Web 2.0 Tools For The Classroom

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Web 2 0 Tools for the Classroom

Purpose and Objectives
Examine applications that are easy to access and user friendly
Web 2 0 tools for the classroom Wordle Visuword Create a Graph Quizlet Kerpoof Scoreboard Gliffy Slideshare Animoto Photoshop com Pixlr Scoreboard

You Are Teaching in an Age of Digital Learners

New Tools for the Classroom
Podcasting Digital Storytelling Streaming Media
Web lessons and tutorials Web 2 0

Distance Learning

Web 2 0 What is it
Web 2 0 is an expression which was used for the first time in 2004 by Tim O Reilly The main characteristics of new era in Internet is connected with its constant development and delivering services tailored to the needs of each user Associated with web applications that facilitate interactive information sharing interoperability and user centered

WEB 2 0
A term used to describe a new generation of Web services and applications with an increasing emphasis on human collaboration These usually include tools that let people collaborate and share information online



Web 2 0 Why use it in education What are the advantages Easy to share Works with all
Engages students Pride of ownership Provides an avenue for collaboration with professionals in all fields as well as other students

Platform No software purchases or downloads Available anywhere anytime Allows the additions of tags which in turn makes searchable

WEB 2 0
What are the disadvantages Internet may be down when you need to use this Often cannot save to a local computer Correctness of information Privacy issues

Wordle
www wordle net

image created with http www wordle net

Wordle is a toy for generating word clouds from text that you provide The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text You can tweak your clouds with different fonts layouts and color schemes

Tips for Using Wordle
To keep multi word phrases together use a tildee between words
Example Web 2 0

A word maybe deleted from a Wordle cloud by right clicking on the word If you use a screen capture or other image representation of the Wordle on this page you must attribute the image to http www wordle net Images of Wordles are licensed Instructions on how to screen capture

Tips continued
A custom color palette may be created from the colors menu A summary of a news feed url may be entered and students may evaluate the resulting Wordle

Educational Uses
Vocabulary Review Scrambled sentences Surveys News Items Book reviews

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Visuword
http mpcollab org MPbeta1 node 1720

Online graphical dictionary that provides meanings and word relationships

Educational Uses
Illustrates relationships of words
Synonyms and homonym Nous verbs adjectives adverbs

Great for English language learners Serves as a dictionary and thesaurus Visuword combines a web 2 0 type visualization tool with Princeton University s opensource WordNet database to create an interactive click and drag type tool that is free for everyone to use

Quizlet
quizlet com
TN 6th grade science academic vocabulary

Web 2 0

Quizlet

Animoto
http animoto com

Animoto for Educators

Create a Graph

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Gliffy
http www gliffy com

www slideshare net

Allow the online sharing of PowerPoint presentations Word documents and PDF files The files may be shared either publicly or privately

Kerpoof
Spell A Picture Make A Picture Make A Movie Make A Card Make A Story Doodle Pad Make A Drawing

Photoshop com
http www photoshop com

Create and account Select Online Editor Edit pictures

Tools Available

Pixlr http www pixlr com express

Pixlr Express http www pixlr com express

Blog with tutorial Additional tutorial

For Beginne rs or a Quick Fix

SCOREBOARD
http www triptico co uk resources scoreboard scoreboard html

ZoomIt
http technet microsoft com en us sysinternals bb897434 aspx

ZoomIt is screen zoom and annotation tool for technical presentations that include application demonstrations Will Zoom the url for others to view Free download or it may be run from the web

More on ZoomIt
Control 1 will zoom the contents of screen until Control 1 is selected again If you click while zoom a will appear and this becomes a pen to use on the screen Control 1 breaks this again If you want the pen tool while not zoomed Control 2 will provide the pen Control 1 breaks this again

More on ZoomIt

HowJSay
http www howjsay com
A free online Talking Dictionary of English Pronunciation Just type in the word hit submit and when your entry appears in pink mouse over to hear it pronounced You can list up to 6 entries like this cat cart cut cot caught coat There are currently 132208 entries in the dictionary There is an app for the iphone