9.+Web+2.0+Tools

Web2.0 -Open Source tools on the internet that allow students and teachers to interact with each other, become creators of content and publishers.
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An online bookmarking tool that allows users to save and categorize a personal collection of bookmarks and share them with others.
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The Process of Searching using Google Search. Example : Open a Google search for anything and when you have the results page, scroll down and on the left you will see ‘Wonder Wheel’. Take it from there!
 * Google Apps** -email,calendar,document-creation,website-creation and messaging tools provided free-of-charge for educational institutions

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=== **Wiki Pages** - a group of web pages that allows people to add content. The most common use of wiki pages is through [|wikipedia.com] - the free encyclopedia. One can use it t o show off pupils' work, to upload resources for pupils.( For the first time this year I used it with a class to add pages at home.) === Ideas for using wikis in the classroom [|h]


 * RSS Feeds** - a format for sending out news and the content of news-like sites. Rather than checking dozens of web pages and sites throughout the day, RSS allows you to look on one location and see all of the newest contenet from your feeds.

[|Interesting Ways to use Goggle Docs in the classroom]
 * Podcasting** - the web-based broadcast of audio files which works with software that automatically detects new files and is accessed by subscription

[|Scribblar] is an online interactive board
 * Scribblar**

[|Wordle] : produces a word cloud that gives greater prominence to words that appear more frequently. -Other examplies of word cloud tools on the internet [] [] Like Wordle but with shapes.

[|ClassTools] Create books with turning pages. Embed into any webpage.

[|Wallwisher] Collaborative branstorming tool. Fantastic for assessment Examples Let Students showcase their work :[|What's the best piece of work you have done so far?] End of a topic assessment : Give students a closing question in class. [|Using our Wii to learn] [] Challenge children who are working on a[| problem-solving group activity to brainstorm their ideas] For CPD ideas M http://edcampkc.wikispaces.com/Session+Ideas a Make Make a post on what you'd like to see discussed, presented, or explored. What are your burning questions? What do you have experience with?

Let students choose and read an article that interests them, then record summary using [|Vocaroo.] Links to their Vocaroo can be put on Wallwisher -tip from [|Tefltecher] blog [|Smartboard Benefits]

[|Newspaper Generator]

[|Drop Box] Centralise and store your files for free on the cloud)

[|Drop.io]  enables you to create 'drops' for documents and other files which your peers /pupils can access (and contribute to) easily. If you have a wiki like this one, you can insert a link for them to click on. Or just tell them the URL of the 'drop'.

 [|Cloztest Creator]

Xtranormal Create videos with Xtranormal [|How Xtranormal can be used with Reluctant Writers and ESL students]

VoiceThread []
[|24 interesting ways to use Voicethread]

[|Hot Potatoes]
 Hot Potatoes includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 16px;"> Hot Potatoes is freeware. It is not open-source.

[|Bubbl.us]
Mind Mapping Tool, We used it to plan our Wild Earth African Safari project this year.

[|Slide Share]
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 20px;">Simply a way of putting the PowerPoints that you and your class make online. It doesn’t support all the fancy transitions and sound that you can put into a PowerPoint which is a good thaing as the class have to concentrate on content. Here’s an example of an embedded Slideshare that I made with PowerPoint:

[|Animoto]
Avatars [|Build Your Wild-self]

===[|Jing]<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 15px;"> //**[|ZooBurst]**// is a digital storytelling tool that is designed to let anyone easily create their own customized 3D pop-up books. === Video here re. Creative Writing using Zoo Burst []

Blogs
If you can get students to write blogs and want to encourage them to read and comment on each others- it might be worth giving them some advice on what topics they should choose to prompt others to comment. Easy things for children to write about on a blog - recent news stories; good and bad things about the town where they live; study tips; reviews of restaurants,films and books;

KerPoof
[|Kerpoff]has a wonderful on-line spelling application called [|Spell a Picture]that works well on the SMARTBoard and is very engaging for young children and Special Education students. Students choose a background from a selection of three and a keyboard will appear at the bottom of the screen. As the students type a letter pictures will pop into the screen. They then complete spelling the word based on the pictures that appear. When they have completed spelling the word you select the picture to appear in their scene. The pictures can be moved and when scrolled over with your mouse the word appears again. Each scene can be then printed.

3D Pop-Up Books
http://alpha.zooburst.com/ is a digital storytelling tool that allows you to create your own 3D pop-up books. This application is completely web based and requires the Adobe Flash plug-in. You can easily upload your own images and customize them and narrations can be added to images. In addition you are able to embed your ZooBurst in your blog or wiki,etc

[|Sticky Notes] Lesson Plan for use of Sticky Note
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">__ [|Classtools.net] __ provides free, customisable flash templates to embed into blogs, wikis and websites.

Create Comics with Chogger
http://chogger.com/ A comic generator, where you can easily change the shape, content and amount of cells you want for your comic. [|Comic Life] (Not free) Use your own images to create comics or other documents for a particular use []

Picasa Web Album.
You get 1GB of free storage and you can <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">upload directly to your web album from the picasa software. Then just send your friends the link by email and they can view the photos as a slideshow as well as being able to download and print etc. If you need more space then you can buy it but 1 GB will store about 500 photos at high resolution and <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">about 4000 if you go for standard resolution. http://picasaweb.google.com


 * <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">Moodle **

Moodle is a Virtual Learning Environment (also called a learning management system). It was developed by Martin Dogmindez in Australia and is open source (free to download and adapt the code). As a school you can Host it yourself (have someone onsite who does all the training/troubleshhoting etc) or Use a moodle partner.

Moodle allows you to create discussions, wikis, surveys, quizes, set and grade assignments and to share documents, link to websites and documents in the cloud (eg google docs) (and much more). The really fabulous thing is that it all happens behind a password and you can moinitor activity (this we call a walled garden).

[|Piclits] Great for poetry creation Glogster http://b-7bobcats.wikispaces.com/Reading+Resources

QR Coding in the Classroom

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