web 2.0 and its amazing possibilities

Web 2.0 and Its Amazing

PossibilitiesAmy Hopkins

ahopkins@caddomillsisd.org

This work is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license

How can Web 2.0 help me be a

better teacher?

21st Centur

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Their goal: to ensure that today’s students are well prepared to

be tomorrow’s innovators, leaders and engaged citizens of

the world.

Basics of the Survey

• Data collected through online surveys and verified through a series of focus groups and interviews.

• Since fall 2003, over 1.2 million K-12 students, teachers, administrators and parents representing over 14,000 schools in all 50 states.

• Data represents the largest collection of authentic input on education, technology, 21st century skills and schools of the future.

What do students do regularly with technology outside of school?

• Gaming over 64% of students play

online

• Download music #1 activity by MS and HS

students

• Social networking 40% of middle

school students

67% of high school students

• Email, IM, text messaging over 50% of HS

students

Survey Conclusions….

• This year 60% of parents and 73% of teachers rate good technology skills as important

• 74% of high school students consistently identify good tech skills as the #1 skill they need to be successful in the 21st century.

• Only 23% of those students feel that their school is doing a good job preparing them for future jobs.

Survey Conclusions….

• Since 2004, students’ discontent with school rules that limit their access to technology at school has grown by 46%

• School rules keep them from using tools they use everyday

• The other major obstacle today is the teacher – over 40% of students think so!

Find the full report:

http://www.tomorrow.org/docs/National%20Findings%20Speak%20Up%202007.pdf

Web 2.0 – The Read/Write Web

• Describes the changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design

• Simplified online content creation• Users can focus on:

IdeasCreativityCollaborationTechnical know-how unimportantUsually publically accessible

Andy Carvin, Embracing Web 2.0 for an Education 1.0 Universe

Web 2.0 can help you be a

better teacher!

GOOGLE PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS

Google Accounts

• Many of Google’s newest tools require you to have a free Google account [which is not the same as a Gmail account].

iGoogle• Personalized homepage for

Google Account holders• It was originally launched in May

2005. • Its features include the capability

to add web feeds and Google Gadgets of particular interest to user

• Custom background themes

Google Toolbar

• Bookmarks• Custom Buttons• Settings on toolbar can be

accessed from any computer with the toolbar

• Download at: http://www.filehippo.com/download_google_toolbar_ie/

Vocabulary Needed!

RSS – “Really Simple Syndication” The ability of web content to be shared

and republished

RSS in Plain English – The Common Craft Show

AGGREGATORS

What is an Aggregator?

•Holds a list of web sites and resources that offer RSS feeds.

•When it’s opened the aggregator retrieves the information from each RSS feed page listed.

•Once subscribed to a feed, an aggregator is able to check for new content at user-determined intervals and retrieve the update.

Google Reader•Stay up to dateGoogle Reader constantly checks favorite news sites and blogs for new content, whether a site updates daily or monthly.

•Simplify your reading experienceShows all favorite sites in one convenient place. It's like a personalized inbox for the entire web.

•Discover new contentMillions of sites publish feeds with their latest updates, and the integrated feed search makes it easy to find new content that is interesting.

BLOGS

Blogs• A weblog (usually shortened to

blog) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of articles

• Most often, articles are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Blogging is the posting of journal-like pages to a website. These pages can contain photos or media - mainly focus on written thoughts posted to a website.

• Typically, a blog "post" can be "commented" on by others, allowing for discussion on the topic.

Courtesy of http://www.weblogcartoons.com/

Blogs to Check Out!

• Free Tech for Teachers

• Jane’s eLearning Pick of the Day

• Resources for Teachers

• 100 Most Inspiring and Innovative Blogs for Teachers

• 50 Must-Read Up and Coming Blogs

A great resource to find blogs on any subject

www.blogcatalog.com

AUDIOand Podcasting

Podcasting

• According to Wikipedia, “A podcast is a series of digital-media files which are distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and computers.

• Podcasting is a term coined from the combination of “iPod,” a popular digital audio player, and “broadcast.

• Subscribe to a podcast feed and then have it automatically delivered to your computer when there is a new episode.

Photo Courtesy of Oliver Hartmann

Tech Chick Tips – a podcast I subscribe

to

iTunes – search for podcasts

Other Podcast Directories:

• Podcast Blaster• Podanza• Podcast Alley• Digital Podcast

COLLABORATION, PRESENTATIONS

and PRODUCTIVITY

Google Docs & Spreadsheets

docs.google.com• Google Docs & Spreadsheets

is available to everyone with a Google account.

• Docs & Spreadsheets lets you– Upload Word or Excel files or

create new documents and spreadsheets online

– Edit your files online– Invite others to edit your files

online– View the files’ version histories

and roll back to previous versions– Publish the finished files to the

world as web pages or blog posts– Download the final, edited files as

.doc, .rtf, .pdf, .html, and/or .zip files

Google Docs Templates

• Google Docs now has 314 document, spreadsheet, and presentation templates you are free to use.

• You can create a new document from a template by choosing New > From Template…

docs.google.com/templates

WIKIS

Wiki• Wikis are simple web pages that

groups, friends, and families can edit together.

From The Common Craft Show

Wikispaces

• Wikispaces now hosts over 750,000 wikis for over 1,800,000 people.

• Allows educators to have ad-free wikis for classroom use – http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers

• Take a tour - http://www.wikispaces.com/site/tour#introduction

Hardware Reviewhttp://mrshoppy.wikispaces.com/Input+Device

Google Sites• Google Sites is a free, online, web editor that lets you easily create your own group websites.

• Google even gives you your own URL [sites.google.com/site/sitename] and 10 GB of storage for your pages and uploaded files.

• Negative: At this point, no code embed feature

Example of a Student Portfolio created in Google

Sites

Other Wiki Resources

• Wikibooks - A Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit.

• Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.

• wikiHow - The How-to Manual That You Can Edit.

VIDEO

Finding Educational Videos for the Classroom• YouTube• TeacherTube• SchoolTube• National Geographic Videos• The Moving Image Archive• NOVA Science Videos• How Stuff Works Videos

Getting Video Ready to Use

• Many videos don’t come ready for immediate use in the classroom.

• Sometimes download and converting to other formats is necessary.

• My instructions on how to do this are here

AnimotoCreate video from your pictures. Apply for Animoto in Education account for your students and you will be able to create full-length video, instead of the standard 30 second video.

SOCIALBOOKMARKING and NETWORKING

Social Bookmarking

• The ability to save and categorize a personal collection of bookmarks and share them with others.

• Users may also take bookmarks saved by others and add them to their own collection, as well as to subscribe to the lists of others.

Social Bookmarking in Plain English

From The Common Craft Show

Diigo

My Bookmarking site of choice

• Save bookmarks under “tags” allowing me to easily look at categories at any time

•Share my bookmarks with my classes or colleagues

•Look at other’s bookmarks for ideas/websites – Look under “Tag Communities”

http://www.diigo.com/user/ahopkins

IMAGES/PHOTOS

Photo Sharing Sites

• Act as online storage spaces for photos, with the ability to tag and organize each photo, as well as publishing anyone the user selects.

• Other users have the opportunity to leave comments for the photographer on any image that has been made available.

• Some photo sharing web sites offer the ability to edit photos online, make notes, post photos to a blog and a variety of other features.

Flickr• Flickr is an image and video hosting website

• It was one of the earliest Web 2.0 applications – launched in 2004

• In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely

used by bloggers as a photo warehouse.

• Its popularity has been fueled by its organization tools, which allow photos to be tagged and

browsed.

• It claims to host more than 2 billion images.

Flickr Resources

• Spell with Flickr

• Flickr Toys collection

Students can search on Flickr for pictures licensed under a

Creative Commons license to use in their presentations and digital

stories.

GREAT JOB FLICKR in providing this resource!

Windows MovieMaker project using pictures

from Flickr

Video Courtesy of Samantha Martin

Cool TextCool Text is a free graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you need an

impressive logo without a lot of design work.

TypoGenerator

Turns a piece of text into a piece of art.

WordleGenerate “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.

Thirty Interesting Ways to Use Wordle in the Classroom –

http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=dhn2vcv5_157dpbsg9c5

Picnik

• Picnik is an online photo

editing service. Currently it can import photos natively from

Facebook, Myspace, Picasa

Web Albums, Flickr, Yahoo

Image search and also offers

options to upload from a computer or to upload from

a website.

Photo Courtesy of Lexie King

DRAWING

Sumo Paint

Picture Courtesy of CJ Tawater

Sumo Paint is a free image

editing software that gives you the

opportunity to create, edit and comment images

online with powerful tools

and layer support.

QueekyQueeky is an online drawing community with unique drawing tools and creative users from all around the world.

CC License - Z22

DoppelMeCreate a cool graphical

likeness of yourself, your friends, family or any group of people

for use as an avatar in forums, instant

messenger, blogs and almost anywhere else

on the web.

ORGANIZATION

Dial2do

• Available in 24 Countries• Dial2Do lets you do common tasks by just calling a number and speaking. Use it to send EMAIL or TEXT messages, record REMINDERS to help you remember things!

• A service that allows you to embed documents and files in a webpage or blog instead of having to link to them.

• The files display directly in the browser, no software required.

Webspiration

Whether working

individually or

collaboratively,

Webspiration is the new online visual

thinking tool.

Google Calendar

MUSIC

Mixter

ccMixter.org is a community music site that promotes remix culture and

makes samples, remixes, and a cappella tracks licensed under Creative Commons available for download and re-use in creative

works.

Jamendo• Jamendo is a community of free, legal and

unlimited music published

under Creative Commons licenses.

• Share your music,

download your favorite artists!

Garageband• GarageBand.com

is a large online community of independent

musicians and music fans.

• Founded in 1999, the site is used by

musicians who seek greater exposure

• The site is also used by music fans

to discover new independent artists

in the site's vast collection.

• Some is Creative Commons-licensed

music content

Good Times by Kevin Mitchum

Internet Radio

• Pandora• theRadio.com• Jango

QUIZ AND POLLING

Poll DaddyWith your free

account from PollDaddy you

can create surveys and

polls for your website, blog

and social network profiles.

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Amy Hopkinsahopkins@caddomillsisd.org

Resources for this presentation:http://

techisthefuture.wikispaces.com

Resources for another Web 2.0 presentation:http://tcea2009.wikispaces.com