Web+2.0+Tools+in+K-12

**Using Web 2.0 Tools in K-12 (Session 4)**
Post at least **two** examples of how online collaborative Web 2.0 tools are being used in K-12. Feel free to develop new categories, as necessary. By the time we are done, we will have a great list of ways that online tools can be used to support K-12 teaching and learning. I have posted a few to get us started.

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 * This website allows students and teachers to create PowerPoint presentations and share them on the web. It is a great asset if schools are trying to go paperless. More importantly, 30 years down the road, when most students are taking classes online- Zoho will strive as it can be accessed from any computer. (AB)


 * [|http://www.carbonmade.com/]
 * This website is a free site that allows students to create and share portfolios, organize their work, and chat on blogs. This program would be perfect for a senior in high school; as well as for art students (not that I’m bias or anything!). It is important for students to get promote work, as well as get feedback from peers.(AB)


 * [|www.flickr.com]
 * This website is for photographers to share their work, and is commonly used in high school art programs. Teachers have students take photographs, upload them at home, and can access the students individual flickr account at any given moment. This website also allows students to collaborate, and leave messages critiquing the work of their peers. (AB)

> are recommending Plinky for all ages as a resource to end writer's block. For K-12 it has been suggested that the instructor first search Plinky for a subject they find appropriate and then let the students response. These can be short inspirational blogs that are relevant to the writers life and help inspire those who feel they don't have something to say. (L.Gagneux) > (C. Doernberg) __**Student Generated Content**__
 * Florida Virtual School uses [|Elluminate] to hold [|book discussions]. (ds)
 * [|PageFlakes in Education]- This site contains a good overview and some great ideas for how the application can be used by teachers and students (i.e., digital storytelling, e-portfolios). //Can anyone find **specific examples** of PageFlakes being used in K-12? (ds)//
 * [|Moriarty-Edgewood School District] in New Mexico goes Google! [|En Español traducida por Google] it takes you right to a translated Spanish version, utilizing Google translator.
 * [|Plymouth Regional High School Library] uses a Wiki Space for research links, organized by class. They also have links to a variety of research tools that students can use. (ds)
 * Yaca Paca is a free website that allows teachers to create quizzes, tests, surveys, e-portfolios are more. Students can play games, take quizzes and assessments. (T. Griffin)
 * ======[|The Khan Academy] is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere.1000+ videos on YouTube covering everything from basic arithmetic and algebra to differential equations, physics, chemistry, biology and finance. I saw this on TV news recently and was amazed by it (MA).======
 * MyNoteIt is a great tool for students who might have a tough time taking notes and keeping them organized. It is a website were students can type in their notes by course, share the notes with friends, post upcoming assignments and check them off as they go, They can friend request each other, which is familiar to them already through facebook. They can upload files as well. Ditto’s do not need to be printed out anymore and later on lost by the student teachers can just email the ditto to the students and the can upload it to their mynoteit account. There is also a section for group work. Let’s say you have assigned some group projects. Students now have an organized and neat way that they can share ideas, upload content and this is all under the teacher’s own supervision- SV
 * Cramberry Cramberry is a great web 2.0 tool for different exercises during class and for students outside of the classroom. Cramberry is a website where you can create, study and share flash cards with students and they can share with each other. Teachers can put together flash cards to review for a quiz or test. I used to love when teachers would play a quiz game the day before a test. It was a great way for me to see what I needed to focus on and most importantly- it was fun! Teachers can also have students share their flashcards and the teacher can review them during class. This gives students a feeling that they are helping in teach the class and the teacher can see the student’s progress with the curriculum. Cramberry can also put together a study schedule for the student, print out the flash-cards or even use pre-made sets that other students have put together. - SV
 * Exploratree is a free online tool which provides "thinking guides". It has a large library of templates for presentations. The templates can be used like Inspiration or Bubbl to create a flow chart, or they can be used to make slide shows with pictures and text. You can create an online portfolio, save and send presentations to a single person or to a group. (Desautels)
 * Jing is a free screen capturing tool. It can be used by either Mac or PC platforms and it is capable of capturing still images or video. Image quality is superb. Once captured, your image or video can upload easily to Twitter, YouTube, or the Screencast web service for viewing. The pro version gives you more flexibility with file format, but it costs money (about $15 per year). (Desautels)
 * Plinky– an online prompt tool to engage students in critical and inspirational thinking. Each day Plinky provides a new prompt. Plinky answers can be posted to most blog sites as well as Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr. Bloggers everywhere
 * The ACFT Science Lab is a wiki created by 5th grade teacher Mr. Grizzelle and his students. The wiki states that the purpose of the site is to “increase student learning and improve communication with families”. The wiki was created with Wetpaint, a free website creating application. (D. Deon)
 * Kings Park Elementary School in Fairfax County is using Blackboard with their students. Watch this short video clip of Sara, a first grader, as she explains how she uses Blackboard. It’s amazing! The first graders use Blackboard to read e-books posted by the teacher, to watch educational videos, and to write to their friends. Wow! (D. Deon)
 * **[|Engrade]**.Engrade is a suite of tools that acts as a gradebook for courses, as well as a communication vehicle. It seems aimed at the grade school level of courses as it allows parents to participate. However college students and professors could benefit. Grades and scores can be weighted and listed by letter or number. Administrators can oversee educators' classes. (P.Isaacson)
 * **[|Schoopy]**. Schoopy is a classroom organizer application that also allows school Web pages to be created. It's aimed more at public schools than colleges, though it can still be of use. Parents can register and access the appropriate Schoopy account for a school, as well as participate in discussions. It's similar in spirit to Chalksite but also allows the creation of online communities and the designation of users as leaders or participants. (P.Isaacson)
 * [|Vozme] This is a text to speech website that creates sound files. It could be used to help visually impaired students to access other communication online. It can be added to any website. [|Example] (C. Doernberg)
 * [|Prezi] is a online presentation program. Here is an example of one used about the ancient world [|Ancient world prezi]
 * Refdesk.com : This website is a fact checker on the internet. It provides information for the day from a variety of resources all on one page. (newspapers, dictionaries, magazines, translation sites, etc.) Archives are also available. This is great for research projects or gaining new knowledge about current events. (M. Zador)
 * ePals.com  Students are able to communicate with others by creating online email pals. This seems to be a great way to learn about different communities and cultures. Students are also able to work on their writing skills. Within the website, it also has an area to collaborate with others about different topics. (M. Zador)
 * Capture YouTube: Teachers use You tube videos to support instruction. Capture YouTube is a resource which allows you to convert and download any YouTube video. Paste the YouTube URL into their converter box, select the format you would like the video in and it will download and convert the video for you. There is an example on the website. (DS)
 * Sakai is a free and open source Courseware Management System (CMS) distributed under the Educational Community License. It's also known as a Learning Management System(LMS), and a Collaborative Learning Environment (CLE). It offers a set of tools for faculty to provide a structured learning experience. In addition, it has a set of software tools designed to assist instructors, researchers, and students to create websites for collaboration. Finally, it is a website-management system. You can control the people who get to join the website, and what they're permitted to do. Video (DS)
 * Teachers can use a [|Wikidot] to publish a lesson or materials including PDF files or PowerPoint slides, inform students about upcoming events, publish homework tasks, create forums to discuss topics, organize whole classes, or create separate wiki's for each student. (DS)
 * [|Discovery Education 20.10] Through Discovery Education, 20.10 is a guide for teachers to use Web 2.0. It provides direct links to community tools (wikkis, blogs) presentation tools (slide share), media tools (animoto), and mobile tools (podcasting). Discovery 20.10 provides support for professional development, classroom instruction, and media literacy. Great cohesive site for integrating technology into the curriculum for all. (JI) [|Creately]Creately provides for interactive graphic organizer creation. There are a variety of templates available (specifically for K-12 education, but including some for business) and there is a drag and drop function to adjust the diagram and add text. (JI)
 * [|Voice Thread] has a bunch of great projects done by students. When browsing, type in some key words such as "elementary" or "education' and see what comes up. My daughter had a snow day last year, so I had her make a digital story. One of her K teachers is also the HS girls basketball coach, so she wanted to create a story about the pep rally and game we attended. She chose the pictures, scripted her story herself, and put it all together, with very little assistance from me. Check out the [|Girls Basketball Game] digital story. Another example is [|4th Grade Reflections] where students used Voice Thread to reflect upon classroom experiences.
 * LMMath is an example of the use of a wiki for a math class and links to Mrs. DiTullo's classes at Lower Merion. Students complete summary and synthesis activities and use the wiki to help coach each other on topics from class.
 * Tikatok is great tool that allows students to create digital stories. They are able to upload stories to their books. On the site they can generate their own topic to write a book, use prompts called "story sparks" to write a story or get ideas or they can simply read books created by other children. [|Here]is a link to a student created book. (T. Griffin)
 * [] In this first grade class the students have created podcasts regarding literature circles about specific books and other fun ideas, such as a mystery person and author studies. (M. Zador)
 * Wordle is a great tool that creates a graphic representation of most frequently used words. Wordles can be used for brainstorming, creating word webs, displaying frequently misspelled words, showing ways to say a word in different ways, identifying the main character in a story, state reports and many other ideas. For other ways to use Wordle in the classroom click here! Here is an example of a Wordle created by a student (T. Griffin)
 * [|Comic Strip Makers in Spanish or English] This online //comic// generator from author Bill Zimmerman provides people of all ages with affirmation and a fun way to create comics about almost anything. You can do them in Spanish or English and the assessment is ONLINE because you E-mail the comic when done. A great way to assess when you don't have face to face classes (MA).
 * [|Integrating Technology into the Classroom using Instructional Strategies: Classroom Instruction that Works] This site is amazing! Based on an educator and academic I admire: Robert Marzano, this site has tons of links to numerous sites that can be used in class to aid in integration of content via technology (MA).
 * Here is a [|link] to a classroom [|Drupal] page. Drupal is an open source course management system. Each student has their own blog. (Desautels)
 * The names were changed on this electronic portfolio, but a nice use of Yacapaca. [|Portfolio]
 * Students from Room 110 at East Middle School have been creating eBooks using ArtisanCam. ArtisanCam is more of a “cool tool” than a web 2.0 tool because it doesn’t have a collaboration component. The students created eBooks and then their teacher posted them to his class wiki. Check out some examples here! (D. Deon)
 * Toondoo – create your own comic strips, share and discuss. Provides instructors and students with a venue to discuss a wide range of subjects in non threatening format. Andrew Marcinek is using Toondoo for his students to select passages from their readings, in this case Hamlet, then has the student use the passages in Toondoo to create the act they read. (L.Gagneux)
 * Tokbox is a free online video conferencing tool that enables you to communicate using different 'modes'.
 * These are 1 to 1 live synchronous direct communication
 * One to many, by creating an asynchronous 'public broadcast stream' - like a series of short video programs
 * Many to many live synchronous video conferencing
 * One to many private asynchronous communication - by emailing links to video clips with text message included.
 * One of the great advantages of Tokbox is that any video messages or clips you create are stored and can be shared either through links or by embedding them into web pages (like the examples below).
 * Here's a rather dated video showing how Tokbox works (The interface has been up dated since this was made, but the functionality is still very similar) (P.Isaacson)
 * xtimeline is a free online collaborative tool used to create timelines. MHS 2009 2nd Tri Timeline (SM)
 * MindMeister is a collaborative mind mapping tool for both students and teachers. 3rd Grade Lesson Plan (SM)
 * [|Game Classroom] - Classroom games for students from K-6 for different subjects. (KE)
 * [|Story Jumper] - A tool that allows students to created their own story or book. (KE)