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Web 2.0 Tools that Enhance the Teaching and Learning Process

** Presenter:  ** Lori Cooney – Bristol Community College [|www.diigo.com/liat/cooney98/mass_cue2010] Note: This will be posted on the MassCue site as a PDF [|www.wordle.net] Interactive Media Xtranormal.com – create characters by assigning different screen shots If you can type, you can make movies Scribblemaps.com – allows you to take all google maps and write on them, then post to blog or video, example: map out Columbus and how he sailed around [|www.scrapblog.com] = online that lets you make scrap books, ex: have students write in French – architecture, industry, science etc. go back to 1900 and put together a scrap books as if you lived then. Advances to next page like a ppt, can download as .jpg and can pay to make into a book Some things they charge for, just pick the ones with least credits. [|www.Screentoaster.com] – free way to do screen recording [|www.pixton.com] – create comic books with interactive conversations. Online comic-making software. Stays on the server but you can download as .jpg. School-based one costs [|www.capzles.com] – timeliner site good stuff to use for teaching, example: my trip to Africa – images with text. Free music or upload on your own. Click on show details – student can add text. [|www.snagfilms.com] – bunch of documentaries online for free – some have adult themes (ex: cocaine users) free [|www.glogster.com] – allows student create a multi-media poster [|www.kerpoof.com] – kindergartener – make storybook, spell a picture, make a drawing – like kidpix, Teacher can create their own class with their own code. [|www.creaza.com] – suite of tool like garage band, imovie etc. all free \ mindomo – concept map cartoonist – create cartoons video & movie editor audio editor with preloaded sounds ex: video podcasts, grade 4 and up   [|www.voki.com] – create different characters that can talk, you can call in and it is you – free, or import a typed document, non-verbal student can text and they can talk for them. Put in facebook or on a blog or embed in a website - lots of different languages. Voki without the advertisements – email them and tell them you are an educator and they take ads off for free. [|www.jimdo.com] – creating student portfolios, create site that links to pictures etc. $40 per year but has any domain name you want. [|www.wordchamp.com] – learn a language – quizzes them – homework – comes in hundreds of languages, flash cards – K-16…has pre-recorded sounds. Also have web reader. [|www.historypin.com] – old photos, based on a giant map with thousands of photos and stories behind them – search by place and time. Compare photos to how the world looks today in street view. Scan old photos and upload them into history pin [|www.zoho.com] – stores files for free, share, or download as pdf. Much like word, excel, ppt, etc. if they can’t afford office at home. [|www.acrobat.com] – used to be buzzword – share files and publish them online [|www.wiggio.com] – classroom that is self-contained, calendar, post discussions via email, poll through there, cell phones text to it, and real life conferencing. Students can create their own wiggio site to collaborate – uses zoho for docs. [|www.netvibes.com] – online portal for all your stuff, brings it all into one – facebook, twitter etc. called personal learning portal. Create different tabs and pages and make them live – some used it as their intranet and live immediately. [|www.dropbox.com] - free online storage, place to put files to share [|www.text2mindmap.com] – reverse inspiration, outline with text and then it creates the bubbles on the right – ex reading development – topics, sub-topics, turns it into a good visual for those types of learners. [|creately.com] – limitation on the free, drag and drop objects and select template, compare/contrast – have pre-defined templates – (could steal images and use on smart board) [|http://bubbl.us] – good way to brainstorm as a class – create a content map [|www.insuggest.com] – comes up with equivalent websites based on type – [|www.diigo.com] – create lists (better than delicious), allows you to highlight and put note to the page, built in highlighter, install toolbar – skip and in favorites install a diigolet instead, [|www.hootsuite.com] – twitter – social media dashboard like a tweet deck. Twitter control app use widge of hootsuite in netvibes [|www.screenr.com] – take a screen recording and tweak it, instant screencasts for twitter, players everywhere on the web [|www.pocketsapp.com] – leave voicemail for twitter – pretend your are Shakespeare and leave a message. [|http://socialmedia.policytool.net] – makes policies by fill in the blanks – in legaleses [|www.youconvertit.com] – a place for file conversion – convert online video to url [|www.mediaconverter.org] – upload file and convert [|www.onetruemedia.com] – online video editing, not as many functions as imovie but plenty for students. Some animations are build in for free but you can pay for some. Free templates. Upload it to youtube. Really fast and has templates built in. [|www.mystudio.com] – can create a link to a movie and have students answer questions, give you a reponse and could get a poll of your students. [|www.polleverywhere.com] – use cell phones to text answer and then get the poll. iPad and Future Tablet Devices teachwithyouripad – great site with ideas about apps to use. Talking tom – give directions eTextbooks – pearson – highlight and take notes type and talk – for students who can’t talk well audionote lite – take notes and record audio at the same time mobile mouse – control computer from ipad or iphone //(Carol Klatt)//