I love free – transforming your classroom with web 2.0

Transforming your Classroom with Web 2.0

Jan ColeyJefferson County Schools

http://jc-schools.net

Purpose and Objectives Examine applications that are easy to access and user-friendly.

Free and open-source softwar– Porta– Photo Story 3

Virtual Labs

Favorite online applications and games

Web 2.0 tools for the classroom– Wordle– Visuword– Create a Graph– Quizlet– Kerpoof– Scoreboard– Gliffy– Slideshare– Animoto– Photoshop.com– Pixlr– Scoreboard

You Are Teaching in an Age of Digital Learners

New Tools for the Classroom

Digital Storytelling

Web lessons and tutorials

Distance Learning

Podcasting

Streaming Media

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 – What is it?

• Web 2.0 is an expression which was used for the first time in 2004 by Tim O`Reilly. The main characteristics of new era in Internet is connected with its constant development and delivering services tailored to the needs of each user.

• Associated with web applications that facilitate interactive information sharing, interoperability, and user-centered.

WEB 2.0• A term used to describe a new generation of Web

services and applications with an increasing emphasis on human collaboration

• These usually include tools that let people collaborate and share information online

Web 2.0 – Why use it in education?What are the advantages?

– Works with all Platform – No software purchases

or downloads– Available anywhere,

anytime– Allows the additions of

tags, which in turn makes searchable.

– Easy to share– Engages students– Pride of ownership– Provides an avenue for

collaboration with professionals in all fields as well as other students.

WEB 2.0• What are the disadvantages?– Internet may be down when you need to use

this.– Often cannot save to a local computer– Correctness of information– Privacy issues

Wordle is a toy for generating “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

Wordlewww.wordle.net

Educational Uses

• Vocabulary• Review• Scrambled sentences• Surveys• News Items• Book reviews

Visuwordhttp://mpcollab.org/MPbeta1/node/1720

Online graphical dictionary that provides

meanings and word relationships.

Educational Uses

• Illustrates relationships of words– Synonyms and homonym– Nous, verbs, adjectives, adverbs

• Great for English language learners• Serves as a dictionary and thesaurus.• Visuword combines a web 2.0 type visualization

tool with Princeton University’s opensource WordNet database to create an interactive click and drag type tool that is free for everyone to use.

Quizlet quizlet.com (Web 2.0)

TN 6th grade science academic vocabulary

Quizlet

Animoto http://animoto.com

Animoto for Educators

Create a Graph

Gliffy http://www.gliffy.com/

SlideSharewww.slideshare.net

• Allow the online sharing of PowerPoint presentations, Word documents, and PDF files.

• The files may be shared either publicly or privately.

Kerpoof• Spell A Picture• Make A Picture• Make A Movie• Make A Card• Make A Story• Doodle Pad• Make A Drawing

Photoshop.comhttp://www.photoshop.com/

• Create and account• Select Online Editor• Edit pictures

Tools Available

Pixlrhttp://www.pixlr.com/express/

Pixlr Expresshttp://www.pixlr.com/express/

For Beginners or a Quick

FixBlog with tutorialAdditional tutorial

SCOREBOARD http://www.triptico.co.uk/resources/scoreboard/scoreboard.html

Free but must download software

Do PDF

• http://www.dopdf.com/• Installs a virtual printer on local computer• doPDF is a free PDF converter for both personal

and commercial use. Using doPDF you can create PDF files by selecting the "Print" command from virtually any application.

ClamWin Portable

• antivirus to go• ClamWin Portable is the popular

ClamWin antivirus packaged as a portable app, so you can take your antivirus with you to scan files on the go. You can place it on your USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or a CD and use it on any computer, without leaving any personal information behind.

Porta

• Porta is an open source, hassle-free photo album generator for web pages.

• It is fast and easy to use. • It maybe downloaded from

http://stegmann.dk/mikkel/porta/

Porta.lnk

example tutorial

iTunes U

• http://www.apple.com/education/guidedtours/itunesu.html

• Part of the iTunes store• Educational, audio, and

video content• Most popular

downloads• Contents categories• By University

Photo Story 3

Photo Story 3 is a free download from Microsoft.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx

• Digital Storytelling• Class projects• Individual student

projects• Communication of

content knowledge• Communication with

community and parentsexample

tutorial

Instructional example

Student created

Cool Features

• Touch-up • Crop• Rotate pictures • Remove red-eye • Add special effects • Add soundtracks• Add narration

• Create music• Use music from other

sources

Educational Uses

• Early language learners or English language learners can associate images with words

• Create a student portfolio• Post images of field trips, projects, school

events• Show, create, or describe a process

example tutorial

Audacity

• Free, fully functional multi-track audio editor

• http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

YouTube

• Ways to Use YouTube in the classroom:– YouTube downloader – changes to QuickTime

format• http://download.cnet.com/YouTube-Downloader/3000-

2071_4-10647340.html?tag=mncol

– YouTube downloader – changes to AVI and format

• http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/products/dvd/Free-YouTube-Download.htmFast Math Trick

Ma and Pa Kettle Math

• Go to the video (you should be viewing it) Type pwn in the address line after the www For example if the video is at this address: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxsOVK4syxU After the www type: http://www.pwnyoutube.com/watch?v=RxsOVK4syxU On the next screen, click to download: Download High Quality Video (MP4) This may take a while depending on the length of the video and your internet speed.

Jing http://jingproject.com

• Jing tutorial• What is Jing and how to install it.• Download Jing

World Wide Telescope (Web 2.0)

Molecular Workbench

http://workbench.concord.org/

The ChemCollective

Downloads to computer

Favorite Math & Science Websites

Exploratorium

Newspaper BridgesOnline Activities• Site includes:

– Treasure Trove– Learning Resources Library from

National Science Digital Library (NSDL).

– Special Collections including a microscope imaging station, math explorer database, webcasts, podcasts and media downloads

National Science Digital Library

Thinkfinity.org

Favorites from Thinkfinity

• Comic Creator http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/comic/

• Perfect Pitch http://www.artsedge.kennedy-center.org/perfectpitch/

• Marble Mania http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/marble/marblemania.html

• Touch of Class http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/class.html

• Lemelson Center Http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/class.html

• Power Up http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/powerup.html

• Dynamic Paper http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=205

• Break it Down http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/breakitdown.html

• Make A Mission http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/messenger/mission.htm

Interactivatehttp://www.shodor.org/interactivate/

Illuminations by NTCM http://illuminations.ntcm.org

Math Playground

BBC Science Clips

• Bitesize 1• http://www.bbc.co.uk/scho

ols/scienceclips/ages/6_7/science_6_7.shtml

• Forces and Motion• Bitesize2 -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science

• Bitesize3 – http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/science/

Teacher Tube

The goal of TeacherTube.com is to provide an online community for sharing instructional teacher videos.

• Registration is required for uploading- Unlimited MB video upload space.- Unlimited MB bandwidth per month.- Unlimited video uploads.- All TeacherTube packages are FREE!

Mathematics in Movies

From Harvard University

A Maths Dictionary for Kids

Utah Education Network – Student Interactives

Utah Education Network – Student Interactives

Utah Education Network – Student Interactives

Teachers’ Domain

Probes - TEEMSS

• The Technology Enhanced Elementary and Middle School Science project (TEEMSS) was funded by the National Science Foundation to bring the power of information and communication technology to science education in grades 3-8 by creating and disseminating valuable, proven, and easily implemented technology-based science learning materials and associated teacher professional development.

Free software that works with most of the leading

probe vendors.

Chemistry, Physics, Biochemistry http://www.virtlab.com/main.aspx

Virtlab: A Virtual Laboratory

University of Virginia Virtual Lab Homepage

Wonderville

• http://www.wonderville.ca/v1/home.html

• 22 activities covering a wide range of science topics. Each animated activity opens up in its own window

• D not miss the “The Robot Factory”

The Mission Science Lab

• Designed for kids age 10–16 to learn basic principles of physics in a most entertaining way.

• click on a random object in the lab and complete a related “mission.”

• Meanwhile, they’re also trying to learn Professor XYZ’s secret identity and gain access to the final mission, “Professor XYZ’s Grand Tour.”

http://nfbkids.ca/lamission/home_e.php

PhET: Free online science simulations

• Fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena from the PhET project at the University of Colorado.

Bio-Alive Videos are on YouTube!

STEM Resources.com Tennessee

NASA Education

http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/about/index.html

Windows to the Universe

http://jc-schools.net

Dynamic Curriculum

Dynamic Curriculum http://jc-schools.net

Dynamic CurricululmTechnology Project for Jefferson County Schoools

and more!

Each of the core curriculum content sites includes

Links to specific websites that aid in teaching specific standards, Checks for Understanding, and SPI’s

Teacher Created Materials

Educational Podcasts

What is on your disk?

Transforming Your Classroom with Web 2.0I Love Free Presentation

plus some of the free software

Thank You!

Questions?