18 Web 2.0 Tools for Instruction -- Campus Technology
Web 2.0 Tools for instructions . Great resources
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Friday, April 30, 2010
Diigo Bookmarks 04/30/2010
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Thursday, April 29, 2010
My Favorite Free Ed-Tech Tools
This blog post is a part of the I Heart EdTech Blog Swap brought to you by SimpleK12.com. Guest Blogger Kim Munoz (@techmunoz) shares her experiences in the world of web 2.0 tools. She is a very resourceful and knowledgeable Ed Tech Specialist who has some wonderful ideas and lessons that can easily be implemented into anyone's curriculum.
Web 2.0 tools are engaging and fun for students! Many of the tools below connect students to the world by allowing them to post, link and embed projects they have completed in class, as well as comment on other projects to provide feedback. The whole world can be invited to see and comment on student work. The audience doesn’t have to be just the teacher or the classroom anymore. It can be mom’s and dad’s, grandma’s and cousin’s, as well as a classroom in England or Spain. The possibilities for connecting are endless.
So what activities can I do in class that can get my students sharing and collaborating? Well, here is a list of some activities I have successfully tried in my middle school classroom.
1. http://www.animoto.com/: Things I Like Project
The students signed up for a free account on Animoto and made a 30 second movie with pictures and words of things they liked. They used Animoto’s pictures and video clips, as well as some pictures from the internet. My 8th graders that have a blog, embedded the video to showcase their work, and the other classes presented their videos in class. I posted a link to my blog on twitter, inviting anyone to check out my student’s blogs and leave comments on their project posts. Instructions on how embed videos in a blog are located here: http://techmunoz.edublogs.org/2009/09/25/teaching-animoto-and-embedding-in-blogs/
Other project ideas: MATH—have students take concepts and make a movie describing it using visuals they find online or pictures they take of real world items relating to the concept. Language Arts—Character Analysis
2. http://www.coveritlive.com/:
Live Blogging Activities—Great for engaging while watching movies, videos or any visual presentation.
How it works: The only thing you need to get started is a free account on Cover It Live, and a blog to embed the code to the live blogging event. You can check out this site as an example to see some examples. http://techmunoz.edublogs.org/live-blogging-events/
Activity: I had my students Live Blog during President Obama’s speech to students in the Fall of ’09. They were able to interact with each other’s thoughts as the speech was happening. Here is the site where the activity took place: http://techmunoz.edublogs.org/2009/09/07/obamas-speech/ If I had sent out the link to the blog activity on Twitter, or to my school faculty members, others could have joined the conversation. Later in the semester 3 classrooms interacted with each other while watching the same video from an author, but in their individual classrooms. This allowed student interaction without having to move students or manage a larger number of people.
3. Student Blogs: http://www.edublogs.org/
I set up a blog for each student in my 8th grade classes using edublogs.org. It is a free blog site, but I paid the $15 every 3 months to have some of the extra features the students loved. Their blog served as an online journal, but also as a portfolio of their work. Any video created, artwork or class work the students wanted to showcase, could all be documented on their blog. I would take pictures of art projects or of the students working hard, to give them pictures to post. However, many Web 2.0 sites that allow you to create on them, also gives you an embed code to publish your work. Here is a great example of one of my student’s blogs. http://zoeyc1.edublogs.org/
4. http://www.artsonia.com/—House Project and Fundraiser
My students learn how to use the drawing toolbar in MS Word by drawing a House. When they have completed the project, I teach them how to save it as a picture (.jpeg), then I upload it to Artsonia.com. This site is an online art museum for kids up to 18 years old. They can share their artwork with the world as well as enjoy many other features of the site, such as the gift shop. Anyone can purchase an object, like a t-shirt or apron, with their child’s artwork on it. 15% of all sales go back to the school, so this site can serve as a great fundraising tool as well! Each student has their own URL that takes family, friends and teachers directly to their work where they can join their fan club. Students love to go back to their art page to see how many visitors they’ve received and how many people have signed up for their fan club. Fan Club members receive updates when new artwork is posted to the student’s site. All a teacher has to do to get started is sign up for a free school account and you can start publishing work immediately!
There are so many more projects we have done this year that engaged students and gave them a product they were proud to show off. If you would like to see more ideas like these, come visit my teacher blog at http://techmunoz.edublogs.org/
Diigo Bookmarks 04/29/2010
Lets people work on a document simultaneously.
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Diigo Bookmarks 04/28/2010
Chart displaying the legal rights to usage of copyright material in schools.
fair use material for copyrighted material
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Friday, April 23, 2010
Diigo Bookmarks 04/23/2010
Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: 50 Sites in 60 Minutes
A slideshow sharing 50 different sites from various categories.
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Thursday, April 22, 2010
Earth Day Activities
Tonight as I was checking out facebook, I ran across the Teaching Resources page that shared several Earth Day Activities that I felt was worth passing along. I am so totally impressed with the number of teachers who not only teach/share/promote Earth Day on this day but who also practice it daily. In this ever changing world we live in, I am beginning to realize just how important and necessary it is for us to preserve our environment and not take it for granted.
Anyway, here are a few activities that teachers locally and from around the world have done to help their students better understand the importance of being aware of the effects humans have on the environment.
1. Played Earth Bingo and gave out prizes from junk the teacher had from home.
2. Read the story "The World that Jack Built" and discussed what could be done by children to "Go Green". Students then wrote a letter to Jack suggesting ways that he could become more environmentally friendly.
3. Had our students clean, rake, paint, you-name-it all around town for 3.5 hours in the morning.
4. Our school had lights out until 11:30. Only used sunlight. Then the 2nd half of the day we were paperless. Kids loved it! We picked up trash around school grounds too.
5. My school is located about 100 feet off Lake Michigan in Gary, IN. For our specials time we had a beach clean-up! It was amazing what the kids found! Tomorrow it's cleaning the school grounds! Monday was making a pledge and discussing ways to help our planet, Tuesday was a competition to see what class could bring in the most batteries, CFL bulbs, and phone books (My class came in 3rd!). Yesterday, we turned off lights for the last hour of school!
6. We did a tally chart of the materials of which everything we put in the garbage can was made. Then we made a bar graph and talked about how we could reduce the amount of plastic and being more conscientious of recycling what we can.
7. We went to a local grocery store and got paper bags for each child. We then brainstormed tips and messages for Recycling and saving our Earth. The kids decorated the bags with these statements and pictures. We are returning the bags to the store and they will be used by local shoppers with a little reminder to keep our Earth healthy.
8. At the begining of the week, our students took a recycling quiz to see just how much they knew about recycling. Then for one week had to track/tally the kinds/types of items they threw away. They also had to categorize which items could be reduced, reused, and recycled and this information was put together into a PSA and presented on Earth Day.
Anyway, here are a few activities that teachers locally and from around the world have done to help their students better understand the importance of being aware of the effects humans have on the environment.
1. Played Earth Bingo and gave out prizes from junk the teacher had from home.
2. Read the story "The World that Jack Built" and discussed what could be done by children to "Go Green". Students then wrote a letter to Jack suggesting ways that he could become more environmentally friendly.
3. Had our students clean, rake, paint, you-name-it all around town for 3.5 hours in the morning.
4. Our school had lights out until 11:30. Only used sunlight. Then the 2nd half of the day we were paperless. Kids loved it! We picked up trash around school grounds too.
5. My school is located about 100 feet off Lake Michigan in Gary, IN. For our specials time we had a beach clean-up! It was amazing what the kids found! Tomorrow it's cleaning the school grounds! Monday was making a pledge and discussing ways to help our planet, Tuesday was a competition to see what class could bring in the most batteries, CFL bulbs, and phone books (My class came in 3rd!). Yesterday, we turned off lights for the last hour of school!
6. We did a tally chart of the materials of which everything we put in the garbage can was made. Then we made a bar graph and talked about how we could reduce the amount of plastic and being more conscientious of recycling what we can.
7. We went to a local grocery store and got paper bags for each child. We then brainstormed tips and messages for Recycling and saving our Earth. The kids decorated the bags with these statements and pictures. We are returning the bags to the store and they will be used by local shoppers with a little reminder to keep our Earth healthy.
8. At the begining of the week, our students took a recycling quiz to see just how much they knew about recycling. Then for one week had to track/tally the kinds/types of items they threw away. They also had to categorize which items could be reduced, reused, and recycled and this information was put together into a PSA and presented on Earth Day.
What's New in EDU Glogster?
Glogster listened to everyone's suggestions and here is what they delivered:
1) Student Login Name Controls – you can now easily change BOTH student login names AND passwords from your Dashboard - easy! (EDU Premium only)
2) School Database – in order to better respond to your needs directly, we built a new database for school information. Please update your profile (at "Edit my profile") and provide us with your information to serve you better.
3) School/Subject Area Categories – you/your students now have school subject area and other educational categories to choose from when you save Glogs– ALSO the categories are now searchable – find out what other educators are doing in your field! Please re-categorize old Glogs to be shown in EDU Categories. Thank you.
4) GLab – publish your ideas, share thoughts with others, make suggestions, in the GLab Forum.
5) Teacher Tube – Coming Soon! – videos available from BOTH Teacher Tube and School Tube for school appropriate video content!
(Taken from newsletter@glogster.com)
Check out the premimum subscription. It only cost $99 a year and it is well worth it. Check out the options that are only available through the premimum subscription. I think you'll agree. http://edu.glogster.com/product-informations/
I have been training my teachers on Glogster and as well as using some of these new features and I am quite impressed.
Keep your eyes open for even more advanced features sometime in August 2010. New and exciting things are happening.
1) Student Login Name Controls – you can now easily change BOTH student login names AND passwords from your Dashboard - easy! (EDU Premium only)
2) School Database – in order to better respond to your needs directly, we built a new database for school information. Please update your profile (at "Edit my profile") and provide us with your information to serve you better.
3) School/Subject Area Categories – you/your students now have school subject area and other educational categories to choose from when you save Glogs– ALSO the categories are now searchable – find out what other educators are doing in your field! Please re-categorize old Glogs to be shown in EDU Categories. Thank you.
4) GLab – publish your ideas, share thoughts with others, make suggestions, in the GLab Forum.
5) Teacher Tube – Coming Soon! – videos available from BOTH Teacher Tube and School Tube for school appropriate video content!
(Taken from newsletter@glogster.com)
Check out the premimum subscription. It only cost $99 a year and it is well worth it. Check out the options that are only available through the premimum subscription. I think you'll agree. http://edu.glogster.com/product-informations/
I have been training my teachers on Glogster and as well as using some of these new features and I am quite impressed.
Keep your eyes open for even more advanced features sometime in August 2010. New and exciting things are happening.
EdTech Blog Swap
I am excited to be participating in the I Love EdTech Blog Swap program. This adventure is allowing me to share my thoughts and ideas with other bloggers as well as networking with other ed tech specialist.
As part of the swap, I will be posting my partner's blog on my blog as a way to gain new knowledge about technology, tools, professional development, etc. My guest blogger is Kim from Texas. She is a technology instructor for grades 6-8. I am excited about this adventure and look forward to sharing and learning new tools and integration ideas for the classroom.
As part of the swap, I will be posting my partner's blog on my blog as a way to gain new knowledge about technology, tools, professional development, etc. My guest blogger is Kim from Texas. She is a technology instructor for grades 6-8. I am excited about this adventure and look forward to sharing and learning new tools and integration ideas for the classroom.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Diigo Bookmarks 04/17/2010
Excel Formulas/Formulae. Microsoft Excel Formulas (Formulae) & Tips/Tricks
Excel Formulas - Microsoft Excel Formulas - Excel Formulas Tutorial
Excel if statement (function) - tutorial and help - else - then
Examples of commonly used formulas - Excel - Microsoft Office Online
Excel Formulas and Functions For Dummies Cheat Sheet - For Dummies
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Friday, April 16, 2010
Diigo Bookmarks 04/16/2010
e-Learning Reloaded: Top 50 Web 2.0 Tools for Info Junkies, Researchers & Students | OEDb
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Teaching Tools - Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
Web 3.0 Tools Worth Bookmarking | MaxxoMedia Digital Media and Entertainment Trends
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Diigo Bookmarks 04/14/2010
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Campus Technology's Delicious Bookmarks
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