Web 2.0
- USTREAM.tv 1,000,000 pieces of video-many live; space shuttle, political venues, games, etc. Can we put up out own H.S. football games. Started in 2007; military families connect with service personal
- free log in; click “Broadcast Now”
- other person/viewers: log in and search for key word
- FREE
- classroom use: teleconferencing, interviews, etc. presentation skills for teleconferencing, lectures for absent or homebound students;
- can record/save so available on USTREAM tv for watching later; privacy settings;
- can do distance presentations with shared/passed control
- bundle camera with books–buy at Walmart; other tools–chat, etc.
- Wordle.net
- word clouds
- Bing.com MS new search engine
- features? famous pic of the day; hover over search results (orange dot) to preview…similar to_______?
- image search—single page of results; can refine search by size, layout, style
- video search–live preview on results page; limit video search; safe search on by default
- news: stories and maps of city
- Web 3.0: What I’m looking for…
- mapping services
- opentable.com to make dinner reservations
- Google latitude
-
- track your phone
-
- Glympse.com
- specified amount of time
- notify others where I am
- shoot a glympse on a timer…e.g. 30 minutes
- send a weblink via text/e-mail
- ToonDoo.com
- free log-in
- create a cartoon…FREE
- use stock background/characters or edit/create your own
- Bald guy @ bottom allows the edit and creation of character
- save/post/share online with unique weblink
- Cuil.com (gaelic for Knowledge)
- search engine from former google employees
- new layout
- drill-down technology
- hover over terms for preview
- rated the top academic search engine
- Google.com
- translates sentence/words but also entire website
- LiveMocha.com
- learn a language
- match you up with a user at the same level trying to learn each others language
- match up with headsets or live webcam
I’d like to add a couple of very useful tools, as well:
http://www.pbworks.com
Use this site when you want students to collaborate on projects. This wiki allow them to add pictures, video files, text, etc. I have found this a perfect tool for students who are either too young to drive or who are older and have schedules too crazy to get together except in the virtual world. In addition, it allows the group process to be totally transparent, as the teacher can see progress toward the end goal (or not) and leave comments. Parents can also see this. Currently, my students are working on their literary analysis paper using this. They are just starting their rough drafts, and they have done two paragraphs as a group. They will be able to refer back to their own work, as well as that of students not just in their group or even in just their class, but in any of my five English III classes that are doing the project. If you’d like to see this in action, please visit my wiki at: http://englishivbl2b.pbworks.com/ You might want to look at English III Block 2A, as I have had a chance to provide comments on this. One other side note, by having the information public, it has removed the excuse of someone who has the information being absent and therefore the group can’t work.
http://www.awesomehighlighter.com/
This is a phenomenal tool for those visual and kinesthetic learners as they can go through the content of any web page and highlight the text, just as they would a print version of the article. I plan on using this with practicing for the reading part of the ACT test. Our testing data shows that our students are having particuar trouble finding main ideas in text. Using this tool, I can have students open up any document — scientific, humanities, or social studies related — that I can find on the web and have them highlight, for example, the main idea in each paragraph in one color, the thesis in another color, etc. Differentiation can easily be accomplished in this by having different groups of students read different articles of varying difficulty.
Lori Dunn-Reier
Both excellent tools and freebies as well. I like especially your application of the highlighter as it ties directly to ACT College Readiness standards as well as in response to the item analysis conducted locally.
I’d really like to see more people embrace collaborative writing–either through PBWiki or jump into Google Docs. I have been discussing adding one of these collaborative elements to the Intro to Information Tech (IIT) course about half the MCHS students take. Especially if teacher had a preference and we could introduce students to the process in some small way prior to encountering it in the classroom.