untangling the web for educators
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A Tangled Web of contentUntangled for Educators
The Web is seemingly infinite
“... Recently [2008], even our search engineers stopped in awe when our systems that process links on the web to find new content hit a milestone….
Jesse Alpert & Nissan Hajaj. “We knew the web was big..." [Weblog entry.] The Official Google Blog. 25 July 2008. (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/we-knew-web-was-big.html). 21 March. 2009.
(1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs on the web at once”
As of 17 October 2009, the Earth's population is estimated by the United States Census Bureau to be 6.791 billion
That means that there are currently roughly 150 unique web pages per every person…on the planet
Junee, Ryan, “Zoinks! 20 Hours of Video Uploaded Every Minute!” Broadcasting Ourselves ;) The YouTube Blog. Wednesday, May 20, 2009. Accessed August 19, 2009(http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2009/05/zoinks-20-hours-of-video-uploaded-every_20.html) .
As of May of 2009, 20 hours of video content is uploaded to YouTube every minute. Furthermore it is on track to pass 24 hours of content every minute.
During the course of this presentation 1200 hours of content will be uploaded to YouTube by the time I finish.
McCarthy, Carolyn “Whee! New numbers on social network usage.” The Social. cnet news 10. Feb 2009 http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10160850-36.html. Photo Credit: Compete.com)
.1. Facebook.com2. Myspace.com3. Twitter.com
So how do we untangle it for educators?
Understanding Web 2.0
Use Discovery Education streaming
1. Log into www.discoveryeducation.com
2. Keyword search “Web 2.0”
3. Stream or download segments
So how do we untangle it for educators?
Creating Content
Wordle.net
Wordle generates “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.
Wordle.net
How did we do it?
1. Log into www.discoveryeducation.com
2. Find a speech (Pearl Harbor)
3. Copy the transcript text
4. Go to www.wordle.net
5. Paste the text
6. Play with the colors and you have a Wordle
In your classrooms listen to the speech first and then drop into Wordle. Discuss tone. Evaluate the speech again – what words are significant? Why?
ed.voicethread.com
Create, Collaborate, and Capture Your voice!
http://voicethread.com/#q.b310153.i1645779
How did we do it?
1. Log into www.discoveryeducation.com
2. Find images that you would like to use
3. Create and then log into your ed.voicethread.com account
4. Upload those images to ed.voicethread.com
5. Have your students comment and encourage others to do so
6. Publish your voicethread
Encourages creativity, collaboration, higher-order thinking and creating content for authentic audiences
A picture is worth a thousand words
So how do we untangle it for educators?
Gathering it all together
What is a Wiki
A Wiki is an editable web page. Within that page you can give people the rights to comment and/or add material to your page. It is an excellent way to promote collaboration within your class, school, district and beyond
Free Wikiwikispaces.com/site/for/teachers
Another Great Wiki
jdorman.wikispaces.com/digitalstorytelling
More ways to gather
Using a net aggregator like:
Image sources, http://www.rotorblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/pageflakes2.gif, http://thetechlunch.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/home.jpg, www.netvibes.com
helps you collect all of your stuff and see it one place!
Pageflakes.com iGoogle Netvibes.com
Real Simple Syndication
http://bostonpublicschools.org/files/content_images/rss_icon.jpg
Have your stuff automatically come to you!
Two easy steps
1. Find a site that you like and, if it has an orange RSS symbol, click on that link
2. Click on your aggregator icon
So how do we untangle it for educators?
Presenting to The World
Building a Bigger Builder
Inserting Into a Discovery Education Builder
•Go to any Web 2.0 page (i.e. slidehare.net) and copy the embed code.•Click on the HTML button inside the Builder•Paste code•Click on the Update button•Click on the save and continue button
Man on the street interview
So how do we untangle it for educators?
It is all about sharing
http://www.sharetabs.com/?untanglingweb
http://www.multiurl.com
http://community.discoveryeducation.com
Here are the links!• http://cdwg.discoveryeducation.com/web2.0/• http://www.wordle.net/• http://ed.voicethread.com/#home• http://voicethread.com/#q.b310153.i1645779 • http://animoto.com/projects• http://edu.glogster.com/• http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers• http://monsterproject.wikispaces.com/welcome• http://jdorman.wikispaces.com/digitalstorytelling• http://www.slideshare.net/• http://drop.io/home/phone• http://netvibes.com• http://igoogle.com• http://pageflakes.com• http://www.multiurl.com • http://www.sharetabs.com• http://www.sharetabs.com/?utwvste • http://www.multiurl.com/ga/utwvste
