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Web 2.0 and You NTTI 2010. Kathryn Staton Education Specialist. Agenda. Intros Presentation Sharing your favorite site Wrap up. What is Web 2.0?.
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Web 2.0 and YouNTTI 2010 Kathryn Staton Education Specialist
Agenda • Intros • Presentation • Sharing your favorite site • Wrap up
What is Web 2.0? According to Wikipedia the term "Web 2.0" is commonly associated with web applications that facilitate interactive information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design a Web 2.0 site allows its users to interact with each other as contributors to the website's content, in contrast to websites where users are limited to the passive viewing of information that is provided to them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0
What characteristics of today’s learner must we consider as we plan to engage them in learning? • Learn via computing devices • Multitaskers • Absorb and process information differently • Create rather than consume information Credit: David Julian
21st Century Skills Framework http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/route21/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5&Itemid=72
How does the communication structure change in an open and distributive culture? http://www.scribd.com/doc/3363/Dissertation-Couros-FINAL-06-WebVersion
70+ site in 70 minutes Here we go….
Audio • Audacity - Audio editor for recording, slicing, and mixing audio. • iTunes – Personalized music, podcasts… • Pandora - Personalized radio. • Podomatic - Create, find & broadcast podcasts.
Avatars • Build Your Wild Self - with this creature creator, mixes human and animal parts. • DoppelMe - create a cool graphical likeness of yourself, your friends, family or any group of people for use • Marvel Superhero – create your own superhero • Meez – build and animate your own 3D avatar • Voki - Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars
Blogs • Blogger (Google) - Free easy to use blog space. • Edublogs - Edublogs is focused on providing a fast, reliable, secure and safe blogging environment for teachers and students • Twitter – microblogging • WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform
Bookmarking • Delicious - Social bookmarking. • Diigo - Social bookmarking on steroids. • Google Bookmarks - add widget to your iGoogle page • LiveBinders - LiveBinders are the best way to organize and share information online. • Portaportal - store links online • SpeedTile - Online application to keep your bookmarks centralized and organized
Calendars • Google Calendar – import/export all sorts of calendars • iCal - import/export calendars for Macs • Outlook Calendar - share your calendar with others
Collaboration • Bubbl.us - bubbl.us lets you brainstorm online quickly • Google Docs - Create and edit web-based documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Store online and access from any computer. • Keep and Share – Keep and Share is a group file sharing system • PBWorks - shared workspaces for working with colleagues • Office Live - Store and share document online and create a free website with Microsoft • SimplyBox – SimplyBox allows users to capture specific images, text, and video and then organize their finding into an easy-to-share box. • Stixy - We've made it fun and incredibly easy for you to collaborate with your friends and family online. • Wallwisher - An intuitive site that allows multiple users to simultaneously post to a “wall” using little notes and a limit on the number of characters. • Wikispaces - Wikis are simple web pages that groups, friends, and families can edit together • Writeboard – Whiteboard is free collaborative writing software
Comics • Comic Creator - invites students to compose their own comic strips • Comics Lab Extreme – Storytelling through new media • MakeBeliefsComix - online educational comic creator • Pixton - Make your own comic, it's click-and-drag easy! • Toonlet - Create and share your own web-comic from a computer or phone more quickly than a coffee break! No drawing required.
Communication • Aim - Exchange messages with friends, family, and colleagues online. • Google Chat - Chat with friends and family on the internet • Meebo - Meebo connects you to MSN, Yahoo, AOL/AIM, MySpace, Facebook, Google Talk, and many more all at the same time! • Skype – All you need is a microphone (webcam optional but adds a lot)
Community • Discovery Educators Network - A global community of educators passionate about teaching with digital media, sharing resources, collaborating, and networking • Facebook - Student communities. • Google For Educators - Google supports teachers in their efforts to empower students and expand the frontiers of human knowledge • Linkedin - Manage and share your cv (Curriculum Vitae) • Ning - An online service to create, customize, and share a social network • PBS Teachers - PBS teacher lesson plans, online activities, classroom resources, professional development projects and networking • Second Life - 3D virtual world where users can socialize, connect and create using free voice and text chat • Teacherlingo - An educational community to connect teachers from every level
Images • Flickr Manage & share your photos • Paint.Net - free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows • Photobucket - Upload, publish & share photos. • Photofunia Select an effect • Picasa - Find, edit & share photos. • Picnik - Picnik lets you edit all your photos online, from one easy place • Smilebox - lets you quickly turn life’s moments into digital creations
Podcasting • Gabcast - Use your phone to create a podcast! • Ipadio – allows you to broadcast from any phone live to the internet • Kid-Cast.COM A podcast hosting service for kids. • podOmatic Create, find, and share podcasts at this site!
Presentations • Glogster - Poster yourself - Make your interactive poster easily and share • Prezi - Prezi is the zooming presentation editor • Slideshare upload and share publicly or privately PowerPoint presentations, Word documents and Adobe PDF Portfolios • Tagxedo turns words into a visually stunning tag cloud • VoiceThread - Transforming media into collaborative spaces with video, voice, and text commenting • Wordle - generating “word clouds” from text that you provide
RSS Readers/Aggregators • Bloglines - A web-based personal news aggregator • Google Reader - keeping up with your favorite Blogs is as easy as checking your email. ... • PageFlakes - the easiest way to read, see, discover and share your favorite things on the web.
Screen Capture • Evernote - Use Evernote to save your ideas, things you see, and things you like • Jing - Use Jing to capture anything you see on your computer screen and share it instantly • Screenr - Instant screencasts for Twitter (then you can embed it on your website) • ScreenToaster - Capture video of onscreen action and share them instantly
Search Tools • findingEducation - is a FREE educator tool that helps you find the best online resources and share them with your students • Google - Enables users to search the Web, Usenet, and images • Sweet Search - A Search Engine for Students. It searches only credible Web sites approved by Internet research experts. • Yolink - Search. and refine online results quickly and efficiently
Story Telling • Blabberize - Blabbarize is a fun way to animate photos with a recorded voice track • Flipbook - create fun flipbooks • Kerpoof - Kerpoof's multimedia software is used by kids worldwide to create original artwork, animated movies, stories, greeting cards and more • My StoryMaker - lets you control characters and objects - and creates sentences for you! • Storybird - Storybirds are short, visualstories that you make withfamily and friends to share • Switch Zoo - You can visit nine different habitats and make new animals in each. • Tux Paint - Kids are presented with a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help them be creative
Survey Tools • Poll Everywhere - Collect data while interacting with your audience • Surveygizmo - Whether you are doing simple surveys, complex surveys, evaluations, polls, or HR studies; SurveyGizmo is the right survey tool for you. • Survey Monkey - is a revolutionary tool to create and publish custom surveys in minutes, and then view results graphically and in real time. • Zoomerang - online survey software tool allows you to create online surveys while providing powerful reporting and advanced survey logic
Video • Animoto - music videos for your images, video clips and pictures • TeacherTube - provides an online community for sharing instructional teacher videos • Xtranormal – If you can type you can create a movie • YouTube - YouTube is a place to discover, watch, upload and share videos
Thank you all for coming! This PowerPoint will be available online after the event.