Technology and Web 2.0: A Smorgasbord of Engagement Ideas

1. Technology and Web 2.0: A Smorgasbord of Engagement Ideas Lindsay Cesari

2. Today’s Menu • Introduction • What is Web 2.0? • Social Bookmarking • Glogs • Wikis and Voki • Podcasting • Cacoo • Scratch • Blogging • Facebook • Kindles

4. Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0

6. What It Is Tips and Tricks In Action Student Products Format:

7. http://www.bville.org/teacherpage.cfm?teacher=2153 Taking Notes? Relax! :)

8. Delicious Social Bookmarking

9. Delicious = 2.0

10. Delicious w/ Kids

11. Glogster Make interactive posters online

12. Glogster in the News

13. Poster, only better • Web based (online) • Interactive • Add music, video, links What is Glogster?

14. edu.glogster.com vs. glogster.com • Benefits of the Education Site: • Teacher created user names and passwords* • All glogs remain private • Students can’t message each other

15. Edu. Options

16. Delicious.com Social Bookmarking

17. Glogs in the Classroom Teacher created glogs • Review activity before a test • Introduce a unit • Post a collection of videos and links Student created glogs • Research project • Virtual science fair • Publish creative writing

18. Student Examples Career Exploration

19. Student Examples Political Parties

20. Student Examples Creative Writing

21. Questions Links Videos Teacher Examples Images Web Quest

22. Mood Music Links to Book Reviews Teacher Examples Book Talk

23. Teacher Examples Assignment Glog

24. What’s a Wiki? A collection of interlinked web pages that are very easy to create and edit in a collaborative manner

25. Wikispaces & PB Works Allow groups of people to edit and collaborate on a document

26. PB Works Book Review Wiki

27. Book Review Wiki

28. Book Review Wiki

29. Wikispaces Renaissance Project

30. Student Participation Teacher Participation

31. Renaissance Employment Wiki

32. Explorers’ Resumes

33. Voki

34. Voki

35. Renaissance Voki

36. Podcasts

37. Like a radio show, but distributed over the computer. Can have multiple episodes, or single, stand alone episodes. What is a Podcast?

38. Headset Microphone Equipment Audacity (PC) OR GarageBand (Mac)

39. Day 1: Podcast examples, and discuss difference between good and bad podcasts Day 2: Research day on podcast topic Day 3: Write podcast script Day 4: Introduce students to Audacity/Garageband Day 5: Students record podcasts Day 6: Students add music/effects and produce MP3 file Timeline

40. Student Examples Money Management Sexting PSA

41. Cacoo

42. Real-Time Diagrams

43. River Valley Civilizations * Students assigned a River Valley civilization * Students researched aspects of each civilization * Students put in groups of 4. Each person in the group had researched a different civilization * Teams created a diagram comparing their civilizations across each category

46. Scratch Create an animation or game

47. Scratch

48. * Students read “The Most Dangerous Game” Most Dangerous Game * Students summarized 2 columns of the story * Students wrote 1 complex sentence from column summary * Students turned 2 sentences into 1 short animation * Gallery walk display; students write 3 complex sentences based on others’ animations

49. Project Gallery Project 1 Project 2

50. Blogging Online journal allowing people to share ideas