
- tumblr= similar to a blog
- vyew= web collaboration
- yugma= web conferencing
- Phixr= photo editing
- toondoo= comic strip
- slide= photos medium
- ourstory= collaborative time line
- voki= talking avatar (Be careful of backgrounds)
- photoshow= share photos, music
- ksolo= online karaoke, (PC only)
- voicethreads= collaborative voice, and picture slideshow
Posted by jena on October 3, 2007 at 03:42 PM| Permalink | Comments (0)
List of all web 2.0 tools used in September....
- bubblr= photo comic
- bubbl.us= flow chart
- thinkature=flow chart
- poll daddy= online polls
- scrapblog= scapbook, share by url
- Scribd= interesting upload files, any file
- sitekreator= web site creator , cost
- spresent= collaborative powerpoint
- squarespace= web, blog cost
- thumbstacks= powerpoint online... like spresent
- triporama= trip planner, advanced (application is a stretch)
- tumblr= similar to a blog
- vyew= web collaboration
- yugma= web conferencing
- Phixr= photo editing
- toondoo= comic strip
- slide= photos medium
- ourstory= collaborative time line
- voki= talking avatar (Be careful of backgrounds)
- photoshow= share photos, music
- ksolo= online karaoke, (PC only)
- voicethreads= collaborative voice, and picture slideshow
Posted by jena on October 3, 2007 at 03:42 PM| Permalink | Comments (0)
On using Vokis...A cautionary tale
I just wanted to post a cautionary tale when having students create Vokis in the classroom...
When you create a new Voki, it randomly selects a background. Unfortunately, one of the choices that is sometimes randomly selected has the Voki peering out the zipper of a pair of someone's pants. Of course, with my luck, one of my students ended up with this random choice on the first time out. To change the background, you go to 'players' when editing the Voki. I was just lucky in that my students noticed right away and realized how inappropriate that the background was...and figured out how to change it.
Posted by lucindavannatta on October 3, 2007 at 08:57 AM| Permalink | Comments (0)
October 2, 2007 09:05 PM
Quizlet
This is an excellent Web 2.0 resource. You can create sets or use other sets created by others. You can Familiarize, Learn, and Test, as well pas play different games.
Posted by stacybuglione on October 2, 2007 at 09:05 PM| Permalink | Comments (0)
September 27, 2007 03:36 PM
ScrapBlog
Posted by scottmcdonald on September 27, 2007 at 03:36 PM| Permalink | Comments (0)
VYEW-check out this power point
Posted by cindydix on September 27, 2007 at 03:33 PM| Permalink | Comments (0)
VoiceThread!
Here is VoiceThread! Visit it here:
Here is our Voice Thread:
Visit the full size one here:
http://voicethread.com/view.php?b=8293
Posted by richardbursch on September 27, 2007 at 03:24 PM| Permalink | Comments (0)
www.slide.com
Emerging technologies are any tool that enable students to learn efficiently and effectively. This can be the newest of technologies or old technologies used in new ways. Our presentation highlights some of the way technology can impact student learning. our charge was to show effective instructional strategies using emerging technology.
by Pam Leland, Lynn Bird and Joyce Jennings
Posted by lynnbird on September 27, 2007 at 03:14 PM| Permalink | Comments (0)
Modeling Effective Instructional Strategies Group Project
Click here to visit our site
Posted by melsmith on September 27, 2007 at 03:09 PM| Permalink | Comments (0)
Rockin' 21st Century Skills with PhotoShow
Posted by amylundstrom on September 27, 2007 at 03:06 PM| Permalink | Comments (0)
OurStory.com
Meeting the NETS Standard of 21st Century Learning and Innovation Skills. A Web 2.0 site that creates timelines with collaboration with friends and family.
Start your own timeline at OurStory.com
Posted by nancywarrington on September 27, 2007 at 03:04 PM| Permalink | Comments (0)
Pictures for Success (Photoshow)
Posted by teresamyers on September 27, 2007 at 03:02 PM| Permalink | Comments (0)
Exemplary Staff Development Skills
This was produced by Ginny, Darbie, Gale, Suzanne (AKA: Proud Penguins!)
Posted by ryan_ginny on September 27, 2007 at 02:54 PM| Permalink | Comments (0)
S_present - Staff Development
Posted by gbalaban on September 27, 2007 at 02:52 PM| Permalink | Comments (0)
kSolo & Web 2.0
What we learned:
Ksolo is a tool that could be used in varied curriculum areas. Social
studies and language arts are two curriculum areas where students could
compose songs relating to history or readings assigned in language arts.
Different areas of the lesson could be weighted for creativity, content,
collaborative efforts. This is a perfect tool for a project-based
learning activity.
We chose to "rewrite" the words to the Beattles classic, "Yesterday" to demonstrate our committment to professional collaboration.
Posted by debbreck on September 27, 2007 at 02:50 PM| Permalink | Comments (0)
KSOLO Web 2.0 Tool - Roadrunner Trio
This is a fun tool that will let students collaborate and explore music history, genre, performance, and evaluation of performances.
Disadvantages:
PC Only
No file portablility
Does not allow for instructor based filtering
Advantages:
Fun
Engaging
Content based
Collabrative
A rich, interactive, user-friendly interface
And now The RoadRunners sing the Alphabet song.
http://www.ksolo.com/Heehaw67
Posted by yanceyfall on September 27, 2007 at 02:39 PM| Permalink | Comments (0)
SiteKreator
After having explored SiteKreator, our group of Roadrunners experienced marginal success with the program. The interface is clunky and not always intuitive. An example is when you click on Edit, you do not get to edit already created text - instead, you have to click on the T or Properties to view and edit the existing text. You are not able to change font type or color of text either.
Those of us with Windows machines were able to upload pictures while those with Macs were unable to do so. After much trial and error, it was discovered that MACs can upload pictures by inserting a image rather than media. This program allowed the uploading of a SWF file, but the file would not run in the page. After some research, we discovered that SiteKreator does not allow mp3 files to be uploaded.
An interview of the exploration team can be found at the follwing URL can be found by clicking on the following link interview.
Here is the same audio interview with our thoughts about SiteKreator that has been embedded into the blog. This embedded file acts like an mp3 player.
- Artist: EdTech RoadRunners
- Title: sitekreator_review
- Length: 0:50 minutes (786.98 KB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 22kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
Here is an example of a site that was created by the Roadrunner group.
In our opinion, the communication and collaboration that we want to foster through SiteKreator can be accomplished more easily using Google docs and Spreadsheets, Google web or Blogger.
Posted by bhawkins on September 27, 2007 at 02:38 PM| Permalink | Comments (0)
April 12, 2007 07:30 PM
Weigh In
Posted by jena on April 12, 2007 at 07:30 PM| Permalink | Comments (0)
Pay Attention
Posted by jena on April 12, 2007 at 01:19 PM| Permalink | Comments (0)
March 27, 2007 03:24 PM
2006-07 Awarded Grants
Powered by bubbl.us
Posted by jena on March 27, 2007 at 03:24 PM| Permalink | Comments (0)
February 18, 2007 01:31 PM
MediaWiki
I was interested in providing a Wiki for individual classroom use, specifically for student collaboration. I found MediaWiki which is a "free software wiki package" to run on your own server.
Has anyone tried this yet? Any thoughts on running your own wiki versus students contributing to Wikipedia?
Posted by stacybuglione on February 18, 2007 at 01:31 PM| Permalink | Comments (0)
Wikipedia and 3rd Graders3/27/
Check out this Wikipedia entry on the Pitot House which is a plantation house in New Orleans. The entry was created by a third grade class (according to the person who posted the information used to work with the 3rd grade teacher who led the Pitot House project).
Posted by llary on February 18, 2007 at 01:02 PM| Permalink | Comments (0)
October 18, 2006 10:07 AM
Web 2.0 Resource
I ran across this website which is basically an evolving collection of Web 2.0 sites/applications. Be warned: visit when you have some time - it can be a time vacuum!
*Not every site is of educational value.
Posted by Kathi Etchemendy on October 18, 2006 at 10:07 AM| Permalink | Comments (0)
September 26, 2006 02:04 PM
Cook Your Own
Based on your level of technical experience, you have the following tasks:
(1) Toast: Set up and use your Google Notebook.
(2) Appliance Savvy: above and?
visit Google Labs; learn something new, teach it to someone else and blog about it on the PDC blog.
(3) Iron Chef: both of the above and?
visit the MIT Media Lab and Extreme Tech sites; learn something new, teach it to someone else, and blog about it on the PDC blog.
Google Notebook
Will we be able to use Google Notebook in schools? This becomes an issue around email accounts, especially for districts that do not allow students to use email.
Notebook is very useful for personal use and research.
Also very useful for teacher-teacher and teacher teams. ex., If two professionals are collaborating on a project this is a useful tool. Can send information, URLs, etc.
A teacher could set up a notebook and allow access to students to use it.
Wondering about the need to pay for articles in the Google Labs section.
google Web Site creator looks interesting!
Posted by llary on September 26, 2006 at 02:04 PM| Permalink | Comments (0)
Emerging Technologies: Ha3/27/
Please feel free to use the handout provided at the Cadre in your own staff development. Attached are both Word and PDF versions.
Posted by llary on September 26, 2006 at 12:00 PM| Permalink | Comments (0)
Lifelong Kindergarten
http://llk.media.mit.edu/projects.php
Some very interesting projects intended to inspire creativity.
Posted by timhaag on September 26, 2006 at 10:20 AM| Permalink | Comments (0)
Google Accessible Search 3/27/
Very cool option for our visually impared students! I was interested in how it works- what does Google use to identify or qualify sites as helpful for visually impared? Thus, I searched for some key terms and checked out the results.
I copied the text from teh FAQ page as well!
Here is the link as well: http://labs.google.com/accessible/
Eva
Accessible Search FAQ
What is Google Accessible Search?
Accessible Search is an early Google Labs product designed to identify and prioritize search results that are more easily usable by blind and visually impaired users. Regular Google search helps you find a set of documents that is most relevant to your tasks. Accessible Search goes one step further by helping you find the most accessible pages in that result set.
How does Accessible Search work?
In its current version, Google Accessible Search looks at a number of signals by examining the HTML markup found on a web page. It tends to favor pages that degrade gracefully --- pages with few visual distractions and pages that are likely to render well with images turned off. Google Accessible Search is built on Google Co-op's technology, which improves search results based on specialized interests.
Posted by eva.lamar on September 26, 2006 at 10:14 AM| Permalink | Comments (0)
All Google All the Time
Some of my favorite Google tools include Google Transit, which works in conjunction with TriMet so you can plan trips and get maps and Picasa, which is a fabulous photo management tool that is very similar to iPhoto. Viewing photos and slideshows is easy with Picasa.
Posted by melissalim on September 26, 2006 at 10:12 AM| Permalink | Comments (0)
I like PortaPortal as a U3/27/
www.portaportal.com is also a helpful tool for organizing favorite ed. websites.
Here's a sample of what it looks like:
http://guest.portaportal.com/haagtm
Posted by timhaag on September 26, 2006 at 09:39 AM| Permalink | Comments (0)
Unique Scientific Resourc3/27/
Check out these web based tools for scientific exporation:
Chickscope
Bugscope
They both are great tools for viewing and analyzing scientific images. There are also standalone versions of this type of microscope at:
EggMath
The Virtual Microscope
Posted by stacybuglione on September 26, 2006 at 08:31 AM| Permalink | Comments (0)
September 25, 2006 01:28 PM
Making Music
"Kids can learn the basics in fifteen minutes and quickly start making their own music. Hyperscore supports a range of tasks from simple melody- or rhythm-making to composing complex pieces. Activities can be designed as a one-hour workshop, multiple-session workshops or classes, or even as an entire semester or year plan."
This Windows program was developed by the folks at the MIT Media Lab. Today, you can download the program from the H-Lounge. This is one of three tools developed as a part of the Toy Symphony project. Toy Symphony was featured on Scientific American (there are a variety of resources at this site, including the original broadcast).
A case study on the use of this program is available online in several for-pay databases. Or download from the author for free. :-)
Hyperscore; A Case Study in Computer Mediated Music Composition
NOTE: See the comments for information about the school vs free version.
Posted by llary on September 25, 2006 at 01:28 PM| Permalink | Comments (0)
Web 2.0
A short description of Web 2.0.
Posted by llary on September 25, 2006 at 10:52 AM| Permalink | Comments (0)
September 24, 2006 02:04 PM
Dessert: Google Earth
What's new in Google Earth 4
Posted by llary on September 24, 2006 at 02:04 PM| Permalink | Comments (0)
September 22, 2006 02:22 PM
Scratch
Not the solution to an itch, but rather an innovative way to help children learn about programming. Scratch "is a new programmable toolkit that enables kids to create their own games, animated stories, and interactive art -- and share their creations with one another over the Net" and has been funded by NSF. You can learn more about Scratch by reading some of the publications that have been written about it.
Posted by llary on September 22, 2006 at 02:22 PM| Permalink | Comments (0)
MIT Media Lab
Ever wonder who is creating all of these amazing new technologies? One great place to learn about what you will see in the coming years is the MIT Media Lab. Be sure to check out the Sample Research Project link.
Posted by llary on September 22, 2006 at 02:20 PM| Permalink | Comments (0)
Blogger
Create your free Blogger account. To learn more about blogging in education, visit Will Richardson's Blog Site.
Posted by llary on September 22, 2006 at 01:54 PM| Permalink | Comments (0)
Furl
Create your free Furl account.
Posted by llary on September 22, 2006 at 01:51 PM| Permalink | Comments (0)
