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Web 2.0 Untangled

Web 2.0 Untangled. November 1, 2010 2 :15pm – 3:15pm Oceanic 5. Who Are We?. Montgomery County Community College Blue Bell, PA Marie Hartlein Associate Professor, Computer Science mhartlein@mc3.edu Linda Moulton Professor, Math and Computer Science lmoulton@mc3.edu

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Web 2.0 Untangled

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  1. Web 2.0 Untangled November 1, 2010 2:15pm – 3:15pm Oceanic 5

  2. Who Are We? Montgomery County Community College Blue Bell, PA • Marie HartleinAssociate Professor, Computer Sciencemhartlein@mc3.edu • Linda MoultonProfessor, Math and Computer Sciencelmoulton@mc3.edu • Patricia RahmlowAssociate Professor, Computer Scienceprahmlow@mc3.edu http://faculty.mc3.edu/prahmlow/Presentations/index.html

  3. What is Web 2.0? • Web 2.0 is an expression that is used to describe the changes that have taken place in the usage and applications available on the Internet … specifically the World Wide Web…over the past five to seven years.

  4. Is It Really Free? • WolframAlpha.com http://www.wolframalpha.com/ Examples: http://www.wolframalpha.com/examples/WebAndComputerSystems.html • Posterous.com - https://posterous.com/ • Google Translate - http:/translate.google.com

  5. Is It Really Free? • Live.com • Microsoft is providing students with 25 GB storage on a Skydrive…students can store their entire portfolio! • Access to Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Onenote • http://live.com

  6. Can You Share? • Dropbox A tool that let’s you easily synchronize files online and among several computers using a My Dropbox folder. http://www.dropbox.com • GradeGuru.com An electronic study group for students by students. http://www.gradeguru.com/sps/homePagenlu.do

  7. What Do You Think? • Poll Everywhere Provides an audience response system for your students. Poll Everywhere is free for audiences of 30 people or less Students can respond via a web browser, twitter account or mobile device. http://www.polleverywhere.com/ • Survey monkey - www.surveymonkey.com/

  8. Don’t forget: You can copy-paste this slide into other presentations, and move or resize the poll.

  9. When Will I Have Time? • Instapaper A simple service that allows you to save articles from a browser to read later on another computer, mobile phone or iPad. http://www.instapaper.com/ Additional videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIGNfyCY1FA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F03DMkvSDU&feature=related

  10. Is It on the Test? • Classroom Game Templates & More http://www.murray.k12.ga.us/teacher/kara%20leonard/MiniT/Games/Games.htm • Quia – Costs $50 per year Provides 16 generic Game templates such as hangman, battleship and scavenger hunts and online quizzing http://www.quia.com/subscription/ • Hot Potatoes (freeware) Suite includes six applications to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the Web http://hotpot.uvic.ca/ • Algebra Game mathplayground.com/algebra_puzzle.html • GameShow Pro – Not free or Web 2.0, but my students love it!

  11. Did I Miss Anything Important? • http://www.voicethread.com • Upload PowerPoint, PDF • Narrate presentation • Students comment on presentations • Asynchronous dialog

  12. Did I Miss Anything Important? • http://www.ispringsolutions.com/free_powerpoint_to_flash_converter.html • Free download plug-in for PowerPoint • Create Flash videos from PowerPoint presentations • Reduces size of PowerPoint up to 97% • Allows insert of Flash movies and YouTube videos

  13. Did I Miss Anything Important? • Mash-ups, http://bucksmashup.blogspot.com • Mix of images, video, and audio to create a story • Requires higher level of technical expertise • Channel • Create your own YouTube channel to organize videos

  14. Can You See “Me” Now? Synchronous classroom • http://www.dimdim.com • http://www.twiddla.com • Broadcast slide show using Windows Live

  15. Can You Hear Me Now? • http://www.google.com/voice • Virtual phone number • Simultaneous ring of multiple phones, such as home, work, and cell • Control hours you accept calls • Decide if you want callers to be announced before you accept a call • Make calls in the US for free • Great for virtual office phone

  16. Can You Hear Me Now? • http://www.skype.com • http://www.fring.com

  17. Do You See What I See? (Tried & True) • Snipping Tool (Vista, Windows 7) • Capture, annotate, save, share screen • http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/features/snipping-tool • Keyboard Shortcuts (Mac) • Capture screen (Shift-Command-3) • Capture selection (Shift-Command-4) • Jing (Windows & Mac) • Screen capture & editing • 5 minutes of screen recording (swf video with free version; swf or mpeg-4 with Jing Pro version) • http://www.techsmith.com/jing/

  18. Do You See What I See? (New Kids on the Block) • ScreenToaster(Firefox 2+, IE 7+,Chrome, Opera 9, Safari) • Web-based screen recorder • Rapidly create and share demos • Can add audio and embed webcam • http://www.screentoaster.com • Screenr • Web-based recorder,“ready-to-tweet” screencast in seconds • http://screenr.com • Screen Jelly • Records screen activity with voice, no download needed • http://www.screenjelly.com/

  19. What’s Up? (Tried and True) • Facebook, Twitter, … • Social Bookmarking • Save & share bookmarks online • http://delicious.com • College News Blog • Uses wordpress.com • big News is a weekly news blog published by the Office of Marketing and Communications for employees and friends of Montgomery County Community College • http://mc3bignews.wordpress.com

  20. What’s Up? (New Kids on the Block) • Ning Networks • Can set up social network for Classroom • Free 30-day trial; $19.95/yr • K-12 & Higher-Ed “eligible for free sponsorship by Pearson” • Options(http://about.ning.com/plans/?xg_source=www.ning.com) • Cover It Live • Live blogging • http://coveritlive.com • Mindcasting (e.g. turn journalism college lecture into conversation) http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2009/04/turning-a-college-lecture-into-a-conversation-with-coveritlive103.html • Skribit – open source desktop publishing • Can embed question box for students inside your blog • http://skribit.com/

  21. Where do we find more? A few good Web 2.0 resources and lists • http://academic.ursinus.edu/it/web20 • http://technologyinstruction.blogspot.com • http://www.go2web20.net/ • http://deborah890.wikispaces.com/Activities

  22. Discussion

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